Yin Tiesheng (; born August 16, 1956, in

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former football player who is currently the manager of Qingdao Hainiu.

Playing career

As a player, Yin Tiesheng started his career playing for the Shandong youth team and by 1974 he was even called up to the Chinese national under-20 football team as well. Also within that year he graduated to the Shandong's senior team and played within the top tier of Chinese football. In 1979 Shandong were allowed to participate in the

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, which they won; however, despite being a loyal servant to the club throughout his entire career and often seeing them being title contenders, this was his only medal he won before he retired in 1988 due to

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Management career

Shandong

After Yin retired he remained with Shandong, where he became their youth team manager in 1990. After a brief stint he attracted the interests of the

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and worked with the Chinese U-17 team in 1991. After that short spell he returned to the Shandong youth team and went on to win the 1993 National Youth League title. This then saw him promoted to managing the senior team of

Shandong Taishan Shandong Taishan Football Club () is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Jinan, Shandong and their home stadium is th ...

where he won the

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in 1995. His time at the club ended at the end of the 1997 league season after he was unable to improve the club's league results; however, he remained faithful towards the team and returned to the club near the end of the 1998 league season to aid the club in their relegation battle. While he did not remain as manager, he did stay on as the administrative manager of the team when they won the national championship in 1999 before leaving the club.

Changchun Yatai

In 1999, Yin became the manager of lower league club

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, and during his reign he guided the club to a runners-up position within the second tier at the end of the 2001 Chinese league season; however, the club were denied promotion after it was discovered that certain players and coaches had fixed matches. Yin remained as coach and at the end of the 2003 league season went on to win the division championship.

China U-20

Yin coached

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in 2004, where he coached them in the

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tournament, where they eventually became the runner-up in that competition against

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. Yin was praised as a shrewd tactician and for encouraging many members of that team to subsequently graduate to the national side.

Qingdao Jonoon

He coached another

club

Qingdao Jonoon Qingdao Hainiu Football Club (, known as Hai-niu or literally Sea Bull) is a professional Chinese football club that currently participates in the China League Two division under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is b ...

from 2005 to 2008.

China

Yin became the last minute care-taker coach for the Chinese U-23 team, which had already qualified for the

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as hosts. During his short time as coach for the China U-23 team he was assigned with the task of coaching the team to a minimum of three competitive games against

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and

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. However, due to his short time, he couldn't implement his ideas in the team, and China were eliminated within the group stages. On 9 December 2008, he was called as Interimscoach for

after

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stepped down in the wake of China's exit from the

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in the Asian Zone. Yin was assigned to coach the two imminent

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matches to be held in the 14th and 21 January 2009 as well as the immediate friendlies leading up to the qualifiers where his reign as coach was mixed with a loss against

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and a win against

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Honours

Manager

: 1995

*Chinese Jia B: 2003

References

External links

Xinhua Net's page on Yin Tiesheng
(in Chinese)
Biography at sports.sina.com.cn
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