Compared with the men's football team, the women's national football team has always been in suspense, especially after Ivankovic coached the men's football team, the outside world will also focus on the new coach of the women's football team, the reason why the management is not in a hurry, on the one hand, is that the women's football team has fewer competitions this year, unlike the men's football team needs to participate in the World Preliminaries, the women's football team is more Taoguang and obscure, so it is not in a hurry. On the other hand, after Shui Qingxia left, Wang Jun led the team for a short time, and the results were average, which shows that it takes a lot of effort to think about who to choose between the local handsome and the foreign handsome.
In the end, the Chinese women's football team once again held hands with the foreign coach, and the 50-year-old coach Milicic from Australia officially coached. Looking back at the entire selection process, Milicic was able to stand out from a shortlist of at least 40 candidates, mainly because of his past experience. First, in the player stage, Milicic has been selected for the Australian national team many times, and he has also studied abroad in the European League, receiving high-level league experience, exercising excellent psychological quality, and also has a lot of experience in tactical literacy, which also lays the foundation for his future coaching.
The second is the success of coaching. After finishing his playing career, Milicic entered the coaching field, led the Australian national men's football team many times, and then coached the Australian women's national football team, his most brilliant achievement in the past is as the first assistant coach, with the Australian men's national football team in the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, showing a good on-the-spot response, to the head coach of the help is more obvious, the results of these two World Cups have also been recognized.
You must know that the direction of women's football development tends to be men's football, and it is important to have men's football coaching experience. According to informed media, Milicic has arrived in Beijing to officially start his coaching journey, similar to Ivankovic, Milicic is also leading the team to coach. According to the plan, after the end of the 8th round of the Women's Super League, the team will enter the assembly.
At this stage, Milicic's coaching staff will recruit about 30 internationals, including foreign players, and then go to Australia at the end of May to play four days and two "back-to-back" warm-up matches with the world's 12th and Asia's 3rd Australian national team, which will be held on May 31 and June 3, which is also Milicic's coaching debut, and the results are directly related to the stability of future coaching. Of course, Milicic's main task is to prepare for the 2026 Asian Cup, the Asian Games and the 2027 World Cup.