Reporter Chen Yong reported that after the end of the round of 12, the next task of the national football team is the 2023 Asian Cup and the 2026 World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the reconstruction of the national team contains multiple levels, such as player replacement, psychological adjustment and state improvement, etc., but the more important work is whether the national team coach is replaced, in fact, this is still not the core, the real key core of the national football team reconstruction is actually the problem of the national football management mechanism.
In the past three years or so, the national football team has gone through 5 managers and temporary managers: Lippi - Cannavaro (provisional) - Lippi - Li Tie - Li Xiaopeng, behind this process of change is the continuous adjustment and disorder of the management mechanism of the national football team. In fact, in a little more than three years, the national football team has no competitions in the year and a half from January 2020 to June 2021, which means that this change has occurred in just over a year and a half.
If the management mechanism of the national team is not smooth, the national football team cannot have any improvement, whether it is renewed, whether it is naturalized, whether it is left in the west, whether it is changed, it is meaningless.
In the early morning of March 30, the national football team lost 0-2 to Oman in the final battle of the round of 12, after this game, Li Xiaopeng suffered a lot of doubts, although he led the team to a 1-1 draw with Saudi Arabia in the previous game, but the loss to Oman is still unacceptable to many Chinese fans and media.
The national team coaching position is a very serious topic, in the post-match press conference, Li Xiaopeng only summarized the game, did not talk about the coaching position. Then Li Xiaopeng accepted an exclusive interview with CCTV, in which Li Xiaopeng talked about the topic related to the coaching position: "From my point of view, when I came to take over, the most important task of the national team was next year's Asian Cup. At this time, I will also discuss this issue with the chairman, including the managers. I feel more deeply, how to build this team, from managers to teams to individuals, will be discussed to carry out the next step. As a coach, even if you leave, it is your duty to hand over a team in its entirety. ”
At present, Li Xiaopeng has not revealed the idea of resigning, but it can be seen from his expression that he may also have a certain psychological preparation for leaving.
Li Xiaopeng's coaching record is 1 draw and 3 losses, of which a 1-1 draw with Saudi Arabia is generally acceptable, losing to the Japanese team is also a normal result, what is not acceptable is the final battle 0-2 defeat to Oman, and what is more unacceptable is the 1-3 loss to Vietnam.
But in terms of these 4 games, the national football team is not a normal state at all, before playing against Japan and Vietnam, Li Xiaopeng did not have a systematic preparation time, and at that time, the league just ended shortly after the start of training. As for the final loss to Oman, even Milu believes that the internationals "may be more eager to end it". From this point of view, it is obviously unreasonable for the responsibility to be all pressed on Li Xiaopeng. Of course, all over the world, coaches are back cookers, so if Li Xiaopeng finally leaves class, it is also a very normal thing.
At present, there are only two possibilities for the national football coach: first, Li Xiaopeng continues to stay in office, but the 2023 Asian Cup will be his big test, and once he performs poorly, he will not be eligible for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers; second, Li Xiaopeng will leave the class and re-select the foreign coach as the national football coach, the alternative foreign teacher may mainly be based on foreign teachers who have been or are coaching in the Chinese Super League, and it is also possible to choose a new foreign teacher, but it is unlikely.
Of course, fans may say: There is a third possibility, that is, Li Xiaopeng is out of class and replaced by a new local manager. Objectively speaking, this plan may be the worst choice, in addition to "pitting" a local coach is meaningless, Chinese football is currently difficult to appear in the club coaching performance is relatively stable coaches, or need to cherish, and in a short time, they have not yet had the ability and experience to coach the national team.
But the key at present is that the question of whether the national team coach will be replaced involves the two levels of the Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sports, and the General Administration of Sports may face some personnel changes, all of which will have a very big impact on the coaching position of the national team.
The national football team's top 12 tour performance is not good, the general concern of all parties is still the national team itself, of which the players bear the brunt, many players have suffered criticism and even network violence, of course, the head coach is naturally impossible to be spared.
But in fact, the key point of the national football team is not in the national football team itself, but in the more holistic level, of which the national team management mechanism is very critical. We can take a look at the whole process of this 2022 World Cup qualifier to see why three coaches lead the team before and after this event, in fact, if you count the original "reserve head coach" Cannavaro, it can also be said to be four.
The national football team entered the preparation rhythm of the 2022 World Cup after completing the Asian Cup in January 2019. Lippi resigned at the Asian Cup, the national football team faced a change of coach, in march 2019", the "interim coach" of the national football team was Cannavaro, the idea at that time was that if Cannavaro performed well, it could be regularized, and the result was that the first game of the national football team lost to Thailand 0-1, and then lost to Uzbekistan, And cannavaro naturally did not have the national football coach position.
In May 2019, Lippi returned, the key is that almost at the same time that Lippi took office, Chen Shuyuan served as the head of the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Association, that is, the Chinese Football Association has a new helmsman, but the choice of the Chinese national team coach has nothing to do with him. In fact, after Chen Shuyuan was elected as the president of the Football Association, he also suffered a lot of constraints, which were not only at the national team level, but also a lot of stories happened during the period.
Under Lippi's leadership, the national football team drew with the Philippines in the 3rd and 4th rounds of the Round of 40 to Syria, and Lippi finally resigned again. In these two games, especially the away defeat to Syria, the performance of the national football players was very bad. However, the performance of the national football team is not only its own problem, but also has a lot to do with the overall operation of Chinese football at that time. For example, at the end of 2019, not only did the national football team perform poorly, the national youth football conference that has been held for many years was not held, and the technical development conference of the Chinese Football Association (that is, the previous coach conference) that was held well before was not held, that is to say, the basic work of Chinese football cannot be taken care of, and the national football team can not talk about how to do a good job?
After some manipulation, coupled with Lippi's dismissal, Chen Shuyuan finally gained enough power, and he chose Li Tie. Of course, there is also news that Scolari once proposed that he was not recognized by the Football Association, but this is a later story, in fact, even if Scolari coaches, the record of the national football team cannot have a qualitative change, because the subsequent league crisis and the national football team are not able to change, even if he leads the team, the difficulty of coaching is unprecedented.
Li Tie's coaching ability is actually quite good, but Chen Shuyuan, who has changed careers, obviously lacks a clearer understanding of him, especially in terms of management work, he has not been able to prevent micro-gradualism, and he has not been able to make up for problems after problems, and finally Li Tie has been dismissed because of personal inappropriate speech and behavior.
At this time, the management authority of the national team has changed again, following the management authority of the Chinese women's football team was taken away by the General Administration of Sports, the management authority of the Chinese men's football team was also taken away by the General Administration of Sports, and Li Xiaopeng became the manager of the national football team, which is not the selection procedure of the Football Association, but the selection procedure of the General Administration of Sports.
It is worth noting that because the selection of the coach is a passive and emergency manager, many subsequent work has not been straightened out, including but not limited to the signing of the coaching staff and other matters.
In general, the management of the national team in the past 3 years can be described as incomparably complicated and chaotic, and it is mainly concentrated in the cumbersome process of "Lippi - Cannavaro (temporary) - Lippi - Li Tie - Li Xiaopeng" from January 2019 to January 2020, and from September 2021 to March 2022, the national football coach has also gone through the cumbersome process of "Lippi - Cannavaro (temporary) - Lippi - Li Tie - Li Xiaopeng", and almost every head coach is a chicken feather in the end.
More importantly, every time there is a conversion, the dominant person may really want to be good for the national football team, and may hold the idea of "correcting the chaos", but the conversion of one after another, the final victim is the national football team.
In fact, even if the Chinese Football Association is responsible for the management of the national team and the selection of the national team, they have been constantly problematic in the past many years: many coaches have been temporary, including Dujkovic, who became the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team in October 2006, but suddenly became the manager of the national football team in September 2007, and finally abruptly left the class before the Olympic Games. It also includes Camacho's sudden lesson, which is the capital operating behind the scenes. As for the coach selection process, some still take the form, and some form does not go. As for the direction of coach selection, it is basically that the local coach is not good to find foreign coaches, and the foreign coach is not good to find local coaches, and so on.
Therefore, behind the dilemma of the national football team, the management mechanism is the key to be solved, such as the management boundary of the General Administration of Sports and the Football Association, of course, the General Administration of Sports needs to give guidance, but all this needs to be based on the full communication with the Football Association, only full communication, in order to effectively coordinate.
For example, in the selection of the coach, of course, it is impossible to vote to decide, there must be a key direction, but all this also requires careful and comprehensive argumentation and examination.
For the national football coach, since the selection should be fully supported, but before this support, the responsibilities and rights of the national football coach should be clear, and the support is not indulgence, not giving and taking, such as engaging in long-term training or other practices that harm the interests of the league and clubs, and at the same time, in the national team, it is by no means unregulated. In short, in the past 3 years, the national football team has left too many lessons, if you can not learn these lessons, the national football team will naturally enter the next cycle of failure, which has nothing to do with who will coach.