After the end of 2022, Chinese soccer will also take the first step in 2023. In all the work, the national men's football team reorganization on track, is undoubtedly China's soccer in the new year the brunt of the heavy responsibility. It is understood that, affected by a variety of objective factors, the answer to who will coach the new national football team has not yet been announced. In view of the various twists and turns and lessons learned from the team's last preparation and competition cycle, the CFA has been more cautious than ever in selecting coaches. All indications are that the CFA is now favoring foreign coaches who understand Asian soccer and can get up to speed quickly. However, due to the tight schedule and heavy task of the related work, once the foreign coaches are unable to complete in a short period of time, the Chinese coaches.
The Football Association started to launch the selection of the national football team.
and develop a preparedness plan
It is reported that the new national football team will be re-centralized after the Spring Festival, and in the March cycle of international match days to New Zealand for training, warm-up plan has been basically determined. 2022 season of the Chinese Super League in the last day of 2022 came to an end, the focus of the Chinese men's football team and then automatically turned to all levels of the national team to prepare for the war. A few days before the new year, the 2003 age group u national soccer team has begun the 20u20 Asian Cup finals preparation, the 2006 age group u17 national football team about u the new 17th Asian Cup finals training will also begin after New Year's Day.
So when will the Chinese men's soccer team, the country's front-runner, sound the rallying cry? This is one of the most important focuses of fans. For reasons that are well known, the Chinese men's soccer team has had enough since the end of March 2022, when the Qatar World Qualifying Tour ended. "idle" for nine months. For a team that will commit to the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and the 2023 Asian Cup tournament this year, this situation is embarrassing and very unfavorable.
In order to achieve this, the CFA began the development of the national soccer team selection and preparation plan before the New Year.In early December 2022, the CFA organized the national teams at all levels, including the national soccer team, to participate in the preparation work conference, and the current head coach of the national soccer team, Li Xiaopeng, was invited to participate in it. Although until the end of the meeting, who will lead the national soccer team to participate in the new cycle of preparation has not been finally confirmed, but the team reorganization and preparation is imminent, the relevant plans must be introduced as soon as possible.
The new coach may be familiar with Asian soccer.
Foreign coaches who can get started quickly
In view of the various difficulties and problems exposed by the Chinese men's soccer team in the Qatar qualifying and competition cycle, the CFA has reconsidered the possibility of introducing a suitable foreign coach to take over the national soccer team.
Combined with the characteristics of the national football preliminaries and the Asian Cup opponents that may be encountered, the main direction of the CFA to select coaches is likely to be familiar with Asian soccer, able to quickly get started, and have the experience of leading the team in major international tournaments of the excellent foreign coach. Theoretically, some of the best foreign coaches who have had coaching experience in Asian soccer or even the Chinese Super League may become candidates. Portuguese coach Paulo, for example, has coached Chongqing Lifan and South Korea in the Chinese Super League. -Bento, once led the original Jiangsu team won the Chinese Super League title Ola Lajo, once led the current Serbian team manager Stojkovic into Guangzhou City (former Fuli team), has repeatedly coached the Iranian team in the World Cup Portuguese coach Queiroz and so on.
However, coach selection is never complicated and there are many issues that need to be considered or addressed. The result of coach selection does not depend on the employer's wishful thinking. For example, it is not surprising whether the partners can reach a consensus on leadership philosophy, leadership goal, leadership mode, price, and whether the foreign coach can accept to lead in cooperation with the Chinese coach.
Getting back on track is the National Football League
The first major task of the New Year
Earlier, there was news that the Chinese Football Association (CFA) is expected to finalize the new coaching candidates before the Chinese New Year. In fact, regardless of whether the candidate can appear at this point in time, it is certain that the Chinese team will start new training after the Spring Festival, but the specific schedule and location of the training of the national football team need to be further confirmed. In any case, getting back on track is the first and foremost priority for the Chinese team in the New Year. According to FIFA history, the first men's international football cycle in 2023 is scheduled from March 20 to 28 of that year. During this period, member associations (men's national teams) will participate in two international warm-up matches instead.
Considering that there may not be a new coaching candidate for the national football team around the Spring Festival, the CFA and the national team management team will also design a response program in advance. For example, current local coach Li Xiaopeng may take the lead in completing the team's work as the head of the Chinese coaching team or a similar training director for the national team. That is to say, if the CFA finally confirms the choice of a foreign coach, the new coach in the whole team to focus on the temporary inability to work, Li Xiaopeng may be responsible for the team to lead the work. As for the next step how to arrange, there is still to be further communication and negotiation.
