On February 24, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that head coach Jankovic and the coaching team officially resigned. The new head coach is Ivankovic, who will lead the national football team to hit the World Cup again.
It's just that Ivankovic is older, born in 1954, and is 70 years old, which is about the same age as Lippi when he was coaching.
Ivankovic's biggest advantage is that he has coached in China, in 2010, Ivankovic coached Shandong Luneng and won the Chinese Super League championship, but later left Shandong for physical reasons. Since then, he has coached Iranian teams and achieved very good results. Due to his outstanding coaching performance in Iran, he was hired as the head coach of the Oman national team and led Oman to defeat the national football team, so he has a good understanding of Asian football. I hope that after the old coach takes over, he can bring the national football team on the right track as soon as possible and achieve good results in the World Cup qualifiers.
As for the World Cup, it is of course best if it can qualify, if it fails again this time, I hope that the national football team will invite a capable young Zhuang head coach. And coach for a long time, there is enough time to adjust, change the team, instill their own philosophy, so that the national football team can be reborn. At the same time, I also hope that the Football Association can provide a stable platform, less interference in the specific process, so that football becomes more pure, and there will be no more situations where Lippi is angry.