Live broadcast on February 21 Yokohama Mariners will face Shandong Taishan in the AFC Champions League 1 4 finals, and the 64-year-old Cui Kangxi will also face the challenge of 45-year-old Colwill.
Colwill is known as an Australian football legend as a player, having played for Liverpool, Leeds United and other teams, winning the 2004-05 Champions League, the 2005-06 UEFA Super Cup, the 2005-06 English FA Cup, the 2006-07 Champions League runner-up, the 2011 Asian Cup runner-up, and also participated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
After retiring in 2014, Colwill successively served as a head coach in England's lower league teams such as Watford U23, an assistant coach for Celtic in June 2022, and officially became the head coach of Yokohama Mariners on December 31, 2023.
Choi Kang-hee is an Asian coach who helped Jeonbuk win the AFC Champions League in 2006 and won the AFC Best Coach title in the same year. He went on to lead Jeonbuk to K-League titles in 2009 and 2011, and he was named AFC Coach of the Year in 2016. In addition to Jeonbuk, Choi Kang-hee has also coached teams such as Suwon Samsung, South Korean national team, Tianjin, Dalian, Shenhua and other teams.
Cui Kangxi officially became the coach of Shandong Taishan on May 16 last year, when Taishan only ranked 9th in the Chinese Super League, and only achieved 1 win, 4 draws and 2 losses in the first 7 rounds of games, accumulating 7 points.
After Cui Kangxi took office, the Taishan team achieved a proud record of 14 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses in the Chinese Super League, earning 48 points, and finally ranked second 5 points behind Shanghai Port. In the FA Cup, the Taishan team eliminated Meizhou Hakka, Beijing Guoan, and Dalian all the way, and lost 0-1 to Shanghai Shenhua in the final. In the AFC Champions League, the Taishan team qualified for the group stage with 4 wins and 2 losses, and defeated Kawasaki Frontale 6-5 in two legs in the 1 8 finals and advanced to the 1 4 finals.
Shandong Taishan will play home and away in the AFC Champions League 1 4 finals, with the first leg being played on March 6 and the second leg on March 13.
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