Fan Shuai reached the Europa League final & Scolari re-employment, how is the old man of the Chinese Super League now?

Reporter Han Bing reported that for two consecutive days, two old acquaintances have returned to the vision of Guangzhou fans, first former Evergrande coach Scolari was re-employed in the Bajia and served as the technical director and coach of the first team at Paraná Athletic; and then the former Guangzhou city manager Van Bronckhorst led the Glasgow Wanderers to the Europa League final. So can the coaching careers of other Chinese Super League veterans after leaving China go smoothly?

After being sacked by Gremio in the relegation zone in October last year, former Guangzhou coach Scolari has been idle at home, and on May 4, local time, the 73-year-old made a comeback to join Atlético Parana. Among them, the technical director is the main position, the coach is just to fight the fire, Scolari has to find a new manager for the team, and then focus on the management position of technical director.

Scolari and his family have been living in Portugal since last year, but the old coach is not willing to retire, considering his age and physical condition, he focuses on the national team, including South American and African teams. But the outside world did not expect that Scolari's first position of return was to replace former Qatari national team coach Ottori, who had just been removed from the position of technical director of Parana Athletic. In fact, at the end of April, Universal Sports and TNT Sports revealed that Paraná Athletic wanted to find a big-name coach as technical director, while temporarily fighting fires before the club found a new coach.

Atlético Paraná currently has just four points in the first four games of the Copa Libertadores group stage, with coach Valengi and Casille coming off, the latter signing for two years on April 13 but only managing for three weeks before being sacked for a 5-0 defeat to Bolivia's strongest.

Eventually, Atlético Paraná found Scolari, whose contract ended next year. It is reported that Paraná Athletic CEO Matos was a Palmeiras executive, and from 2018 to 2019, he had a close relationship with Scolari, who was the manager of the team at the time, and Matos recommended Scolari, hoping that he would reverse the decline.

However, the Pakistani media are not optimistic, the reason is very simple, today's Scolari is no longer the big Phil of the year - after leaving the Chinese Super League at the end of 2017, in 4 and a half years, he found 4 jobs, but the first 3 (Palmeiras, Cruzeiro, Gremio) were dismissed due to poor results, of which, in 2018, coaching Palmelas won the Baliga championship, which was the last glory of Scolari's coaching career.

In addition to Scolari, how have other foreign coaches who have left the Chinese Super League in recent years performed?

Guangzhou City's late Van Bronckhorst returned to the Netherlands at the end of 2020 to recuperate for almost a year, and only took over from Gerrard, who was poached by Aston Villa, in charge of the Su Super League Rangers, taking over only 1 win against sworn enemy Celtics in 4 times, 6 points behind the Green Army, basically hopeless to defend the title. However, in the cup field, Fan Shuai's team is performing well, in addition to the Scottish FA Cup is expected to compete for the title, the Europa League semi-finals that ended in the early morning beijing time this morning, they won the Bundesliga powerhouse RB Leipzig with a total score of 3-2, advancing to the final, will compete with another Bundesliga team Frankfurt for the Europa League title.

Van Bronckhorst also became the second manager to lead the Wanderers to the Europa League final after Walter Smith in 2008. At the same time, Van Bronckhorst also became the second Dutch coach to coach a non-Dutch team to reach the Europa League final after Dick Edvokart. It was Dick Edvokart who coached Zenit that year, who beat Walter Smith's Rangers 2-0 in the Europa League final.

Fan Shuai's "predecessor" Stojkovic in Guangzhou City led the team to the World Cup after becoming serbia's manager in March 2021.

Guoan's Genesio returned to Ligue 1 to coach Rennes, maintaining the same level as he had been that year; his predecessor Schmidt, who had just announced that he would leave Eindhoven at the end of the season, would be his next stop; Oraroyu, who was disbanded from Jiangsu early last year, returned to the United Arab Emirates to coach Sharjah in November last year, and currently ranked 4th still has a chance to qualify for next season's AFC Champions League, in addition, the team also reached the Final of the Presidents Cup.

After Leaving the harbor, Pereira coached Turkish giants Fenerbahce, but was sacked in less than half a year, coaching Brazilian giants Corinthians in March this year, although he was out of the first game of the São Paulo State League knockout round, but the Copa Libertadores and the beginning of the Baliga were temporarily ranked first, which is a little face.

Compared with the above, the coaching of some other old acquaintances in the Chinese Super League is not so glamorous.

Flores, who left Shenhua in 2019 and has only briefly coached Watford and La Liga Getafe in 3 years, is now struggling for relegation, far from the scenery when he was in the Atletico and EMI Leagues; Benitez left Dalian at the beginning of last year to replace Ancelotti, who was poached by Real Madrid, as Everton manager, but the team's results were bad, and they gave way to Lampard at the beginning of this year.

Cannavaro has been rumored many times, but none of them have a real hammer, and he is currently idle like Shenhua's Choi Kang-hee, Deep-Footed Donadoni, JinmenHu's Stillik, Dalian's Jose, and Cangzhou's Gutby.

Bilic, who left Guoan at the beginning of the year, has been idle for more than 3 months, and there has been recent news that he may become the new coach of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and his competitors are his compatriot Niko Kovac, who was fired by Ligue 1 giants Monaco at the beginning of the year, and former Swiss coach Petkovic and former Japanese coach Halihodžić.