Back to success with Arie Haan

Tianjin captain Xinxin Wang (left) has been with Tianjin TEDA since 2009 (Photo: getty).
First Team
Thursday, 03.07.2014 / 10:36

The summer break of the Super League came at the wrong point for Tianjin TEDA as Werder's second test match opponent during the WERDER BREMEN CHINA TOUR 2014 collected...


The summer break of the Super League came at the wrong point for Tianjin TEDA as Werder's second test match opponent during the WERDER BREMEN CHINA TOUR 2014 collected four wins in a row to make up for a poor start to the season. Bremen will see on Saturday 5 July 2014 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. Bremen time) if Tianjin were able to keep up their form since taking the break. The Green-Whites' showdown with Tianjin can be seen live and exclusively on WERDER.TV.

The team from the Chinese port city collected just five points from their first five matches, having not won their first Super League match until the fourth match day with a 3-0 win over Harbin Yiteng FC at the home Olympic Center Stadium. Since then, things have improved greatly in the former capital of the Zhili province. Tianjin have improved to 21 points for seventh place at the summer break.

Tianjin win the trophy

Back to the bench: Arie Haan has trained Tianjin TEDA since the beginning of the season. (Photo: getty).

That means the club, which was founded in 1957, is close to taking part in international competition. They are just four points behind third place and participation in the Asian Champions League qualification. That would be a huge success for Tianjin right along with the runners-up finish in 2010 and the cup victory in 2011.

Responsible for the success on the pitch back then and today is Arie Haan. The 65-year-old, who used to coach VfB Stuttgart and Nuremberg, was coach at Tianjin from 2009 to 2011 and replaced luckless Alexandre Guimaraes at the beginning of this season.

WERDER.TV will be broadcasting the match live. There will also be information about the match and Werder Bremen's trip to China on the Chinese networks Tencent Weibo and Sina Weibo.

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