Talk | The selection of the women's football coach is again in controversy: copy the men's football sassy operation, which is convenient to shake the pot

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2024-05-12 08:30Published on the official account of the Beijing Tencent News Sports "Sports Talk" column

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On May 11, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that 50-year-old Australian Milicic will become the new coach of the Chinese women's football team.

This decision quickly sparked an overwhelming wave of public opinion on the Internet, but most of the content was mainly ridicule and questioning, and there was no shortage of professional media people, such as Li Pingkang, Ma Dexing and other senior sports reporters, who released fierce information, suggesting that there were interest groups interfering in the selection of the coach......

So, what's going on here?

01 Copy the operation of the men's football team to choose a handsome man, which is convenient to shake the pot?

After losing the World Cup + missing the Olympic Games, the moment the Football Association announced Shui Qingxia's resignation on November 20 last year, theoretically speaking, the selection of the new coach had begun.

But it wasn't until March 19 this year that the Football Association released a selection announcement on its official website. There's a 4-month window here –

1, on November 20, 2023, the women's football coach position will be vacant, and on March 19, 2024, the women's football team will be open to the world to select coaches, what is the Football Association doing during this time?

A: Anyway, there is no competition in women's football during this time, and the Football Association is busy with other things, so it doesn't care about the selection of women's football coaches, at least the selection of women's football coaches is not the main focus of work.

B: The Football Association has been promoting the selection of coaches, but it has not been made public.

Judging from the inside story of the selection of coaches disclosed by the media now, it belongs to the former.

As a result, after the women's football coach position was vacant for 4 months, the Football Association completed the preliminary screening and 2 rounds of interviews for more than 40 candidate coaches in less than 20 days.

The scene of not doing a good job when it should be hurried, and suddenly rushing to push a person on the horse - yes, the last two men's football coaches Ivan and Jankovic have all taken office along this line of thought.

After the primary election at the speed of light, the Football Association preliminarily decided on three candidates, namely:

Former Australian women's football head coach Stasić.

He has led the Australian women's football team to the runner-up of the Asian Cup twice, reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup once, reached the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games once, led the team to defeat the Brazilian women's football team and the United States women's football team, and even led the Philippines to the World Cup.

Nils Nelson of former Danish women's football head coach.

He led Denmark to a runners-up finish at Euro 2017 and second place in the FIFA Women's Coach of the Year award that same year, and then spent four years as head coach of the Swiss women's football team and is now the first director of the UEFA women's team in the history of Manchester City in the Premier League.

Former Australian women's football head coach Milicic.

He brought the Australian women's football team to the round of 16 of the World Cup and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, but it didn't take long for the Australian Football Association to announce his resignation and failed to lead the team to the Olympics......

Then, among these candidates, Milicic, who looked the most mediocre on his resume, finally entered the eyes of the Chinese Football Association and was successfully selected as the new head coach of the Chinese women's football team.

After Stasic was defeated, his team came out to express their dissatisfaction, after all, if he lost to Nelson, he could still talk about it, and it turned out to lose to Milicic, who still had a little grudge with him (Stasic's successor after leaving the Australian women's football team), no wonder he couldn't accept it.

However, some media practitioners said that the first choice of the Football Association was Nielsen, but in the end Nielsen was not chosen, and the media said very clearly - the price reason.

This point is simply a copy of the men's football team's selection of Yanko as the coach - the team needs a coach, but the money is insufficient, so it doesn't work, find a cheap one to fill the hole first.

It is rumored that the annual salary of men's football coach Jankovic is only 1.2 million euros, and the annual salary of former women's football coach Shui Qingxia is only 300,000 yuan.

Nowadays, if the salary of a new head coach is too high, how can this be appropriate? The shy-pocketed Football Association has neither the ability nor the willingness to offer huge salaries for trusting coaches, especially in today's Chinese football with the banner of anti-corruption, the workplace risks that should be avoided should be avoided.

In fact, with the background of Chinese football, it is very "eating" the coach's ability, and Jankovic has clearly told the Football Association with facts that it is not a long-term solution to pull a cheap coach to the top class.

In the end, the Football Association chose Milicic, who had a low asking price and was not well-known, and of course, they thought it was a good choice.

Where's the good? Naturally, it is convenient to shake the pot.

I believe that many fans should also know by now that the real strength of the current Chinese women's football team is far behind the expectations of most fans, so that playing well is the spirit of sonorous roses, and playing badly is the incompetence of the coach - the past experience of Jia Xiuquan and Shui Qingxia almost perfectly proves this.

In such a situation, spend a small amount of money to do big things, sign an unknown person, anyway, get it up first to appease the fans, deal with the leadership, in case the women's football team loses, fire him, not only will not offend the domestic insiders, but also let the fans have an outlet to vent their emotions, how good?

Football reporters laugh at the Football Association for not understanding football, but the Football Association wants to laugh at you reporters for not understanding the workplace, and everyone has a bright future. 

02 Under the high-pressure anti-corruption situation, there are still people who dare to mess around for their own selfish interests?

When the Football Association officially announced Milicic, media person Li Pingkang broke the news on his personal social media that Milicic's agent had a very close relationship with Li Tie, the former Chinese men's football coach who was arrested for corruption, and hinted that there may be a transfer of interests.

And Ma Dexing, another well-known football media person, also expressed a similar opinion on his personal social media - everyone who understands understands that various "interest" groups have started again!

Mr. Ma even mentioned "anti-gambling and anti-gang", which is simply a naked hint.

It's no wonder that Mr. Ma is angry, from the previous U17 coach to the current coach of the women's national football team, they are all from Australia, is Australia's football style more suitable for the Chinese team? Or is it natural for Australian coaches to be in tune with Chinese football? Obviously, it's not, it can only be said that Australia's agent is more "powerful", and he has the ability to send 2 coaches in a row to the handsome position of China's national brand!

To be honest, Milicic's agent has dealings with Li Tie, which does not mean that there must be improper benefit transfer behavior in this coach selection, but in the past, as long as it involves the "selection of coaches", the Football Association's riotous operations are countless, and after watching the story of the wolf too many times, it is natural for fans to lack trust in the Football Association.

Not to mention Camacho and Dui in ancient times, just talk about the former men's football coach Jankovic.

At that time, the Football Association ambitiously formulated four criteria for the selection of new coaches: 1. Experience in coaching international competitions; 2. Familiar with Asian football; 3. Be able to take over the national football team as soon as possible; 4. Willing to cooperate with the Football Association.

But after a one-pass operation, in the end, he hastily chose a Jankovic to coach the national youth team, which really made fans dumbfounded.

If you have been paying attention to the women's football team, you may not forget how the former coach Shui Qingxia got to the top.

At that time, after the Football Association announced that it would compete for the selection of the women's football coach, Shui Qingxia, who was the acting head coach of the women's football team at the time, did not sign up for the election because she was unwilling to accompany her, and among the final six candidates, there were also former international players Zhao Junzhe, Liu Lin, Chen Wanting and other professional women's football coaches.

But in the end, the Football Association came to a dark operation again, and suddenly announced that Shui Qingxia would become the coach of the national team......

Perhaps, there may not really be any benefit transfer, but the consistent style of the Football Association is like this.

Epilogue:

Once the coach is elected, the work of the Football Association is considered to be a bad one.

As for who will sort out the troubled waters of women's football, where the future of women's football is, and the women's football coach will be under huge pressure before taking office...... It's not that important anymore.

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