The Chinese women's football U17 national junior team has started the first training camp in 2024, and the new coach from Australia has officially taken office.
Australian coach Gary van Egmund has coached Australia's Under-17 team, Newcastle Jets Men's and Newcastle Jets Women's teams. He played for the Australian men's national team and won the Australian Super League with the Newcastle Jets men's team after becoming a coach. The resume is still okay.
The Chinese women's U17 national junior team will participate in the U17 Women's Asian Cup in April, and if they can finish in the top three, they will qualify for the U17 Women's World Cup. There are eight teams participating in this year's U17 Women's Asian Cup, namely Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, Thailand, China and the Philippines.
The training camp will be held from January 26th to February 7th, and the training location is the Kunming Haigeng Sports Training Base in Yunnan. Among the players in this training camp, Shanghai women's football team and Shandong women's football team have the most players, Shanghai women's football team has 7 people selected, and Shandong women's football team has 5 people selected. After this training camp, the final list of participants will be determined.
Because Australian football pays more attention to body and strength, pays attention to header skills, and is good at lifting and playing high, which is very different from the style of the Chinese women's football team, the author is not optimistic about the Australian coach, and I don't believe that it can help the Chinese women's national youth team in less than three months. There is even a fear that it will cause a nondescript tactical system.