The national football team did not score a goal in three games, two draws and one loss in the group stage of the Asian Cup, and was out of the group and missed the knockout round of the Asian Cup. Both the fans and ** have doubts about the coaching ability of coach Jankovic. The most intuitive statement is that the current level of the national football team is poor, but Jankovic's coaching ability is at best a third-rate level. Jankovic was unable to bring substantial improvement and help to the national football team in terms of technique and tactics. If Jankovic is allowed to stay in office and prepare as the coach of the national football team, the next two World Cup qualifiers with Singapore will definitely encounter a lot of trouble. The Chinese Football Association is likely to finalize the new coach after the Asian Cup, replacing Jankovic to lead the national football team to the next World Cup qualifiers.
Just when the new coach of the national football team is still in suspense, the Singapore team, the opponent of the national football team in the World Cup qualifiers, has made a decision to change the coach. The Singapore Football Association has announced that it will no longer cooperate with coach Takayuki Nishitani. The 50-year-old Takayuki Nishitani was appointed head coach of the Singapore national team on 25 April 2022 on a two-year contract. According to the news revealed by Ma Dexing, a football reporter from Sports Weekly, as early as after losing to the Thai team in the Singapore World Preliminary Tournament, the Singapore Football Association intended to change the coach. In addition to the results of the game, the Singapore Football Association believes that Takayuki Nishitani is not fluent in English and cannot pass on his tactical ideas to the players, which affects the record of the Singapore national team. With the Singapore Football Association deciding to change the coach, it means that the Singapore team will welcome a new manager in March to face the two World Cup qualifiers against the national football team.
The Singapore Football Association has also finalized a list of new coaches, and it is reported that since the beginning of December last year, the Singapore Football Association has quietly begun to contact new head coach candidates. Among them, Japanese coach Kazuaki Yoshinaga, who led the Niigata Swans to win the Singapore League last year, has become one of the popular candidates for the new coach of the Singapore national team. Yoshinaga has been coaching in the Singapore domestic league for a long time and has a good understanding of the Singapore league and the technical characteristics of the players. The biggest hopeful at the moment is the 57-year-old Japanese coach Tsutomu Ogura, who served as an assistant coach for the Tokyo Green team and led the team back to the J1 League last season. Tsutomu Ogura was an assistant to Takeshi Okada and served as an assistant coach of the Japanese national team from 2006 to 2010. After the World Cup in South Africa, Tsutomu Ogura joined the Japanese Olympic team as an assistant coach, and participated in the 2012 London Olympics with the team and reached the semi-finals. It seems that the Singapore national team, which has made up its mind to change the coach, will still be dominated by Japanese coaches in the future.
It is worth mentioning that after the two rounds of World Cup qualifying, Singapore and Thailand, which are in the same group as the Chinese team, have made decisions to change coaches. If the Chinese Football Association finalizes the replacement of coach Jankovic, then only the strongest South Korean coach in the group, Jurgen Klinsmann, will retain his position. For the national football team, the most important task at the moment is to finalize the new coach as soon as possible, so that the players of the national team can adapt to the tactical system of the new coach earlier and better prepare for the two key matches of the World Cup qualifiers against Singapore. Who do you think is the most suitable candidate to succeed Jankovic as the new coach of the national football team? Feel free to leave your views in the comments section.