Just because Gao Hongbo failed to become the head coach of the men's soccer team does not mean that he will have difficulty regaining the position in the future. Why? As we all know, in the process of selecting and hiring coaches for this soccer association, the first condition given by the association was to have foreign coach status, giving priority to coaches from Europe. Gao Hongbo's path is blocked. In the current framework selected by the Football Association, only two people meet the requirements. One is Queiroz, but Queiroz has already accepted an offer from a 3 million strong African team, which means that Ivankovic is the only option for the men's soccer team. According to media sources such as Qin Yun, Ivankovic is essentially a lock for the new position of head coach of the men's soccer team; after all, Ivankovic's offer of 1.5 million a year also best meets the expectations of the FA.
Ivankovic's appointment appears to have been widely supported, but former soccer great Fan Zhiyi does not think foreign coaches are a miracle cure for Chinese soccer. In a recent program, Fan talked about Lippi's sudden resignation back in the day, and he expressed his opinion in eight words, "National football still relies on local." Only if local coaches work hard to learn and improve, the Chinese men's soccer team can get rid of the passive situation and develop a better future. It must be said that Fan Zhiyi's words hit the nail on the head, and at the same time, he also expects China's local coaches to perform better, realize self-sufficiency, and be able to support the head coach of the national men's soccer team by themselves.
