Serbian veteran Slobodan Santrac will return to the Chinese
football league seven years after leading Shandong Luneng to the
championships in both the league match and the FA Cup
competitions.
Santrac will now take the reins for Chinese Super League's
Changsha Jinde who beat another Super League's Qingdao Zhongneng
for the deal.
The club will offer Santrac a one-year contract, Web site
sina.com reported. Santrac, now a technical official with the
Serbian Football Association, is expected to sign the deal on
Saturday.
Jinde's former manager, Milan Zivadinovic, terminated the
contract with the club at the end of last season for health
reasons.
Santrac proved his skill soon after arriving in China in 1999,
steering the Shandong side to the dual thrones in one season, an
unprecedented result for a Chinese domestic team.
(CRI.cn December 25, 2007)