Xinhua News Agency, Dalian, February 11 (Reporter Cai Yongjun) after leading the team for some time, the Dalian side club announced on the 11th that Han coach Cui Kangxi completed the signing and officially became the head coach of the team.
Cui Kangxi was once declared as the head coach of the team by the Tianjin Quanjian club before, but since then, it has changed due to the case involving the power health company and senior executives, cui Kangxi and his team turned to contact with the Dalian side team and started the substantive training of leading the team until the club released official news Dalian side on the 11th. At present, Cui Kangxi and his team are leading Dalian side teams in Shanghai winter training.
The official news of the Dalian side club said: Cui Kangxi (ChoiKang-Hee), 59 years old, is a well-known coach with rich experience and outstanding performance in Asian football today. Cui Kangxi was a South Korean international and participated in the 1990 Italy World Cup. After retirement, Cui Kangxi picked up pointer and started his career as a football coach. He coached the Suwon Samsung team in 1996, served as the assistant coach of the Korean national team from 2002 to 2004, and returned to the Korean K League in July 2005 as the coach of the Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors team. During his tenure as coach of Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, Cui Kangxi led the team to win six league titles and two Asian Championships, bringing Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors into a first-class team in Asia. As a result, Cui Kangxi’s coaching ability has been widely recognized by South Korea and even the entire Asian football community. In 2006, Cui Kangxi won the title of best coach of the Asian Football Association. Ten years later, at the end of 2016, Cui Kangxi won another award and was elected as the best man coach of the year in the Asian Football Association. From 2011 to 2013, Cui Kangxi became the head coach of the South Korean national team, leading the team to qualify in the top ten in the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifier, which was also the eighth consecutive time that the South Korean team entered the top 32 World Cup.
Dalian side is one of the Chinese Super League clubs that determine the head coach at the latest, and its team’s internal and external aid has not yet been announced.