Zong Lei [SEP] member of sports team
Zong Lei
Zong Lei (; born July 26, 1981) is a former Chinese football player.
Club career.
Zong Lei started his football career playing for the Tianjin Teda F.C. youth team before breaking into the senior team during the 2001 league season. While at Tianjin Teda he would struggle to gain any significant playing time and after several seasons he would transfer to Shandong Luneng where he replaced Deng Xiaofei for the goalkeeping position for a short period. It was during this time that he would win the Chinese FA Cup
. Mi Tianhe would predominantly sit on the bench while Changchun grew from strength to strength and even go on to win the 2007 Chinese Super League title. Playing as a second choice goalkeeper for several seasons Mi Tianhe finally experience regular first team selection when Zong Lei was injured during much of the 2008 league season where he was given a run of seven games. However, despite his talents as a goalkeeper his performances were unable to establish him as a first choice goalkeeper for Changchun and Zong Lei would regain his position within the team