On December 18, the national soccer team officially traveled from Shanghai to the United Arab Emirates to prepare for the Asian Cup. Before participating in the Asian Cup, coach Jankovic was interviewed by the media. He talked about the issues that many people are concerned about. From his words, fans may also know the team's view and attitude towards the Asian Cup.
First of all, the goal of the Asian Cup, the last Asian Cup national soccer team into the top eight, which may be the limit of the current Asian national soccer team, the Asian Cup, the Football Association within the Association did not announce a clear goal, but the outside world speculation is generally at least the same as the last time. When it comes to this issue, Yankovic did not clearly express the real indicators.
He said that as a coach he is judged on whether the team can play with the skills and tactics they want to play with and just like the World Qualifiers, in the upcoming matches we can only take our goals one step at a time. Now everyone expects our team to do well and as a team we have a small target ourselves, but instead of talking big we should aim for the first game against Tajik and try to do our best.
This time, the national soccer team brought more than 20 people, and some players will end up losing the final list for the Asian Cup. In this regard, Jankovic said that for the final list issue, we will decide the final lineup through preparation. I'm not worried about that. Everyone deserves to be called up and has the strength to play in the tournament.
The Asian Cup national soccer team two group stage opponents are unstable, Qatar and Lebanon temporarily change the coach, of course, this is good and bad for China, the good thing is that the opponents this time there will be some instability, the disadvantage is that the new coach's ideas must be new, perhaps the national soccer team also need time to adapt and prepare.
Yankovic said, we should not be more concerned about other opponents, what I want to do is to collect information about the opponent's game to understand the opponent's game, we respect all opponents, but we should respect ourselves, the national team preparation is to collect enough useful information until the stadium will not be confused by emergencies, that's enough, and the rest is to be themselves
In fact, it is clear from Jankovic's speech that he should have been instructed internally by the FA not to express a clear goal for the Asian Cup so easily. At present, the strength of the national soccer team in Asia may be the limit of the top eight. Once the opponents encountered after the group stage are too strong, the top eight may not be able to play in, so it may be good to keep a low profile at this time.
The three opponents in the group stage of the Asian Cup are Qatar, Lebanon and Tajikistan, only Qatar is stronger than the national soccer, the remaining two opponents are not as good as the national soccer team in the international rankings, but the national soccer team still can't be taken lightly, according to the report, Lebanon and Tajikistan have a lot of naturalized players, the two opponents also want to win the qualification of the group of the Asian Cup, so they have also started to train to prepare for the Asian Cup. I hope the national soccer team's trip to the Asian Cup will not disappoint their fans.
