"Super League champion manager expected to succeed Jurgen Klinsmann? He may coach the South Korean national team
The Chinese Football Association officially announced Jankovic's resignation on the Lantern Festival, and Croatian Ivan Kovic also resigned as the coach of the Oman national team not long ago and became the new coach of the Chinese football club. In March, he will lead the Chinese national team to face Singapore in two World Cup qualifiers. In particular, after the Asian Cup, there were three groups with coach changes with China, Singapore, Thailand and South Korea.
Thailand and Singapore have long been favourites to become new managers, while South Korea have also fired Klinsmann after reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup. The Korean Football Federation is looking for a new coach to lead South Korea to the World Cup qualifiers.
According to the Italian newspaper "ilmattino", the Korean Football Association has sent a letter to former Guangzhou coach Cannavaro, hoping that he can replace Klinsmann as the new coach of the South Korean national team. After his dismissal from Guangzhou, Cannavaro never returned. Cannavaro has coached the Chinese Super League, Tianjin Quanjian and Guangzhou teams, and is also the head coach of the national team. Under the leadership of Cannavaro, Evergrande won the 2019 Chinese Super League championship. If Cannavaro accepts South Korea's request to be the new coach of South Korea, he will join South Korean star Son Heung-min in his next World Cup match.
As far as I'm concerned, Cannavaro as the new coach of the South Korean national team may be good for our country as well. Although Cannavaro has a better understanding of the skills of Chinese footballers, South Korea is still better than the Chinese team in general. However, Cannavaro's performances in the league have always been mediocre, and Mr. Xu has asked him to see some of the older players on several occasions. But Cannavaro is definitely not as experienced in terms of technique as the new coach of the national team, Ivan Covic. If Cannavaro becomes the head coach of the South Korean national team, then perhaps in the next league game against South Korea, the Chinese team can get a victory and lay a solid foundation for the next stage of the group stage.
Of course, the most important thing now is to qualify for the group stage against Singapore in March and try to get points in order to have a more relaxed form in the next game against South Korea - although Jankovic suffered Waterloo in the Asian Cup, he led China to beat Thailand in the previous qualifying round, so if they can beat Singapore in March, then they have a good chance of getting into 18-18.