Zheng Zhi, Chen Tao, will enter the national football coaching team
New coach Yankovic is expected to appear on March 1st
on February 24th, the Chinese Football Association announced that Yankovic will be the coach of the Chinese men’s football team, and the Serbian coach jurjevic will take over the Asian Games men’s football team. Gyuljevich has arrived in Dubai to join the Asian Games men’s football team. After two Serbian coaches complete the handover work, Jankovic will return to China at the end of this month.
The new coach Yankovic will complete his debut in the first national football training in early March. The Chinese Football Association plans to choose Zheng Zhi, the coach of Guangzhou team, and Chen Tao, the former international coach in Shenzhen team, to enter the national team coaching team, at the same time, Shao Jiayi, the current U20 national football leader, is planned to be appointed as the new national football leader.
The Chinese men’s football team will face two competitions this year: the FIFA World Cup qualification Asian top 36 in 2026 and the Asian Cup in 2023. After the national football coach’s work is settled, the team’s preparation is urgent. It is reported that the new Chinese men’s football team plans to usher in the first episode of 2023 in Haikou on March 1 or 2, which is also the first gathering after one year after the team finished the journey of Qatar’s top 12 FIFA World Cup qualification at the end of last March. Since the earliest start time of the 2023-season Chinese Super League is in the middle of April, the national football training will last for nearly a month until the two warm-up matches in New Zealand in late March.
For Jankovic, the most difficult problem at present is to implement the first training list as soon as possible and promote the new and old alternation process of the national football team. Jankovic has been focusing on the Asian Games men’s football team for the past few years. His work focuses on U23 players or younger national character players. His familiarity with the international football team is still unknown, moreover, there are obvious differences between the coaching work of Asian Games men’s football team and national football team. In order to integrate the foreign coach team into the national football team as soon as possible and accelerate the running-in between the internal personnel of the national team, the Chinese Football Association plans to select Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao to enter the national team coaching team, at the same time, Shao Jiayi, the current U20 national football leader, is planned to be appointed as the new national football leader.
Zheng Zhi, 43 years old, once entered the national football coaching team during Li Xiaopeng’s coaching period. Before that, he also participated in the national football coach selection meeting as a coach expert representative. As an old minister of the national football team, Zheng Zhi will play the role of passing on help. Shao Jiayi, who is the same age as Zheng Zhi, has accumulated rich management experience in the national character team before, and they will become a good communication bridge between the foreign coach team and the local players, assist Jankovic to introduce the coaching and preparation work of the national team to the right track.
After confirming Jankovic as the coach of the national football team, the national football management team has listed a large list of 50 people for him. Jankovic will select 30 participants from the first training session in Haikou, the new list of the national football team is about to be released.
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chai Zhi
Yangcheng Evening News, February 26, 2023, A04 edition
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