SAMPLE OF CHINA GUANGZHOU: LIPPI ANNOUNCES THE FAREWELL, Fabio Cannavaro WILL BE HIS SUCCESSOR

The Guangzhou Evergrande Marcello Lippi has graduated for the fourth consecutive time champion of China, the third era of technical Viareggio, now in the epilogue.

A Diamonds, Gilardino and fellow enough just a point at home to Shandong Luneng After the initial advantage of Liu, Elkeson (28 goals in all) to 43 ‘marked and closed the championship, making vain the comeback of the second-placed Beijing Guoan . Gilardino finished the tournament with 5 goals, with 4 diamonds.

After the party, the announcement: Lippi in 2015 will be the technical director of the company in Canton. “It ‘was my last game as a coach, I’m getting old … The next year, the team will have a new coach.” There is talk of a possible arrival on the bench of his standard-bearer of the 2006 World Cup, Fabio Cannavaro.

Former national coach is bound to Guangzhou from three-year contract signed in February this year and is likely to remain so in the pictures of the company until 2017. In any case, he clarified, is determined to return to the bench. In career enriched by the world championship in 2006 by Italy coach Lippi has won five Serie A championships at the helm of Juventus. With the Bianconeri has aggiudicatoanche a Champions League, one Intercontinental Cup, one European Super Cup, four Italian Super Cups and one Italian Cup. In China, where it landed in 2012, continued to expand their honors: the Guangzhou has won three editions of the Super League, an Asian Champions League and Cup of China.