Chinanews.com client, December 16th. Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich Football Club officially announced today that the team has officially signed the 18-year-old Chinese young goalkeeper Liu Shao Ziyang, with a contract until June 30, 2025.
The Wuhan Three Towns Football Club stated that Liu Shao Ziyang was the first Chinese player introduced by the Bayern club.
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Liu Shao Ziyang came from the youth training of the three towns in Wuhan and was selected into the national football team U14, U15, U16 and other age groups.
Liu Shao Ziyang said that he will play for the Bayern youth team.
The Wuhan Three Towns Football Club also confirmed the news at the same time and revealed that as the first young player jointly trained by the two clubs, Liu Shao Ziyang has been training and living at the Bayern Youth Training Base in Munich for 11 months.
Biography of Liu Shao Ziyang (from Wuhan Three Towns Football Club):
In 2014, Liu Shao Ziyang entered the youth training echelon of three towns in Wuhan;
In 2016, as one of the members of the Wuhan Three Towns Football Club’s overseas education program, Liu Shao Ziyang went to Barcelona, Spain to study and receive overseas football training;
In 2017, Liu Shao Ziyang was selected for the U14 China National Training Team for the first time. Since then, he has been selected for the 2018 U15 Chinese National Team Training List and the 2019 Chinese Football Team A (U16) Training List;
In 2019, Liu Shao Ziyang represented the U16 national team to participate in the "Huashan Cup" International Youth Football Championship and the 8th Sino-Russian Youth Games. In the same year, he was invited to Germany for trial training during the training camp in Spain;
In 2020, Liu Shao Ziyang began to train with the first team of the Wuhan Three Towns Football Team;
At the beginning of 2021, Bayern Munich and the three towns of Wuhan reached a cooperation agreement to jointly work on the training of Chinese youth players. Liu Shao Ziyang became the first player jointly trained by the two clubs and went to the Bayern Youth Training Base in Munich, Germany to receive training. The Bayern youth team debuted in the game.
On December 16, 2021, Bayern Munich Football Club officially signed a contract with Liu Shao Ziyang. Liu Shao Ziyang also became the first Chinese male football player introduced by the club.