Joseph was the second head coach of the Chinese men's national football team and the first foreign head coach in the true sense of the word, serving from 1954 to 1957. This first gave Joseph a lot of points.
Why would China invite a Hungarian foreigner to teach football? There are three key reasons for this: First, Hungary is a socialist country, and socialist countries are all good brothers and family, which is acceptable to China. The second is that Hungary was a world powerhouse at that time, and this team defeated the world's strongest English team, breaking the myth of British football's unbeaten home game for 90 years, then Hungary can be regarded as a myth in a myth. Third, the level of Chinese football is too poor. There are basically no countries in Asia that can be defeated. Joseph led the team to Hungary for training, and even the team composed of Hungarian canteens and field management workers could not play, and barely managed to draw with the Hungarian track and field team. **The marshal is a sportsman, and he also has a soft spot for football, and once shouted a bold statement: "If you can't enter the top three, disband on the spot" and "If you can't see the three big balls, turn over and die." * The marshal has a spirit in the sky, and he will definitely feel a lot of emotion when he sees that only the Chinese men's football team is still at the bottom of the three major goals today.
How did Joseph lead the team? Joseph taught the world's most advanced football concepts and the most basic football training methods to the Chinese men's football team at that time. He has a unique training method, that is, playing through tennis, which is the training method that Milu was keen on as the head coach later, and it is this training method that made the national football team enter the World Cup for the first time. Joseph led the team to not play many games, once lost 2:4 to the Yugoslav team, which is also a socialist country, in the warm-up match, and the national football team has made great progress just from the score.
Joseph is the initiator of the national football team to the world. At that time, China was able to invite people in and out of the country, and it was limited to exchanges with socialist countries. But this already requires courage and responsibility. Joseph's coaching career came to an end due to the Olympic Committee's acceptance of Taiwan as China's representative and China's boycott. In his short three-year coaching time, Joseph led the national football team to experience the atmosphere of the world's advanced football, and taught the national football team advanced football concepts and technical and tactical play. The pace of learning of the national football team will not stop, and it will continue to improve in the study, enter the ranks of Asia's first-class teams as soon as possible, and have its own competitiveness among the world's football teams.