Official announcement
Xie Feng returned to Guoan as the official manager for the first time
On the 14th, Beijing Guoan Club officially announced that the 55-year-old famous Xie Feng became the new manager of the team, as a former old Guoan, this is also the first time in the history of Xie Feng to take charge of the team as an official coach, in the past many years, he was the assistant coach, leader or acting manager of the team, and this time, he finally achieved his return as the head coach. In the upcoming 2022 season, he will lead the team to set off together.
For people familiar with Beijing football, the name Xie Feng is all too familiar to everyone, once the side road fast horse made him famous in the domestic football world, although the time to represent Beijing Guoan in the professional league is not too long, but Xie Feng with his outstanding side breakthrough and bottom cross ability to impress everyone, after retiring in Shenzhen team had coached for a period of time, in 2011, after more than ten years of southward drifting career Xie Feng returned to Guoan to become an assistant coach, and this work is more than 6 years of time.
During this period, Xie Feng experienced a number of Guoan managers, and after the Italian coach Zaccheroni was dismissed in 2016 due to poor performance, he became the interim manager to lead the team to complete the season, and after José became the team manager at the end of the year, he once again retreated to the second line to become the leader, assisting espanyol. At the beginning of 2017, Sinobo Group moved into Guoan, the team entered a new era, in July of that year, with the german coach Schmidt took office, xie Feng, the team leader, and several other team staff left the club.
However, this time he did not spare too long, in January 2018, Xie Feng joined Hebei Huaxia Happiness Club (now Hebei team) as the team's technical director and assistant coach of the first team. More than a year later, when the coach of the team, Coleman, was dismissed due to poor performance, the famous "firefighting captain" of Chinese football was in danger, and in May 2019, he officially took office, becoming the team's Chinese coaching team leader and acting head coach, leading the team to play in the Chinese Super League that season and the subsequent 2020 season. This past season, as hebei hired South Korean diplomat Kim Jong-fu at the beginning of the year, Xie Feng once again disappeared from the public eye for a while.
This time, Xie Feng finally returned to Guoan as the official manager, which is also another challenge. After all, the current situation of the team is different from any stage of the team before him, the successive departures of high-level foreign aides and the status quo of the overall age of the main squad players make Guoan actually no longer the strongest teams in the league, how to pinch the team into a more competitive whole under the existing staffing configuration, is the biggest challenge that Xie Feng needs to face after taking office, at the same time, with the opening of the winter transfer window, what kind of foreign aid will Guoan choose? And whether or not to introduce domestic aid in individual positions is the focus of external attention.
After nearly 5 years of returning to Guoan, the burden on Xie Feng's body is really not light.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Kunlong