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Hao Haidong: questions go unanswered over son Hao Runze leaving Serbian club Radnicki Nis
- Son of now-ostracised Hao Haidong played for Super Liga side in Serbian Cup on June 3, despite ‘leaving club amicably on May 30’
- Allegations of ‘pressure from Beijing’ in departure of defender were denied by Radnicki Nis
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Hao Runze, the son of China’s all-time leading scorer Hao Haidong, is without a club after leaving Serbian side Radnicki Nis, but the circumstances of his departure remain unclear amid reports of “pressure from Beijing”.
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That was the allegation from fugitive billionaire and former-Chinese Communist Party member Guo Wengui in a June 8 YouTube live-stream, which was reported in Taiwanese media on June 9.
Hao Haidong had appeared on Guo’s YouTube live-stream on June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, to call for a Federal China and the end of the CCP. Hao senior was swiftly deleted from the Chinese internet.
Radnicki Nis, who finished second in last season’s Serbian Super Liga, denied Guo’s allegation in a statement to local media, which was picked up by Associated Press on June 10.
Radnicki director Dejan Propodalo said Hao, a 23-year-old defender, left after his contract expired at the end of May and denied there was any pressure from outside the club.
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