For three years now, due to specific circumstances, the Chinese men's soccer team has not been able to participate in international A-level friendly matches, which is undoubtedly a major loss for improving the national team's competitive level and accumulating experience in international tournaments.
Fortunately, this predicament has been alleviated this year. Thanks to the efforts of many parties, the Football Association has prepared two warm-up matches for the national football team. in March, the team will travel to New Zealand to prepare for the match and start two matches with the New Zealand national team in Auckland and Wellington.
However, the FA has been thrown into chaos internally for reasons well known to all, and the administrators are under tremendous pressure. Against this background, how much energy can they still have to manage the national team? Currently, the Chinese men's soccer team is virtually in limbo. The list of the adult national team has yet to be finalized, and a new coach is even further out of reach.
With such a national team going abroad to prepare for the war, the performance in the warm-up matches is naturally worrying. Many fans predicted that in the past two warm-up matches, the performance of the national football team will be very bad, and may not even be able to beat the New Zealand team.
But it's too early to predict a crushing defeat for the national football team against New Zealand. The New Zealand national team is also facing a coaching vacancy.
Recently, Sporting News New Zealand reported that New Zealand missed out on the World Cup again after losing to Costa Rica due to poor performances in the Qatar World Cup qualifiers, and coach Danny Hay announced his resignation after the qualifiers, leaving New Zealand without a coach to date.
Although the New Zealand Football Association has begun the search for a new coach for the national team and has a suitable candidate, the candidate for the new coach will not be able to join in the short term due to personal reasons. In this regard, the head of the New Zealand Football Association said, "We are still communicating with the candidate, who has a positive attitude, and we are optimistic about it, but there are many things beyond our control."
The latest news says that the New Zealand Football Association has decided to appoint U20 national team head coach Darren Bazeley as the head coach of the adult national team, when he is expected to lead the New Zealand team to play two warm-up matches against China.
If this is true, then the warm-up match between China and New Zealand will set a new embarrassing record - neither national team has a coach on site, which is rare in the history of world soccer.
From the current situation, the FA can only continue to let the "loser" Li Xiaopeng as the head coach of the men's soccer team. His performance in the last four matches of the World Qualifying Tournament has fully proved his limited ability. The outcome of these two warm-up matches may depend on who performs worse in the two teams......
