Seasoned Italian takes reins with CSL crisis club

SHANGHAI - Former England, Real Madrid and Russia manager Fabio Capello on Sunday was named head coach of Jiangsu Suning, one of the biggest coaching signings yet in a spending binge by the Chinese Super League.

The Nanjing-based club said the disciplinarian Italian would "bring some of the world's most advanced ideas and methods to drive the elevation of Jiangsu soccer, and Chinese soccer overall".