Quan Lei

Quan Lei
权磊
Personal information
Full name	Quan Lei
Date of birth	13 January 1985 (age 40)
Place of birth	Dalian, Liaoning, China
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
2001–2003	Dalian Shide
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–2012	Dalian Shide
2013–2015	Qingdao Jonoon
2016–2017	Nei Mongol Zhongyou
2018	Shenyang Urban
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 October 2018

Quan Lei (simplified Chinese: 权磊; traditional Chinese: 權磊; pinyin: Quán Lěi; born 13 January 1985 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a Chinese football midfielder.

Biography

Quan Lei would start his footballer career playing for Dalian Shide's youth team as well as also playing for the Chinese Under-19 football team in 2003 before graduating to Dalian's senior team in the 2004 league season where he made his league debut on November 11, 2004, against Shanghai Shenhua in a 1–0 win.^[1] When Vladimir Petrović became the new Dalian manager he quickly praised Quan and included him as a first team regular within the side that won the league and cup double.

On October 5, 2006, Quan was badly wounded in a knife attack by two assailants and was stabbed eight times in the attack.^[2] It was discovered that the two assailants were hired by a disgruntled female fan who had a brief relationship with the player, while all three members involved with the attack were sentenced to three years of imprisonment.^[3] Despite the severe injuries he received as well as the court case that followed he resumed training in January 2008.^[4] Quan would eventually make his long-awaited return on May 3, 2008, against Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. in a league game that ended in a 1–1 draw, however this was later changed to a 3–0 win to Dalian after Wuhan decided to quit the league.^[5]