--FILE--Marcello Lippi, center, head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande FC, poses with Cai Zhenhua, former Chinese table tennis player, deputy Director of State General Administration of Sports and new President of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), at the opening ceremony of the new term at Evergrande Football School in Guangzhou city, south Chinas Guangdong province, 9 October 2012. Chinas vice sports minister and ex-table tennis player Cai Zhenhua was elected president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) here on Tuesday (21 January 2014). In the first reshuffle of the CFA executive board in a decade, Cai was elected to replace the 75-year-old Yuan Weimin, who had remained as CFA president since 1992. Cai, 53, won four world championships titles in his playing days and achieved greater success as a coach. He brought the Chinese mens table tennis team back to the top after he took over in 1991, and laid the foundation for Chinas dominance in world championships and Olympic Games in the past two decades. Cai was promoted to the vice president of the State General Administration of Sports in 2007.
