The 2022 FIFA World Cup Oceania Qualifiers are due to kick off in March next year, and Oceania nation papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) recently announced that they will hire Brazilian coach Marcos Gusmão as the country's national team manager to lead the team to secure World Cup tickets.
Who is this Gusmão? According to his own words, he has a deep relationship with our Chinese football, and he once recalled his past coaching at Tianjin Teda in the 98-99 season on social platforms. In addition, Gusmão's resume also includes a decade-long experience with a team in our country called Marina FC.
The author specifically checked the website of Brazil's "Football Market", and in Gusmão's information, it is also recorded that he has coached Tianjin Teda, but there is no mention of Binhai FC. In addition, the website also shows that Gusmão has won the Maldives Cup.
The problem of Gusmão's resume is obvious, our league has never implemented a new year's system, why did the 98-99 season come about? Even if we understand this description to mean that from 1998 to 1999, Lin Xinjiang, Simonez and Jin Zhiyang, who served as the coach of Tianjin in these two years, there was no such person as Gusmão.
A blogger named "Oceania Football Column" dug deep into Gusmão's background and found that Gusmão had worked as a part-time coach at the summer camp held by Tianjin Nanda Binhai Football School in 2001, and he probably blew such an experience into a resume of ten years of deep cultivation in Chinese football and coaching top league clubs.
There have been many well-known big crooks in world football. For example, Carlos Caesar, who has mixed with many American giants on contracts through the star's social circle, ali dia, who falsely claims to be a cousin of Weah, was signed by Southampton.
In recent years, the Chinese league seems to have become a new wealth code for these foreign football crooks. More commonly, many players claim to be favored by Chinese teams in order to demand a salary increase. What is more outrageous is that in the summer of 2019, a scammer named Vihagen found the Danish First League team Vyborg and told the team that he would be signed by a Chinese Super League team in the winter window, and if Vyborg had waived him first, he would have earned a transfer fee.
Speaking of Gusmão's problem, the PNG Football Association is actually very bizarre, they hired Gusmão to coach PNG in 2004, when they were eliminated in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, and then PNG did not register for the 2010 World Cup, during which even the Oceania Nations Cup and oceania Games did not participate, until Gusmão left office in 2011, he did not lead PNG to play any official matches. Could it be that the New Guinea Fa Association felt that he had not been deceived by Gusmão last time, and this time he wanted to try again whether he was a liar?
Oceania has only 0.5 World Cup spots, and the continent's qualifier winner will compete with a team from another continent for a spot to advance to the main tournament. Papua New Guinea was runners-up in the last Oceania Nations Cup, and the country's Football Association aims to enter the World Cup this time, at least they should have the strength to compete for play-off qualification, depending on whether Gusmão has real material.