On February 26, 2014, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that The Frenchman Perrin has become the new head coach of the Chinese men's football team. Perrin's election surprised the outside world. Since the departure of Spanish coach Camacho last year, the chinese men's football team has been running non-stop in Europe for interviews, during which he has contacted dragan, Mateus, Hogel-O'Sheik, Stano, Legon, Pierre Le Chantre and many other coaches, although Perrin is also one of the participants in the interview, but it has not been optimistic, and even the domestic media at that time directly ignored his name. However, when the results came out, they shocked everyone's jaws.
Why Perrin can win from many competitors, there are mainly the following 3 reasons: 1, when he answered the expert group questions during the interview, his thinking was clear, the answer did not have any clichés, simple and direct while the content was very detailed; 2, he knew more about Asian football, and even watched many Chinese men's football matches when he was coaching in Qatar; 3, the cost was relatively cheap.
In the early morning of February 28, Peilan arrived in Qingyuan, Guangdong, where the Chinese men's football team was training, to meet the Chinese men's football team and greeted him at the entrance of the hotel, Fu Bo, the acting head coach of the Chinese men's football team. At the press conference of Perrin's appointment, cai Zhenhua, then president of the Football Association, and Zheng Zhi, the captain of the Chinese men's football team, presented Perrin with a No. 10 shirt to welcome Perrin's arrival.
In Addition to the two assistants Ali and Jahan he brought with him, Fu Bo also continued to stay as an assistant coach, Ou Chuliang as a goalkeeper coach, and a Chinese assistant coach was Li Tie.
As soon as the Frenchman took office, the Chinese men's football team ushered in a very important game, that is, the last game of the 16th Asian Cup qualifiers to challenge Iraq away. Speaking of the Chinese men's football team's asian cup qualifier trip, it can be described as quite a twist, the first two games were led by the former Camacho team resulted in a 1-2 away defeat to Saudi Arabia and a 1-0 home nick Iraq. Fu Bo then led the team to play three games when acting as the head coach, which was a two-legged draw against Indonesia, followed by a 0-0 draw at home to Saudi Arabia.
Since Perrin had just taken office at this time and was not familiar with the team and the situation of the players, the away match against Iraq was still directed by Fu Bo, and Perrin sat on the sidelines to watch.
On March 5, the Chinese men's football team lost 1-3 to Iraq away from home, and finally ranked third in Group C with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses and 8 points. Although Lebanon scored the same points as China after a 5-2 victory over Thailand, The Chinese team was lucky enough to qualify as the third best in the five groups with the advantage of one more goal difference, reaching the final round of the 16th Asian Cup.
After the match with Iraq, the Chinese men's football team returned to China and disbanded on the spot, the players returned to their respective clubs to prepare for the upcoming Chinese Super League, and Perrin and his two assistants Ali and Jahan also began to shuttle through the various venues of the Chinese Super League to watch the game and select players.
On May 23, the first training roster after Peilan took office was released, and a total of 36 players were selected, including: Zeng Cheng, Wang Dalei, Yan Junling, Cheng Yuelei, Gu Chao, Mei Fang, Liu Jian, Zhang Linpeng, Zhou Yun, Li Ang, Ren Hang, Dai Lin, Zheng Zheng, Zhang Chengdong, Yu Yang, Wang Lin, Gu Cao, Lei Tenglong, Zhao Xuri, Rong Hao, Liao Lisheng, Liu Jianye, Wu Xi, Sun Ke, Yu Hanchao, Yu Dabao, Zhang Jiaqi, Wu Lei, Cai Huikang, Zhang Wenzhao, Zhang Xizhe, Yu Hai, Gao Lin, Dong Xuesheng, Chen Zijie, Gao Di.
In the following days of 2014, Perrin convened five more training camps, during which the Chinese men's football team played a total of 12 warm-up matches, achieving a record of 6 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, overall, the results were not bad.
Attached 2014 Chinese men's football warm-up match results:
Chinese men's soccer team 2-0 Macedonia
Chinese men's soccer team 0-0 Macedonia
China men's soccer team 1-3 Mali
China men's soccer team 3-1 Kuwait
China men's soccer team 1-1 Jordan
China Men's Soccer 3-0 Thailand
China men's soccer team 2-1 Paraguay
China Men's Soccer Team 1-1 New Zealand
China men's soccer team 0-0 Honduras
China men's soccer team 4-0 Kyrgyzstan
China men's soccer team 2-0 Kyrgyzstan
China men's soccer team 0-0 Palestine
On December 23, the 23-man roster of the Chinese men's football team to play in the final stage of the 16th Asian Cup was officially released, the most surprising of which was the failure of Li Xuepeng and Feng Xiaoting. According to Perrin's explanation, the two lost because the attitude in training was not positive enough. This also led to a total of six defenders left in Perrin to take to Australia.
A week later, Perrin flew the Chinese men's team to Sydney to start his first official match since taking office, the 16th Asian Cup.
In the group stage of this Asian Cup, the Chinese men's football team was designated as the third team, and it was divided into the same group as Uzbekistan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia, and the strength of these three opponents was not weak, and the chinese men's football team was not optimistic.
On January 10, 2015, the Chinese men's football team welcomed the first opponent of the group stage, Saudi Arabia. The process of this game is quite thrilling for the Chinese men's football team, in the 60th minute of the second half, the Saudi team quickly counterattacked, Ren Hang chased back to the penalty area to shovel down the opposing players, and the referee awarded a yellow dot package.
Next, it was Wang Dalei's turn to perform. Only to see Wang Dalei talk and laugh with the caddie behind the goal before the penalty, turn around and stand in front of the goal line, pounce to the left, and block the Saudi Team's Hazaki penalty with his legs. This day happened to be Wang Dalei's birthday, and Dalei gave himself a perfect birthday gift with his outstanding performance.
There is a meme on the Internet that the caddie behind the goal promoted Wang Dalei to the left, and he did not know whether it was true or not.
As the saying goes, there must be a blessing in the face of the big difficulty, in the 80th minute, the Chinese men's football team won a free kick opportunity in front of the field, Yu Hai stood in front of the ball and chose to shoot directly, and the ball hit the back of the Saudi team's Lavav and refracted into the net. In the end, with this goal, the Chinese men's football team won the opening of the Asian Cup 1-0 Saudi Arabia.
On January 14, the Chinese men's football team ushered in the second opponent of the group stage, Uzbekistan, which is already the third consecutive Asian Cup group stage of the Chinese men's football team and the Ukrainian team in the same group, the previous two Chinese men's football team and this opponent the result is not good, 0-3 and 2-2, one loss and one draw are in the inferior position.
In the 21st minute of the first half of the game, the Ukrainian team scored first, Akhmedov took the ball in front of the field and clipped Wu Xi's foot shot, Wu Xi turned around and shoveled the opponent's shooting route, and the result was that the ball just hit Wu Xi's leg and bounced up, refracting a high parabola over Wang Dalei and falling into the net, and the Chinese men's football team fell behind 0-1.
Yi bian fought again, in the 54th minute, Jiang Zhipeng exploded into the penalty area at 45 degrees on the left side, Wu team goalkeeper Nestrov failed to get to the ball, Wu Lei made a header near the right bottom line, Gao Lin relayed a bouncing leg to send the ball to the middle of the road, only to see Wu Xi follow up with a sideways sweep to send the ball into the net, and the Chinese men's football team equalized the score.
In the 68th minute, Sun Ke, who had just come on as a substitute, received the ball on the left side of the front court, forcibly broke through to get rid of Tusanov's close entanglement, shot directly at the two defenders in front of the big penalty area, the ball hit the opposing defender with a little change of line, but still drew an arc directly hanging on the far post dead corner into the net, 2-1, the Chinese men's football team reversed Uzbekistan, won two consecutive wins in the group stage, and also locked the first place in the group in advance.
In the final group game, the Chinese men's football team faced the North Korean team, with Sun Ke's two goals, to beat the opponent 2-1, and the first place in the group advanced to the quarterfinals. At the same time, this is also the first time in the history of the Chinese men's football team to win all three games in the group stage at the Asian Cup.
After the group stage, Sun Ke was selected as the best team in the group stage of this Asian Cup.
In the quarter-finals, the Chinese men's football team encountered the host Australian team, Cahill once barbed a head ball, twice pierced through the door guarded by Wang Dalei, and the Chinese men's football team lost 0-2 to the Kangaroo Army, stopping the quarterfinals.
Looking back at this Asian Cup now, several players who played for Jiangsu at that time, Sun Ke, Wu Xi and Ren Hang, performed very well. Unfortunately, in the near future, Sun Keyuan's injury in Tianjin has not eased up so far, Ren Hang transferred to Hebei to become the Ren Eight Thousand in the mouth of Jiangsu fans, and Wu Xi, although he is already the captain of the national team, has become a Wu hiding in the mouth of fans.
Attached is the list of Chinese men's football teams for the 2015 Asian Cup:
Wang Dalei, Zeng Cheng, Yan Junling, Ren Hang, Mei Fang, Jiang Zhipeng, Zhang Linpeng, Li Ang, Zhang Chengdong, Wu Lei, Cai Huikang, Zheng Zhi (Captain), Arthur Junmin, Liu Jianye, Ji Xiang, Wu Xi, Sun Ke, Liu Binbin, Yu Hanchao, Yu Hai, Liao Lisheng, Gao Lin, Yang Xu
Although the Chinese men's football team finaled the eighth place in this Asian Cup, the team's performance, especially the fighting spirit and hard work shown by the players on the field, was still praised by the media and fans.
After the Asian Cup, Perrin's next task is to prepare for the World Preliminary Round.
On March 18, the Chinese men's football team played a friendly match against Haiti in Changsha, and the two sides finally shook hands 2-2. There was a very crucial event in this game, the first half of the game to the 35th minute, Wang Dalei a very low-level mistake in the local penalty area by Haiti forward Lewis cut the ball and shot empty, the Chinese men's football team fell behind 0-1.
After the half-time break, Wang Dalei was replaced by Yan Junling, and this game was also Yan Junling's first appearance in the national team. Although Wang Dalei's mistake Perrin did not care too much, But Li Tie, who served as Perrin's assistant coach, looked at Wang Dalei's mistake on the sidelines, perhaps this is also the most fundamental reason why Li Tie never gave Wang Dalei a chance when he was the head coach of the national team a few years later.
Pulling away, back to the point, we move on to Perrin.
In June, The most important task of Perrin coaching the Chinese men's football team finally began. In the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup Joint Qualifiers, the Chinese men's football team was divided into Group C with Bhutan, Hong Kong, Maldives and Qatar. The tournament features a home-and-away double round robin, with the first place in each group and the second place in the four best-performing groups advancing to the round of 12 in the final round.
On June 16, the Chinese men's football team played against Bhutan away, the abuse of the vegetable king Yang Xu hat-trick, Yu Dabao Mei opened twice, Wu Lei added the icing on the cake, the Chinese men's football team won the 6-0 victory over the opponent to win the world preliminary round.
At the 6th East Asian Cup held in Wuhan in August, Perrin led the team to a 0-2 defeat to South Korea, a 2-0 victory over North Korea, a 1-1 draw with Japan, and a record of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss.
After the End of the East Asian Cup, the World Preliminary Tournament was rekindled.
On September 2, the Chinese men's football team faced the Chinese Hong Kong United in Shenzhen, and throughout the game, the Chinese men's football team bombarded the opponent's goal, hitting the goal frame four times, but failed to score. In the final moments of the match, the handball referee in the penalty area of the players of hong Kong United also turned a blind eye, and finally the Chinese men's football team directly accepted the result of a 0-0 draw.
The next two away games, against the Maldives, the Chinese men's football team won easily 0-3. However, in Doha, the Chinese men's football team lost 0-1 to Qatar, and the situation in the qualification took a sharp turn.
On November 12, the Chinese men's football team was at home in Changsha, and all the anger of the previous world preliminary round was sprinkled on the Bhutanese team, Yang Xu was happy, and the Chinese men's football team finally won 12-0 against the opponent.
However, five days later at the Mong Kok Stadium, the Chinese men's football team once again faced the defense of Hong Kong United, China, and was once again forced to draw 0-0 by the opponent. In this game, the Chinese men's football team hit the frame three times, and in the last moment of the game, Yu Dabao's shot had crossed the goal line but was fished out of the goal by the opposing goalkeeper Ye Honghui, but the referee did not see it.
After this battle, the situation of the Chinese men's football team qualifying is precarious.
Just after New Year's Day in 2016, the Chinese Football Association recalled Perrin, who was on leave, back to China, and after some negotiations, the two sides terminated the contract. Frenchman Perrin thus ended his journey to coach the Chinese men's football team.