Despite the fact that big names in soccer such as Li Tie, Chen Xuyuan and Chen Yongliang have been asked to leave, the operations of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) have not stopped. At the moment, the top priority of the FA is to select a new national team manager in order to prepare for the 2026 World Cup and the coming Asian Cup. The aftermath of the Li Tie incident has caused the FA to undergo a major reshuffle in its selection team. Against this backdrop, Xu Genbao, an old friend of Chen Xuyuan's, was once again favored by the FA in his 80s and 90s, and was appointed head of the national team's coaching selection team, shouldering the heavy responsibility of selecting a new coach.
Xu Genbao and Chen Xuyuan have a close relationship. The predecessor of Shanghai Shanghai was the former East Asia team coached by Xu Genbao. The team was bought by Shanghai and renamed Shanghai Shanghai. Xu Genbao himself is the general technical advisor of the club. This time, he was promoted to be the leader of the FA's selection team. This is not only due to his reputation and influence in Chinese soccer, but also due to the abdication of Zhu Guanghu. In the last national team, Zhu Guanghu was the leader of the group, with Li Chunman, Wei Kexing, Au Chuliang and Shen Xiangfu as his assistants. Zhu Guanghu later revealed that at that time, they were unanimously optimistic about Li Tie to take charge of the national team, and even put all the votes to him. Zhu Guanghu was proud of this, but the result was eye-opening. As Li Tie's teacher, Zhu Guanghu was also questioned.
After Li Tie was taken away, the national team team with Zhu Guanghu as the leader disintegrated. It was replaced by new faces such as Xu Genbao, Wei Kexing and Zheng Zhi. According to Beijing Daily, the coaching team made a comprehensive assessment of Yankovic's coaching style and leadership ability, and Yankovic is expected to become the new coach of the national team. In the selection process, there is no need to worry about favoritism if a foreign coach is chosen. The FA pays more attention to the coach's ability and understanding of the domestic soccer environment. The selection of local coaches, however, is prone to unexpected variables due to the influence of world soccer, such as the relationship between Zhu Guanghu and Li Tie. During the National Football League preliminaries, Li Tie's bizarre behavior attracted widespread attention, such as attacking fans at a press conference and releasing advertisements after a loss. Famous commentator Huang Jianxiang even angrily accused the person who chose Li Tie in the first place and questioned whether there was anything fishy in the interview process. Nowadays, these issues are really worth exploring in depth. After Zhu Guanghu and the others have been dumped, I'm sure Xu Genbao will do his best to pick a suitable coach for the Chinese team. Currently, Jankovic is the only one willing to coach the national team. Given what happened to Lippi when Li Tie and Chen Xuyuan were taken away, other foreign coaches are not interested in Chinese soccer, either scaring off the FA with high prices or avoiding the three. It can be said that under the efforts of Li Tie, Chen Xuyuan and others, the "reputation" of Chinese soccer has spread around the world. Fake soccer, corruption, and misbehavior have become household topics. FA leaders, businessmen and suspects are intertwined, the absurdity of Chinese soccer is self-evident, amateur time to do professional things, sad.
