Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yu Jinyong | ||
Date of birth | 6 July 2004 | ||
Place of birth | Shenyang, Liaoning, China | ||
Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper, striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Shandong Taishan | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2021 | Shandong Taishan | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2021– | Shandong Taishan | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2023– | China U23 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 April 2024 |
Yu Jinyong (Chinese: 于金永; pinyin: Yú Jīnyǒng; born 6 July 2004) is a Chinese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan, and the China under-23 national team.
Yu Jinyong was born on 6 July 2004 in Shenyang, Liaoning,[2] and went through the Shandong Taishan youth academy.[3]
In 2021, as a 16-year-old,[3] Yu Jinyong was named in Shandong Taishan's 35-man squad for the upcoming 2021 Chinese Super League season.[4] He failed to make a single appearance during the season,[5] but followed the team to a Chinese Super League title, the club's first in eleven years.[6]
In August 2023, Yu Jinyong went on trial to Belgian club Royal Charleroi under the recommendation of then-teammate Marouane Fellaini, who dubbed him as a "little Courtois", but he had since returned to China.[7]
Yu Jinyong was part of the China U20 squad that competed in the 2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup, where his role had been a back-up goalkeeper.[8]
On 5 April 2024, he was named in China's final squad of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.[9] On 16 April 2024, in China's first group stage match against Japan, he came on as a substitute for Duan Dezhi in the 88th minute of the game, as a striker.[10] In a post-match interview, China U23 head coach Cheng Yaodong claimed that the substitution had previously been envisioned in his tactics.[11]
Yu Jinyong was born to his father Yu Ming, a former Liaoning and Chinese international footballer, and his mother, Hu Jie, a Chinese former volleyball player.[3]
Shandong Taishan