Niebo forced Su Maozhen to retire and almost led the team to be relegated. Is he the worst coach in the history of Luneng?

Looking back on Luneng’s history, we should remember Taishan’s achievements. In the history of the Taishan team, there have been 19 coaches (including long-term acting coach Ma Baogang), including 14 foreign coaches. Some of these coaches have led the team to create glory, some have led the team with mediocre performance, and some have almost led Luneng. To the Central Division. For example, the famous Russian coach Nepomniach.

Niebo, who was born in 1943, is 80 years old this year. This old Russian has achieved great success in many national leagues, especially in Africa and Asia, and is also a well-known football coach in Russia.

Chinese fans know Niebo more because he led the African Lions Cameroon to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in 1990, and his skills shocked everyone. It can be regarded as having its own name in world football.

In 2000, the Shenyang Sea Lions, which was troubled by relegation, paid a lot of money to hire Niebo to coach this recognized A-A underdog. And Niebo relied on excellent training and the outstanding performance of foreign players to achieve the best record in history of seventh place in the league. Immediately, Niebo quickly became famous in the domestic arena, and media reports were full of praise, giving Niebo magical power.

At that time, Shandong Luneng, who had led the team back on track under Boris, decided to replace him and pursue Nepomniach, who was also a Russian and had a brief coaching career in Hiroshima, Japan. If you have money, you can do anything. In 2002, Niebo began to coach the Taishan team. Although the team's performance that season was not amazing, the ranking was improved compared to the previous two seasons. The team's main forward Su Maozhen was also a shooter. Top of the list.

Maybe this result made Niebo lose himself a little. First, he had a drinking dispute with the club's general manager Dong Gang to release his military power, and excluded Su Maozhen, who was in great form, from the new season lineup. Then he complained that he was too fat. For this reason, Moreno was dismissed from the Boca Juniors team. He advocated that the club did not renew the contract with the foreign aid Lamptey, but spent a lot of money to introduce Kiryakov, who performed well in Yunnan Hongta. In the new season, the focus will be on the forward line. Support Russia's twin evils (Sergey is Ukrainian). As you can imagine, the results were disastrous. If it were not for the two-year comprehensive performance of the Chinese Super League assessment, Niebo would really have led the team to be relegated.

The club planned to fire Niebo, but he was the first to express his plan not to stay with the team next season at a certain game press conference. It was tantamount to saying that he kicked Luneng and made people who were standing behind him at the time , Dong Gang, who had a good relationship with him, was so angry that his face turned red and his neck thickened.

Many people also said that Niebo was dismissed because the generals were at odds and some players wanted to get rid of him. No, isn’t the football tyrant Su Maozhen you call retired? The author believes that Lao Mao should be the happiest person about Niebo's performance in 2003. First, it shows that there is a significant gap in Luneng's performance whether he is present or not. The second is that after he retired, there were still conflicts in the team and he was not a ball dominant player.

After a period of rest, in mid-2004, Shanghai Shenhua extended an olive branch to Niebo and signed a contract with the team for one and a half years. To be fair, in 2005, Niebo led Shenhua to the runner-up in the Chinese Super League, and his performance was quite good.

Niebo has coached three teams in China. He scored full marks in Shenyang Sea Lions, 70 or 80 points in Shanghai Shenhua, and it is certain that he will fail in Shandong Luneng. He put aside the results of his leadership, let Luneng's hero Su Maozhen retire, and let Lampti (one of the best in the history of the Chinese Professional League) leave. He was incompatible with Moreno, who shined after returning to South America. These are all unforgivable wrong choices for him to stay in the Taishan team. Especially, in the minds of most fans, he and fellow countryman Boris are two extremes!

Do you remember that old Russian man with a thin face?