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Sun Jihai

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Sun Jihai
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A versatile defender, Sun Jihai spent six seasons at Manchester City from 2002 and became the first Chinese player to score in the Premier League. Not a star, which is the point: he showed English clubs that a Chinese full-back could be a useful squad player for years, and he was later inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
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