Manatee officially announced the departure of the 43-year-old foreign handsome!led the team to fail in 3 rounds ahead of schedule + scored in the top 4, and the new coach emerged

On December 22, Beijing time, the Chinese Super League Qinghai Manatee Club officially announced that after friendly consultation, 43-year-old Spaniard Antonio Gomez will no longer serve as the club's head coach in the new season. Qingdao Manatee thanked Antonio for his contribution to the team and wished him all the best for the future.

In February 2023, Antonio became the coach of the Qingdao Manatees. He led Qingdao Manatee, which returned to the Chinese Super League, to succeed in 3 rounds of relegation ahead of schedule, and led the team to the top 4 of the FA Cup after 21 years.

Although Antonio led the team to achieve the goals set by the Manatee Club before the season, from the perspective of the whole season, he still exposed the shortcomings such as the lack of command ability of the forest farm, and in the end, the two sides did not choose to continue to cooperate.

It is reported. After abandoning Antonio, Qinghai Manatee's new coach is most likely to be Bulgarian Yasen Petrov, who has coached in China for many years.

Previously, Yasen had coached the Cangzhou Lions (Shijiazhuang Yongchang) for the first time in 2013, led the team to a successful breakthrough the following year, and then achieved a good result of 7th place in the Chinese Super League, leaving in 2016. In 2018, he took charge of the Cangzhou Lions again and led the team for 10 months, in addition to coaching at Henan Jianye and Beijing Beijing Sports University.