Not long ago, the Chinese Olympic team has returned to China, Cheng Yaodong's contract with the Football Association ended, and the National Olympic team also ended in an early exit. Although we failed to hit the 2024 Olympic Games, we can prepare for the 2028 Olympic Games in advance. According to domestic media reports, after this defeat, the Chinese Football Association has finally begun to prefer to hire foreign coaches to coach? At the same time, former national youth coach Antonio has become a free agent and is expected to coach the Chinese National Olympic Games.
On April 25, 2024, according to a report by Xiao Yun, a reporter from the domestic media "Beijing Youth Daily", the Chinese Football Association intends to hire foreign coaches to coach national teams. Previously, Cheng Yaodong, the coach of the Chinese Olympic team, was the only local coach of the national team at this stage, but his performance in coaching the 2001 national Olympic team was not ideal, and his early failure to participate in the Paris Olympics also led to the official end of his contract with the Chinese Football Association. According to reports, this time the Football Association will invite foreign coaches to lead the next National Olympic team, and the 2005 age group of national youth players has already formed a team and will officially prepare to impact the 2028 Olympic Games.
According to reports, the 2005 age group of the national youth has already formed the U19 national football team, and the first thing they have to face is the test of next year's U20 Asian Cup, and will finally shoulder the heavy responsibility of impacting the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In this year's U23 national football team, 18-year-old Du Yuezheng and 17-year-old Wang Yudong are also players of appropriate age in the next Olympic preliminaries, and they have also gone through the baptism of this tournament and have certain experience in the competition, which will help them to impact the Olympic Games later. Now the Football Association has put Serbian coach Djurdjevic in charge of the Under-19 national team.
With a few years to go before the 2028 Olympic preliminaries, Djurdjevic will continue to play the role of Cheng Yaodong. After Cheng Yaodong's defeat this time, I believe that the Football Association will not let Djurdjevic "lie flat for 4 years", and his coaching performance will become an important indicator to evaluate him. If his coaching results do not have the desired effect like Jankovic, the Football Association can fire him and hire a new manager. In this case, Antonio, the former youth coach who has just left Bolivian side Oriental, seems to be a good candidate.
In the 2023 U20 Asian Cup, the national youth team is in the same group as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Tajikistan, and the difficulty of qualifying is similar to that of this U23 Asian Cup. However, Antonio led the U20 national football team to break through from the group stage and almost solved South Korea in the top 8 knockout rounds, and his performance was relatively good. At that time, Eiffelding and Mutalifu were all important players in the U20 national football team, and they also played an important role under Ansheng. If Djurdjevic can't find the "National Olympic Instruction Manual", then Antonio can return to coaching, and maybe it can surprise us.
Do you think Antonio is more suitable for the national Olympic team than Cheng Yaodong?