"The new coach of the national football team is facing doubts about being out of touch with the times and leaving Chinese football for too long! "！
According to a number of reports some time ago, Ivankovic will be the new coach of the Chinese national football team, and the Chinese Football Association is likely to confirm this statement before the World Cup.
Ivankovic's first job is to prepare for the World Qualifiers for the national team on March 21 and 26 respectively.
The 69-year-old Croatian coach has strong coaching experience, having opened his tenure in Varazedin in 1991 and then led Iranian and Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb, before being appointed head coach of Shandong Taishan in 2009 until May 2011. Ivankovic was appointed head coach of Oman in January this year. Led by Ivankovic, Oman played a draw with China in the group stage and finished third in Group B, just one point away from Australia and eight points away from fifth-placed China. This is similar to what Lippi achieved when he was the head coach of the Chinese national team in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
Oman, along with the Chinese national team, ended in defeat in last year's 2023 Asian Championship, and Ivankovic was also kicked off the national team roster.
Wang Tao said on his Weibo that Cui Kangxi is the best national team coach, but the probability of this approach is really minimal, and it is almost certainly Ivankovic. Wang Tao is worried about two main points: first, Ivankovic's technology has lagged behind the present, and it is difficult to make qualitative changes in Chinese football; The second is that Ivankovic has not returned to Chinese football for more than ten years, and his comeback time is very short.