Yan Shiduo steps down as Chinese soccer boss

　　Yan, 53, has been dismissed from his post as the director of the Soccer Administrative Center and become the new boss of the national sports training center, filing in the director spot thereafter the retirement of Sun Changxin, according to the report from the sports.cn website.

　　A senior government official from Ankang, Shaanxi province, XieYalong, 49, came out as the successor of Yan, who had sit on the post for nearly five years during which the Chinese national soccer team made it through to the world cup finals in 2002 under his reign.