After a week of physical reserves, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, who are training in Haikou for the winter, will switch to warm-up mode, where they will play Changchun Yatai, Dalian and Beijing Guoan.
After completing a high quality physical reserve training in the first week, the Jinmen Tigers will gradually transition to a technical and tactical training level. Although most of the key players from last season basically stayed with the team, new players including Tomorrow, Han Pengfei, Guo Hao and Yu Yang also need to familiarize themselves with the team's technical and tactical play and requirements as soon as possible, and the coaching staff also needs to investigate the players in real games. Therefore, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers began to contact warm-up matches. As the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers live in the same hotel in Haikou as Dalian and Beijing Guoan, it is very convenient to organize warm-up matches. 4 March, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers will usher in the first warm-up match of the winter training in Haikou, the opponent will be Changchun Yatai. 8 March and 11 March, the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers will also play against Dalian and Beijing Guoan respectively.
While the Jinmen Tigers are busy warming up, the priority for the Chinese men's soccer team is to release a new national team roster and then train. The Chinese Football Association (CFA) recently officially announced Serbian coach Aleksandar Jankovic as the head coach of the Chinese men's national soccer team. Compared to the former foreign coaches of the national soccer team, Jankovic's qualifications are shallow, and how long he can stay in the position of national soccer coach has become a topic of concern.
As the dust settles on Jankovic becoming the national soccer coach, some details of the Chinese Football Association's selection of the coach are gradually being disclosed. According to domestic media reports, Jankovic is not the first candidate for the national soccer coach, the Chinese Football Association, after rubbing shoulders with Queiroz, Ola Royo and other famous coaches, finally chose Jankovic, breaking the embarrassment of "no coach to choose".
Yankovic's entry into the national soccer team means that the Chinese men's national team has returned to the "foreign coaching route", but Yankovic has an inherent disadvantage compared to previous foreign coaches, that is to say, his qualifications are still very shallow. Looking back at several foreign coaches since the professionalization of Chinese soccer: Horton worked as an assistant to the legendary Robson for many years, and became a senior lecturer at FIFA at an early stage; Milo, with the aura of "magical coach", finally led the national soccer team to realize the dream of entering the World Cup finals; Ali Han and Camacho were very strong in international soccer, and became very famous after becoming coaches; Du Du was also very famous after becoming a coach; Yankovic was also a foreign coach, but he had one inherent disadvantage compared to his predecessors. Ali Han and Camacho were strong in international soccer and became famous after becoming coaches; Doi, Furado and Perrin are a little bit less famous, but there is no lack of highlights in their coaching careers; and the last foreign coach is the famous World Cup-winning coach, the famous Marcello Lippi. Compared to the above mentioned famous coaches, Jankovic has a "resume" of coaching Serbian U21 national team, Red Star Belgrade, Mechelen, Standard Liege and others. In terms of qualifications, he is only slightly better than Schlapner, the third-rate coach of the German national soccer team.
As the level of Chinese men's soccer has been rising for a long time and the environment is not ideal, fans always fantasize that those senior and famous foreign coaches can "stop" the international players and thus bring the national soccer team to the right track. Now it seems that this idea is really naive. Especially since the golden age of Chinese professional soccer, some international players have been enjoying the New York Times bonanza, earning high salaries in their respective music departments, and actually choosing to work for the national team in order to maintain a major position in the music department. Camacho, Pelan and Lippi have all strongly questioned this phenomenon.
When Perrin coached the national soccer team, there were even cases where international players refused to be called up to the national team on the grounds of injury. This practice of international players made Pelan furious, Pelan was strictly controlled, but the French coach did not have much to do. As a matter of fact, several foreign coaches did not have a good solution in dealing with international players. On the other hand, the dismissal of these foreign managers, mostly due to a few "bizarre" fiasco. Camacho era, the national football team lost 1-5 to Thailand, evaluation of this fiasco, Fan Zhiyi's words are "shameless"; Perrin era, the national soccer team in the world preliminaries in a sudden "blackout", beat Hong Kong, China, twice, lost to Qatar on the road; Lippi era, the Asian Cup against Iran's strange mistakes. Asian Cup against Iran's strange mistake is impressive, when the national soccer preliminaries 1-2 loss to Syria, Italy's gold medal coach in total despair, he resigned for the second time, leaving such a paragraph, "If the players are on the field, there is no desire, no courage, no strategic deployment, this is my responsibility as head coach. My annual salary is very high, I earn a lot of money in China, but I don't want to rob money, I announce my resignation. I announce my resignation as head coach."
From this we can see that even the World Cup champion coach is not able to lead the Chinese men's soccer team. Therefore, Yang Shuai's seniority and fame is more of a "placebo" in the hearts of fans, rather than a "sure-fire way" to subdue the national football team. It is true that Yang Kovic's qualifications are not high. He doesn't even have the experience of coaching the adult national team alone, but Yang Kovic also has his own advantage, that is, after more than four years of coaching, he has a full understanding of Chinese soccer.
Yankovic's takeover of national soccer coincided with a low point in Chinese soccer. At this time, a massive soccer anti-corruption storm was unfolding. Chinese professional soccer was also in the midst of a long winter after the bubble of gold-dollar soccer burst, saying goodbye to overpaid players and agonizingly exploring the path of finding their original purpose. One of Yankovic's key tasks in coaching the national football team was to help it recreate its spiritual attributes, allowing international players to run, fight and hustle for the honor of the national team.
From his past performances coaching the U19 national team and the men's Asian Games, Jankovic is very dedicated. He respects the team spirit and is good at inspiring the blood of the players. Yankovic will certainly bring to the national football team, for example, "body fat rate can not exceed 10%, can not meet the standard can not play". Yankovic once said in a media interview, "players must go all out, show the highest intensity and aggression, until they can not run. I hope Chinese fans will see a Chinese team that works hard, fights to the end and keeps running."
Yankovic's strict control of the army is one aspect, and the self-awakening of international players is also very important. While it is understandable that players have short careers and seize their limited youth to make as much money as possible, at this level of pursuit, international players should also have higher ideals and pursuits and consider what they can do for the development of Chinese soccer.
In March this year, Jankovic will lead the national soccer team in two warm-up matches against New Zealand, which will be his first test. Subsequently, the national soccer team is likely to be the second team will start the Asian 36 preliminaries in November, by which time Jankovic should have completed the international selection and the main lineup construction, the 36 and the results of the Asian Cup at the beginning of next year will determine whether Jankovic will be able to continue to be in the men's soccer coaching position in China.
