The Football Association will hold a national football coach selection meeting, and jankovic has become the main candidate for the new coach

　　On the afternoon of February 13th, China Men’s Football Asian Games Team will play the only teaching match in this stage of domestic training with China B Dandong Tengyue Team in Foshan, and then go to the United Arab Emirates for training on the 14th. The main leaders of China Football Association who made a special trip to Foshan to visit the team will also watch the game. On the evening and 14th after the game, the China Football Association will hold a special working meeting on the selection of a new foreign coach for the national football team.

　　According to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, jankovic, the current Serbian coach of the men’s Asian Games team, has become the main candidate for the new coach of the national football team because foreign coach candidates including Queiroz can’t be in place for various reasons. Therefore, the China Football Association will take the opportunity of the Foshan meeting to synthesize the opinions of the coaches’ expert committee and other parties, and will initially decide on the new coach candidates, and then the final coach selection results can only be announced after the relevant procedures are fulfilled.

　　On the morning of February 13th, the China Men’s Football Asian Games Team held the last training session in Foshan. At this moment, members of the Football Association’s coaching committee, including Xu Genbao, Shen Xiangfu and Kexing Wei, are in Foshan. The main purpose of their trip is to participate in the special working meeting of the China Football Association to select a new foreign coach for the national football team. As the national football team has not organized training for nearly a year since it ended its journey of the World Cup in Qatar in late March last year, let alone the competition, China Football Association has to step up its efforts to rebuild the team, given that the team will participate in the World Cup and the Asian Cup one after another this year. The Foshan Conference was held under this background.

　　It is understood that the China Football Association, after careful study with relevant parties, believes that foreign coaches may be more suitable to lead the current China team than local coaches, in combination with various problems exposed in the preparation and competition of the Qatar World Cup preliminaries and the poor record of the Top 12 matches. It is also under the guidance of this idea that the China Football Association has started to look for a new foreign coach for the team since the second half of last year.

　　The reporter of Beiqing Daily was informed that before this, the coach selection team of China Football Association had contacted a number of favorite foreign candidate coaches through direct or indirect means, such as Queiroz, Olaroiu, stojkovic, Paulo Bento, Schmidt and others. However, in the process of selecting coaches, some practical difficulties followed. For example, Queiroz, who once became the number one candidate for the new national football coach, had received invitations from many teams before. After some weighing, he finally chose to hold hands with Qatar. In other words, Queiroz has no strong desire to coach the China team.

　　Besides the willingness to coach, the salary standard and cooperation concept are also important factors that affect the selection of coaches by China Football Association. Some foreign coaches meet the needs of the China team in terms of technical conditions, but the price remains high, even too high, which is unacceptable to the China Football Association. Affected by objective factors such as time constraints, it was difficult for the China Football Association to send a special person abroad for a direct interview with the favorite candidate. Under the restriction of a series of subjective and objective factors, there was still no substantial progress in the selection of coaches until the Spring Festival.

　　Considering that it is urgent to prepare for the national football team, the China Football Association has redefined the candidate range of the new coach. Among these candidates, jankovic, the current coach of the Asian Football Team, has become one of the main candidates. In fact, as early as the second half of last year, when China Football Association discussed the preparations for the new national football cycle, jankovic was once mentioned as one of the candidates. However, in view of the arduous task of the men’s soccer Asian Games team preparing for the Asian Games, the China Football Association was worried that jankovic would not be able to do two things at once, so it decided to choose a new foreign coach. Of course, judging from jankovic’s team performance and final results in the East Asia Cup last year, his coaching level has been recognized by the China Football Association. If he can take over the national football team, it may also be an acceptable result for all parties at present.

　　It is understood that in addition to jankovic, there are foreign coaches on the new candidate list, which is also the main reason why the Football Association organized a coach expert committee to hold a meeting in Foshan. It is understood that after the meeting, China Football Association will form a preliminary opinion on the new coach of the national football team, and then perform the procedures to finally determine the candidate. With the national football coach selection entering a substantive stage, the team’s preparation and warm-up plan for the new cycle will soon be clear.

　　Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Wei