Time flies. In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed in 2023, which means that there are only two months left before the two warm-up matches between the Chinese men's soccer team and the New Zealand national team.
However, it is still difficult to produce a new coach for the national soccer team. For reasons well known to all, the CFA is now in disarray, with the head of the national management department taken away for investigation, and no one willing to take over the chaos of the national team?
Looking at the current situation, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have a new face in the position of the head coach of the national football team. Currently, only two new coaches are eligible to lead the team to New Zealand for the two warm-up matches of the New Zealand national team.
The first was Li Xiaopeng, who took over from Li Tie to temporarily coach the national team last year. However, his poor performance in the World Qualifiers and previous failures in coaching the Chinese women's soccer team proved that Li Xiaopeng's ability is not at all suitable to be the head coach of the national team.
As a result, Li Xiaopeng also asked for the resignation of the Football Association after the national soccer team finished its trip to the World Qualifiers, but due to the special circumstances of last year, the Association did not accept Li Xiaopeng's resignation directly. This also prevented Li Xiaopeng from returning to the Wuhan team, and he has been idle at home ever since.
Second place went to Serbian coach Jankovic, who led the national soccer team to the East Asian Cup last year. Although the national soccer team did not make any breakthrough in last year's East Asian Cup, the performance of the youngsters of the national soccer team was recognized by most people.
As a result, Jankovic became the favorite to be the new coach of the national football team at that time. However, Jankovic is a coach with high emotional intelligence. He knew that the current national soccer team was a hot potato, so after the East Asian Cup, he also said that he had no intention to take over the national soccer team.
However, according to recent news from a prominent Beijing paper, Jankovic's attitude has relaxed. He said that he is willing to accept and obey any arrangement of the Football Association. This means that if the Football Association asks me to be the national soccer coach, I will not refuse.
As we all know, Jankovic is currently the coach of China's Asian Games. If he were to become the coach of the national soccer team again, his workload would definitely be much larger, which would also result in him not being able to put all his energy into coaching the Chinese Asian Games, which in turn would result in the national soccer team underperforming at the Asian Games.
Therefore, the FA may have a third set of options for selecting the national football team, that is, Jankovic and Li Xiaopeng jointly coaching the national football team. As a matter of fact, the appearance of dual coaches in the national football team is not something new. in 2007, Furado and Dujkovic appeared in the national football team. However, the results of the national football team that year were not satisfactory.
Generally speaking, there will be no more new plans for the national soccer selection of coaches at the moment. Li Xiaopeng and Jankovic have become the only candidates for the national soccer coach. From the recent series of events in domestic soccer and the coaching ability of Li Xiaopeng and Jankovic, it is obvious that Jankovic is more suitable to be the national soccer coach. As for which national soccer selection program the final soccer association chooses, let's wait and see ......
