On August 19, Beijing time, the Bundesliga officially announced that it would award the title of "Bundesliga LegendAry Star" to Chinese star Yang Chen, who played for Frankfurt, which is an honor for Chinese football. As the first person in China to land in the five major leagues in the past, Yang Chen deserves to receive this honor.
Yang Chen was born in 1974, a native of Beijing, in 1993, Yang Chen entered the newly formed Beijing Guoan and scored the first goal in the professional league in the history of Guoan, but at that time, guoan, there were gao feng, Gao Hongbo and other well-known local strikers, as well as foreign aid such as Gompos and Cassiano, Yang Chen could not play the main force.
In July 1998, Yang Chen officially joined Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany, becoming the first Chinese player to join the five major leagues in Europe. In Frankfurt, Yang Chen gave full play to his own characteristics, playing for a total of 4 seasons, including 8 goals in 23 appearances in the 98-99 season, becoming the main force of Frankfurt and loved by fans.
Yang Chen had many highlight moments in the Bundesliga, the most famous is the last round of the 1998-99 season, when Frankfurt ranked third from the bottom with 34 points, facing the danger of relegation, facing Kaiserslautern, Yang Chen opened the goal account for Frankfurt in the second half, and finally helped the team to beat Kaiserslautern 5-1, successfully relegated, Yang Chen became Frankfurt's hero.
In his four seasons with Eintracht Frankfurt, Yang Chen scored 16 goals in 94 appearances, which is still the goal record of a player in china's five major leagues, Yang Chen has left a glorious footprint in Germany, and being selected as a legendary star in the Bundesliga is completely deserved.
In the national team, Yang Chen's performance was also very good, helping the national football team to enter the 2002 World Cup. In 2003, Yang Chen returned to China to join the Shenzhen team and won the first year league championship of the Chinese Super League with the team. In 2008, Yang Chen officially retired, and now Yang Chen has not left football to contribute to Chinese football.