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Antonio's phrase "my contract is over" caused widespread heated discussions among fans and even questioned the football association. A well-known journalist surnamed Ma published a special publication entitled "Where does Antonio go?" What are the chances of holding hands again". I never thought that after reading it, I felt even more confused.
Reporter Ma's article makes two issues very clear: First, the Chinese Football Association signs a contract with any head coach in accordance with the phased tasks of the event. When the task is completed, the contract is automatically renewed to the next stage, and vice versa. Second, whether Antonio will have the opportunity to cooperate with the Chinese Football Association again is uncertain.
Regarding the first point, it is necessary to briefly repeat what Ma reporter said. In 2018, Antonio joined the Chinese Football Association as the head coach of the 03-year-old national junior team. In April of the following year, he replaced another Spanish coach and changed to the head coach of the 04 age group (since the 03 age group has not organized a training camp). Six months later, in September, Antonio led the team to qualify for the final of the U16 Asian Junior Championship.
However, the competition, which was originally held in 2020, was first postponed and finally cancelled due to the epidemic. Therefore, in 2022, the Football Association signed a new contract with Antonio to rebuild the 03 age old national youth team (now the U20 national football team) and prepare for the U20 Asian Cup. As a result, Antonio led the team to qualify for the finals, and the contract was automatically renewed. This time, the U20 national football team stopped in the quarterfinals, and the contract between the two parties ended.
The question of Antonio's whereabouts depends on several factors: first, whether he is willing to continue coaching the Chinese team; Second, Chen Jiayuan had previously planned to retain the U20 national football team to prepare for the 2026 U23 Asian Cup and the Asian Games in Japan. However, after Chen Jiayuan was examined and investigated, the matter may be variable; Third, how the Chinese Football Association plans for the future national team is probably an unknown before the new team comes out.
This explanation is very informative.
First of all, Antonio's ability to lead different teams (national junior and national youth) to the final twice and this time in the U20 Asian Cup has been proven many times. Secondly, in recent days, fans strongly recommend that the national Olympic team change the coach, and Antonio as the head coach of the national Olympic team may be dashed.
The current Olympic team, formerly known as the Chinese Football Association's "2024 Olympic Hope Star" Luxi Training Camp on March 26, 2017, is coached by Shen Xiangfu (then called guidance). Of course, the managers in the "budding" state were Yu Yuanwei and Wei Xian, and the former was responsible for the selection of players.
After that, after Qu Bo, Gong Falong, and Zhang Li's "relay leader." Because of the disastrous defeat of the Panda Cup in May 2019 and the absence of the main match of the Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese Football Association organized the global selection and recruitment of the national youth coach at the age of 01. In the end, Cheng Yaodong, Su Maozhen and Ermin Hiljak (Bosnia), and Joneswicki Seydomir (Belgium) broke through from 51 candidates and "advanced to the semifinals".
Gonphalon
The fans knew what happened later, and Cheng Yaodong stood out and became the ultimate winner. At that time, the members of the expert evaluation team were: Chris (whose role is unknown), Gao Hongbo, Wei Kexing, Yang Chen, and Au Chuliang, who was the technical director of the Chinese Football Association at the time.
Here, there is another "vignette".
Before Gomphalón, the FA had the opportunity to hold hands with Portuguese Helio Sousa. According to the above-mentioned reporter surnamed Ma at the time, Helio Sousa is "the absolute junior champion coach in world football today" and is good at coaching young players. Since 2010, he has been an assistant coach and head coach in 7 age groups in Portugal; In the past five years, he has led youth teams of different ages to win 2 championships and 2 runners-up.
But why not use such a champion coach? Ma reporter also gave the answer: at that time, the leaders of the football association directly vetoed Helio Sousa after meeting with him because he had a "bad face" - this is the allusion to "choosing a coach to see his face" in the history of Chinese football.
If you have a bad face, you can't be the manager of the national youth
In fact, the "face" of Gonfaron is no better, and interested fans can search for the real face on their own. The biggest trouble is that the Panda Cup is about to start, but Gong Nanlong "fled" and resigned. The reason is also strange: the basic skills of the players are too poor.
Such a big nonsense is actually just to illustrate a problem: this national Olympic team is "congenitally inadequate", including 7 successive coaches. Moreover, the process of selecting the coach has twists and turns, and the climax has been repeated, which makes people see the absurdity and endless helplessness of Chinese football. To put it bluntly, whether Cheng Yaodong is qualified enough to coach this team is still doubtful.
If the coach is changed now, this troubled team will become the 8th and the most difficult in the world; But if it is not changed, Antonio's fate with Chinese football may come to an end, and it is difficult to say whether there will be a chance in the future. From the beginning of coaching the Chinese national junior, to the national youth, and then to this U20 national football team, as mentioned above, Antonio's ability is beyond doubt.
Realistically speaking, it is almost difficult for the Olympic team to enter the Paris Olympics by winning one of the three and a half places in Asia. In this sense, the result is similar whether to change the coach or not, and Antonio may not necessarily be willing to take over.
But as mentioned above, even if the U20 national football team can be saved, it will have to wait 3 years before there is a major tournament task, does Antonio have this patience? Or, is the Chinese Football Association willing to "raise Antonio for nothing" for 3 years?
However, then again, Iraq can beat Japan in the semi-finals of the U20 Asian Cup, South Korea can also lose to Uzbekistan, so why make a fuss about something unexpected in football? With more than half a year to go before the Olympic preliminaries in September, if Antonio replaces Cheng Yaodong, with his ability to coach the U20 national football team in a very short time, who dares to say that a miracle will not happen?
The fact now is that almost no one believes that Cheng Yaodong can lead the team to success.
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