Next month, the top 36 of the Asian region of the World Preliminary Championship will be restarted, and the national football team, Thailand, Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq, which are second- and third-rate teams in Asia, are eager to get 8.5 World Cup places in the Asian region. Of course, for the national football team, to enter the World Cup, you need to advance to the round of 18 first.
According to the schedule, the national football team will face the Singapore men's football team back-to-back next month, which is the first time in 13 years that the two teams have met in the world preliminaries, the last time was in 2011, when after winning 2-1 at home, they went to the away 4-0 victory to complete the double against Singapore.
In addition, the national football team has played Singapore 18 times in history, with a record of 11 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, and the last 12 meetings with 10 wins and 2 draws remain unbeaten, the last loss has to be traced back to 1983, when the national football team lost 0-1 in an away invitational match, and now the goal is to continue the 41-year unbeaten record.
Before participating in back-to-back World Preliminary Tournaments with Singapore, the national football team needs to determine the new coach, and the Football Association has started the process of changing the coach, which will be finalized after the Spring Festival, so Jankovic is counting down to the end of class.
Although the Football Association prefers foreign coaches to take over the national football team, on the one hand, the time is relatively short, and on the other hand, it is impossible to provide a huge salary, so in order to avoid the national football team without a coach to lead the team to participate in the World Preliminaries, it is very likely that local excellent coaches will temporarily put out the fire, and this is not the first time that the national football team has changed coaches.
According to the report of Beiqing Sports, if the foreign coach cannot be in place in the short term, it is not ruled out that the Football Association will choose excellent local coaches to take over or temporarily "firefight".
For Gao Hongbo to take over the national football team, domestic fans are more supportive, "Let Gao Hongbo take the national football team! Don't get involved in the Football Association. Let him do it", "It must be a high guide, let him realize his dream".
The last time the national football team participated in the top 40 of the Asian World Preliminaries, they were once eliminated from the competition, but fortunately, Gao Hongbo took over temporarily and finally miraculously advanced to the top 12.
If Gao Hongbo leads the team, I believe the international players will be more convinced, and the whole team will gather a strong force to face Singapore's home and away games to get 6 points to ensure that the group qualifies and enters the round of 18.