In order to prepare for the Asian Cup and the World Cup, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) previously invited Malaysia and Syria to play two warm-up matches in China. Originally, people thought that Jankovic would bring changes after replacing Li Xiaopeng as the head coach of the national team, but the national team's results of one draw and one loss in these two matches obviously did not satisfy the outside world.
China's national soccer team losing 0-1 to Syria might be understandable, after all, the national team led by Gao Hongbo and Lippi have lost to Syria before. But the Chinese national team's hard-fought 1-1 draw against Malaysia is clearly unacceptable. Regardless of historical records and home field advantage, Jankovic sent his strongest team, including Wu Lei, Ekerson, Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng and other Chinese national team players to start the match, but he was lucky to draw with Malaysia.
Also, from these two warm-up matches, only Lin Liangming is the player Yankovic transferred. Players like Wu Xi, Zhang Linlian and Ekson will have a hard time sticking around for the next World Cup. Of course, since the Asian Games and the National Olympic Team have already transferred young talents like Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun, but judging from the course of the matches, even if these players were added to the national soccer team, it would be hard to control the course of the matches.
In this case, the soccer association must take precautionary measures to face the weakness of the youth training system, after all, after the bursting of the gold dollar soccer bubble, it is obvious that it is not feasible to want to continue to take shortcuts, the naturalization of foreign players, therefore, if you want to develop Chinese soccer and improve the overall level of the national soccer team, you can only pay attention to the youth training, and the soccer association is now aware of this, and according to many media reports, the soccer association decided to hire Brazilian coach Scolari to take charge of the management of Chinese soccer youth training, making Scolari the recommended person for Chinese soccer youth training.
As we all know, the 75-year-old Scolari has rich coaching experience and led Brazil to win the World Cup. He also won many honors during his time coaching Guangzhou Evergrande. For example, he won the Asian Champions League and the Chinese Super League. It can be said that Scolari's influence in Chinese soccer is no less than that of former national soccer coach Lippi, and he is fully qualified for the position.
It is worth mentioning that the national soccer team will play two warm-up matches against Vietnam and Uzbekistan on the international match days in October, and the winners or losers of these matches will determine the future of Jankovic, the coach of the national soccer team. Once the national soccer team performs poorly, it is not ruled out that the FA will ask Scolari to replace Jankovic. After all, the timing of the FA contacting Scolari at this time is coincidental.
The imminent confirmation of the new FA president, coupled with the upcoming FA Congress and the fact that Jankovic's initial process of becoming the head coach of the national soccer team was linked to the arrests of Chen Xuyuan and Du Zhaocai. Therefore, we can't rule out the possibility that the new president will make a radical move to fire and replace the underperforming Jankovic when he assumes office, possibly bringing in Scolari to take over. What is your opinion on this?
