After more than two months of screening, the new coach of the Chinese women's football team was finally released not long ago. Australian coach Milicic took office and officially took over the coaching whip left by Shui Qingxia and became the new leader of the women's football team. However, many fans questioned the results of the Football Association's coach selection, and media person Li Pingkang also reprinted an article released by his agent on his social media, revealing some of the inside story of the Chinese women's football team coach selection!
It is reported that the author of this article is Liu Yunan, the Chinese agent of Australian coach Stakic, and Stakic is also one of the candidates for the new coach of the Chinese women's football team. After the notice of the open competition of the Chinese Football Association was issued, the Chinese team got in touch with Stakić as soon as possible and signed up for the election.
According to the author's description, Stakić was Australia's "Coach of the Year" in 2017, and in 2018, he was also nominated for FIFA Coach of the Year. Between 2014 and 2019, he led the Australian women's football team to the round of 16 of the 2015 Women's World Cup; In 2016, he led the Australian women's football team to the quarterfinals of the Rio Olympics, which can be said to be a brilliant record.
He then moved to men's football, taking over Australia's Central Coast Mariners, who took the bottom-placed Central Coast Mariners to third place in the league during his two-year tenure. In 2021, the Philippine Football Federation approached Stakic, so he became the head coach of the Philippine national women's football team, and successfully led the Philippines, an underdog in Asian football, to the finals of the 2023 Women's World Cup.
But such an excellent coach has encountered difficulties in the competition for the Chinese women's football team. First, the competition panel asked him to provide the professional qualifications he had already provided and questioned his qualifications. After the Australian Football Association officially issued a letter of certification, the competition team suddenly requested the sinicization of all proposal documents the day before the interview, resulting in the team having to stay up late to translate. In addition, in the first interview, the interviewer led by Sun Wen, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, also showed hostility towards him, and the questions asked had nothing to do with skills and tactics. The attitude they showed during the interview process was to deteriorate the interview effect step by step, and then make him withdraw from the race.
Finally, after hastily ending the second interview, the Chinese Football Association informed Stakic's Chinese agent that he did not enter the first sequence, and his dream of coaching the Chinese women's football team came to an end. Originally, Stakic's Chinese agent thought that the reason why the Football Association eliminated the Australian coach was because there was a better candidate, but he didn't expect that it was Milicic who was finally selected. The agent said that if Stakić and Milicic are compared, the two are like a 100-point player and a 50-point player PK, and the coach "internalized" by the Football Association is simply a failing level!
It is foreseeable that with the exposure of the inside story of the Chinese women's football coach selection, the Chinese Football Association will definitely receive a lot of criticism. Whether they can reverse their reputation depends on whether Milicic can lead the Chinese women's football team out of the trough as soon as possible!