13 Facts About Xu Genbao

Xu Genbao is a Chinese football manager and a former international football player.

Xu Genbao is the current founder, chairman and general coach of Shanghai East Asia football club as well as being the owner of the Genbao Football Academy.

Xu Genbao was even able to play for the Chinese football team in its successful qualification for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup.

Xu Genbao then took a position with the Huochetou Football Association until third-tier club Yunnan Provincial Football Team offered him the manager position in the 1982 league; however, he was unable to lead them to promotion and left soon after.

When Xu Genbao left Yunnan he returned to his training to become a professional manager, which led to him take advanced courses at Beijing Sports Institute from 1984 to 1986.

Nevertheless, Xu Genbao stayed with the Chinese team as an assistant until 1993.

Xu Genbao quickly enforced more professional techniques and tactics as well as developing a team able to fight Dalian Wanda's dominance within the league.

Xu Genbao returned to Shanghai with second-tier football team Shanghai COSCO Huili, where he led them to the league title and promotion by the 2001 league season.

Xu Genbao moved away from management and founded a football school in 2001 called Genbao Football Academy, but after several years outside management he founded Shanghai East Asia in 2005 where he named himself the head coach; in 2009 he stepped back and allowed Jiang Bingyao to replace him while he remained chairman.

Xu Genbao became impatient with Jiang Bingyao after the club spent several seasons still in the second tier and decided to become the head coach of the team once more at beginning of the 2011 league season.

Xu Genbao established a football club Shanghai East Asia in cooperation with Shanghai East Asia Sports and Culture Center Co.

Xu Genbao kept the U-15 team and below of the football academy.

Xu Genbao acquired Spanish Segunda Division B side La Hoya Lorca in July 2016 and changed its name to Lorca FC.