After he retired Gao Fengwen went to
Yemen in 1974 and then to
Burundi in 1977 to teach for several years before returning in 1979 to China, where he took a training course in coaching before being offered the
Chinese youth team position. During his reign he would lead China into the
1982 AFC Youth Championship where China came second before also taking on the
Chinese U-16 team in the
1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship where he would lead them to a quarterfinals position. After his experiences with the previous Chinese teams he would go on to be promoted to the
Chinese senior team on 25 December 1986 where his first assignment was to make sure China
qualify for the 1988 AFC Asian Cup. After successfully achieving this he would then lead the senior team in the
Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the first time. While it was an achievement that China took part in their first ever Olympics at the football the tournament was however considered very disappointing and the team was unable to score a single goal. Given the chance of another tournament only a few months later with the
1988 AFC Asian Cup Gao's fortunes would change and this time he would lead China to a more successful tournament and lead China to semifinals position where he narrowly missed out leading China to the final after losing to
Korea Republic in extra time. Gao would also narrowly miss out in leading China to
qualify for the 1990 FIFA World Cup after losing to
Qatar in the final game in the dying minutes of the game and elimination from the qualifiers. Despite this, Gao kept his job and he led China in the
Football at the 1990 Asian Games; however, this tournament turned out to be a disaster after they lost to
Thailand and were eliminated, which led Gao to resign. Leaving management behind, he started his own football school in 1996. ==References==