On January 19, Beijing time, the Chinese League One team Sichuan Jiuniu officially announced that the new coach Lobella took office. The Spanish coach, who led the team to win the Indian Premier League, can be seen as a combination of Xu Zhengyuan and Carlos.
In addition, the team is currently basically taken over by the city group. After Asia built the J-League champion Yokohama Mariners, the Australian regular season champion Melbourne City and the Indian Premier League champion Mumbai City, they finally realized that Sichuan Jiuniu was still in The second level of The League in China.
With the help of strong funds, Sichuan Jiuniu is likely to become the second Chengdu Rongcheng.
At the end of last year, Sichuan Jiuniu announced that it would not renew its contract with Li Yi. Later, there was speculation that the team might choose other domestic coaches. However, now it seems that the team's goal is no longer to relegate in advance in the Chinese League One.
The new coach Sergio Lobella is a Spaniard, and former Chengdu City Manager Carlos is a fellow countryman.
However, Lobella has coached in Asia for many years. In 2020, he took Goa to the Indian Premier League. With this honor, Goa competed in last year's AFC Champions League and finished third in the group, drawing with uae-based Waheda, who played for syrian centre-forward Helibin.
In addition, Lobella also coached in Las Palmas, Spain, and can be regarded as the mentor of former Chinese Super League foreign aid Vieira. Due to his outstanding performance in the team, Vieira later joined Valencia.
Like Xu Zhengyuan, Lobella pays attention to detail. This may be one of the reasons why he has been able to succeed in multiple leagues.
Former coach Li Yi has coached in Sichuan Jiuniu for many years, and the team's results have been mediocre. After Chengdu Rongcheng rushed over, Jiuniu also wanted to speed up his pace and follow close behind.
Although there is a possibility of making up for the Chinese Super League, due to the general results before, unless there is a situation in which the medium and large area teams leave, Jiuniu will definitely participate in the future Chinese League One.
Last year, Chengdu only held the fourth stage of the Chinese First Division, and neither Sichuan team played in Chengdu.
After the Wuhan Three Towns Team and Meizhou Hakka have successively rushed to overtake, these two places should not compete for the qualification for the new season of the Chinese First Division. And Chengdu is likely to become one of the potential Chinese League One divisions, and Sichuan Jiuniu is likely to play at home.
The relegated horse every year is one of the top picks, but whether it is dalian or Qingdao, the capital reserves may not exceed the Sichuan Jiuniu team.
Dalian people have the possibility of making up for the return to the Chinese Super League, and investors may change hands. The Qingdao team has been suffering from arrears, and the two major foreign players, Alexandrini and Vukovic, are late in the last game of the play-offs.
And due to the large number of young talents, these two relegated teams are likely to have players transfer and leave.
Sichuan Jiuniu's investor City Group has changed, and at the end of last year, the head of the Chinese region, Mu En, received the award for the team at the closing ceremony of the FA Cup.
The Sichuan Jiuniu relative lineup will be more stable, there are many players from the provincial nationality in the team, and the former Best Newcomer of the Chinese Super League, Nan Song, has gradually found the feeling of the game. Zheng Shengxiong, who has performed well in the past two seasons, is still a U23 player this year.
With a large number of free agents likely to appear this year, Sichuan Jiuniu may follow the example of Zhejiang, Wuhan and Chengdu Rongcheng to collect some former Chinese Super League players and improve their strength.
In addition, the team is likely to adjust its foreign aid. Defender Vidic performed well, but what was needed to overtake was a foreign striker.
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