Gao Sheng (; born 10 May 1962) is a Chinese

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coach and former player who played as a

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Playing career

Born in

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

, Gao began his football career for his hometown football club

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

's youth team and later graduated to the senior team in 1983. He quickly made an impression within the team to win many trophies including

1989–90 Asian Club Championship The 1989–90 Asian Club Championship was the 9th edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. Liaoning FC of China won the final and became Asian champions for the first time. Qualifying Tournam ...

. He accepted

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's invitation and joined Japanese club

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in 1991. He retired at Fujitsu in 1995.

Managerial career

Gao became a football coach of

(later changed the club name as

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) youth team system after his retirement. He back to Liaoning in December 2011 when he joined

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, Liaoning's youth team, and served under his former teammate

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as an assistant coach. He was appointed as the assistant coach of

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in January 2003 after

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was called up into China national team. He resigned from Liaoning in late 2006 and re-joined Kawasaki Frontale. He accepted the invitation of

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to become the assistant coach of

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in the

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in 2012. He left the club after Okada's resign in November 2013. On 27 November 2013, he signed a three-year contract with another Super League club

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and became their new manager. On 9 April 2014, he resigned from Liaoning after winning only once in the first five matches of the season.

Personal life

Gao married to a Japanese woman in the 1990s. His son, , is currently playing for

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Career statistics

International goals

:''Scores and results list China's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gao goal.''

Honours

Player

Liaoning *Chinese National League /

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(Top tier): 1985,

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

Chinese FA Cup The Chinese FA Cup (, abbreviated as CFA Cup) is the national knockout cup competition in China organized by the Chinese Football Association. Its current holders are Shandong Taishan, having beaten Shanghai Port in 2021 for a record seventh titl ...

: 1984, 1986 *

Asian Club Championship The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...

: 1989–90

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gao, Sheng 1962 births Living people Chinese footballers Footballers from Shenyang Association football midfielders China international footballers Liaoning F.C. players Kawasaki Frontale players Japan Soccer League players Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics 1988 AFC Asian Cup players Olympic footballers of China Footballers at the 1986 Asian Games Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for China Chinese football managers Liaoning F.C. managers Chinese expatriate footballers Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate footballers in Japan