Liu Changcheng

Liu Changcheng
portrait
Date of birth	May 3, 1964
size	1.95 m
position	Universal
societies
0000–1989 1989–1993 1993–1995 2009–2016 since 2016	Beijing Moerser SC Post Telekom Berlin Moerser SC (trainer) Skurios Volleys Borken (trainer)
National team
203 times for	China
successes
1984 1990 1991, 1993 1992	8th place Olympic Games Los Angeles CEV Cup Winner German Cup Winner German Champion
As of January 11, 2013

Liu Changcheng ( Chinese  刘 长城 , Pinyin Liú Chángchéng ; born May 3, 1964 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese volleyball coach and former national player.

Career

Liu started his volleyball career in school. He later played on the university team and the Beijing city ​​team . At the age of eighteen he played his first international match for the Chinese national team . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he finished eighth. The attacker made a total of 203 international matches. In 1989 he came to the German Bundesliga club Moerser SC . Shortly after he came to Germany, he married Dai Ming , who played for VC Schwerte in the women's Bundesliga. Liu was on the field at MSC together with Georg Grozer senior and between 1990 and 1993 won the CEV Cup , the German championship and twice the DVV Cup . During his time in the Bundesliga he was represented in the rankings of German volleyball and in 1992 was voted "Most Valuable Player".

After his career as a player, the Chinese ran a restaurant in Moers. He later became the assistant to his former teammate Grozer senior, who had meanwhile become a coach at MSC. When Grozer was fired in 2009, Liu Changcheng himself took on the role of head coach. In his first season, Moers got into the relegation round of the Bundesliga before the club reached the playoff quarter-finals in 2011 and only lost in the semi-finals in 2012. After Moers withdrew from the Bundesliga for financial reasons, Liu was player-coach in the fourth-class Regionalliga West from 2014 to 2016. Since 2016 he has been coaching the second division women of the Skurios Volleys Borken , with whom he won the championship unbeaten in the 2018/19 season.

Web links

• Profile at the Skurios Volleys Borken
• Liu Changcheng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at Moerser SC
• Ranking lists (all PDF files): 1990 ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (4.56 MB) - 1991 (3.12 MB) - 1992 (2.76 MB) - 1993 (3.46 MB) - 1994 (1.99 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chinese romance. (PDF; 4.6 MB) German Volleyball Magazine, December 1989, accessed on March 30, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Grozer and Liu - the duo from the golden nineties now together again. (No longer available online.) Moerser SC, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 30, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Grozer has to go, Liu takes over. The West, May 3, 2009, accessed March 30, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Moerser SC starts in the regional league. The West, September 11, 2014, accessed November 5, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Chang Cheng Liu is the new trainer at the Skurios Volleys Borken. Accessed June 2, 2017 (German). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Changcheng is the first name.