Madsen also said in the article: because the Chinese men's soccer team and Singapore two world preliminaries time is too tight, there is no way, can only let the Chinese coaches recommended, and then Ivankovic made a small modification, especially Shandong Taishan team, Ivankovic to see more, gave Ivankovic more space to investigate, so we see this training list, Hong Kong is still the first seven ranked, Shandong Taishan team and Hong Kong team became the most candidates. This may be a small change for Ivankovic.
As Madsen said, there was really no way around this list because the tournament was so close, and Ivankovic had just taken over, a quick takeover, and didn't know enough about the athletes. In fact, I've suspected before that this list may not have been chosen by Ivankovic entirely on his own. Why? Because the roster was announced on March 8th and most of the leagues started on March 9th. As a result, Ivankovic and his assistants didn't do much research on the leagues. In this case, their intelligence gained more information, so they could only come from our Chinese coaching staff. After all, they know the team well.
According to Max, the Chinese men's soccer team will choose several warm-up opponents this June when the FIFA competition window begins again. At that time, the list will be chosen by Ivankovic himself, rather than recommended by the Chinese coaching staff. At that time, the Chinese Super League was almost halfway through and had accumulated a large number of matches. Ivankovic would also have a greater basis for investigation when choosing his athletes.
Zheng Zhi also said previously: as the Chinese coaching staff, their responsibility is not to participate in the tactical plan, but to assist the coaches in their training and to help our international athletes to move from the rhythm of the league to the rhythm of the national team's game in the World Qualifiers as soon as possible. So, although the Chinese coaching staff helped Ivankovic with the selection of personnel this time, it was only because they were familiar with the players. The work they are involved in is some basic, auxiliary and core work elements that should be done by foreign teachers. Therefore, I think the list of names recommended by the Chinese coaching staff is temporary and there is really no way to catch up with the ducks on the shelf. Our new foreign coaches should have a lot of autonomy.
