China Sports Review » Zheng Zhi http://www.chinasportsreview.com Understanding The Middle Kingdom Through Sports Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:02:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Zheng Zhi to Play for The Celtic http://www.chinasportsreview.com/2009/09/06/zheng-zhi-to-play-for-the-celtic/ http://www.chinasportsreview.com/2009/09/06/zheng-zhi-to-play-for-the-celtic/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:22:33 +0000 David http://www.chinasportsreview.com/?p=1006 Things didn’t go as expected for the Chinese midfielder, but a summer’s tough wait looks worthwhile.

Zheng Zhi Signs for The CelticFrom Celtic FC:

Celtics have been granted a Governing Body Endorsement by the SFA for Zheng Zhi following a hearing today. This allows the procedures to be completed to grant the player formal entry to the UK.

“Zheng Zhi is a player I have tracked for some time,” Celtic manager Tony Mowbray said. “He is a highly-regarded player and was a thorn in our side when he played against us at West Bromwich Albion.

As the UEFA’s registration deadline has already passed, the Celtic new bhoy will not be able to play in the Europa League until the knockout stages next year.  Zheng, 29, has played for Charlton Athletics FC for three seasons before joining the Scottish club.

This April, the Chinese FA appointed Gao Hongbo(高洪波), the country’s youngest-ever head coach, to lead the national team to the 2014 Brazil World Cup.  But the authorities has done little themselves to address the problem of score fixing in the leagues and to change the stringent transfer rules that made most Chinese footballers untransferable.

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]]> http://www.chinasportsreview.com/2009/09/06/zheng-zhi-to-play-for-the-celtic/feed/ 0 Zheng Zhi to Play in The Premiership? http://www.chinasportsreview.com/2009/06/13/zheng-zhi-to-play-in-the-premiership/ http://www.chinasportsreview.com/2009/06/13/zheng-zhi-to-play-in-the-premiership/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0000 David http://www.chinasportsreview.com/?p=899 Zheng ZhiAccording to Gao Qi, Zheng’s agent, the out-of-contract Chinese midfielder is to move to a Premiership club, with details of a new contract to be worked out by the end of June.

“My contract with Charlton has already finished, and I should move to another club next season. Hope that I can get back to the Premier League as it’s more competitive and enthralling,” Zheng is quoted as saying by Titan Sports. “I feel excited when I walk into the Stadium when in the Premiership, which is something that League Championship can’t deliver.”

Zheng, 28, landed in the Valley from Shandong Luneng in 2007 when Charlton Athletic was in Premiership. With the Addicks regelated to League One, Zizi seems determined to further his career somewhere else.

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Titan Sports:  Zheng Zhi only considers Premiership move (Chinese)

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