Duan Liuyu


Duan Liuyu is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Shandong Luneng.

Early life

Duan Liuyu started to play football at the age of five and soon joined organised football classes setup by the Shenzhen Football Association before he was admitted to Cuiyuan Middle School as a football special student in 2010. In 2013, Duan was selected to participate in the China U-16 national team to play in the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship. After the tournament it was discovered that Duan required glasses and was in the honours class within school, he would soon receive the nick name "Glasses striker" by the Chinese media. Duan Liuyu would graduate from Cuiyuan High school in Luohu district, Shenzhen in 2015.

Club career

On 19 January 2015, Duan Liuyu joined Shandong Luneng as a youth player for a record transfer fee of 1 million RMB, at the time the highest ever paid to a Chinese youth player. Right after the contract signing, Duan Liuyu was sent to São Paulo FC youth training camp for a two year training program. On July 15, 2018, Shandong Luneng announced that they had promoted Duan Liuyu to the first team's roaster. On 1 March 2019 in the first league game for Shandong in the 2019 Chinese Super League season, Duan Liuyu would make his professional football debut against Beijing Renhe in a 1-0 victory.

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