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Ma returns to coach women's team; Sun Wen back
(www.hwdly.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-12-16 09:44
Ma's substitute Zhang Haitao failed to revitalize the squad, which
suffered an early exit in the group stage of last year's Athens
Olympics, including an humiliating 8-0 loss to Germany.
Wang Haiming, who took China to runners-up in the world youth
championship in 2003, took over the team.
But a string of poor performances in the friendlies cost him the job, and Pei
Encai was surprisingly picked up, dispite his inexperience at
coaching national team or women's team.
Pei was favored by CFA for his good record in the Chinese super
league, leading the Wuhan Huanghelou to a seven-game winning streak.
But the job turned out to be an impossible mission to Pei, as China finished
last in the four-team women's football tournament in October's East Asian Games
in Macao. Pei quit last month, about five months after he was appointed.
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