Career
Gao Fengwen was a promising young football player and would play for Liaoning Football Club before being called up to the Chinese national team in 1965 where he was honoured with being the teams captain. Unfortunately the Chinese Cultural Revolution saw his career severely shortened and he was unable to play in any major international tournaments. He did, however play in several small tournaments and was able to represent his country on several occasions before he retired.
After he retired Gao Fengwen went to Yemen in 1974 and then to Burundi in 1977 to teach for several years before returning in 1979 back to China where he took a training course in coaching before being offered the Chinese youth team position.
During his reign he would lead China into the 1982 AFC Youth Championship where China came second before also taking on the Chinese U-16 team in the 1985 Fédération internationale de football association U-16 World Championship where he would lead them to a quarterfinals position. After his experiences with the previous Chinese teams he would go on to promoted to the Chinese senior team on December 25, 1986 where his first assignment was to make sure China qualify for the 1988 AFC Asian Cup.
Given the chance of another tournament only a few months later with the 1988 AFC Asian Cup Gao"s fortunes would change and this time he would lead China to a more successful tournament and lead China to semifinals position where he narrowly missed out leading China to the final after losing to of Korea Republic in extra time. Gao would also narrowly miss out in leading China to qualify for the 1990 Fifa World Cup after losing to Qatar in the final game in dying the minutes of the game and elimination from the qualifiers.
Despite this, Gao kept his job and he led China in the Football at the 1990 Asian Games.
However, this tournament turned out to be a disaster after they lost to Thailand and were eliminated, which lead Gao to resign. Leaving management behind, he will start his own football school in 1996.
