Cannavaro completes return to Evergrande
China Daily | Updated: 2017-11-10 07:12
SHANGHAI - Italian World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro was named manager of Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande on Thursday, returning to the club that cut him loose in 2015.
The 44-year-old former Juventus and Real Madrid defender, who quit Tianjin Quanjian earlier this week, signed a five-year contract and replaces Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari at China's perennial league champion.
Cannavaro will be expected to continue Guangzhou Evergrande's domination of the CSL - on Saturday it lifted a seventh consecutive league title - and inspire the team to a third AFC Champions League crown.
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