Attention has turned to the postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, with the event now confirmed to be postponed to September-October. If the Asian Cup is confirmed to be taken over by South Korea, the tournament will most likely kick off between June and July of the following year, which will undoubtedly make the tournament not far from the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer period. Faced with the pressure of preparing for the two events, China's football federation is unlikely to let the same head coach at the same time shoulder the national men's football team and the Asian Games team's dual leadership responsibility. In previous discussions about the preparation of the national team, the FA has basically given up the plan of letting Jankovic take charge of the two men's soccer teams at the same time.
Theoretically, if the national football team selects a new manager, the team management must properly dissolve the cooperation relationship with the original coaching team headed by Li Xiaopeng, and then start the selection process again. It is reported that, at present, Li Xiaopeng seems to stay in the possibility of extremely low. Prior to this, Li Xiaopeng also did not go to the league tournament to examine the players.
Due to objective factors, a number of matches in this season's Chinese Super League have been forced to be postponed, while the FA Cup matches are going ahead as planned. Against this background, the Chinese Super League will not be completed until the end of this year at the earliest. After communicating with the league management department, the national team management department of China's Football Association confirmed that it would not be possible to organize the national team's training within the current year. However, in view of the urgent task of preparing for the Asian Cup and the Asian Games men's football tournament, the two national teams will have to start the new cycle of preparations at the latest at the beginning of next year and organize the team's winter training and warm-up matches at home and abroad respectively.
Because the national team will not be able to train during the year, the federation will have more time to select a manager. In the case of Yankovic's possibility of taking over is not high, the Association will also look to other candidates. According to the analysis of informed sources, combined with the experience of the national football team's participation in the World Cup and other objective factors, the Association tends to hire foreign coaches to take charge of the national football team coaching whip, especially those who understand the Asian and Chinese soccer, and even in the Chinese Super League has had a successful coaching experience of foreign coaches will be focused on consideration.
Olaroyo's name has been mentioned at one point in the FA's internal discussions, but there may not be substantial progress in the short term. Of course, the FA in the selection process in addition to consider the candidate's coaching ability, experience and experience, but also need to consider the economic factors. At present, it seems unlikely that the FA will invest huge sums of money in the introduction of top managers as it did in the year when it hired Lippi and Hiddink, but will instead take work ethic, practicality, and groundedness, i.e., cost-effectiveness, as the primary criterion for the selection of managers.
