On January 29, the CFA continuously released training notices for u-size teams at all levels, but not including the Chinese men's football team. This year shoulders the 2023 qatar asian cup and 2026 asian world cup qualifier two heavy responsibility of the Chinese men's soccer team when to assemble, the coach will be who, is still a question mark.
There are special reasons why the new national soccer coach cannot be identified. In fact, the selection of the national soccer team was put on the agenda last November. The initial three plans were to choose a new foreign coach, to make Jankovic the head coach of the national team and u24 national soccer team, and to keep Li Xiaopeng as the head coach of the national team.
At the time, the Chinese Football Association preferred a new foreign coach. After all, Li's role as national soccer coach was more due to emergencies, while Jankovic's role as national team and Olympic coach meant he had to focus on both and was more prone to problems.
In this situation, the CFA started to try to find a new foreign coach. Under the premise of time constraints and urgent tasks, CFA wanted to find a coach who was familiar with Chinese soccer and Asian soccer, especially West Asian soccer. They then quickly contacted several target candidates. Unfortunately, several target candidates were also courted by other Asian national teams who were not interested in coaching the Chinese national team.
In this way, the progress of coach selection could not be advanced. In this case, the CFA can only target back to the first two plans. It is reported that the FA is currently weighing whether to let Li stay or let Jankovic resign as the head coach of the u24 national team after the head coach of the national team. After all, the head coach of the national team. u24 national team's competition task is only the Asian Games.
According to initial plans, the Chinese men's soccer team was supposed to have its winter training in early February. However, given the lack of progress in coach selection, the first training session of the new year may be delayed until March, the window for the first international match day of the year.
