Wang Lu (footballer)

{{short description|Chinese football player and manager}}

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|name = Wang Lu
王陆

|fullname = Wang Lu

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|birth_date = 1930

|birth_place = Shunyi, Hebei, China

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|2|7|1930|}}

|death_place = Beijing, China

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|position = Forward

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|clubs1= Beijing

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|nationalyears1= 1953–1957

|nationalteam1= China

|nationalcaps1= 6 | nationalgoals1 = 2

| managerclubs1 = Beijing | managerclubs2 = Beijing sport college | managerclubs3 = Beijing Youth Team |

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Wang Lu ({{zh|王陆}}; 1930 – February 7, 2007) was a Chinese football player and manager.

Playing career

Wang Lu was called up to the China national football team and was the captain in 1953. In 1954, China sent China youth football team to Hungary to study, Wang Lu was the coach and captain. In 1957, he represented China in the qualification for the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Management career

Since 1959, Wang successively served as the coach of Beijing football team, Beijing sport college team and Beijing youth team. He led the Beijing youth team won the China football league championship. He was named senior football coach in 1992.{{cite web|url=http://news.sports.cn/china/chinao/news/2007-02-10/1047487.html |title=第一批国家足球队队员、足球名宿王陆在京逝世 _国内足球_新闻中心_中国足球协会超级联赛官方网站 |publisher=www.sports.cn/index.html |date= |accessdate=2007-07-10}}

Death

On 7 February 2007, Wang died of liver cancer in Beijing, age 77.

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