Li Yiming

Central Defender - Meizhou Hakka U18
24 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Li Yiming

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The Meizhou Hakka Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

12 matches without a win for Meizhou Hakka

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Meizhou Hakka are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Liu Baiyang: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Meizhou Hakka have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Wang Guoming stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Yue Tze Nam signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yue Tze Nam and Meizhou Hakka agree another 4 years.

Squad

Haruna Hassan wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Meizhou Hakka know it.

Squad

Wang Guoming in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Meizhou Hakka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Meizhou Hakka

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Deng Yuhao joins the Meizhou Hakka first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Deng Yuhao is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Li Yiming steps up from the Meizhou Hakka academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Li Yiming has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief