On September 12, a bombshell news came out from Beijing Youth Daily: the masterminds behind the national team are about to finalize the new head of the national football team within this year, and they prefer to choose a foreign coach who knows Chinese soccer like the back of his hand. The name of former Jiangsu head coach Ola Royo has quietly surfaced.
However, due to various objective factors, the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League has been forced to postpone a number of consecutive rounds of matches from the second stage. Under such circumstances, the possibility of our men's football and Asian Games men's football teams organizing training and warm-up matches during the current year is almost zero.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter revealed that the two teams will have to start their preparations for the new cycle early next year at the latest, given that the two teams are tasked with the Asian Cup and Asian Games men's soccer competitions.
The man behind the national team will complete the task of selecting the new national football coaching team during the current year. Li Xiaopeng, who led the team in the last four rounds of the Qatar World Qualification Round of 12, will probably not be able to stay on, and the federation will not allow Jankovic, the Serbian head coach of the Asian Games team, to be the head coach of the national team in the future. The new coach is likely to be a foreign coach who has in-depth knowledge of Asian and Chinese soccer or has coaching experience in the Chinese Super League. Olaroyo's name has attracted a lot of attention in the previous work of the FA.
After leading the national soccer team to win the third place in this year's East Asian Cup, there were many calls in the soccer world that "Jankovic should take over the national soccer team". However, Jankovic has maintained a rational attitude towards the issue of "coaching the national team". After leading the team to play the East Asian Cup, Yankovic has said that he will now focus on the Asian Games team.
The much-anticipated Hangzhou Asian Games has been confirmed to be postponed to next year's September to October, and the Asian Cup, if hosted by South Korea, then the probability of the game will be held between June and July next year, which means that the tournament and the Hangzhou Asian Games soccer competition is very close to the period. Taking into account the two tournaments preparation task is very difficult, China's football association will not arrange the same head coach at the same time shoulder national men's football and the Asian Games team to lead the heavy responsibility. In the previous discussions about the preparation of the national team, China's Football Association has basically given up the plan to let Jankovic as the head coach of the two national men's soccer teams.
