Zhang Xizhe
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Zhang Xizhe is a professional Chinese
Chinese people
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 football player who currently plays as a midfielder
Midfielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

 for Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head...

 in the Chinese Super League
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

.

Club career

Zhang Xizhe started his career football career in the 2009 league season playing for Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head...

 where he made his debut on 30 August 2009 in a league match against Shandong Luneng
Shandong Luneng
Shandong Luneng Taishan is a Chinese Super League football club owned by Shandong Luneng Group, the biggest supplier of electric energy in Shandong province. They play at the Shandong Stadium in Jinan, Shandong. The predecessor of Shandong Luneng Taishan was the Shandong Provincial team organised...

 coming on a late substitute for Yang Hao
Yang Hao (footballer)
Yang Hao is a Chinese international association football player who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande as a midfielder in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:...

 in a 1-1 draw. The following season in an attempt to gain more playing time Zhang was loaned to Beijing's satellite team Beijing Guoan Talent
Beijing Guoan Talent Singapore FC
Beijing Guoan Talent Singapore Football Club is a Chinese professional soccer club which was formed to play as a foreign team in Singapore's S.League in 2010.The club is a satellite team of the Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan F.C....

, which would play as a foreign team in Singapore
Singapore
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's S.League
S.League
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 in 2010. He scored his first senior league goal on his first appearance, in a 3-1 away win against Geylang United on 12 March 2010. He would returned back to Beijing Guoan in July 2010 and go on to score his first for the club when he scored two goals in a CSL
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

 match against Henan Construction on 22 August 2010 in a 2-2 draw.

International career

Zhang Xizhe would be called up to the Chinese U-20
China national under-20 football team
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's squad in 2009 and would take part in the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship qualification campaign where he scored two goals from five appearances. At the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship he would go on to play in every game and see China lose in the quarter-finals at the tournament. On March 29, 2011 the Chinese Head coach Gao Hongbo would decide to premote Zhang into the senior team for a friendly against Costa Rica
Costa Rica national football team
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 in an experimental team that also saw Lang Zheng
Lang Zheng
Lang Zheng is a professional Chinese footballer currently playing as a defender for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:Lang Zheng began his football career with Hebei in 2005 yet he quickly caught the attention of Chinese Super League teams Beijing Guoan and Tianjin Teda...

, Jin Jingdao
Jin Jingdao
Jin Jingdao is a Korean-Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Yanbian FC.-Club career:Jin was promoted to Yanbian FC's first team squad in the 2010 league season and would go on to make his debut for Yanbian in a league game for them on 17 April 2010 with a new player of...

, Lü Peng
Lü Peng
Lü Peng is a professional Chinese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dalian Shide F.C. in the Chinese Super League.- Biography :At the beginning of the 2008 Chinese Super League season Lü would break into the senior team of Dalian Shide F.C. after graduating from their youth team...

, Ma Chongchong
Ma Chongchong
Ma Chongchong is a professional Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Sichuan Dujiangyan Sampo F.C...

 and Ye Weichao
Ye Weichao
Ye Weichao is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande in the Chinese Super League.-Club career:...

 make their first appearance in a game that ended in 2-2 draw.

Club career statistics

Statistics accurate as of match played 14 April 2011
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|2009
Chinese Super League 2009
The 2009 Chinese Super League season was the sixth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the sixteenth season of a professional football league and the 48th top-tier league season in China. Beijing Guoan won their first ever Chinese Super League title.The events during the...

||Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head...

||Chinese Super League
Chinese Super League
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|2010||Beijing Guoan Talent
Beijing Guoan Talent Singapore FC
Beijing Guoan Talent Singapore Football Club is a Chinese professional soccer club which was formed to play as a foreign team in Singapore's S.League in 2010.The club is a satellite team of the Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan F.C....

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|2010||Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head...

||Chinese Super League
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

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|2011
2011 Chinese Super League
The 2011 Chinese Super League was the eighth season since the establishment of the Chinese Super League, the eighteenth season of a professional association football league and the 50th top-tier league season in China. Guangzhou Evergrande F.C...

||Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan
Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club Beijing Guoan Football Club (Simplified Chinese: 北京国安 is part of CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation). Their current home stadium is Workers Stadium and the Fengtai stadium for less popular games. The current head...

||Chinese Super League
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

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