Shandong Luneng have rejected the chance to offer coach Felix Magath a new deal, the Chinese Super League club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
He has been replaced as manager for Ziaopeng Li, who had been one of his assistants in the Luneng.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe contract between Shandong Luneng Taishan Football Club and Mr Magath has expired and, after friendly discussions, the two sides have decided not to renew,\u201d the club said in a statement issued on social media, as reported by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSince taking office in June 2016, Mr Magath has further enhanced the team\u2019s will, the quality of training and the athletic performance through his hard work.<\/p>\n \u201cMr Magath\u2019s professional attitude and dedication won the club\u2019s respect and made him a fan favourite.<\/p>\n \u201cWe sincerely thank him for his hard work and wish Mr Magath the best for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Magath becomes the latest high-profile foreign manager to leave Chinese football, along with Andre Villas-Boas <\/a>and Luiz Felipe Scolari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shandong Luneng have rejected the chance to offer coach Felix Magath a new deal, the Chinese Super League club announced on Friday. He has been replaced as manager for Ziaopeng Li, who had been one of his assistants in the Luneng. \u201cThe contract between Shandong Luneng Taishan Football Club and Mr Magath has expired and, after friendly discussions, the two sides have decided not to renew,\u201d the club said in a statement issued on social media, as reported by Reuters. \u201cSince taking office in June 2016, Mr Magath has further enhanced the team\u2019s will, the quality of training and the athletic performance through his hard work. \u201cMr Magath\u2019s professional attitude … Continue reading “Felix Magath steps down as Shandong Luneng coach”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154,83,233,95],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-shandong-luneng","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","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=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}