On January 20, after Liu Yi, the former secretary general of the Football Association (FA), and Chen Yongliang, the executive deputy secretary general of the FA, were investigated, reporter Pei Li believed that the selection of coaches for the national soccer team would come to a standstill.
At the end of last year, there was news that the candidates for the new coach of the National Football Association (NFA) were expected to be finalized before the Chinese New Year. Although the Association tends to choose excellent foreign coaches with experience in leading teams in major international tournaments, they tend to choose excellent foreign coaches who can get up to speed quickly. However, due to the relevant work time is tight, heavy task, once the foreign coach can not arrive in a short period of time, the Association does not rule out the arrangement of the current coach Li Xiaopeng as the head of the Chinese coaching team or training director to lead the completion of the team work.
And after the FA two senior management was taken away, the national football team's selection of coaching work may be delayed again. Pei Li revealed: "The secretary general was investigated, the national team selection work is expected to be stalled. People panic, who still have the heart to care about this matter. Now the biggest problem is how much cohesion the national team still has."
