The World Preliminary Round ended the 8 rounds of competition, the Chinese team only got 5 points, 3-2 victory over Vietnam is already the best and only victory of the national football team. Now the Chinese team has lost the hope of qualifying two rounds in advance, while in the A group, Asia's traditional West Asian powerhouse UAE team (now ranked 7th in Asia) has already scored 9 points, ranking third in the group, and the hope of getting a play-off seat is very large.
However, according to major media reports, the UAE Football Association has officially fired the team's head coach Van Marvik because the FOOTBALL Association does not recognize Van Malwijk's achievements in the round of 12. The UAE top brass believed that the team could have achieved better rankings and performances in the World Preliminary Round, and due to the disappointment in Van Malwijk, the announcement was finally issued. Presumably the team friends who pay attention to the World Cup are familiar with Van Malwijk, in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, it was this veteran coach who led the Netherlands all the way to eliminate Slovakia, Brazil and Uruguay to reach the final, although the final defeat to Spain, but the orange army performance is good enough.
It can be said that Van Malwijk enjoys a very high reputation in Dutch and European football, and his achievements are enormous. However, in the UAE national team, Van Malwijk lost his front hoof, in the round of 12 he led the UAE 8 rounds only 9 points, and the national football team, they also lost the hope of directly qualifying with the top two in the group, of course, better than the national football team, the UAE is the third strongest contender in the group, but considering the play-off need to meet the fifth place in the South American World Preliminary Tournament, so the UAE finally has little hope of breaking into the World Cup.
The only two victories of the UAE in the round of 12 are a small 1-0 away win over Lebanon and a 2-0 home win over Syria. In the remaining 6 games, the UAE drew 3 and lost 3 points. However, it should be pointed out that the UAE has played very tenaciously in every game, facing Iran, which is currently ranked first in Asia, the UAE has lost all 0-1 small losses, and has not damaged morale, while the first leg of the away challenge to South Korea is also a 0-1 small defeat, and the possession rate of these three games can reach 45% per game, and the scene is not as ugly as the game in which the national football team was killed by Japan.
However, the UAE still chose to officially replace Van Malwijk. I have to say that the courage of the UAE Football Association is quite large, after all, in theory, the team still has the hope of qualifying for the World Cup, and considering that the strength of Iran and South Korea, the top two in the same group, is indeed a grade higher than itself, so it is understandable that Van Malwijk led the team to achieve third place, but such results are still not recognized by the Football Association. If, according to this standard, Li Xiaopeng has created a glorious history of losing to Vietnam for the first time in 60 years in the national football team, should he also be fired?
Therefore, the UAE's change of coach is also a fierce punch in the face of the Chinese Football Association and Chen Shuyuan. If Li Xiaopeng's national football team is the same as the United Arab Emirates, gets 9 points, and ranks third in the group, not to mention that the Football Association is very satisfied, the top level will even feel that his level is too high, will become more and more important and trusting, and even regard Li Xiaopeng as the "answer" of the national football team, it is completely impossible to fire him. It can only be said that the level of Chinese football is not only low, but also the requirements of the Football Association for the performance of managers and players are too low, which has led to more and more international football players not contributing, the more the sea cucumber eats more and more fragrant, but the ball is more and more smelly. When Li Xiaopeng met such a football association, he should also smile in his heart.