China unveils Perrin as new national coach
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Former Lyon boss Alain Perrin is China’s new coach. The Chinese Football Association announced yesterday it chose the Frenchman to lead China, ranked a lowly 88th in the world.
“Improvements won’t happen overnight, but I have faith the new coach will have a positive effect,” association head Cai Zhenhua said at a news conference introducing Perrin.
Perrin arrived late on Thursday at the national team’s southern training base at Qingyuan, where the team is preparing to face Iraq in an Asian Cup qualifier in Dubai on Wednesday.
He succeeds Jose Antonio Camacho, who was sacked in June following a string of defeats, including a humiliating 1-5 loss to minnow Thailand.
Perrin has coached at clubs such as Marseille, Portsmouth, Saint-Etienne and Lyon, which he led to its seventh consecutive Ligue 1 title in 2007.
The Frenchman would be on the bench for Wednesday’s game to allow Fu Bo to finish his caretaker role.
Meanwhile, World Cup winning Italian manager Marcello Lippi has signed a contract extension to coach Guangzhou Evergrande for three more years, the Chinese club announced yesterday, days after reports said he had turned down an offer.
Lippi, who led Italy to glory in 2006, will remain coach of the Chinese and AFC Champions League title holder until November 2017, Evergrande said on a verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Evergrande broke China’s 23-year Asian title drought when it clinched the continental club championship in November, with the Italian at the helm. “We believe the successful contract extension for our world class coaching team with Lippi at its core will help maintain our leading position,” it said in the posting, without giving a value for the contract.
The announcement came after reports quoted club president Liu Yongzhuo as saying that Lippi, 65, had decided to leave at the end of the season because he was “tired”.
Lippi joined deep-pocketed Evergrande in May 2012 and has led it to two Chinese Super League titles, a Chinese FA Cup and the AFC crown.
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