able to improve upon the previous season's results. Kim came into Shandong with a reputation of having led South Korea into the 1986 FIFA World Cup for the first time in over 32 years. He dramatically changed the team's style of play and emphasized attacking football and his new signing from Beijing Guo'an Deng Lejun thrived on this, scoring seven goals. Kim's style, however didn't bring him many wins and he resigned later in the season while Yin Tiesheng returned to manage the team away from relegation.

First league title
On December 25, 1998 former Yugoslavian national team coach Slobodan Santrač joined Shandong as their new manager for the start of the 1999 league season. With key foreign signings in Serbian goalkeeper Saša Petrović, striker Luis Romero combining with nowA video showing clips of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit while in Hamas captivity was released on Sunday by the Izz Eddin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, who are responsible for Shalit’s capture in June 2006.

The 11-minute video shows Shalit, who was released in 2011 following a prisoner exchange deal struck between Israel and Hamas, smiling as he tends to a barbecue. He is also seen eating, sipping coffee, watching TV and reading letters from his family.

The footage was part of a video revealing a top-secret special division of Hamas’s military wing called the Shadow Unit, which it says was responsible for guarding Shalit during his captivity. A spokesman says the unit was established a decade ago with the purpose of ensuring the release of Palestinian imprisoned