There is less than a month left before the World Cup preliminaries on March 21, and the national football team has just experienced a disastrous defeat in the Asian Cup. At the same time, it does not even have a head coach. Both morale and the current situation have made fans very worried. Although some national football candidates have appeared some time ago, they only stayed in the news reporting stage and made no substantial progress at all. But now there is news: the new coach of the national football team has arrived in China. He is 69 years old and has an annual salary of only US$1.5 million. He once led the team and could not win against Thailand.
On February 22, 2024, according to Li Xuan, a well-known domestic football media person, former Oman coach Ivankovic has arrived in China, and he will become the new head coach of the Chinese menās football team. It is understood that Ivankovic, Petkovic, Queiroz, Cui Kangxi and other foreign famous coaches were originally promising candidates for the national football team by the Football Association, but later some famous Chinese Super League coaches were rejected first, and then Queiroz, Pe Turkovic was also "cut off" by Algeria one after another, and in the end Ivankovic was left, and he became a popular candidate for the new coach of the national football team.
Previously, the Chinese Football Association had formulated standards for national football coach selection. Low salary and familiarity with Asian football and Chinese football were the two most important points. Ivankovic once coached the Chinese Super League team Shandong Taishan and led the team to win the Chinese Super League in 2010, so this can be regarded as meeting the standard of "understanding Chinese football". Ivan has also coached the Oman team before, which also meets the condition of being "familiar with Asian football". The most important issue is salary. The maximum salary offered by the Chinese Football Association is US$2 million per year, and Ivan only wants US$1.5 million, so there is no problem with the salary.
Strictly speaking, it is less than a month before the World Cup preliminaries in March, and the new coach of the Chinese men's football team has not yet been decided. This will definitely have a certain impact on the national football team's impact on the World Cup. In fact, even if a new coach is selected now, time is running out for the national football team. Even if Ivankovic is selected now, he and the team will still need some time to adjust: the players need to adapt to his tactics, and he needs to understand and bring out the players' combat effectiveness. However, the actual training time for the national football team will not be too long. After all, the Chinese Super League will also start in March. These are all problems.
On the other hand, Ivankovic's coaching resume is not very satisfactory. Although Ivan led Shandong Taishan to win the Chinese Super League more than 10 years ago, that has been a long time ago. In addition, in this Asian Cup, Ivanovic led the Oman team to a lonely performance, and even Thailand could not win. You know, no matter how bad Jankovic was, he led the national football team to win in Thailand. Although Jankovic's level is limited, Ivan is not much better than him, and may even be worse. Because of this, everyone is not very optimistic about Ivan.
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