Lee Wai Tong

history

| cityofbirth = Tai Hang | countryofbirth = Hong Kong | ancestry = Wuhua, Guangdong | dateofdeath = | cityofdeath = Causeway Bay | countryofdeath = Hong Kong | height = | nickname = | position = Striker | youthyears = | youthclubs = | years = 1922–1925
1926–1930
1931–1947 | clubs = South China
Loh Hwa
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1966–? | managerclubs = Republic of China
Ming Chuan College (Women) }}

Lee Wai Tong (also translated as Li Huitang, }}; born 18 September 1905; died 4 July 1979(Simplified Chinese)»่ฟŽๅฅฅ่ฟ๏ผŒ็บชๅฟต่ถณ็ƒๅ‰่พˆใ€ไธ€ไปฃ็ƒ็Ž‹ๆŽๆƒ ๅ ‚) was a Chinese football (soccer) striker and head coach.

Background

When Lee was six, his father sent him back to their ancestral county, Wuhua, Guangdong, to study. He returned to Hong Kong at the age of eleven.

He died at the age of seventy-five in Hong Kong.

Playing career

International career

Lee, born in Hong Kong, played for the China national team that won the 1925, 1927, 1930, and 1934 Far Eastern Games, and in 1936, he was the captain of the national squad that competed at the Olympic tournament in Berlin.

PR China, Chinese Taipei (ROC) and Hong Kong national team formed and joined FIFA after WWII.

Coaching career

He was the head coach of South China AA after the World War II. In, 1948, he was appointed coach of the Chinese national team, and after the Chinese Civil War, he coached the Republic of China national football team He also coached the Hong Kong national teams. During 1960s, he became vice-chairman of the Chinese Taipei Football Association, and in 1965 he became vice-president of FIFA, being the first Chinese to reach that position.

Further reading

References

External links

  • (Chinese) »Short biography ([http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://202.84.17.11/aoyun/ayjy/zg/zuqiu/1320205468.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Li%2BHuitang%2522%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG translation])


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