Background
While Zeng Xuelin was born in Siam (now Thailand), he would move back with his family to China and settled in Meixian in the Guangdong Province at the age of seven.
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While Zeng Xuelin was born in Siam (now Thailand), he would move back with his family to China and settled in Meixian in the Guangdong Province at the age of seven.
After leaving the Chinese national team he would mainly move away from management except for a brief spell when he joined Shenzhen Ping"an on a caretaker bases. After finishing high school, he would join the Chinese People"s Liberation Army and play for the Guangzhou Army team where he played amateur football in the regional leagues before going to University where he played for the Southwest Military Region football team while he was studying. As part of the Liberation Army he would selected for their top football club Bayi Football Team and study football in Hungary.
When his time ended with Bayi, he was selected to be a part of China national white team(as Chinese B national team), this team was allowed to participant the league game during that time.
He would make sure that the club were constant title contenders throughout his reign despite seeing the Cultural Revolution severely stunting the teams development. Nevertheless, despite there not being any major tournaments held within China the club held on to Zeng when they also made him a consultant within the club
This lasted until 1972 when football club offered him the youth coach position before he would soon take over the senior side. With the national team he would make sure the team easily qualified for the 1984 AFC Asian Cup where he would lead the team to a runners-up position within the tournament.
On 11 February 2016, Zeng died at his home in Shenzhen, aged 86.