On the morning of June 17th, Wuhan Three Town Club officially announced that it had reached an agreement with head coach Pedro, who and his team will no longer serve as Three Town's first team coach and related coaches. This means that the Spaniard's five-year fate with Tri-Town has come to an end.
In the midst of Tri-Town's planned coaching change, a new coach has been identified in the form of Japanese coach Takashi, whose job was officially announced on June 18 by the Tri-Town Music Department. The coaching change is related to the team's league results this year. Against the backdrop of the "six for three" goal, it is difficult to explain the team's eighth-place finish in the early stages of the season.
"According to the team's development needs, after the club and Pedro Morilla Pineda (PedroMorillaPineda) from now on, Mr. Pedro and his coaching team will no longer serve as the head coach of the first team of Wuhan Sanzhen Football Club and related coaches." On June 17, the official announcement of Sanzhen FC read. It is understood that the club expresses two meanings: firstly, the termination of Pedro's contract according to the needs of the team's development, and secondly, after the termination of the contract, Pedro's team will not continue to take up other related positions in the club.
As we all know, Pedro is the technical director of the 2019 Tri-Town club, serving as the acting first-team head coach in the middle of the team's crucial year beyond 2021. Pedro led the team to success beyond the head coach to become the head coach of Wuhan Sanzhen in the first season of the Chinese Super League. In the club's first year in the Chinese Super League, Pedro and the team created the "Kaiserslautern miracle" in the Chinese Super League, three years, three championships rushed to the Han Dynasty. Pedro and Wuhan can be said to be the peak of the opening.
But in the announcement of Tri-Town, "according to the development needs of the team" is very conspicuous and important. This is the second year of the Tri-Town Premier League, and like most "second year students" in the league, they will experience some bottlenecks at one time or another. Not only do we have to deal with the plight of the "second graders", but we also have to keep the face of the defending champions. Pedro doesn't have a lot of coaching experience, it's really hard.
This year, the three towns did not put forward the goal of defending the title, but chose a relatively stable "six to three" goal. The overall lineup, which retains most of last season's team and introduces mid-generation reinforcements such as Wei Shihao and Yan Dinghao, won't be as stuttering as it was before the break. After 12 rounds of league play, Tri-Town has won only three matches and is ranked eighth, the fewest wins among the top ten teams. Such a record, based on the team's development, is hard to explain to the club and fans.
The decision to change coaches has been in the works for a long time, with the Wuhan Sanzhen music department actually giving Pedro plenty of time to come to the rescue, but in the new season, aside from a series of major injuries that have left the roster incomplete, the entire team has struggled to get it right on a technical and tactical level, which is one of the reasons why Sanzhen is considering a change of coaches. Certainly, Pedro's failure to unearth players from Three Town's own youth training capable of reaching the major levels of the Premier League, whether he took over in the First Division or entered the Premier League the following year, is at odds with Three Town's philosophy of development in the music department.
In the process of thinking about a coaching change, Pedro's successor has entered the top management's vision. on June 18th, Sanzhen officially announced that Japanese coach Gao officially became the head coach of Sanzhen's first team. San Zhen insisted on the principle of always hiring foreign coaches, and chose the right foreign coach instead of a big name foreign coach.
Gao was born in 1968 and worked with Hainan Stars, a three-town ladder team. He is also a coach who has achieved great success in youth training. This time, the selection of the coach belongs to the internal potential. Gao has worked as a youth coach in the J-League and has been the head coach or assistant coach of Japan's U17, U18, U21 and U22 After coming to China, he was the head coach of Hebei's U19 ladder team and the head coach of the reserve team. It can be said that they are better at digging out newcomers. On his professional resume, as the head coach of Kawasaki Striker, Gao led the team to win the second place in the league in 2008 and successfully promoted to the AFC Champions League.
The timely adjustment of the three towns means that they still have the pursuit of this season, whether it is "to maintain six to fight for three", or to further explore the internal talent, at least the team does not want to lie flat, showing the attitude of the defending champions should be.
