Guangzhou Evergrande win Chinese championship

SHANGHAI: Guangzhou Evergrande clinched the Chinese football championship on Saturday following an epic battle between two of world football’s heavyweight coaches.
Phil Scolari’s Evergrande won 2-0 away to Beijing Guoan to finish two points clear of Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Shanghai SIPG on a dramatic final day of the 2015 Chinese Super League season.
The veteran coaches have previously clashed on several occasions in the international arena.
Scolari’s Brazil knocked Eriksson’s England out of the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals, and the man affectionately known as “Big Phil” repeated the feat with Portugal at both Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup.
The duelling pair resumed their rivalry in China this season when Scolari was named Guangzhou coach back in May, following Eriksson’s appointment to the SIPG hotseat at the end of last year.