After ending the Asian Cup trip ahead of schedule, the change of coach of the national football team has become the most urgent task for the Football Association to complete. Recently, there has been a lot of news about the new coach of the national football team.
Cui Kangxi of Shandong Taishan, Qiao Di of the Zhejiang team, and Xu Zhengyuan of Chengdu Rongcheng have all had scandals with the national football team. However, according to the "Beijing Youth Daily" report on the Football Association's selection criteria, these three Super League coaches may not be qualified. Because, none of them have a successful national team coaching experience.
In addition, Taishan, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng all had good league results last season, and the club will not let go of their manager easily. And the Chinese men's football team is unlikely to be like the Chinese men's basketball team, where Du Feng is both the head coach of the national team and the head coach of the Guangdong men's basketball team.
According to a well-known football media surnamed Z, there are currently three main targets for the Football Association to select coaches for the national football team, they are Queiroz, Ivankovic and Sanchez.
Queiroz is best known, having coached clubs in Europe's top five leagues, Manchester United and Real Madrid. In terms of national team, he has also served for Asian national teams such as Qatar, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. However, Queiroz is relatively old, 71 years old this year, and the annual salary requirements are also very high, these two will become the biggest difficulty for him to take over the national football team.
Ivankovic is an old acquaintance of Chinese fans, and the Croatian coach once coached Shandong Taishan and led the team to the 2010 Chinese Super League title. He also coached the Iranian national team in 2002-06.
Judging from all aspects, Ivankovic is the most suitable candidate for the new coach of the national football team. However, Ivankovic is also older, 70 years old this year, which may make it difficult for the Football Association to choose Ivankovic.
The last Sanchez, the former youth coach of La Liga giants Barcelona, used to coach Qatar. He led Qatar to the 2019 Asian Cup and played in the 2022 World Cup.
However, Sanchez took over the Ecuadorian national team just last year and now has three years left on his contract. At present, Sanchez is leading the Ecuadorian Olympic team for training, and now it is a fantasy that the Football Association wants to poach Sanchez to coach the Chinese men's football team.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the requirements of these three foreign coaches for annual salaries are not low, at least more than 2 million US dollars, which is completely unbearable for the current Chinese Football Association. Therefore, it is unlikely that they will take over the national football team in the near future.
Judging from the current situation, the Football Association has to choose a coach for the national football team in the end, and before, there have been many local coaches such as Gao Hongbo, Jia Xiuquan and Xie Hui who have had scandals with the national football team, but it seems that the possibility of them taking over the national football team is not too great.
Recently, there has been another dark horse in the national football team coach selection, he is Fu Bo, who replaced Camacho as the interim coach of the national football team in 2013. Although Fu Bo's reputation is not as big as the above three, his results in coaching the national football team are still quite good.
In 2013, Fu Bo led the national team to participate in the East Asian semifinals, drawing 3-3 with Japan, drawing 0-0 with South Korea, and defeating Australia 4-3, which is a rare good result for the Chinese men's football team in the past years. In addition, in the next two warm-up matches, he led the national football team to defeat Singapore and Malaysia respectively, and remained unbeaten in 5 games, 3 wins and 2 draws.
Considering that the two world preliminary matches between the national football team and Singapore will start in March, the Football Association does not have much time to prepare now, and it is a more suitable choice for Fu Bolai to take over the national football team and serve as a transitional coach.
Of course, the current problem of the national football team is not just as simple as changing the coach, there is no mature tactical system, there is no really suitable style of play for the national football team, and there are no high-level young players to replace the old players......