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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2016, file photo, China's national football team coach Marcello Lippi speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Beijing. Lippi faces his biggest challenge yet as China coach as the 2006 World Cup winner faces South Korea needing a win to keep any hopes of qualifying for Russia 2018 alive. China, which has appeared at just one World Cup back in 2002, is in last place in Group A with just two points from the five games in the third round of qualification so far. Lippi was appointed in October and needs goals from a team that has failed to score in all four games since losing 3-2 to Korea in Seoul in September. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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FILE - IN this Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, file photo, China's newly appointed national football team coach Marcello Lippi speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Beijing. Lippi starts mission almost-impossible on Tuesday as he bids to take China to the 2018 World Cup. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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Italian Marcello Lippi listens to a question from a reporter at a news conference after he was appointed as a coach for China's national football team at a hotel in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Lippi has urged his China team and the nation to pull together to accomplish the "improbable" task of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup before he begins a thorough overhaul of the struggling football program. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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In this photo taken Oct. 27, 2012, then Guangzhou Evergrande coach Marcello Lippi walks by a sign of the club's badge after winning the championship of China's top soccer league in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. Lippi was hired Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 to take over the Chinese national football team in the latest sign of China's commitment to becoming a serious force in world soccer. (Chinatopix Via AP)
