Originally, I thought that Li Tie was the head coach of the national football team who was the least to see naturalized players, but who knew that Jankovic was! The latest national football training list has been released, which is also the final version of the 2023 Qatar Asian Cup registration list. In this list, Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Wei Shihao, Wu Xi and other domestic first-class players are all on the list, but surprisingly only Jiang Guangtai is a naturalized player, and naturalized players such as Ackerson, Li Ke, Fernando and other naturalized players collectively failed.
I have to say that the list of participants drawn up by Jankovic is full of controversy, and the prospects of the national football team in the Asian Cup are very worrying.
Regarding the use of naturalized players, the attitude of the previous national football coaches is as follows:
Lippi is the initiator of the naturalization policy, and it was he who put forward the idea of naturalizing foreign aid in the Chinese Super League, but during his tenure, he only naturalized Exxon and Li Ke, so the effect was not very ideal; After Li Xiaopeng took office, the use of naturalized players reached its peak, but it was too late at that time, and the national football team had already been eliminated, so naturalized players also lost their role.
When Jankovic came to power, his use of naturalized players reached a "perverted" level, which can be summed up in one sentence - as much as possible. Since Jankovic took office, the national football team has closed the door to naturalized players such as Exon, Fernando, and Luo Guofu, and found an excuse to fire Li Ke, who was "late for training", leaving only Jiang Guangtai, who is indispensable in the backline.
Whether it is Jankovic himself who really does not like the use of naturalized players, or whether there are other reasons for him to restrict the use of naturalized players (refer to Li Tie), we don't know, in short, Jankovic is now going to go all the way to the dark.
One thing to say, although the overall strength of naturalized players such as Exon, Li Ke, and Fernando has declined a lot, it is not so much that even local players are incomparable. What's more, the original intention of Exxon and Fernando to return to the Chinese Super League to play was to represent the national football team in this Asian Cup, but Jankovic didn't even give them a chance, which is really chilling.
If you don't use naturalized players, you don't know where Jankovic's confidence is. The national football team, which has no naturalized players, has lost to Oman and Hong Kong, China in the last two warm-up matches one after another, not only did not show a positive side, but also made people see no hope.