From the general law of professional sports, most good players often do not reach the height of their player era after becoming coaches, and the former Italian coach of Guangzhou Evergrande Cannavaro is a typical example.
As a member of the Italian national team to win the World Cup, Cannavaro's playing career is undoubtedly very brilliant, but his coaching ability has always been highly controversial.
In 2011, after the 38-year-old Cannavaro officially announced his retirement, he began working as a technical adviser at Saudi giants Al Ahli Club. At the end of 2014, Cannavaro joined Guangzhou Evergrande and succeeded Lippi as the manager of Guangzhou Evergrande two months later, when Cannavaro was only 42 years old.
The young Cannavaro is clearly not ready to become the manager of a top team in the Chinese Super League, and he was fired by Evergrande just 4 months later.
After leaving Evergrande, Cannavaro became the manager of Saudi arabian team Arnasser, but his second coaching experience was not successful. After only 4 months in charge of the team, Cannavaro was once again dismissed.
Cannavaro's two failed coaching experiences did not discourage him, and in the summer of 2016, Cannavaro returned to China to join The League One side Tianjin Quanjian. This season, Cannavaro led Quan Jian to the Chinese First Division championship and successfully returned to the Chinese Super League. The following year, Ka Shuai led Quan Jian to a good result of third place in the Chinese Super League and entered the AFC Champions League in the 2017 season.
The success achieved in Quan Jian allowed Cannavaro to win the favor of Evergrande again. At the end of 2017, Cannavaro returned to Guangzhou and replaced Scolari as the manager of Evergrande again.
However, after returning to Evergrande, Cannavaro did not lead the team to defend the title for the eighth time, and Cannavaro's coaching ability was once again questioned by many people. In the 2019 season, after Evergrande lost to Henan Jianye away, Cannavaro was ordered by Evergrande Club to receive corporate culture education at the group headquarters.
Despite this, Cannavaro led Evergrande to win the Chinese Super League championship this season, achieving evergrande's great cause of winning the 8th Super League championship. However, in the following 2020 season, Cannavaro's Evergrande team lost to Jiangsu Suning in the final, passing by the Chinese Super League champions, and this is also the last time Cannavaro has been so close to the Vulcan Cup.
This season, Guangzhou has performed quite well in the first stage of the league, and they have been chasing Shandong Taishan to rank second in the league table. However, due to the serious financial situation of the club's parent company, the Guangzhou team also fell into an unprecedented crisis.
Under such circumstances, all the Brazilian naturalized players in guangzhou have all terminated their contracts with the club and left China. Cannavaro took the lead and officially completed his engagement with the club at the end of September this year.
After returning to Italy, Cannavaro has been idle at home, and just when people are surprised that Cannavaro's coaching career is coming to an end, there is good news from Europe.
Recently, news from the Polish website Interia said that after the polish national team coach Paulo Sousa was dismissed, the Polish Football Association intended to hire Cannavaro as the new manager of the Polish team.
According to the report, the current Chesław Michnywitz, Adam Naławka and Avram Grant are the new managers of the Polish national team. Cannavaro's outstanding achievements in his playing era and many years of coaching experience in the Chinese Super League have made him a popular candidate for Paul Sosa's successor.
Although the Polish Football Association has not yet officially decided to hire Cannavaro, we still wish Kashuai a new job and lead the Polish team to success, adding another big deal to his coaching career.