National football coach Li Xiaopeng may resign.
This is the news that is coming out of the domestic media.
This situation is not surprising, because journalists from all sides have already done enough to pave the way.
After the national football team ended the journey of the top 12, the news about "Li Xiaopeng's departure" was overwhelming, and most of the points around it were the results and business level.
Li Xiaopeng took office in early December last year, replaced by Li Tie, who led the team to the top 12, who had a poor performance, and at that time, the national football team had little hope, but he still had a hard top.
At that time, the task given to Li Xiaopeng by the General Administration of Sport was very clear, to be able to make a smooth transition in the case of the team's hopeless impact on the World Cup, and then to allow the team to steadily prepare for the 2023 Asian Cup held locally.
The result? In the four round of 12 matches in February and March, the record of the national football team can only be described as "no face is gone", losing to Japan without the ability to fight back, and losing to Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year.
General Fan's "after losing Thailand to Vietnam, then Burma", a slur, in a flash, the imaginary enemy of the national football team became Burma.
In the final two games, he relied on penalties to defend the bottom line with Saudi Arabia with a penalty when he was completely pressed to the ground, but then lost to Oman.
A lifeless team, a head coach who has no way, is the state at the end of the national football round of twelve, in the face of the situation of defeat, Li Xiaopeng himself is also ready to leave.
He said that the fundamental reason for the poor performance of the Chinese team is that the skills are inferior. He also questioned why internationals perform differently at club and national teams.
The implication is clear, there is nothing I can do, this position is the hot potato, I can not sit.
In this regard, former international Li Yi directly questioned: "As a coach, you should never say that your team and players are not capable, because the coach's duty is to improve the comprehensive ability of the team and players. ”
Li Yi's words are not unreasonable, but they are not all reasonable, after all, although Lippi said that Chinese football should have self-confidence, he still hinted openly and secretly that "this group of players has limited ability".
After Lippi, Li Tie sat on the national football coaching position, because of poor results, he was scolded for being deceitful, and now he was replaced by Li Xiaopeng, but he was just a different person.
Now that the Asian Cup is only a little more than a year away from being held locally, it is difficult to give an account to the fans across the country if the national team continues to be a backwater.
In fact, Li Xiaopeng himself knows in his heart that he must take out the results in his position, but sometimes freezing three feet is not a day's cold, just like a computer CPU is broken, but to change a mouse, can this be useful?
Resigning is a choice that Li Xiaopeng can make, which means relief for him, but Chinese football cannot. The top management must choose the manager to start the next cycle.
So the question is, Li Tie was selected by Chen Shuyuan, chairman of the Football Association, Li Xiaopeng was hand-picked by the General Administration of Sports, and the national football team wants to continue to change coaches, who should listen to?
Perhaps, this is the real problem of Chinese football, there is no set of consistent standards, learn from the east, learn from the west, the final result is that the rights and responsibilities are unclear, chaotic, and even the management of the national team is not clear.
Sometimes, many things are inverted from the beginning, the root problem of Chinese football football lies in the football population, and the most important thing that needs to be solved at the moment is to restore the normal order of the professional league, and the national team coach selection is really just one of the links.
National football to choose a marshal, with a local marshal or with a foreign marshal? With an experienced championship manager or with a young and promising young coach? What is the purpose of the coaching, just as a transition, or on the basis of playing well in the Asian Cup, to impact the 2026 World Cup.
If these problems are not understood, what is the use of the national football team to change the coach, have you forgotten the Lippi who lost his annual salary of 100 million yuan in anger?