Liaoning Ironman Football Club's official Weibo announced on April 8 that the club made the following adjustments to the team's coaching staff:
Fan Zhiyi will be hired as the team's coaching staff and technical director, and Sun Wei will be appointed as the deputy head of the coaching staff and deputy technical director and the first executive coach, and other members of the coaching staff will be adjusted and announced at any time.
At the same time, Li Yingfa was hired as the team's honorary technical general consultant, and Li Shubin was hired as the team's honorary technical advisor.
In response, Fan Zhiyi responded:
Thank you very much for your attention and love to me! Regarding my appointment as the head of the coaching staff and technical director of Liaoning Iron Man Club, I hereby make the following statement: I am only out of personal love and feelings for football, and I participate in this incident with the attitude of helping the team build a coaching team, and do not hold any actual position in the team!
Fan Zhiyi has a long reputation in domestic football, served as the captain of the Chinese national men's football team, won the titles of "Asian Footballer" and "Chinese Footballer", and has been committed to football youth training for a long time after retiring, and has served as the head coach of many teams.
Coach Sun Wei was the main player of the national team, the main midfielder of the Liaoning team during the "Ten Championships" period, and served as the head coach and assistant coach of many Chinese Super League and Chinese League A teams, and served as the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team.
Source: Synthesized from @Liaoning Iron Man Football Club's official WeChat, @范志毅