{"id":"zhao-dayu","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhao-dayu","language":"en","name":"Zhao Dayu","name_en":"Zhao Dayu","name_ne":null,"description":"Footballer (1961–2015)","headline":"Footballer (1961–2015)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Zhao Dayu (simplified Chinese: 赵达裕; traditional Chinese: 趙達裕; pinyin: Zhào Dáyù; 17 January 1961 – 18 March 2015), also known as Tatsuyu Matsuki (松木 達裕, Matsuki Tatsuyu), was a Chinese coach, businessman and a former international football striker. He was a naturalized citizen of Japan.","summary_more":["As a footballer he played his whole career for Guangzhou team, where he was Nicknamed \"Dwarf Tiger\" because of his short sature, while internationally he was called up to the Chinese national team, where he took part in the 1984 Asian Cup. He had to retire early in 1986 due to injury and moved to Japan to become the coach of Mitsubishi Motors youth team in 1988. Zhao had  a brief stint at senior management with Guangzhou F.C. before concentrating on football youth development by starting up his own school named Guangzhou Yida in his hometown while outside football he moved into sportswear manufacturing with a company called Ucan."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"17 January 1961","date":"1961-01-17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Guangzhou","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16572"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"18 March 2015","date":"2015-03-18"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Guangzhou","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16572"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"People's Republic of China","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148"},{"text":"Japan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"association football player","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937857"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"association football coach","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q628099"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Dayu","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Zhao Dayu born?","a":"Zhao Dayu was born on 17 January 1961 in Guangzhou."}],"related":[{"name":"Jack Ma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jack-ma"},{"name":"Pony Ma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pony-ma"},{"name":"Li Ning","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ning"},{"name":"Lei Jun","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lei-jun"},{"name":"Ren Zhengfei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ren-zhengfei"},{"name":"Jimmy Lai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jimmy-lai"},{"name":"Robin Li","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/robin-li"},{"name":"Meng Wanzhou","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/meng-wanzhou"},{"name":"Huang Zitao","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/huang-zitao"},{"name":"Fernando Chui","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fernando-chui"},{"name":"Wang Jianlin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/wang-jianlin"},{"name":"Lee Shau-kee","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lee-shau-kee"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Zhao Dayu","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Dayu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4024346","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4024346","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Zhao Dayu, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Zhao Dayu\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/zhao-dayu. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhao-dayu","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhao-dayu","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/zhao-dayu?lang=ne"}}