The selection process of the national football team is like a complex stir-fry, sometimes stir-fry, sometimes paste the bottom, constantly changing the fire, but it is always difficult to find the perfect taste. Once the local coaches do not perform well, they turn to foreign coaches, and vice versa. However, it seems that the FA has never learned from past failures and successes, and always sinks deeper and deeper into the same quagmire.
Now that the leadership of Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng is not performing as well as it should, the FA may once again consider hiring a foreign coach. However, this decision is not certain! Senior reporter Ma Dexing revealed that, affected by the Li Tie incident, the candidate for the national team head coach is still up in the air, and Li Xiaopeng's stay is still to be determined.
Prior to this, Ma Dexing also pointed out the dilemma faced by the FA - the lack of funds. Hiring a good foreign coach requires a lot of money, which is undoubtedly a huge challenge for the current cash-strapped FA. While giving up foreign coaches, the ability of local coaches is limited, and no one dares to take responsibility.
The selection of the national soccer team is once again embroiled in the debate between local and foreign coaches. Is it to continue to rely on local coaches who are familiar with the national conditions, or to choose a local coach who can break away from the inherent pattern? The FA is in an awkward position. Li Tie has tried to fight for the rights and interests of local coaches, advocating that the national team should be led by local coaches, but the performance of local coaches is really disappointing, and the Association is afraid that it will not dare to insist on local coaches.
It seems that the only two options for coaching the national soccer team are foreign and local coaches. Perhaps those "folk experts" can be allowed to try their hand, which may bring unexpected turnaround? For example, Dong Lu, a young coach, and Ma Dexing, a journalist who has been following the national soccer team for decades.
Folk masters do exist! Little known fact is that Ma Dexing is not only a good writer, but also has the talent to play soccer, and even has the will to become a national soccer coach.
As we all know, Madsen's writing ability needs no elaboration. If we talk about his kicking strength, I am afraid that he is not inferior to the players of Guam. One year, the national soccer team met the Guam team in the world preselection. Before the match, Mr. Madsen said confidently that there was no need to send international players, and that we could win the match by putting our reporters on the field (photo above).
It would be a mistake to think that Ma Dexing is merely eloquent. He once volunteered to coach the national soccer team on a Beijing TV program (pictured above). Ma Dexing said, "If I coach the national soccer team, I will surely advance."
Whether a journalist can become the head coach of a team is certainly a question worth exploring. Domestic soccer is not without successful precedents! For example, a "young Chinese coach" who once scorned Lippi transformed himself from a journalist to lead his team in 100 international matches, winning honors with Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool.
Although Ma Dexing has never been a coach, this is not his biggest shortcoming. Over the decades, he has delivered many coaches for the national soccer team - Lippi, Milu, Camacho, Perrin, Gao Hongbo, Li Tie, Zhu Guanghu, Fu Bo and so on. As the saying goes, "Running water national team head coach, iron followers of the team reporter."
Although I have never tasted pork myself, I have seen pigs run! These rich team experiences will help to learn from the East and the West and develop a complete set of technical and tactical concepts. How to train before matches, how to command on the spot, how to do better, all these experiences will help to improve the team level, sift and utilize the strengths of different coaches, perhaps these have already formed a system in my mind.
The national football team's selection of the road, in the local and foreign teachers wavering between. If you really can not become a good "live horse doctor", may be bold enough to let the folk master like Ma Dexing try his hand, may be able to create a miracle of the dead.
