Using a full day on October 16, the Chinese Football Association conducted interview questions and answers to candidate coaches who signed up for the selection of the Chinese women's national football team. Among the 6 coaches who confirmed the registration, except for Liu Lin, the former coach of Wuhan Chedujiang University Women's Football Team, who did not have the conditions to participate in the competition because he did not hold the football professional coach qualification certificate, the remaining 5 candidates Zhao Junzhe, Wang Jun, Zhang Haitao, Chen Wanting and Liu Huana "applied for the examination" through offline and online methods respectively. It is understood that the Chinese Football Association has specially invited Zhu Guanghu, Sun Wen, Li Shubin, Wang Hong, Li Xicai and other famous guests to form an expert group to serve as "examiners" in accordance with procedures. Chris, technical director of the Belgian Football Association of China, who has just returned to China from Saudi Arabia with the men's national football team, also participated in the interview. This also shows the seriousness of this selection and recruitment work.
On October 8, the second day after the Chinese men's football team defeated Vietnam in the third round of the Round of 12, the Chinese Football Association issued the "Notice on the Selection of the Head Coach of the Chinese Women's National Football Team" through official channels. The circular requires that coaches who intend to register must meet mandatory conditions such as "must have the nationality of the People's Republic of China; be under the age of 60; have previously served as a manager in a national team with a national brand size of U19 or above in the Chinese Football Association, or have served as a manager in a women's Super League team, or have served as a manager or head coach in the top league of the Chinese Football Association".
It is understood that as of October 12, a total of 6 coaches have signed up to participate in the competition. They are Zhao Junzhe, the current team leader of the Guangzhou City Club team of the Chinese Super League, Zhao Junzhe, the former international football team leader, Wang Jun, the coach of the U19 national youth women's football team, Zhang Haitao, who led the Chinese women's football team to participate in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Chen Wanting, the former female coach of the U16 women's national junior team, and Liu Huana, the former Chinese women's football international football team who is currently the coach of Shaanxi women's football. Liu Lin, who led the Wuhan Chedujiang Women's Football Team to win the Women's Super League championship last season.
According to the procedure, the Chinese Football Association must review the conditions for applicants to participate in the selection and recruitment, and finally a total of 5 people are qualified to participate in the interview. The only 1 person who did not have the opportunity to refer to it was Liu Lin. This is because he currently only holds the A-level coach certification qualification and does not have the "must hold the football professional coach qualification certificate" required by the entry conditions.
It is understood that the interview work is arranged on the 16th, and the specific start time is 9:30 a.m. on the same day. Among the 5 test takers, Liu Huana, as the coach of Shaanxi women's football team, could not withdraw to the offline scene because she was leading the team to participate in the domestic league recently, so she had to take the test remotely through online means. The remaining four all went to Beijing for interviews.
As in the end of 2019, when the Chinese Football Association organized the selection and recruitment of the manager of the men's national football team, the "examiner" who served as the interviewer for the new coach of the women's national football national team was also a member of the expert group certified by the Chinese Football Association. Considering the differences between women's football and men's football, the specific expert candidates have also changed to a certain extent. For example, in addition to Zhu Guanghu and Li Shubin, there are also some famous women's football players who serve as "examiners" for this interview. For example, Sun Wen, current vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association and one of the representative figures of "Sonorous Rose", Wang Hong, a former Chinese female footballer, and Li Xicai, a dalian football celebrity who has coached the women's club team for many years.
It is worth noting that as a consultant, the Belgian consultant of the Chinese Football Association who accompanied the national men's football team to the top 12 and recently returned to China also participated in the interview as one of the main examiners. It can be seen that the Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to this competition.
According to the requirements of the selection work notice, during the interview, the candidate coaches are required to state their coaching philosophy, team ideas and personal advantages through PPT; summarize the development trend of women's football in the world, analyze the current situation of the main opponents of women's football in Asia and the world; introduce the goals and preparation ideas of the Chinese women's football team participating in the Asian Cup, world cup, Asian Games and Olympic Games; answer the questions of the expert group, focusing on the comprehensive ability of the candidates.
It is understood that the interview work on the 16th lasted until more than 6 o'clock that night. The "examiner" pays attention to the theory and takes into account the practice of the "candidate", and the comprehensive quality of the applicant's business knowledge level, collaboration and overall planning ability, management ability, team cohesion, logical analysis of various types of affairs and coping ability is very strict.
It is understood that the 5 candidate coaches fully demonstrated their respective characteristics and advantages during the interview process, leaving a good impact on most of the members of the expert group. In the future, the expert group will also conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the interview performance of each applicant, and after reaching a preliminary consensus, the opinions will be reported to the senior management of the Chinese Football Association and relevant parties. This means that it will take some time from the end of the interview to the final results of the competition. As the team's next major task is to prepare for the upcoming women's Asian Cup and Women's World Cup qualifiers from January 20 to February 6 next year, the team's next step in team formation is urgent. The new coach also urgently needs to go to the women's super league and other domestic women's football competitions to inspect the team members. Therefore, the specific new coach will be selected within this month at the latest.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Zhao
Editor/Yingchuan Zhang