Hope alive China have found right style

Young and determined Chinese soccer coach Gao Hongbo has showed great courage to use an attractive style of play that produced positive results and won the acclaim of fans in his side's first two outings.

While previous coaches relied on tall and strong players, Gao, one of China's best strikers during his career, called on more skilled players of smaller stature and adopted a Spanish style of fast movement and short passing for his first two friendlies against Germany last Friday and Iran on Monday.

"A new soccer style will not be established in one day," Gao said.