Yao Xuchen


Yao Xuchen is a Chinese footballer who plays for China League One side Beijing Sport University on loan from Hebei China Fortune.

Club career

As a member of the Hebei China Fortune youth academy, Yao Xuchen moved to the Serbian side Radnički Pirot in late 2017, along with teammates Wei Changsheng, Wang Hongzhi, Li Shuaihu, Yang Shaochen and Yang Chenyu. Trey were training with the club until the end of 2017, after which all of them officially loaned until June 2018. Following the games with youth team, Yao joined the first team of Radnički under coach Goran Lazarević in April 2018, when he spent the 25th fixture match of the 2017–18 Serbian First League campaign against Jagodina as an unused substitution. He made his professional debut replacing Nemanja Petrov in 83rd minute of the away match against Novi Pazar on 6 May 2018. After the match against Radnički Kragujevac, when he was also used as a back-up, Yao started his first match on the pitch in 0–0 draw to Inđija on 26 May 2018. Finally, he also started the last game of the season, making an assist to Nemanja Petrov in 3–0 away victory over Sloboda Užice.
In February 2019, Yao was loaned to China League One side Beijing Sport University for the 2019 season.

International career

At the beginning of May 2018, it was announced Yao had been called into the China under-19 national team, along with teammates Yang Chenyu and Wei Changsheng, who had already played with the team. He missed to take a part in the squad because of the club's schedule.

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