When the knockout round of the Asian Cup is in full swing in Doha, Qatar, the Chinese Football Association has begun to prepare for the change of coach of the national football team. According to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, the Football Association may convene the expert members of the coaching committee to Beijing in early February to communicate on the selection of coaches, and from the information collected from the candidate coaches, the main candidates will be initially screened, and then the new coaches will be locked according to the candidates' personal wishes, signing ** and coaching philosophy.
At present, the coach of the Chinese Super League Shandong Taishan team Cui Kangxi, the coach of the Zhejiang team Jodi, the coach of the Iranian team and the Qatar team Queiroz, the coach of the Oman team who has just stepped down as the coach of the Oman team, and even the old coach Scolari, who led the former Guangzhou Evergrande to dominate the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League, have all become candidates for the new coach of the national football team.
The Chinese team exited the group stage of this Asian Cup with a record of 2 draws, 1 loss and zero goals, and head coach Jankovic fell into an unprecedented crisis of confidence. According to the contract, the Chinese Football Association can terminate the cooperative relationship with Jankovic. There are various indications that the Chinese Football Association will start the process of changing the coach of the national football team, and the new coach will be selected through collective decision-making.
Considering that the round of 36 is less than two months away, it is unlikely that the Chinese Football Association will look at new faces who have never coached in Asian or Chinese football. In this case, some foreign coaches of Chinese Super League clubs, foreign coaches who have coached in Asian and domestic football and led teams to achieve excellent results, have naturally entered the field of vision of the Chinese Football Association.
On January 30, a close friend of Ivankovic revealed to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, "Ivan told me that he has a lot of ideas about coaching the Chinese team. If he can coach, then he is confident to lead the Chinese team to the top line of the world preliminaries. "Ivankovic's current salary is around $1.5 million a year, which is slightly higher than the value of Jankovic's team. Combined with the current Chinese football environment, it is impossible for the Chinese Football Association to pursue big-name foreign coaches regardless of the cost, so the ** range of 1 million to 2 million US dollars is relatively reasonable.
According to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, the Chinese Football Association will convene the experts of the coaching committee to go to Beijing again to collectively communicate and discuss the change of coach of the national football team, and combine the candidate information to preliminarily screen out the main objectives and draw up alternative plans.
Judging from the actual situation, even if the selection process of the coach is smooth, the new coach will not be officially produced until after the Spring Festival at the earliest. If the process is not so smooth, then the Football Association may still arrange for the Chinese coaching staff to temporarily "put out the fire".
*: Beijing Youth Daily.