At noon on the 24th, the Chinese Football Association finally officially announced the candidate for the head coach of the national football team - former coach of Shandong Luneng team and Croatian Ivankovic took over the team.
Blanco Ivankovic. Visual China Diagram.
The official letter of the Football Association said, "In order to further prepare for the 2026 World Cup Asian qualifiers, after the review of the expert review panel, the Chinese Football Association decided to appoint Blanco Ivankovic as the head coach of the Chinese national men's football team." ”
Blanco Ivankovic is a UEFA professional coach. He has coached many teams such as Hannover 96 (Germany), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), Iran national men's football team, and Oman national men's football team.
In 2010, Ivankovic led Shandong Luneng Taishan team to win the Chinese Super League championship.
At the same time, the Football Association also announced that Jankovic will no longer be the head coach of the national football team.
After the end of the 2023 Qatar Asian Cup, due to the failure of the Chinese men's national football team to qualify for the knockout stage of the Asian Cup, the coaching contract of the head coach and the coaching team has been automatically terminated according to the agreement, and Jankovic will no longer serve as the head coach of the Chinese national men's football team. ”
FIFA announced the new men's world ranking on the 15th, and the Chinese team's ranking dropped 9 places to 88th, which is the lowest ranking of the national football team in the past eight years.
In the Qatar Men's Football Asian Cup, the Chinese team drew 2 and lost 1 and failed to qualify from the group. Affected by this, the world ranking points of the national football team have increased from 1299 previously49 points dropped to 1273With 78 points, the ranking of Asian teams has also dropped to 13th.
No. 88 also sets the lowest ranking for the national football team since March 2016 (No. 96).
At present, there are only a few weeks left before the match between the national football team and Singapore in the round of 36 of the World Preliminary Championship on March 21, and Ivankovic's work can be described as tight and heavy.
It is imperative that he lead the national football team to the top 18 of the Asian zone of the World Preliminaries.
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