Due to special circumstances over the past three years, the Chinese men's soccer team has not participated in international A-level friendly matches for three years. This is very detrimental to maintaining the level of the national soccer team and increasing its experience in international matches.
This embarrassing situation has finally been solved this year. After many efforts, the Football Association has arranged two warm-up matches for the national football team. In March this year, the whole team will go to New Zealand for training and play two warm-up matches with the New Zealand national team in Auckland and Wellington.
For reasons well known to all, there is chaos within the FA. The administrators are now in danger. How can they have the heart to manage the national team? As a result, the Chinese men's soccer team is basically in a state of limbo at the moment. The list of the adult national team has not been fully confirmed, and there is not even a shadow of the new coach of the national football team.
It goes without saying that we should know what the effect of such a national team training abroad and participating in warm-up matches would be. As a result, many fans predicted that the national soccer team would certainly play very poorly in the past two warm-up matches, and that they would have done their job without losing to New Zealand.
However, it is still a bit too early to predict a crushing defeat for the national soccer team against New Zealand. Because New Zealand is now facing the same problem as China, the coach of the New Zealand national team has not yet been determined.
Recently, the New Zealand sports media reported that New Zealand coach Danny Hay announced his resignation after the qualifiers due to the national team's poor performance in the Qatar World Cup qualifiers, missing out on the World Cup again after losing to Costa Rica. Since then, the New Zealand national team has been without a coach.
Previously, the New Zealand Football Association has begun to select a new coach for the national team and has a more suitable candidate, but due to personal reasons, the candidate for the new coach can not report to the national team in the short term. In this regard, the head of the New Zealand Football Association said, "The Football Association is still communicating with the candidate. At the moment, his attitude is relatively positive. We are optimistic about it, but there are many things we can't control."
According to the latest news, the New Zealand Football Association has decided to appoint U20 national team head coach Darren Bazeley to the adult national team head coach side. At that time, Darren Bazeley is likely to lead the New Zealand team to play two warm-up matches against China.
If this is indeed the case, then the warm-up match between China and New Zealand will set a new embarrassing record - neither national team has a coach to conduct on-site, which is also very rare in the history of world soccer.
From the current situation, the FA can only continue to let the "loser" Li Xiaopeng continue to serve as head coach of the men's soccer team. The performance of the national soccer team in the last four matches of the World Qualifying Tournament proved how bad Li Xiaopeng's ability is. The outcome of these two warm-up matches will depend on who performs worse in the two teams......
