Lin Chia-sheng

Lin Chia-sheng (Chinese: 林家聖; pinyin: Lín Jiāshèng; born 12 July 1980 in Tainan) is a Taiwanese football player.

Lin began to play football at the age of nine when he studied in Sheng Li Elementary School (Chinese: 勝利國民小學) in his home town Tainan.

In 1998, he was enrolled into Ming Chuan University and assisted its football team to win the champion of National College Cup (Chinese: 大專杯).

As a result, Lin gave up his participation in the school football team and commuted between Taipei and Tainan every week to take care of his mother.

Being one of the 900 participants competing in Los Angeles Galaxy's open tryouts, he was included in the final 24 but left out by the coaching staff eventually.