Not to mention the failure case of Goulart, and regardless of the returning youths like Alan and Luo Guofu, Jankovic's abandonment of the three naturalized players of Exxon, Fernando and Li Ke alone is enough to make people sigh, and the consecutive defeats in the warm-up games prove everything.
If Li Ke was expelled from the team because of disciplinary problems is irrefutable, then the situation of Exxon and Fernando is really sympathetic, to be honest, these two naturalized players of Brazilian descent have long passed their peak age, and the decline in personal ability is indeed obvious, but the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the national football team can still make the best use of it.
As a weak team in Asian football, the national football team will be the main way for the team to play in the Asian Cup, in the few counterattacks, Exxon and Fernando can be used as two points of possession, the former as much as possible to ensure that the ball is not conceded, the latter as much as possible to seek to create damage, the two with absolute 1 + 1 2.
Perhaps in another parallel universe, Jankovic did not abandon naturalized players for his own use, and the national football team still failed to make a breakthrough in the Asian Cup, after all, the continuous decline of a team cannot be reversed by one or two players.