Chen Xirong (born 1953 in
Guangzhou) is a former
Chinese international
football player and coach as well as also being a media pundit. As a player, he would play for
Guangdong FC where he won the club's first ever Chinese league title in 1979, while internationally he represented
China in the
1976 Asian Cup and in the
1980 Asian Cup. After retiring, he would move into management where he joined Guangdong FC's cantonese rival
Guangzhou FC before becoming a media pundit for
Guangdong sports channel.[1]