According to Beijing Youth Daily, Jankovic has emerged as the leading candidate for the new coach of the national soccer team.
The Chinese Men's Asian Games will play their only domestic training match against Dandong Tengyue in Foshan on the afternoon of February 13th before traveling to the United Arab Emirates for training on the 14th. Key leaders of the Chinese Football Association will also visit the match. The evening after the match and on the 14th, the Chinese Football Association will hold a special working meeting at the team's premises to choose a new foreign coach for the national soccer team.
According to a Beijing Youth Daily reporter, due to various reasons, including Queiroz, foreign coaching candidates can not be in place, the current Serbian coach Jankovic's men's Asian football team has become the main candidate for the new coach of the national football team. For this reason, the CFA took the opportunity of the Foshan meeting, the coaching expert committee and other aspects of the comprehensive views, will initially determine the new coach candidates, and then after the implementation of the relevant procedures to announce the final coach selection results.
On the morning of February 13th, the Chinese Men's Asian Games had their last training session in Foshan. At this moment, members of the Football Association's coaching committee, including Xu Genbao, Shen Xiangfu and Wei Kexing, are in Foshan. The main purpose of their trip is to attend a special working meeting of the Chinese Football Association to select a new foreign coach for the national soccer team. The CFA has not organized a training session, let alone a match, for almost a year since the end of the Qatar World Preliminary Tour in late March last year. Given that the team will participate in this year's World Qualifiers and the Asian Cup, the CFA has had to speed up the implementation of the team's reconstruction. The Foshan meeting was held against this backdrop.
Considering the imminent preparation for the national soccer team, the CFA has redefined the scope of candidates for new coaches. Among these candidates, the current men's soccer Asian Games coach Jankovic became one of the main candidates. In fact, as early as the second half of last year when the CFA discussed the preparation of the new cycle of the national soccer team, Jankovic was highlighted as one of the candidates. However, in view of the men's Asian Games team to prepare for the difficult task of the Asian Games, the CFA is concerned about Jankovic's lack of skills in the "two shoulders" problem, so decided to choose another new coach. Of course, from the performance and final result of last year's East Asian Cup, Jankovic's coaching level has been recognized by the CFA. If he can take over the national soccer team, it may be a result acceptable to all parties.
It is understood that in addition to Jankovic, there are foreign coaches in the new candidate list, which is the main reason why the soccer association organized the coach expert committee to hold a meeting in Foshan. It is understood that the Chinese Football Association will form a preliminary opinion on the new coach candidates after the meeting, and then implement procedures to finalize the candidates. With the selection of the national soccer team's coach entering a substantial stage, the team's preparation for the new cycle and warm-up program will soon be clear.
