Gao Lin

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Gao Lin
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Personal information
Full name Gao Lin
Date of birth (1986-02-14) 14 February 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Position(s) Striker / Winger
Team information
Current team
 Guangzhou Evergrande
Number 29
Youth career
1999–2001 Qinhuangdao Football School
2001–2004 Shanghai Shenhua
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2009 Shanghai Shenhua 71 (14)
2010– Guangzhou Evergrande 157 (66)
International career‡
2004–2005 China U-20
2006–2008 China U-23
2005– China 85 (18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 October 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 October 2015

Gao Lin (Chinese: 郜林; pinyin: Gào Lín; born 14 February 1986) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande in the Chinese Super League. He is considered one of China's most technical strikers and is known by the nickname Gaolinsmann (Chinese: 郜林斯曼).

Club career

Shanghai Shenhua

Gao Lin started his football career with Shanghai Shenhua in 2005 where he made his league debut on 21 August 2005 in a 1-0 win against Liaoning Zhongyu, coming on as a substitute for Xie Hui.[1] While his height and heading ability were quickly utilized, Gao was unable to establish himself as an immediate first team regular within the team throughout the subsequent seasons and often found himself playing on the flanks. It was only once Xie left Shanghai at the end of the 2007 league season before Gao started to really establish himself as a regular first team member, playing as striker once more. In the 2008 season, he would score eight goals in 21 league appearances to help guide Shanghai to a runners-up position.[2]

Despite having his most productive season with Shanghai and establishing himself within the Chinese national team. Gao's contract was up for renewal and his club would transfer list him in early 2009. This saw him linked with his hometown club of Henan Construction as well as K-League club Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, however nothing materialized from these rumours after Gao decided to eventually stay in Shanghai where on 21 February 2009, it was announced that Shanghai and Gao had come to terms about a contract renewal which would expire in 2012.[3]

Guangzhou Evergrande

On 10 March 2010, Gao moved to Guangzhou Evergrande, who were newly relegated to China League One in the fallout of a match-fixing scandal. However, the club's new owners, Evergrande Real Estate Group, were able to tempt Gao with a lucrative 3,000,000 yuan a year deal to play within the second tier.[4] Gao made his debut for the club against Beijing BIT on 3 April 2010, scoring two goals.[5] On 30 October 2010, Guangzhou successfully finished as second tier champions for the second time with a 3-1 win against Hunan Billows. Gao's first half hat-trick in this match ensured that he finished the season with the second tier top goalscorer, having scored 20 goals, six more than the 14 scored by second-placed Ye Weichao.

Although Guangzhou signed a several players to strengthened the team's attacking power including Argentinian Darío Conca and Brazilian Cléo in the 2011 season, Gao was still a regular in the team, playing mostly as a left winger and scoring 11 goals in 29 appearances which was his career high in the Chinese Super League. Guangzhou eventually won the top tier league title for the first time in the club's history as Gao won his first first tier league title with the club.

On 15 May 2012, Gao scored his first goal of the season for Guangzhou in a 2-1 away victory against Buriram United in the AFC Champions League, ending a goal drought that stretched 1403 minutes.[6] On 20 May 2012, he scored his first league goal of the season against Qingdao Jonoon in a 1-0 win, which ended a run of 936 minutes without a goal in the league.[7] On 27 October 2012, Gao scored the decisive goal, assisted by Conca, in the injury time against Liaoning Whowin to give Guangzhou their second top tier league title and they became the first team ever in the league's history to defend the title.[8]

In the first leg of the final in the 2012 Chinese FA Cup, Gao received two yellow cards in less than three minutes at the start of the 80th minute. The first yellow card was for dissent on a questionable tackle on a Guizhou Renhe player. The second one came after protesting and dissent which earned him a red card and suspended him from playing in the second leg. On 12 November 2012, Gao was fined by the CFA for $200,000 for his actions in the first leg of the final.[9] Later, Gao took to Weibo to publicly apologize to his millions of followers and said he "deserved to be punished" because it will help him "to not do it again in the future".[10] Later in November 2012, he was selected as one of the two forwards in the 2012 Chinese Super League Team of the Year alongside Cristian Dănălache of Jiangsu Sainty.

During the 2013 season, his role shifted from an attacking role to an assister as he provided many assists to the foreign contingent of Elkeson, Dario Conca and Muriqui. Throughout both the 2013 season and 2013 AFC Champions League, his style of play included more flair as he attempted bicycle kicks and back-heel passes which many plaudits lauded. Gao was a cog in the engine of Guangzhou as he helped it through its golden year to win its third successive top tier league title. In the league-winning game, he scored the third goal for Guangzhou in a 4-2 win against Shandong Luneng. This was the second time in which Gao has scored in a league-winning game.

International career

Gao was part of the squad in the 2008 Summer Olympics where he played in all three group games and started in the first two games as the Chinese under-23 national team were knocked out within the group stages.[11]

Gao made his debut for the Chinese national team against South Korea on 31 July 2005 in the 2005 East Asian Football Championship where he was sent off mistakenly in the 5th minute by Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura, however the East Asian Football Federation cancelled Gao's red card and apologized to him the next day.[12] After that inauspicious start to his international career, Gao would gradually start to impose himself within the team, and despite making his debut in 2005 for the national team, Gao would have to wait until 21 January 2009 to score his first goal against Vietnam in a 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification game where he scored a hat-trick.[13]

Gao scored a goal against South Korea during the 2010 East Asian Football Championship and helped China beat South Korea 3-0 for the first time ever, ending the team's Koreaphobia. Gao made his debut as captain for the national team on 22 February 2012 and scored in a 2-0 friendly win against Kuwait.

International goals

As of 17 December 2014 [14]
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 21 January 2009 Yellow Dragon Sports Center, Hangzhou, China  Vietnam 1–0 6–1 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualifier
2 2–1
3 6–1
4 1 June 2009 Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao, China  Iran 1–0 1–0 Friendly international
5 18 July 2009 TEDA Football Stadium, Tianjin, China State of Palestine Palestine 2–0 3–1 Friendly international
6 30 September 2009 Hohhot City Stadium, Hohhot, China  Botswana 1–0 4–1 Friendly international
7 10 February 2010 Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan  South Korea 2–0 3–0 2010 EAFF Championship
8 7 September 2010 Olympic Sports Centre, Nanjing, China  Paraguay 1–1 1–1 Friendly international
9 26 March 2011 Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica  Costa Rica 1–2 2–2 Friendly international
10 2–2
11 5 June 2011 Tuodong Stadium, Kunming, China  Uzbekistan 1–0 1–0 Friendly international
12 8 June 2011 Olympic Sports Center, Guiyang, China  North Korea 2–0 2–0 Friendly international
13 6 October 2011 Universiade Sports Centre, Shenzhen, China  United Arab Emirates 2–0 2–1 Friendly international
22 February 2012 Helong Stadium, Changsha, China  Kuwait 1–0 2–0 Friendly international1
14 8 June 2012 Wuhan Sports Center Stadium, Wuhan, China  Vietnam 1–0 3–0 Friendly international
15 3–0
16 15 August 2012 Shaanxi Province Stadium, Xi'an, China  Ghana 1–0 1–1 Friendly international
17 29 June 2014 Bao'an Stadium, Shenzhen, China  Mali 1–2 1–3 Friendly international
18 9 September 2014 Harbin Sports City Center Stadium, Harbin, China  Jordan 1–0 1–1 Friendly international
17 December 2014 Evergrande Football Base, Qingyuan, China  Kyrgyzstan 1–0 2–0 Friendly international1
1:Non FIFA 'A' international match

Career statistics

Club statistics

As of 20 December 2015
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Others Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
China PR League FA Cup CSL Cup Asia Others1 Total
2005 Shanghai Shenhua Chinese Super League 5 0 1 0 0 0 - - 6 0
2006 14 2 2 0 - 4 5 - 20 7
2007 12 0 - - 2 1 1 0 15 1
2008 21 8 - - - - 21 8
2009 19 4 - - 0 0 - 19 4
2010 Guangzhou Evergrande China League One 23 20 - - - - 23 20
2011 Chinese Super League 29 11 2 0 - - - 31 11
2012 24 6 3 0 - 9 2 1 0 37 8
2013 28 8 5 1 - 13 3 4 0 50 12
2014 28 8 2 0 - 8 3 0 0 38 11
2015 25 13 0 0 - 11 1 4 0 40 14
Total China PR 228 80 15 1 0 0 47 15 10 0 300 96

1Other tournaments include A3 Champions Cup, Chinese FA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

International statistics

National team
Year Apps Goals
2005 4 0
2006 4 0
2008 8 0
2009 14 6
2010 11 2
2011 10 5
2012 7 3
2013 11 0
2014 9 2
2015 7 0
Total 85 18

Honours

Club

Shanghai Shenhua
Guangzhou Evergrande

International

China PR national football team

Individual

Personal life

Gao married Wang Chen, who is a reporter and host for Shenzhen Media Group, on 3 September 2013.[15] Gao's childhood idol is the revered German striker, now current manager of the United States, Jürgen Klinsmann. He prefers to wear the kit number 18 while playing for the Chinese national team in honour of Klinsmann.[16]

References

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