Full name Xavier Chen Name Xavier Chen Career start 2003 Years Team Weight 69 kg | Height 1.74 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Date of birth (1983-10-05) 5 October 1983 (age 32) Current teams Guizhou Renhe F.C. (#8 / Defender), Chinese Taipei national football team (Defender) | ||
xavier chen
Xavier Chen (Chinese: 陳昌源/夏維耶, born 5 October 1983) is a Belgian-born Taiwanese footballer who plays predominantly as a right back. He currently plays for KV Mechelen in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of football in Belgium. He began his youth career with Anderlecht. He has also played for KV Kortrijk (2003–2007) and Guizhou Renhe (2012–2016).
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- Early years
- Club career
- International career
- International goals
- Club
- References
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Early years
Chen was born to a Taiwanese father and a French mother. His paternal grandfather is a former diplomat who still lives in Taiwan. He completed his master's degree in Law at Université libre de Bruxelles, making him the only active European first division football player in the modern era to have obtained such a degree.
Club career
Chen started his senior career in KV Kortrijk, but gained recognition in his first stint with KV Mechelen, where he became captain. Due to the inconvenience of traveling back and forth between Belgium and Taiwan, Chen decided to move to Chinese side Guizhou Renhe when he accepted CTFA's invitation to play for the national team. In January 2016, Chen returned to KV Mechelen, stating that he only wanted to play for a maximum of three years in China. A few Chinese teams showed interest to sign him, but he ultimately decided to return to his country of birth.
International career
Chen's eligibility to play for Taiwan was discovered by the Chinese Taipei Football Association public relations director Chen Chia Ming in 2009, and Chen was invited to play for the national team. China Football Association had also made an attempt to recruit Chen three months after CTFA. On 24 May 2011, encouraged by his relatives in Taiwan, Chen elected to play for Taiwan.
Chen made his international debut against Malaysia on 3 July 2011 and scored the winning goal. This marked the first time in 10 years that Taiwan beat an opponent that was ranked in the FIFA top 150. The attendance of the game was a record breaking at 15,335, which was 10,000 higher than the average. On 9 October 2015, Chen scored CTFA's third goal in a 5–1 victory over Macau.
At the end of the second round of Asian zone qualifying where Taiwan finished bottom of the group pointless. Chen stated in April 2016 he would never again make himself available for selection by the national team, due to the fact that the CTFA reneged on their promise to reimburse the cost of air tickets to and from Taiwan from January onwards.
At the May of 2017, Xavier Chen had returned to the Taiwan national football team.
International goals
Scores and results list Taiwan's goal tally first.Club
Guizhou Renhe