Yesterday, there was a good news from the second division league of our country that Zhao Faqing, the head coach of Dalian Kuncheng team, was honored as the best head coach in September. In this golden autumn, the team is like a butterfly, in September in four games, with three wins and one loss of the good results of the wings to fly, but also in the journey in October, a series of successive victories, three victories as a bolt of lightning, cut through the haze of the road to the next level, and finally become the right result.
A new army on the road, Dalian Kuncheng has gone through trials and tribulations at the beginning of the season, from being on the verge of disbanding to being reborn from the ashes. In the northern section, the team ranked third with a record of 9 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, but it was 5 points away from Shaanxi United, the dominant team in the northern section, with only one draw and one loss in the two encounters, which was not an advantage in terms of win-loss relationship. In the Championship Zone race, Quincy is not the favorite to win the title, although it is ranked fifth in the Top 10. It is in this context, the team experienced a coaching change, the former Shijiazhuang Kung Fu team coach Zhou Lin was appointed, but failed to turn the tide, four rounds of matches only a win, a draw and two losses, the team ranked once slipped to the eighth, the hope of the first round of hopes is slim.
The turning point came before the game against Shanghai Port B. Zhao Faqing's presence heralded the departure of Zhou Lin, who took over the coaching reins of the Quincy team and has since started a wave of comebacks. Zhao Faqing led a six-game winning streak that saw the team score a whopping nine goals, defeating Shenzhen Youngsters and Shaanxi United in quick succession to make it to the China A. In the September B-League Coach of the Month awards, Zhao Faqing was honored as the September Coach of the Month with a total of 94 points after winning first place in the Media Jury Expert Vote for the month of September for the first time in six times. Sports Weekly praised Zhao as one of the few post-60s coaches in the professional league, who has made achievements in the Chinese Super League, A and B leagues, and has also been in charge of the women's soccer team, and is now returning to his hometown to lead the team to complete its mission to reach A League.
Zhao Faqing, 60 years old, is a native of Dalian, who has played for Liaozhu and Qianwei Huandao. In his coaching career, he has been in charge of Shenyang Jinde, Chongqing, Hunan Xiangtao, Shenyang Dongjin, Chengdu Qianbao, Liaoning Tiren, etc. In the 2024 season, Zhao officially took charge of Dalian Kuncheng and injected new vitality into the team.
