Scolari to face young female coach in Champs League

World Cup winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's first task in trying to take Guangzhou Evergrande to a third Asian Champions League will be to face a team coached by a 28 year-old woman. The draw has pitted the Chinese powerhouse against Hong Kong club Eastern F.C., whose coach Chan Yuen-ting became the first woman to lead a men's team to a title in a professional top flight league when Eastern won the 2016 Hong Kong Premier League. On February 22, Eastern will play its first ever game in the Asian Champions League against Guangzhou in the southern Chinese city, just 75 miles (120 Kilometers) away from Hong Kong, in front of over 40,000 fans. "The Asian Champions League is a valuable opportunity for us to learn from opponents like Guangzhou and improve ourselves," Chan told Associated Press.