Qi Wusheng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Qi.

Qi Wusheng
戚务生

Personal information
Full name	Qi Wusheng
Date of birth	(1944-05-20) 20 May 1944
Place of birth	Weihai, Shandong, China
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
	Liaoning Youth
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1962–1964	Liaoning Workers
1964–1965	Liaoning
International career
1965–1976	China	11	(0)
Managerial career
1978–1979	Somalia
1979–1986	China U-19
1980–1982	China Hopes
1983–1985	China (assistant)
1986–1988	Guangzhou
1989–1993	Dalian
1994–1997	China
1998	Wuhan Hongjinlong
1999–2003	Yunnan Hongta
2004	Tianjin Teda
2006	Guangzhou Pharmaceutical
2015	Meizhou Kejia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Qi Wusheng (Chinese: 戚务生; pinyin: Qī Wùshēng; Mandarin pronunciation: [tɕʰí.û ʂə́ŋ]; born 20 May 1944, in Weihai) is a Chinese football coach and a former international player.

Playing career

Despite being born in Shandong, Qi would go on to play for teams within Liaoning before he would be selected for the Chinese national team. As a footballer, he played as a centre back and was known for his extraordinary ability and superb running game. His wealth of experience was limited due to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. However, he was still able to play within the 1976 AFC Asian Cup and help China to a third-place finish before he retired.

Managerial career

After he retired from playing, Qi took the Somalia head coach position with little success before returning to China, where he mainly took on numerous coaching positions for youth teams or as assistant manager for adult clubs.

After years of working his way up through these positions, in the 1986 league season he took on his first major job within China as the Guangzhou Head coach where he guided them to seventh in the league. His management saw Guangzhou become a mid-table team for the next several years until Dalian became interested in Qi Wusheng's coaching style of a focused, solid defense to act as the basis for the team's attack.

After winning the Chinese FA Cup in 1992 with Dalian, the Chinese national team became interested with his services after they replaced Klaus Schlappner as the head coach. Qi would go on to manage the national team to a silver medal in the 1994 Asian Games football tournament. While he experienced some success with the team, he could not guide China to a place in the FIFA World Cup and was replaced by Bob Houghton after he resigned. He would take a position with Wuhan Hongjinlong before spending several seasons with Yunnan Hongta F.C. until the club merged with Chongqing Lifan F.C. and Qi was released.

After a short spell with Tianjin Teda F.C. he would return to Guangzhou to help manage them to push for promotion back into the top tier; unable to achieve this, he would leave at the end of the 2006 league season.

Honours

As a player

China

• AFC Asian Cup Third Place: 1976

As a manager

Dalian

• Chinese FA Cup: 1992

Meizhou Kejia

• China League Two: 2015

China

• Asian Games Silver medal: 1994

External links

• Qi Wusheng Interview (1)
• Qi Wusheng Interview (2)
• Qi Wusheng Interview (3)
• Qi Wusheng Interview with Sina