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Mai Chao (born on March 9, 1964 in Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese football coach and a former international football player. He spent his whole playing career for Guangzhou Apollo as an attacking left-back. After retiring, he moved into management, where he went on to manage Guangzhou twice as well as Shenzhen Xiangxue Eisiti.

Mai Chao
麦超

Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-03-09) March 9, 1964 (age 58)
Place of birth	Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Club information
Current team	Guangzhou Glorious (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1995	Guangzhou Apollo
National team
1986–1992	China	49	(16)
Teams managed
1997–1998	Guangzhou Apollo
2003–2005	Guangzhou F.C.
2008	Shenzhen Xiangxue Eisiti
2008–2011	Guangzhou U-17
2014	Guangdong Sunray Cave
2017	Hainan Boying
2017–	Guangzhou Glorious
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mai Chao
Simplified Chinese	麦超
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mài Chāo IPA [mâɪ ʈʂʰáʊ] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Mak6 Ciu1 IPA [mɐ̀k̚ tsʰíːu]

Playing career

Mai Chao spent his whole playing career with Guangzhou Apollo as an attacking left-back and saw the team rise through the Chinese pyramid before being called up to the Chinese national team where he would make his debut appearance against Italy in friendly on May 11, 1986 in a 2–0 defeat.[1] He would become a regular within the team and score his debut goal against Indonesia on August 25, 1986 in a 3–0 win before being called up to the Football at the 1986 Asian Games and then the 1988 AFC Asian Cup.[2] Unfortunately he was part of the squad that narrowly missed out of reaching the FIFA World Cup after losing the final group game to Qatar in the dying minutes during qualification. Mai, however would end his international career as the countries top goalscoring defender while also seeing Guangzhou move into full professionalism before he retired.

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	23 February 1989	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China	Bangladesh	2–0	2–0	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.	22 July 1989	Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran	Iran	1–3	2–3
3.	12 October 1989	National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	Saudi Arabia	1–1	2–1	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification
4.				2–1

Management career

After retiring Mai would move into training and due to high regard within Guangzhou Apollo he would rejoin them in 1997 as their new manager. His time as manager was not successful and he was gone by the end of the 1998 league season, which also saw the club relegated after they finished bottom of the league.[3] Out of management he would go on to form a youth football school before Guangzhou once again asked for his services. This time he was asked to achieve promotion back into the top tier, however while his second reign was considerably more successful he was unlucky in achieving this goal in his first attempt when he narrowly missed out on promotion through head-to-head results with Henan Construction in the 2003 league season.[4] Despite coming close through the next two seasons Guangzhou decided to allow Mai to leave, however he wouldn't have to wait long before he took a position at Shenzhen Xiangxue Eisiti on January, 2007 where he would later become their head coach on December 14 of the same year during the off season where during this period he took on the training sessions and lead the team out at the beginning of the 2008 Chinese Super League before his contracted finished and he left the club.[5]

Honours

Player

Guangzhou Apollo

• Chinese Jia-A League: 1992, 1994 (Runners-up)
• Chinese FA Cup: 1991 (Runners-up)

References

External links

• Mai Chao at National-Football-Teams.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ma Lin	China national football team captain 1989	Succeeded by Ma Lin

На других языках

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- [en] Mai Chao

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[fr] Mai Chao

Mai Chao est un footballeur chinois né le 3 mai 1964. Il était milieu de terrain.

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[it] Mai Chao

Mai Chao[1] (麦超S, Mài ChāoP; Canton, 3 maggio 1964) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore cinese, di ruolo centrocampista.

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