Qi Wusheng
戚务生
Personal information
Full name Qi Wusheng
Date of birth (1944-05-20) 20 May 1944 (age 79)
Place of birth Weihai, Shandong, China
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
Liaoning Youth
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1964 Liaoning Workers
1964–1965 Liaoning
International career
1965–1976 China 11 (0)
Managerial career
1978–1979 Somalia
1979–1986 China U-19
1980–1982 China Hopes
1983–1985 China (assistant)
1986–1988 Guangzhou
1989–1993 Dalian
1994–1997 China
1998 Wuhan Hongjinlong
1999–2003 Yunnan Hongta
2004 Tianjin Teda
2006 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical
2015 Meizhou Kejia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Qi Wusheng (Chinese: 戚务生; pinyin: Qī Wùshēng; Mandarin pronunciation: [tɕʰí.û ʂə́ŋ]; born May 20, 1944, in Weihai) is a Chinese football coach and a former international player.

Playing career

Despite being born in Shandong, Qi would go on to play for teams within Liaoning before he would be selected for the Chinese national team. As a footballer, he played as a centre back and was known for his extraordinary ability and superb running game. His wealth of experience was limited due to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. However, he was still able to play within the 1976 AFC Asian Cup and help China to a third-place finish before he retired.

Managerial career

After he retired from playing, Qi took the Somalia head coach position with little success before returning to China, where he mainly took on numerous coaching positions for youth teams or as assistant manager for adult clubs.

After years of working his way up through these positions, in the 1986 league season he took on his first major job within China as the Guangzhou Head coach where he guided them to seventh in the league.[1] His management saw Guangzhou become a mid-table team for the next several years until Dalian became interested in Qi Wusheng's coaching style of a focused, solid defense to act as the basis for the team's attack.

After winning the Chinese FA Cup in 1992 with Dalian, the Chinese national team became interested with his services after they replaced Klaus Schlappner as the head coach. Qi would go on to manage the national team to a silver medal in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament.[2] While he experienced some success with the team, he could not guide China to a place in the FIFA World Cup and was replaced by Bob Houghton after he resigned. He would take a position with Wuhan Hongjinlong before spending several seasons with Yunnan Hongta F.C. until the club merged with Chongqing Lifan F.C. and Qi was released.

After a short spell with Tianjin Teda F.C. he would return to Guangzhou to help manage them to push for promotion back into the top tier; unable to achieve this, he would leave at the end of the 2006 league season.

Honours

As a player

China

As a manager

Dalian

Meizhou Kejia

China

References

  1. ^ "China 1986". RSSSF. 22 Oct 2009. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
  2. ^ "姓名：戚务生". sports.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
  3. ^ "China 1992". RSSSF. 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  4. ^ "中乙决赛-超越120分钟闷平 客家点球8-7险胜夺冠". sports.163.com. 2015-10-10. Retrieved 2019-08-06.

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Sporting positions Preceded byGao Fengwen China national football team captain 1973-1976 Succeeded byXiang Hengqing
China squad – 1976 AFC Asian Cup third place
China squad – 1996 AFC Asian Cup
China national football team – managers
Guangzhou F.C. – managers
Somalia national football team – managers
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger F.C. – managers
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