On December 26, Beijing time, Shandong Taishan defeated Hebei and won the Chinese Super League championship this season three rounds in advance! And for Taishan coach Hao Wei, this is also a day to make history!
Hao Wei is 45 years old this year, which is regarded as the "young zhuang faction" among local coaches, but he has a lot of coaching experience, serving as the head coach of Hunan National Games, Changsha Jinde, China Women's Football Team, China National Olympic Games, and the head of the Chinese coaching team of Guangzhou Evergrande, etc. In October 2020, he succeeded Li Xiaopeng and took up the coaching whip of Shandong Taishan.
Just two months later, Hao Wei led the team to win last season's FA Cup. This season, although facing many difficulties in reality, Shandong Taishan played a stable role under his leadership, scoring 33 points in the first 14 rounds and entering the championship group as the top of the table.
In the second stage of the competition, the Taishan team won all 5 games, and locked up the Chinese Super League championship of the season 3 rounds in advance! In this way, Hao Wei became the fourth top league champion manager in the history of Shandong football after Santrać, Tubbakovic and Ivanovic, and the first local coach!
Second, Hao Wei became the first local manager in 12 years to lead the team to win the Chinese Super League, the last being Hong Yuanshuo, who led Guoan to the championship in 2009. However, at that time, Hong Yuanshuo actually took over halfway, so third, Hao Wei became the first tu shuai in 14 years to coach the whole season and finally win the championship, the last time was Gao Hongbo who led Yatai to win the championship in 2007!
Fourth, Zhu Guanghu was 55 when he won the championship in 2004 and Hong Yuanshuo was 61 when he won the championship in 2009, so the 45-year-old Hao Wei became the second youngest champion coach in the history of the Chinese Super League, behind Gao Hongbo (who was 41 when he won the championship in 2007).
Fifth, in the player era, Hao Wei won the A-A championship in 1999, and now he has lifted the Chinese Super League trophy, so he has become the first double champion to win the top league as a player and manager since the professionalization of Chinese football!