1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 11th The national football team has completed all the top 18 matches and finally ranked fifth.
China News Weekly learned that After the former coach Jankovic stepped down, the first choice among the candidates for the national football team to choose coach was not Ivankovic, and the “most favorite coach” was not able to hold hands due to budget reasons.
In the end, Ivankovic won this job with his “quotation advantage” and his experience in coaching Shandong Taishan to win the Chinese Super League championship, coaching the Oman national team to defeat the Japanese national team, and leading the Iranian team to advance into the World Cup.
But Ivankovic’s coaching after taking office was not satisfactory. He was tied by Singapore in his debut and barely squeezed into the last bus of the quarterfinals. After losing to Saudi Arabia at home in the second game of the quarterfinals, the football industry’s voices questioning Ivankovic reached its peak. Several media revealed that the Chinese Football Association had studied the alternative plan for Ivan to “split get out of class”, but ultimately decided to continue to let Ivan coach.
Previously, the Chinese national football team had the experience of “changing coaches in the middle” and tasted the sweetness. In the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese Football Association decided to use Italian coach Lippi to replace Gao Hongbo in the middle. Gao Hongbo only scored 1 point in four rounds of the game, and Lippi scored 11 points in 6 rounds after taking office, but in the end, the Chinese national team missed the Russian World Cup as fifth in the group. Lippi also angrily resigned from the position of head coach of the national football team after losing in the Asian Cup.
There are different opinions about Ivankovic’s successor. Some people believe that Eastern European coaches should be given up, because Eastern European coaches’ understanding of football has lagged behind the times, and coaches in developed Western European football countries who are better at exploring the potential of young players and know how to adapt to the situation should be used as the new coach of the national football team.
A staff member of the Chinese Super League club told China Newsweek that the problem facing the Football Association is how to choose a head coach whose conditions and style are suitable for the national football team under the premise of a limited budget. “The budget is limited and the requirements are large, so choosing a handsome guy is like ‘opening a blind box’.”