On March 5, Beijing time, according to the news from the well-known domestic media "Tianjin Daily", because he was not in the plan of Tianjin Teda coach Stilik for the new season, the 31-year-old former international Zhang Chiming had begun to consider retiring.
"Tianjin Daily" revealed that Zhang Chiming was abandoned by TEDA is not too surprising. He performed well during the winter training in 2019, and in last season's league and FA Cup matches, he did not bring more help to the team. He only played 3 times in the whole season, and was sent to the reserve team by Teda as early as last year after the summer window opened.
It is reported that Zhang Chiming has begun to make long-term plans for retirement, and last year he participated in the C-level coach training class to actively prepare for becoming a coach after retirement. As a former international, Zhang Chiming, at the age of 31, has no ball to play and consider retiring, which is indeed lamentable.
Born in 1989 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Zhang Chiming plays as a full-back and winger. Zhang Chiming has excellent foot technology and dribbling ability, fast speed, strong ability to break through people on the side, dare to insert forward, and often play a role in threading needles in the front field.
The peak of Zhang Chiming's career was when he played for Chongqing Contemporary (Lifan). He not only helped Chongqing team win the Chinese First Division championship with his excellent performance in the 2014 season. In March 2015, he scored a wonderful "one-dragon" goal against Chinese Super League overlord Guangzhou Evergrande.
Because Zhang Chiming showed strong muscles like Ronaldo after breaking the Evergrande goal, he became famous in the first battle and was praised by fans and the media as "Chinese Super League Ronaldo". It is precisely because of this that in 2015, Zhang Chiming was selected for the first time in the list of the Chinese men's national football team coached by the Frenchman Perrin, and appeared in the warm-up match.
It's just a pity that after joining Guoan in the summer of 2015 for a transfer fee of 1 million euros, Zhang Chiming gradually lost. Originally, he thought that after switching to TEDA in June 2018, his career would take a turn for the better, but from the results, he still failed to achieve his wishes. The 31-year-old former international is destined to become another fleeting "shooting star" in Chinese football.