Just as the so-called new official took office three fires, the Chinese national men's football team after the fall of former coach Li Tie and former football association president Chen Jiayuan, determined to carry out drastic reforms, Serbian Jankovic replaced the transitional coach Li Xiaopeng as the new head coach of the national football team, and continued to hire foreign coaches after Lippi, the determination of the national football team to change its past can be seen, and the goal at this stage is naturally the upcoming Asian Cup in Qatar.
Jankovic is not famous, but as soon as he took office the national team, he ruled the army with an iron fist, removed some players from the training squad, and formed a new national team according to his own ideas, and shockingly, among the three internationals that Jankovic retired in one go, there were two naturalized players, and he also wanted to use this to knock the big guys in the team, no one can enjoy privileges under his command, even the naturalized players of the big names.
It is reported that after the first training session, Jankovic persuaded three players, Axon, Ren Hang and Jiang Guangtai, their physical condition did not meet the requirements of Yang Shuai, and they needed to temporarily leave the national team, Yankovic recruited Zhang Jiaqi, Barton and Wei Zhen three new players, truly realizing the principle of the best first, which is a positive signal and also gives fans hope for a trip to Qatar.
Several managers before Jankovic have been biased in the selection of the national team, Lippi prefers Evergrande gang and naturalized players, Li Tie is a dead or alive player who does not need to naturalize players, Li Xiaopeng has limited power, and Jankovic's employment tends to be more wise, Axon did not have many opportunities to play after returning to the Baja Liga, and returned to the Chinese Super League to join Chengdu Rongcheng after Gremio could not mix, and the 34-year-old Axon was selected for the national team only a few days after returning to China for training, and his poor state can be imagined.
There are also Jiang Guangtai and Ren Hang, one of them is the backbone of the defense naturalization, the other is a veteran player who has quite a say in the dressing room, and they need Yankovic to have considerable courage, after all, Zhang Jiaqi, Barton and Wei Zhen who replaced them are not big-name players, but their current state is indeed better than Axon and Jiang Guangtai and others, which also verifies what Jankovic said before, he has mastered the basic situation of all Chinese players, and the competitive state is his priority, even if the fame is great, once the state is not good , also to make way for newcomers.
Jankovic's focus will be on the next Qatar Asian Cup, and even the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup in 3 years, and Qatar's results will be the top priority, although the national football team does not have the opportunity to participate in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, but Qatar's successful bid for the 2023 Asian Cup also gives the national football team the opportunity to play on the World Cup stadium and feel the World Cup atmosphere that has not yet subsided, which may also be an incentive for the national football team.