The photo taken from the official Facebook account of Chang'an Athletic club shows a young man waving the team flag of Chang'an Athletic.

XI'AN - China's second tier football club Chang'an Athletic released a short video showing its new head coach Kim Bong-Gil's birthday party on its Wechat account on Sunday.

In the video, the 54-year-old South Korean, surrounded by his colleagues and players, cut a cake in the shape of a football pitch, announcing his return after finishing his 14-day-self-quarantine as requested.

In the video, the 54-year-old South Korean, surrounded by his colleagues and players, cut a cake in the shape of a football pitch, announcing his return after finishing his 14-day-self-quarantine as requested

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Also a former South Korean international, Kim coached South Korean division one side Incheon United and the South Korea U23 men's team. Since being appointed as the first non-Chinese head coach of Chang'an Athletic on Dec 17, 2019, Kim has helped the team finish two training sessions.

Due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, all the Chinese domestic football matches of the 2020 season have been postponed. Chang'an Athletic intended to start its final training session on Jan 28, but the plan was delayed.

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Chang'an resumed training on March 1 in the city of Kunming, the capital of China's southwest Yunnan Province. Although Kim had arrived in China at that time, the South Korean needed to be quarantined and couldn't perform his duty immediately.

"Kim is a genial person. He gets along with colleagues and players very well. His counterattack tactic suits our team's situation," said the club's media release.