Zhang Ouying | |
Full Name: | Zhang Ouying[1] |
Birth Date: | 2 November 1975 |
Birth Place: | Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China[2] |
Death Place: | San Diego, California, United States |
Position: | Forward |
Height: | 5ft 5in |
Years1: | 1991–2002 |
Clubs1: | Hebei |
Years2: | 2002–2003 |
Clubs2: | San Diego Spirit |
Caps2: | 37 |
Goals2: | 6 |
Years3: | 2006–2008 |
Clubs3: | San Diego WFC SeaLions |
Nationalteam1: | China |
Nationalyears1: | 1998–2007 |
Zhang Ouying (; 2 November 1975 – 1 December 2018) was a Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the 1999, 2003, and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.[3] She was a member of the Chinese team that won the silver medal at the 1999 World Cup.[4]
Zhang was born in Zhangjiakou, Hebei in 1975. In 2000, she finished fifth with the Chinese team in the 2000 Summer Olympics. She played all three matches. Four years later she finished ninth with the Chinese team in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She played in one match.
She married an American in 2006, and moved to the United States after retirement.
From 2010 to 2012, she coached numerous teams at the San Diego Futbol Academy in Rancho Peñasquitos, California. After that, she coached teams for the San Diego Soccer Club[5] and was often referred to as "Coach O".[6]
Zhang was diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2018,[7] and died in San Diego on 1 December 2018, at the age of 43.