Jiang Guangtai's situation is different. Since returning to China with the Chinese national soccer team on November 18th last year and ending his isolation on December 9th, he has stayed in Guangzhou, joining the Guangzhou team immediately after and competing in the second phase of the Chinese Super League. Faced with the uncertainty of the future of the Guangzhou club, the question of Jiang Guangtai's destination has also become confusing. In this predicament, Coach Li Xiaopeng personally traveled to Guangzhou to have an in-depth conversation with Jiang Guangtai. Although the specific content of the conversation is not known, according to informed sources, Li Xiaopeng on December 31 last year, he made a sincere retention of him, and the effect is remarkable. This indicates that the naturalized player is likely to participate in the next training session with the national team and travel to Japan and Vietnam.
Since the announcement of the Chinese national soccer team's managerial change on December 8 last year, Li Xiaopeng has been running between several cities in China, especially those where the professional league divisions are located. His aim is to communicate with clubs on the selection of assistant coaches. According to a Beijing Youth Daily reporter on January 1, as of the arrival of the new year, the formation of Li Xiaopeng's team has basically been completed.
In two weeks ago to Shanghai to participate in the national team preparation work leadership group meeting, Li Xiaopeng has according to the team's needs, circled a huge list of candidates for assistant coach. After weeks of lobbying and communication, the specific candidates have been finalized, only to be approved by the "leading working group", the CFA will announce the final candidate.
It is reported that the candidates selected for the national football assistant coaching team are all outstanding players in the history of the Chinese team, and are currently in the Chinese Super League clubs as coaches or management positions. They include Shao Jiayi, the current CFA executive committee member who participated in the 2002 World Cup, Zhao Junzhe, the 2002 World Cup starter and current Guangzhou City team leader and head of the Chinese coaching team, Zheng Zhi and Li Jinyu, who are currently serving as the executive and head coach of the Guangzhou and Wuhan teams, and Li Leilei, the former starting goalkeeper of the national team who served as a goalkeeper coach of Wuhan, as well as Sun Xiang, the former international footballer who played for Eindhoven FC in the Netherlands and now serves at Shanghai Harbour Club. Sun Xiang, who works for Shanghai Harbor Club.
Judging from the list of candidates, all these candidates have rich experience in the national team and have received systematic coaching qualification training before and after retirement. More importantly, they have accumulated rich experience in coaching or management positions, absorbed advanced soccer coaching and management concepts, and have made significant progress in dealing with people.
In addition, most of them have been mentored by outstanding seniors in the same field or well-known foreign coaches in their coaching or management positions. For example, although Zheng Zhi has not yet retired, he has benefited greatly from years of study with Lippi, Scolari and other top international coaches. Sun Xiang, Zhao Junzhe and so on also have a similar learning experience. It can be said that by their composition of the national football team of assistant coaches, for Li Xiaopeng provides a powerful think tank. It should be noted that some of the candidate coaches due to a variety of factors, currently does not have the qualifications of professional-level coach, their future role in the national team and the specific title of the official final confirmation.
When Li Xiaopeng took over the Chinese national soccer team news, also marks the new cycle of the national team coaching team "Chinese and Western" ideas can be confirmed. Affected by the epidemic, Li Xiaopeng's favorite Spanish assistant coach Pep can not come to the team in the short term. In this case, Li Xiaopeng and the "leading group" communication, decided to retain the original national team of foreign coaches and members of the work team, including the CFA Belgian technical director Kreis and his assistant Roy, physical fitness coach Adrian Lamb.
However, Lamb recently and suddenly resigned from the CFA. It is reported that the reason for his resignation is that his wife is sick and he needs to return to England to take care of his family. In this case, the CFA and Li Xiaopeng had to look for a new suitable candidate to fill this vacancy. It is in this context that Owen Wilk, the Brazilian fitness coach from Shenhua, was invited by the Chinese national team.
From the composition of Li Xiaopeng's team, this is a completely new combination. Although the candidate local assistant coaches are Li Xiaopeng's close teammates and partners in his playing days or coaching days, the coaching work of the national team is very different from the club management and club team coaching positions. In other words, the coaching work of the national team has a long way to go and is of great concern to all sectors of society. For Li Xiaopeng and his team members, in addition to hard work, what is needed is a keen ability to think and good psychological quality. The work of the national team requires them to be able to maintain rationality and sobriety in the complex competition and public opinion environment, and do a good job of emotional management. As for the effectiveness of the work, it still needs to be tested by practice and time.
According to the plan, China's national soccer team will assemble in Shanghai on January 10 and is expected to travel to Japan on January 23 for the match against Japan on the 27th.
