Xu Genbao ( simplified Chinese : 徐根宝 ; traditional Chinese : 徐根寶 ; pinyin : Xú Gēnbǎo ; born January 16, 1944, in Shanghai ) is a Chinese football manager and a former international football player. He is the current founder, chairman and general coach of Shanghai East Asia football club as well as also being the owner of the Genbao Football Academy . Though he was a Chinese international footballer, it was not until he became a manager and won the Chinese Jia-A League title with the China B team that he started to gain attention within Chinese football. This early success led to a Chinese national team appointment and then successful spells at Shanghai Shenhua and Dalian Wanda .
29-482: Predominately a left back throughout his career, Xu mainly played for Nanjing Army Football Team and Bayi Football Team . The Chinese Cultural Revolution saw his career severely shortened, but when it ended he was able to resume his career and help win the league title for Bayi in 1974. He was even able to play for the Chinese football team in its successful qualification for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup . After he retired he
58-472: A brief period. The club gained promotion back into the top tier – the rebranded Chinese Super League – which required more stringent conditions for the club to work in. The loss of prize money and stricter regulations ultimately forced Bayi to disband as the PLA saw the club as an unnecessary drain on resources. The announcement in mid 2003 coincided with the loss in form of the team who were relegated and disbanded at
87-447: A professional manager, which led to him take advanced courses at Beijing Sports Institute from 1984 to 1986. Upon finishing, he was given the opportunity to manage the newly formed China B team, which was essentially the Chinese youth team which was allowed to play in the league system. His time with them was extremely successful and he was even able to win the league title with them in the 1989 league season. Impressed with his leadership,
116-415: A season of playing third-tier football, his desire to immediately merge them into Shanghai Shenhua proved to be a disaster, and his temper did not bring out the best from his players. With Shenhua flirting with relegation, he was essentially sacked from his post as manager, with Wu Jingui taking over. Ironically, the following season Shanghai Shenhua won the league title using many of the players brought from
145-469: A semi-professional unit to compete within the competition. While the club had a strict policy of only having active servicemen within their set-up they hired a professional coach in Dai Linjing as their Head coach in 1952 despite him being a civilian, however his professionalism saw the club go on to win the 1953 league title for the first time. The club would incorporate existing army football teams such as
174-610: The Chinese Football Association removed the team from the league and allowed him to take the team to play international tournaments. This led to him being offered the Chinese senior team position; however, his reign was extremely short when the Football Association decided it wanted a more experienced manager in Klaus Schlappner to lead the team to the 1992 AFC Asian Cup . Nevertheless, Xu Genbao stayed with
203-607: The People's Liberation Army Bayi Football Club ( Chinese : 中国人民解放军八一足球俱乐部 ), was a football team under the sport branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that played in China's football league system between 1951 and 2003. They were predominantly based in Beijing . The name Bayi (八一), meaning August 1, is the founding date of the PLA. They started out as an amateur team who occasionally took part in multi-sport events until they took part in
232-677: The 1951 inaugural Chinese national football league tournament. With their unprecedented monopoly of football talent taken from every army football team in the country they would establish themselves as one of the top teams within the league winning five national league titles in their history. When the Chinese football league became a fully professional unit in the 1994 league season the club were given special dispensation to remain as semi-professional as possible by having all their members remain active military members while abstaining from foreign players and sponsorship. The cost of professionalism would see
261-399: The 1995 league season when Shanghai Shenhua convincingly won the league title for the first time in over 30 years. His personal desire to see better training techniques saw him found Shanghai 02 , a youth football team designed to improve the football techniques of young Chinese players. However, the following season back at Shanghai Shenhua was difficult for him, and he was unable to replicate
290-514: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, football in China was halted and Bayi were unable to play any competitive fixtures until 1973. When the club joined the league again in 1974 they would actually improve and go on to win the league title that season. Sustained dominance would see them go on to win the 1977, 1981 and 1986 league titles while also competing in the 1987 Asian Club Championship for the first time. The club's reign as one of
319-487: The Chinese team as an assistant until 1993. With the Chinese Football Association demanding the entire league system be professional, Shanghai Shenhua wanted Xu Genbao to help them in their transition at the beginning of the 1994 league season. He quickly enforced more professional techniques and tactics as well as developing a team able to fight Dalian Wanda 's dominance within the league. This paid off in
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#1733093550211348-466: The People's Liberation Army disbanded the club. The name Bayi (八一), meaning August 1, is the founding date of the People's Liberation Army (in 1927). They started out as an amateur team who occasionally took part in the multi-sport event National Games of China . This would change when China's first fully nationalized national football league tournament started and the club was essentially re-established as
377-486: The Shanghai 02 squad. Xu Genbao moved away from management and founded a football school in 2001 called Genbao Football Academy , but after several years outside management he founded Shanghai East Asia in 2005 where he named himself the head coach; in 2009 he stepped back and allowed Jiang Bingyao to replace him while he remained chairman. He became impatient with Jiang Bingyao after the club spent several seasons still in
406-545: The Southwest Military Region, Nanjing Army Unit and Shenyang Army Unit football team to give themselves an unprecedented monopoly of football talent throughout the country while based in Beijing. This saw them continue to be title contenders despite Dai Linjing leaving to take on the Chinese national team and the club employing from within when former player Chen Fulai took over the team in 1963. Unfortunately because of
435-415: The club take on offers from cities that included Taiyuan , Xi'an , Kunming , Shijiazhuang , Xinxiang , Liuzhou , Xiangtan and Hunan for financial reason. They also took sponsorship and changed their name to Bayi Zhengbang and Bayi Xiangtan, however these measures could not stop the club from relegation in 2003. With a loss in prize money and stricter regulations from the Chinese Football Association
464-757: The club to Shanghai International Port Group for ¥ 200 million in November 2014. He kept the U-15 team and below of the football academy. In March 2018, he sold the U-19 team (born in 1999 and 2000) to his former club Shanghai Greenland Shenhua . He acquired Spanish Segunda División B side La Hoya Lorca in July 2016 and changed its name to Lorca FC . On 27 May 2017, the club achieved promotion to Segunda División Bayi Football Team The Bayi or August First Football Team ( Chinese : 八一 ; pinyin : Bāyī ), known fully as
493-492: The end of the league season. All-time League Rankings No league games in 1954–1956, 1966–1973, 1975; Key Wu Jingui Wu Jingui ( Chinese : 吴金贵 ; pinyin : Wú Jīnguì ; Mandarin pronunciation: [ǔ tɕín kwêɪ] ; born January 10, 1961, in Shanghai ) is a Chinese football manager . While Wu Jingui played for the Shanghai youth football team, he never graduated to
522-466: The following season to join Arie Haan as an assistant for the Chinese national team to help him for the 2004 AFC Asian Cup ; however, once Arie Haan left after the tournament, Wu Jingui would return to Shanghai as an assistant again. At the beginning of the 2006 Chinese Super League he would return as the head coach of Shanghai Shenhua when he replaced Valeri Nepomniachi and coach them to second within
551-402: The head coach of Shanghai Shenhua F.C. on July 22, 2002 after a disappointing start to the 2002 league season, Wu Jingui would eventually steer Shanghai to finish in a disappointing 12th in the league. With a fresh start to the new season Wu Jingui would guide Shanghai to win their first league title in eight years when they won the 2003 Chinese Jia-A League title. Surprisingly he left Shanghai
580-464: The league title and promotion by the 2001 league season. Shanghai Shenhua, which hadn't won the title since he left, wanted to bring him back hoping for him to replicate the success he previously had; he decided that this was the perfect opportunity to sell and incorporate his now adult and professional football team Shanghai 02 into the Shanghai Shenhua team. While most of the Shanghai 02 players had
609-502: The league. At the beginning of the 2007 Chinese Super League season, Shanghai Shenhua F.C. had a new owner in Zhu Jun, and he replaced Wu Jingui with Osvaldo Giménez . Wu Jingui was, however, quickly brought back in after Osvaldo Gimenez's disappointing reign to help them salvage their season and would steer them to a respectable fourth within the league. Wu Jingui's third reign at Shanghai didn't last very longer as after ill health and
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#1733093550211638-424: The most successful clubs in China would end with the advent of professionalism within the league. When the first fully professional league season started in 1994 the club were given special dispensation to remain as semi-professional as possible by having all their members remain active military members, however the club did start to take in sponsorship money to pay for the cost of running the club. Some of this money
667-442: The representative team of the PLA, and unlike other clubs in China, Bayi were unable to sign foreign players. They therefore struggled to replace their best players and were relegated to the second tier for the first time in their history. With less money coming in the club continued to take offers from other cities and sponsors to play for. They moved to Xinxiang and Liuzhou to accommodate their sponsors and while this worked for
696-399: The second tier and decided to become the head coach of the team once more at beginning of the 2011 league season. Xu Genbao established a football club Shanghai East Asia in cooperation with Shanghai East Asia Sports and Culture Center Co. Ltd on the basis of Genbao Football Academy in 2006. The club won promotion to China League One in 2008 and to Chinese Super League in 2013. He sold
725-490: The senior team and only played amateur football with the Zhejiang Province football team for a short period. Instead of football, he would concentrate on achieving a soccer management degree, which saw him study in Beijing and Cologne for several years. This would see him gain an assistant management position at Shanghai Shenhua F.C., where he stayed with them until July 21, 2002. Wu Jingui would replace Xu Genbao as
754-561: The success he had previously shown despite coming second within the league. Shanghai Shenhua parted ways with him and he joined second-tier club Guangzhou Matsunichi in the 1997 league season where he immediately made an impact by aiding them to a 4th-place finish and promotion to the top tier. When Dalian Wanda was looking for a replacement for the previously successful manager Chi Shangbin , they quickly turned to Xu Genbao despite him previously managing their title rivals. He seemed like an inspired choice when he quickly asserted himself within
783-430: The team and won them another league title in his first season as well as coming runners-up in the 1997-98 Asian Club Championship . The following season, however saw Dalian's fortunes drastically fade when they struggled in the league and flirted with relegation, which saw Xu Genbao resigning at the end of the season. Xu Genbao returned to Shanghai with second-tier football team Shanghai COSCO Huili , where he led them to
812-547: Was given the opportunity to manage second-tier club Shanxi Provincial Football Team in 1978, but after two seasons he was unable to help the team win promotion. He then took a position with the Huochetou Football Association until third-tier club Yunnan Provincial Football Team offered him the manager position in the 1982 league; however, he was unable to lead them to promotion and left soon after. When Xu Genbao left Yunnan he returned to his training to become
841-489: Was raised by being paid to play in different cities. However, at first little changed and the team even came third within the 1996 league season . Where the club really struggled was their ability to hold on to their contingent of Chinese international players such as Hao Haidong , Hu Yunfeng and Jiang Jin who started to leave the club for better offers. Since (unlike CSKA Moscow or Partizan Belgrade FC who split from their armies and became professional clubs) it remained
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