A few days ago, Song Kai came to Shanghai to visit the Genbao base and watch the game between Genbao U16 and the national youth U15, and at the same time he will also see off the national football team in Shanghai. The national football team will depart from Shanghai to prepare for the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and Song Kai will not go with the team, but he may go to Qatar to supervise the game after the Asian Cup starts. In the days before the departure of the national football team, the international players conducted simple training in Shanghai, and the attention of all walks of life in the Asian Cup is still very high, and Song Kai took office for the first large-scale event.
On the eve of the national football team's departure for the United Arab Emirates for training, the AFC official sent a letter to the Chinese Football Association, the recipient of which was Jia Xiuquan, the former head coach of the Chinese women's football team. Why did the AFC suddenly send a letter to Jia Xiuquan, which made many people confused. It turned out that the AFC wanted to invite Jia Xiuquan to go to Qatar before February 10 and watch the Asian Cup final on February 10. In the entire Chinese football circle, only Jia Xiuquan was officially invited by the AFC.
It turned out that the Asian Football Association set up a special link in the Asian Cup finals, that is, the MVP players of the previous Asian Cup gathered together to watch the Asian Cup finals on the spot. It is unclear whether there will be a special award ceremony, and Jia Xiuquan did not reply whether he will go to watch the game. This time, the secretary general of the AFC, Datuk Windsor John, personally sent an invitation to Jia Xiuquan, which shows that this national football celebrity, who has been criticized by many domestic fans, still has a relatively large face in the AFC.
Jia Xiuquan played in the Asian Cup in Singapore with the Chinese team in 1984 and won the runner-up of the Asian Cup, and the 21-year-old Jia Xiuquan not only won the Golden Boot award, but also won the MVP of the event. Regardless of his later performance in the women's national team, he won the Asian Cup Golden Boot and the best player resume that no Chinese player has ever had, and now 40 years later, Jia Xiuquan is still the only Chinese player to have won the Asian Cup MVP.
Although Jia Xiuquan has not coached the team recently, he is still active in domestic football, before the Football Association opened an A-level coach training course, many well-known domestic coaches such as Jia Xiuquan, Shen Xiangfu, Cheng Yaodong and Gao Hongbo have participated, it can be seen that Jia Xiuquan has no intention of retiring, he still wants to make new achievements in coaching, and hopes to return to football to continue coaching. Now that the domestic league environment is still declining, Jia Xiuquan has the ability to return, but the lower leagues can't afford it, and the Chinese Super League may not look down on it, which is more embarrassing, maybe after watching the Asian Cup final, he will come out again.