On January 25, according to Shandong media, Ma Baogang is expected to become the new technical director of Shandong Luneng Taishan Club. This old acquaintance who has played for the Taishan team for 20 years once led Luneng to win the third place in the Super League, and now he is returning to a major post.
Ma Baogang was born in Tai'an, Shandong on December 29, 1966. He is a coach from a discipline class and graduated from Beijing Sport University. He has solid basic theory, high level of foreign language, and strong scientific research ability. After graduating from Beijing Sports University in 1997, Ma Baogang joined the Jinan Taishan team as a sports researcher. During his nearly 20-year coaching career for the Taishan team, he served successively as assistant coach, reserve team head coach, executive head coach and team leader. He has assisted 13 head coaches, including 12 high-level foreign coaches such as Santraci, Tuba, Ivan, Antichi, and Kuka. He has experienced 6 general managers. Shandong fans jokingly call Luneng the “master of the stream”. Coach, Ma Baogang, the hard-pressed."
As an assistant coach, Ma Baogang helped Luneng's first team win 10 official championships, including 4 league championships, 4 FA Cup championships, 1 Chinese Super Cup champion, and 1 Super Cup champion. As the head coach of the reserve team, Ma Baogang led Luneng to win 4 consecutive championships in the Chinese Super League Reserve League from 2012 to 2015. In the 2015 season, under the difficult circumstances of the long-term suspension of coach Kuka and many players, Ma Baogang served as the executive coach, leading Luneng to third place in the Chinese Super League and qualifying for the AFC Champions League. In the 2016 season, Ma Baogang led Luneng to the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League as the team leader. In June 2016, after the Magat team took charge of Luneng, Ma Baogang left the Luneng coaching staff and was transferred to the Luneng Competition Training Department.
In the 2017 season, Ma Baogang bid farewell to Luneng and went to the Central Plains powerhouse Henan Jianye as the team leader. Today, Luneng also needs assistant coach Ma Baogang who has both theory and practice. After the then coach Yasen left get out of class, Ma Baogang also served as the acting coach for a period of time, but did not straighten. In the 2018 season, Jianye's new coach Tajiraki took office, and Ma Baogang continued to serve as the team leader. Due to his poor record, Tagiraki dismissed get out of class in April, and Ma Baogang once again played the role of firefighting coach. Soon, Jianye hired Zhang Wailong, an old acquaintance in the Super League, to coach, and Ma Baogang left Jianye.
In December 2018, Ma Baogang appeared in the military training team during the military training of the yellow and national youth teams of the Chinese Football Association. At the end of April 2020, Ma Baogang re-emerged as assistant coach Yin Tiesheng of Taizhou Yuanda of the Chinese First A team. Last season he brought the newly promoted Chinese First A to No. 6 in the Chinese First League. If the funds are sufficient, there is even hope for a surpass. .
Nowadays, the news that Taizhou Yuanda is about to disband or relocate is no longer a secret. Both Yin Tiesheng and Ma Baogang have resigned from Taizhou Yuanda. After Yin Tiesheng re-appoints Qingdao Zhongneng coach, Ma Baogang will also return to Taishan team as the technical director. Now in Hao Wei's coaching team, most of them are Luneng's meritorious players, with practical experience but lack of theoretical literacy. Luneng also needs a high-level coach like Ma Baogang who has both theory and practice.
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