Chinese Super League outfit Tianjin Quanjian have officially appointed Paulo Sousa as their new head coach.<\/p>\n
The 47-year-old Portuguese tactician replaces Paulo Cannavaro, who is due to return to CSL champions Guangzhou Evergrande for a second spell.<\/p>\n
Quanjian finished third in their debut season in the CSL this season, which means they successfully earned a ticket for the AFC Champions League (ACL) next year.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Sousa’s teams are renowned for their tactical diversity and elegant style of play, which are a classic example of modern, aggressive football,” read an official statement as it was quoted by Goal China.<\/em><\/p>\n “Hopefully, Mr. Sousa will lead Tianjin Quanjian to scale new heights in seasons ahead and bring happiness to our fans in coming seasons.”<\/p>\n Sousa ended last season as Fiorentina’s manager, but decided to leave the Italian Serie A giants following the appointment of Stefano Pioli in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese Super League outfit Tianjin Quanjian have officially appointed Paulo Sousa as their new head coach. The 47-year-old Portuguese tactician replaces Paulo Cannavaro, who is due to return to CSL champions Guangzhou Evergrande for a second spell. Quanjian finished third in their debut season in the CSL this season, which means they successfully earned a ticket for the AFC Champions League (ACL) next year. “Mr. Sousa’s teams are renowned for their tactical diversity and elegant style of play, which are a classic example of modern, aggressive football,” read an official statement as it was quoted by Goal China. “Hopefully, Mr. Sousa will lead Tianjin Quanjian to scale new heights in … Continue reading “Tianjin Quanjian appoint ex-Fiorentina boss Paulo Sousa”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[154,83,1034,1033,95,99],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-east-asia","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-csl","tag-paulo-sousa","tag-slider","tag-tianjin-quanjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}