Management Career
In 2008 Zhang Xiaorui was hired to be a player-manager of Chinese Yi League club Tianjin Tuanbo New City. In his first season he would guide the team to a second place finish in the Southern Group and a place in the play-offs where they were unable to win promotion. He was sacked on 10 March 2010, with Belgian manager Patrick De Wilde taking charge. In November 2010 Zhang would join Tianjin Runyulong as the clubs General manager and oversaw the clubs takeover of second tier football club Anhui Jiufang F.C. before leaving the club on January 5, 2012 to return to management with the Tianjin Teda U-19 team.
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