Career
Lu Jianren played for his local football club Beijing Football Club"s youth team before gaining promotion to the senior team in the 1979 league season. He then played understudy to Yang Ning as China"s second choice goalkeeper in the 1984 AFC Asian Cup, however as the tournament progressed the manager Zeng Xuelin, who Lu previously worked with at Beijing, decided to promote him to the team"s first choice goalkeeper half way through the campaign. The move worked and China reached the final, however China lost to Saudi Arabia 2-0 and finished runners-up.
