It is reported that with the two Shanghai teams and other Chinese Super League teams sharpening their preparations one after another in Dalian, as well as previous teams preparing for and playing in Haikou City, most of the players of the National Football Selection Team have returned to their respective clubs. However, there are only seven players left in the national soccer team, including Tao Qianglong, Liu Zhuyun, Huang Zihao and Liang Shaowen, who are the age of the U21 national soccer team (the new national Olympic team in the 2001 age group).
Given that these players will soon join the Chinese Super League or go to Europe to participate in the U21 national football team overseas training, Yankovic coaching team has developed a detailed training program for these seven players. It is worth mentioning that, due to the impact of the epidemic, the whole team arrived in Dalian in accordance with the epidemic prevention regulations in the hotel quarantine, so training is currently limited to the hotel gym.
According to the established plan, the national football selection team will officially end the isolation on August 21st. Subsequently, most of the coaching team and staff will return to Beijing en masse. Jankovic will also return to Beijing and may brief the CFA on the team's mission for this East Asian Cup trip.
With the national football team selection team to complete the task of the East Asian Cup, the coaching team's recent work has come to an end. As the Hangzhou Asian Games has been confirmed to be postponed to September-October next year, and Yankovic initially renewed his contract with the CFA on the condition that he would "lead the team to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer tournament". Therefore, his current status is still the head coach of China's men's soccer team for the Asian Games.
Although some people in the soccer circle speculate that Jankovic may take over the national football team by virtue of his own ability and excellent work attitude, up to now, the question about the current manager of the national football team, Li Xiaopeng, has not yet received a clear answer. Therefore, linking Jankovic to the national soccer team, at least for the time being, is not appropriate.
It should be noted that if the national soccer team is determined to change the manager, it is only natural that Jankovic becomes the nominee for the new manager, but he may not be the only candidate. This is because the new Asian Cup men's soccer tournament will be held next year, the Asian Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer tournament may be similar to the game schedule, and the two teams have a large difference in personnel selection. If a coaching staff at the same time to take care of two bear heavy responsibility of the national team's head coaching work, then the work may not be ideal. Years ago, similar attempts by national teams also ended in failure. Therefore, on the next step of the national football team, the head coach candidate organization, I believe that the team management, including the Chinese Football Association will be carefully considered. Yankovic previously said in a media interview, now his work focus is to lead the team to prepare for the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer tournament, his energy will also focus on the work of the team in this tournament. It must be said that, no matter who to take over the national football team, the new manager, in addition to having excellent ability to deal with affairs and professional quality, must also have a deeper understanding of Chinese soccer, and even Asian soccer, in order to ensure that in the new position quickly get started, try to avoid the team in the new cycle to take a detour.
