On the morning of June 25, Beijing time, Shandong Taishan Guanxuan 33-year-old Zhang Chi suffered a fracture of his left leg and has successfully completed the operation.
This is already the third serious injury in Zhang Chi's career. His first serious injury came in the 2011 season, when he had just been in the main position and suffered a tragic leg break in the first round of the Chinese Super League against Chengdu Sheffield United. That serious injury not only allowed him to be reimbursed directly for the season, but also lay in a hospital bed for 3 years, and did not complete his comeback until the 2014 season.
In the 2010 season for Shandong Taishan debuted in the Chinese Super League, Zhang Chi finally scored his first goal in the Chinese Super League against Guangzhou R&F in the 2017 season, and also scored two goals in seven minutes in the first half to help Shandong Taishan achieve a 3-0 victory.
In the 2019 season, Zhang Chi played the highest season of his career, contributing 2 goals and 4 assists to Shandong Taishan in the central and beyond 25 times. Zhang Chi, who had never entered the national team, was finally relegated to the selection team in November 2019 to participate in the training camp, but unfortunately he did not enter the 23-man roster of the East Asian Cup
This time the serious injury is likely to directly bring the inspirational veteran to retirement.
According to reporter Wang Xiaorui, Zhang Chi was shoveled and injured by the reserve team's young generals during a training class. At that time, Zhang Chi and the young general were one-on-one on the side, and Zhang Chi took the lead in pulling the ball out of the outside, but the small player could not stop the sliding shovel action, and finally Zhang Chi's left leg was violently collided and fractured.
This is the second time in seven months that Zhang Chi has been seriously injured, and he suffered a fractured tibia in his left leg during a qualifying match with Chongqing in November last year, and returned after three months of conservative treatment.