On Saturday, the Chinese Football Association announced that former Australian women's football coach Milicic will be the coach of the Chinese women's football team. However, media personality Li Pingkang questioned the Football Association's choice and revealed the relationship between Milicic, U17 women's football coach Van Egmund and former national football coach Li Tie.
Between Pete Bondi, Stasic and Milicic, the Chinese Football Association chose the latter, but such a choice raised questions. Milicic played 72 games in his managerial career, including 56 for men's football and 16 for Australia, leading the team to the round of 16 of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2020 Olympic Games.
In contrast, Stasic has a clearly better resume, having 15 years as women's coach and 1,883 games in charge, reaching the round of 18 at the 2015 Women's World Cup, leading the Philippines to the final in 2023 and beating hosts New Zealand.
Media person Li Pingkang revealed, "Although Stasic is currently the head coach of the Australian Super League men's football team, he is very concerned about the Chinese women's football team, and the list of recent training camps, and even the list of the Chinese women's football team U20 are like a few treasures, and he has also privately commented that Wang Shuang's personal talent is even higher than the current women's football world superstar Cole that he has personally cultivated!" ”
Li Pingkang also revealed, "Milicic has not coached for two years, and he basically can't find a job in the Australian circle." Just now, Simon Hill, an authoritative Australian media person, also tweeted that Milicic is likely to be the head coach of the Chinese women's football team, but his words are also interesting, returning to the coaching position. ”
"Now the head coach of the U17 women's football team, Van Egmund, and the soon-to-be head coach of the national team, Milicic are both affiliated with an agent who has a lot of intersections with Li Tie. Previously, Li Tie brought the Wuhan team to Australia for winter training was run by this agent, and at that time, in the hot summer of Australia, the training site was selected on the Gold Coast, which is very hot and there are no warm-up opponents, rather than Sydney, Melbourne, where the weather is relatively suitable and there are a large number of Australian Super League teams nearby, which has caused some controversy. However, at present, the accident of Li Tie and others has not had any impact on the relevant work of the Football Association! ”