Coach Ivankovic will have a short break after leading the national team to play two games against Singapore, and in two months' time, the national team will host Thailand. Recently, Ivankovic Croatia also talked about the current development status of Chinese football in an interview with local media. Through this interview, Ivan also explained the reason why the men's football team's performance is getting worse and worse. After watching it, many fans also said, no wonder we can't do football well, this time, everything finally fell into place. Ivan believes that the current development of Chinese football is somewhat stagnant, and the gap with the world's strong teams is getting bigger and bigger, and the national team is also in urgent need of adding some fresh blood. The pressures and risks he faced as manager were unprecedented, and he was ready to take responsibility for them.
Of course, for Ivan, the biggest headache is the home match with the Thai team, and the suspension of Wu Lei and Li Yuanyi has damaged the strength of the Chinese team. Let's return to the previous theme, Ivan said frankly that the current environment of Chinese football has been ruined by Jinyuan football, although Jinyuan football has acted as a catalyst, but after the bubble, there have also been many negative impacts, and there are many problems due to the development of domestic football. Many foreign aides and foreign coaches plan to leave China for other countries to develop, and the construction of the national team takes a long period, and it is unrealistic to make the Chinese team a world powerhouse through a short period of seedlings.
Ivan feels that he deserves to be the coach of the national football team, he has coached in Shandong Luneng for a period of time, and is familiar with the environment of domestic football, and he also knows how to help Chinese football develop better. When asked by reporters whether he would quit if he could not lead the team to the round of 18, his own answer was also very clear, he said that if he really could not lead the team to the next knockout round, then he would voluntarily leave this position. Ivan also spoke about the opening game against Singapore, saying that it was a bit unacceptable that we didn't win away from home, but the good thing was that we still got three points at home, which helped us a lot to qualify.
Although the outside world is unanimously optimistic that the Chinese men's football team will advance to the round of 18 as the second in the group, in Ivan's view, the most important thing at the moment is the match with the Thai team. Fans hope that he can help the national football team build the strongest squad in the shortest possible time, so that we can successfully qualify from the group.