At 0:00 a.m. Beijing time on April 2, the world cup group stage drawing ceremony was held at the Qatar Convention and Exhibition Center. There are already 29 teams that have confirmed a World Cup spot. As in the past 20 years, this draw has nothing to do with the Chinese men's football team. However, among the 8 guests in this lottery, there are figures that are extremely familiar to Chinese fans...
Ahead of the World Cup draw, FIFA announced 8 guests:
8 guests
Former Brazilian captain Kafu, German legend Mateus, Iranian history no. 1 striker Ali Dei, Qatari star Malala, Nigerian legend Okocha, Algeria's Majer, Australia's Tim Cahill, the United States women's football team's Lloyd, former England international Jenas, host Samantha, and Bora Milutinovic - 20 years ago, the chinese men's football team into the World Cup of the famous coach.
How is The Recent Situation in Milu? At the Doha Convention and Exhibition Center in Qatar, a special correspondent from the Marca newspaper met Milu.
Milu and Marca newspaper reporters
Milu, 78, has all white hair but is still talkative. Milu recalled the 1998 World Cup, when Nigeria defeated Spain 3-2. That was one of Milu's masterpieces, and Milu said: "That is an eternal memory, Spain is very strong, but in the football world, everything is possible. ”
Milu has set a unique record: leading 5 different teams for 5 consecutive World Cups. Mexico in 1986, Costa Rica in 1990, the United States in 1994, Nigeria in 1998, China in 2002. After that, Milu did not appear on the World Cup.
Milu
After the 2002 World Cup, Milu left his position as manager of the Chinese men's football team and successively served as the coach of the Honduran national team (2003-2004), the coach of al-Sad (2004-2005), the coach of the Jamaican national team (November 2006 to November 2007), the coach of the Iraqi national team (2009), the sports director of Guangdong Rizhiquan (2014), and the youth training consultant of the Chinese Football Association (2018).
From the national football coach, to the guangdong Rizhiquan sports director, to the Chinese Football Association youth training consultant, Milu has been associated with China three times, especially leading the national football team to the 2002 World Cup, becoming the best memory of Chinese fans. Fast forward 20 years, the Chinese men's football team still has only 1 World Cup experience. When Chinese fans see Milu again, they will inevitably sigh and have mixed feelings: extremely disappointed in the current national football team, nostalgic for the past national football...