On September 12, an explosive news came from Beijing Youth Daily: the national team will announce a new head coach during the year. They preferred to hire foreign coaches who are familiar with Chinese soccer, and former Jiangsu head coach Ola Royu's name even appeared in the discussion of the Football Association.
However, due to various objective factors, several rounds of matches have already been postponed for the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League. Against this backdrop, our men's soccer team and the Asian Games men's soccer team are simply unable to train, let alone warm-up matches, during the current year.
A Beijing Youth Daily reporter revealed that the two teams will begin a new preparation cycle early next year at the latest, given that they are tasked with preparing for the Asian Cup and Asian Games men's soccer competitions, respectively.
The national team will start the selection of the new national football coaching team, the previous head coach Li Xiaopeng, who led the national football team to the last four rounds of the World Preliminary 12, may not be able to continue to stay. The FA will also never allow Serbian manager Jankovic to be the head coach of the national team in the future. It is reported that the new coach may be a foreign coach who knows more about Asian and Chinese soccer, or has coaching experience in the Chinese Super League. The name of Ola Royu, who led Jiangsu Suning to win the 2020 Chinese Super League title, has been mentioned frequently in previous discussions at the FA.
After leading the national soccer selection team to win the 3rd place in this year's East Asian Cup, calls for "Jankovic to take over the national soccer team" have been rising in the soccer world. But Jankovic kept a rational attitude. After the conclusion of the East Asian Cup, he said that he would focus on leading the Asian Games team.
It is worth mentioning that the Hangzhou Asian Games has been confirmed to be postponed to September-October next year. If the Asian Cup is determined to be hosted by South Korea, the game will probably be played between June and July next year, which means that the event and the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer competition period is similar. Taking into account the two tournaments preparation task is very difficult, China's football association will not let the same head coach at the same time to bear the national men's football and Asian Games team team leading heavy responsibility. In the previous discussions about the preparation of the national team, China's Football Association has basically given up the intention of letting Jankovic to be the head coach of the two national men's soccer teams at the same time.
