The selection plan for the Chinese men's soccer team has been announced, and the three plans are Li Xiaopeng, hiring foreign teachers, and Olympic coach Yang Kovic as the national soccer coach. In these three plans, the most likely to be realized is Li Xiaopeng, although his record in the national soccer team is very poor, but taking into account the objective conditions of the current national soccer team, so that Li Xiaopeng once again become the soccer association "preferred".
Currently, there are three factors that motivate the FA to continue to use Li as the national national soccer coach. Firstly, the soccer association is shy and cannot afford the salaries of hiring high level foreign teachers. After the collapse of the Chinese Super League brand, the soccer association lost the league rights and sponsors of the huge dividends, coaching budget is greatly reduced, at this stage, there is no Wanda, Evergrande and other enterprises, or even brokerage firms to provide sponsorship, to help the soccer association to hire a high level of foreign teachers, so the foreign teachers have been in the "difficult to produce".
Secondly, it's a well-known fact that Chinese soccer, especially the national football team, is a dangerous environment. It is difficult for any manager with the slightest ambition to come into the muddy waters of the national soccer team without an attractive offer. Even Yankovic was frustrated with officially taking over the national soccer team. Therefore, although the FA has always been outside the coaching program in the selection process, but in fact "internal tapping" this is the FA in recent years to do the most things, because the recruitment of suitable candidates.
Third, Li Xiaopeng's status puts him in a leading position in the selection of coaches for the national soccer team. As a matter of fact, Li Xiaopeng has never been the first choice from the point of view of the real will of the FA, but as a coach assigned by the higher authorities and having a good relationship with the FA, Li Xiaopeng is a rare candidate for balancing the relationship between the two sides, which is very important for maintaining the stability of the team, and is also the embodiment of Li Xiaopeng's always being publicized as having "high emotional intelligence".
There is also now a theory that even if Jankovic ends up becoming the coach of the national soccer team, Li Xiaopeng will still hold a position on the new coaching staff. So, either way, the odds are more than 50 percent that Li Xiaopeng will continue to take over the national soccer coaching position until his work with the national team is done. He may not be the best candidate, but for the CFA, he has lost the qualification to pick and choose.
