Education
University of Salford.
宿茂臻
University of Salford.
After his retirement as a player he would eventually move into management where he started off as an assistant before becoming the head coach of the Chinese U-20 football team Early on in his career, he had two brief trial periods with Manchester United in the 1989-1990 and 1991-1992 seasons, during which he made a number of appearances for the Junior A team alongside future stars such as Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes. Once Su returned to China and established himself as regular for Shandong Luneng, he then started his rise to prominence.
By the 1999 league season, he had been made club captain, and led them to the league and cup double, resulting in him being named Chinese Football player of the Year.
Su Maozhen was considered a promising young football player and was fast tracked into the senior team where he made his first senior international cap against Saudi Arabia on 23 January 1994 in a 1–0 defeat. Given another chance to make an impression for his country he was selected for the squad to play against Macau for China"s 1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification campaign where on 30 January 1996 he would score his debut goal in a 7–1 victory.
During the tournament he would only make one appearance against Costa Rica and once the World Cup campaign finished Su would soon retire from international football. In 2006, he graduated from Salford Business School, University of Salford in the United Kingdom, having completed a master"s degree in Management.
In November 2006, he was appointed as Assistant Manager of the Chinese Olympic football team by the Chinese Football Association (CFA) in their preparations for the 2008 Beijing Games.
Once the tournament finished he was offered the chance to become the Head coach of the Chinese U-20 team As a player.