Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazil's 2002 football World Cup-winning manager, is the new head of defending Chinese Super League champion Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, the club said on Thursday.
The announcement came after young Italian Fabio Cannavaro-led Guangzhou finished in a 2-2 tie with Tianjin Teda in a domestic league match on Thursday evening.
Thought Scolari, 67, led Brazil to the top of the sport in 2002, he suffered defeat in last year's World Cup in Brazil, where his team lost 7-1 to Germany in the semi-final.
Cannavaro, 42, took over the coaching position last year after the Guangzhou-based club claimed its fourth domestic league championship under management of former Italian World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi.
The club did not explain in its announcement why Cannavaro was stepping down, but stressed that winning more domestic and Asian games is the its main pursuit.
Under Cannavaro's management, Guangzhou ranked second in the Chinese league after 13 rounds of games and entered the quarter-final of the AFC Champions League.
