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Sun Jihai, born 30 September 1977 in Dalian, is a Chinese association football player. He plays as a full-back, wearing squad number 15, and began his career in 1995 in the Premier League. Sun has played for Chengdu Tiancheng F.C., Manchester City F.C., Dalian Shide F.C. and Guizhou Renhe F.C., represented China at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and speaks Chinese.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1977
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Wo de tai yang
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1914-05-22
- Active to
- 1993-05-30
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Most cited works
- Analysis on soil nutrients of tea gardens in Guizhou.2009 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
· 2016 · cited 170,485x
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
· 2017 · cited 34,380x
- Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks
· 2018 · cited 28,170x
- Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes
· 1989 · cited 15,854x
- Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
· 2015 · cited 13,178x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2009
- → Chengdu Blades (loan)
- 2015
- Chongqing Lifan
- 2016
- Beijing Renhe
- Full name
- Sun Jihai [孙继海]
- Date of birth
- ( 1977-09-30 ) 30 September 1977 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- Zhuanghe , Dalian , Liaoning , China
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Defender
- Years
- Team
- 1995 2002
- Dalian Shide
- 1998 1999
- → Crystal Palace (loan)
- 2002 2008
- Manchester City
- 2008 2010
- Sheffield United
- 2010 2014
- Guizhou Renhe
- 1996 2008
- China
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Defender
- Nationality
- China
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sun
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Dalian
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Participant in
- 2002 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- China men's national football team
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- China
- Image
- SunJihai.JPG
- Height
- 183
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1977-09-30
- sport number
- 15
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Sun Jihai (Chinese: 孙继海; pinyin: Sūn Jìhǎi; Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n tɕî xàɪ]; born 30 September 1977) is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a defender in the English Premier League. Sun is one of the most well-known footballers in East Asia, as he is the first East Asian footballer to score in the Premier League when he scored a goal for Manchester City in 2002, and also the first Chinese footballer to score in the UEFA Cup. Sun was a member of the China national team that qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sun Jihai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.