After going to Chengdu and Shanghai to watch the eight rounds of the Chinese Super League last weekend, Chinese men's football coach Ivankovic returned to Beijing on the 28th. According to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, in order to accurately understand the ability and status of the candidate international players and avoid missing outstanding players in the new international player selection process, Ivan will continue to inspect the players in the league arena, and will also seize the time to watch some of the game videos of the Chinese Super League dialogue. To this end, he also specially bought a membership card for the event broadcast platform through a friend.
After going to Doha, Qatar to watch the two Olympic preliminary matches between the Chinese Olympic team, the Japanese Olympic team and the South Korean Olympic team, Ivankovic returned to Beijing on April 20, and then he went to the Workers' Stadium on the evening of the 21st to watch the 7th round of the Chinese Super League Guoan's home match against Qingdao West Coast. After that, he watched the 8th round of the Chinese Super League in Chengdu on April 26 and Shanghai on the 27th.
According to the plan, the Chinese team will regroup in Shenyang on May 26, that is, after the end of the second stage of the Chinese Super League, to prepare for the crucial match against Thailand in the round of 36 at home on June 6, and the final match of the round of 36 away against South Korea on June 11.
According to Ivankovic's statement at the press conference on March 8, the national football coaching staff will recruit a few "newcomers" in each of the next training camps. For example, in the training camp in March, Ivan's coaching team recruited several players such as Wang Zhenao, Cheng Jin, and Zhao Bo, and re-recruited naturalized players Fernando and other familiar faces who are in good league form.
With striker Wu Lei and midfielder Li Yuanyi suspended for the match between China and Thailand on June 6, Ivankovic's recent player scouting work has focused on finding suitable candidates to fill the vacancies left by the suspension of the above two players.
In recent rounds of the league, Guoan's midfield core Zhang Xizhe, Zhejiang team defender Li Titian, West Coast team naturalized striker Alain, Shenhua attacking forward Xu Haoyang and other players have been in great shape, and their performance has also attracted the attention of the coaching team, including Ivan. However, in Ivan's opinion, players who can enter the national team, no matter what club they come from or what positions they are good at, should be able to continue to be in good form for a considerable period of time. Therefore, Ivan and his assistants have recently gone to various divisions of the Chinese Super League to track and inspect key target candidates.
It is understood that after Ivan returned to Beijing on the 28th, he stayed up all night to watch the video of the 8th round of the Chinese Super League Guoan team's away game against Zhejiang. Although the two assistants Tokic and Stilinovic both went to Hangzhou to watch the battle between Beijing and Zhejiang, different coaches have different inspection perspectives, and Ivan still hopes to make a more accurate judgment on the ability and state of his favorite target players through his own observations.
Interestingly, in order to do a good job in player inspection, Ivan also bought a membership card for the event broadcast platform through a friend, and often watched some relatively high-quality video playbacks of the dialogue between the Chinese and super strong at the station.
It is worth noting that Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, and Chen Tao, the three Chinese assistant coaches of the national football team, have returned to China in recent days after going to Germany to participate in the overseas training course of the Chinese Football Association/AFC professional coach qualification certification training for nearly 3 weeks. If nothing else, the members of the Chinese and foreign coaching team of the national football team will study the new team training camp as soon as this week, especially the issue of personnel recruitment.
If time permits, Ivankovic will go to the scene on April 30 and May 5 to watch the 9th round of the Chinese Super League Jinmen Tigers vs Guoan and the 10th round of Guoan vs Rongcheng. In Ivan's view, if a player can fully demonstrate his skill level in a real strong dialogue, then such a player can withstand the test and adapt to the World Championship with higher intensity and speed. It can be seen that players with high voices such as Zhang Xizhe who have been selected for the national football team still need to be further assessed by the national football coaching staff.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Yun