4 months Chinese football “trial and error” success–
National football team, please go back to Lippi and “bet” the World Cup.
On December 13, 2018, the Chinese men’s football team continued to train in Haikou to prepare for the upcoming Asian Cup. This is the training of Chinese team coach Lippi. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Guanyu/Photo
After leading the team to play the UAE Asian Cup four months ago, Lippi said he would leave, but now the national team will reassemble in another month to prepare for the Qatar World Cup qualifier. Lippi will come back, and it will also come back.
This is really a good story that is interesting and in line with the tragic character of Chinese football.
Open the history of the Chinese national men’s football team and see the name of the head coach who has performed touching stories and left many grievances, which makes people sigh with emotion that the national football team has a slightly helpless development context: if you do not count the “agent coach” and “head coach of the training team”, Lippi is already the 30th coach of the national football team and the 8th foreign coach.
In 1992, the national football team invited the first foreign coach and German schlapner. At that time, both players and fans felt “fresh” to the concept of “foreign coach”. In the next 30 years, the British (Horton), the former Yugoslavia (Milu, Mexican nationality), the Dutch (Ali Han), the Serbian (forrado), the Spanish (Camacho), and the French (Perlan) revolving scenic lantern, only a top coach like “World Cup champion coach” can meet the appetite of Chinese Football Association and Chinese fans-although most of the matches in the international arena show that the basic skills of the players of the national character are not solid enough, football IQ has also been hovering at the second-rate level in Asia for a long time, but the level of head coach has already “rushed out of Asia” in advance “.
From Cannavaro to Lippi
In October, 2016, Lippi was finally willing to take over the team in the desperate situation that the national football team was almost out of the top 12 of the Russian World Cup Asian qualifier. He also thanked the then deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, cai Zhenhua, chairman of the Chinese Football Association — almost catching up with the sincerity of “three Gu Mao Lu” and the “generosity” of Guangzhou Evergrande club, contributed to the first time in the history of the national football team to welcome the World Cup champion coach. As far as the result of the top 12 matches is concerned, “Gambling” is not a failure, but the head coach who can span two World Cup cycles is also “unprecedented” in the history of national football coaching “.
Referring to the summary of Lippi’s top 12 games after the national football team was out in 2017, the information of “I’m late” revealed by the boss was very obvious: the whole top 12 games ranked fifth in the top 10 games and 12 points, although there were 6 teams in total, the Syrian team and Uzbekistan team ranked third and fourth scored 13 points, and the South Korean team ranked second only scored 15 points, however, Lippi took over the team and only scored 1 point in the first four national football games. Lippi took over the team and scored 11 points in the last six games. The whole team changed from “hopeless” to “unwilling” mentality, it is the foundation of Lipi’s confidence.
Because of this, “selecting Lippi again” means in the minds of decision makers that “the risk of selecting a coach is minimized”, while eliminating Cannavaro and returning to Lippi again, even “sponsorship” does not need to spend too much thought-Guangzhou Evergrande is still paying the bill, and the State General Administration of Sports only needs to supplement “part of the cost”.
If Cannavaro didn’t lead the team in the China Cup at the end of March, he would be the first candidate for the national football coach after the expiration of Lippi’s contract-in fact, in order to support Cannavaro to take the top position, guangzhou Evergrande has been in the transfer window before the start of the Chinese Super League this season, and many players in the snare will wear the national team’s battle robe as the age-appropriate national football team in the next three years.
The topic of whether the “national club team” is “fair” to the competitors in the league is not the first element for decision makers to consider the issue of the national team. If the national football team with poor strength wants to reach the World Cup in Qatar, we can only rely on the stable play of the “national club team.
Back to the 12th strong match of Russia World Cup in Asia, which ended in 2017, the reason why Lippi could lead the team to gain 11 points in 6 games was that he and the “national club team” could not be separated from each other in 3 seasons. As for this working mode of “integrating high-quality resources for intensive management”, the decision-making level of the State Sports General Administration thinks deeply that this is also the prerequisite for Lippi to return to the National Football After Cannavaro was rejected.
Time has not allowed the national football team to adapt to the new coach any more.
From Top 40 to top 12
“Beijing, Tokyo, Qatar”, the three things of the State Sports General Administration in 2019 are completely equivalent to the three hard assessment indicators-one thing is not done well, this cycle is difficult to make a difference to the “people of the whole country”: the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is still in the preparatory stage, although “one moment can’t be stopped, one step can’t be wrong, and one day can’t be delayed”, but after all, there is still room for operation; The same is true for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Only in the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifier, the national football team will compete with the top 40 rivals in September this year.
If there is no accident, there are still only 4.5 places left for Asian teams in the 2022 Qatar World Cup (the host Qatar team does not occupy the quota). According to the strength inference, Japan team, South Korea team, Iran team, Australia team, the Saudi team is the popular team.
Although FIFA has made great efforts to push forward the Qatar World Cup expansion resolution, from the current situation, most member associations do not agree with the “advance expansion”. However, the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifier system, which has been announced by the Asian Football Association, also seems to confirm that it is difficult to form a resolution to “expand troops in advance.
The reform of the Asian football league system (the merger of the World Cup qualifier and the second Asian Cup qualifier) has led the Asian region to take the lead in the 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifier competition. According to the previously disclosed qualifier plan, the national football team will directly enter the competition of the top 40 on September this year-the first stage of the match will be held on June 6 and June 11, with 6 groups of matches (Malaysia team against East Timor, Mongolia against Brunei, the winners of China Macau team against Sri Lanka team, Laos team against Bangladesh team, Cambodia team against Pakistan team and Bhutan team against Guam team advanced to the top 40 games in September. The top 40 matches are divided into 8 groups, 5 teams in each group, the main and away competition system, the final 8 teams, the first team and the 4 teams with the best results, the second team participated in the competition of the top 12 matches in the third stage. The 12th strong competition system is the same as the Russian World Cup Asian qualifier. The top two of the group directly qualify. The third of the two groups play a main-away play-off match with each other. The winner participates in the trans-continental play-off.
Therefore, the node of Lippi’s new contract in the first stage is the top 40. Through the test of the top 40, it directly enters the top 12 stage, thus extending it-this is the biggest test in Lippi’s coaching career, “Silver Fox” needs to show the results that match the world’s first annual salary to prove its win-win choice with the State Sports General Administration.
From “national tour” to Guangzhou
There is no perfect coach in the football world, and powerful as Ferguson and Wenger can’t escape the historical rule of “prosperity and decline”. Guadiola moved from Barcelona to Bayern Munich and then to Manchester City, jose Jose even finished class in the middle of the Premier League this season.
Lippi is also a man, not a god. The limit he can do is to make a team show the strongest fighting capacity, instead of helping a country’s football to achieve revitalization.
There must be disadvantages in everything.
The price paid by Chinese football to invite Lippi again is huge. However, the re-Cooperation between Lippi team and the national team is only a prerequisite for “The national football team to take the best state in the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifier”. For the national football team, whose strength has always been stable in the second rate in Asia, the final good result must be favored by “luck”. Therefore, in order to create the best logistical support conditions for the national football team (Lippi team), there is no “condition” for the concessions of the Chinese Super League and various clubs.
The concession of the league for the international match day is a standard clause that professional football must follow. The Chinese Super League is no exception, but the national football team “takes the main players of a local club as the main body, during the flight training and warm-up match, this local club is bound to provide the most convenience.
For example, the team of Lippi needs to “keep the home court of training place, warm-up match, top 40 and top 12 (if necessary) at Tianhe Stadium”-this is of course the best choice for the national football team: lippi’s “full authority” in Guangzhou and the players’ familiarity with Tianhe Stadium can completely ensure that the team will not be disturbed at home and maintain a good state, thus breaking out the maximum energy in the game, however, this decision also made the national football team not meet the needs of fans in many cities in the form of “tour” in China.
The national football manager who is eager to “complete the task” is naturally very clear about “which is more important”. As long as he enters the Qatar World Cup, all costs will be labeled as “decision-making victory, especially in the special period when” winning the World Cup in Qatar “is completely equivalent to” The revitalization of Chinese football.
Therefore, Lippi’s re-coaching of the national team is a typical sample of “natural”. “The risk of continuing to employ Lippi is the smallest” finally dispelled the doubts of decision makers.
“Build a team that can strive for good fighting style and strive to achieve good results in the 2022qatar World Cup”. The important task of national strategy lies on the worrying Chinese football, “Administrative allocation” is the most reliable support.
As in the past 30 years, “administrative Football” is a “double-edged sword” for Chinese football “. Children who do not know what football is, hold the football in their hands and start “football exercises” on the playground to show the grand situation of “all soldiers” in campus football, it is not against the reality that the world cup champion coach is invited to fight against the world cup with asian powerful second-rate teams at all costs-allocating limited resources through administrative means to ensure that the project can achieve key breakthroughs, it was originally a magic weapon for the “national system” of competitive sports system. In order to realize the dream of rushing into the World Cup again as soon as possible, Chinese football has only “overtaking on corners”.
From Asia eighth to ensuring “seeds”
In a focus battle of the eighth round of Super League, which ended on May 4th, Beijing Zhonghe Guoan won Guangzhou Evergrande by 1: 0 in Tianhe Stadium, and the staff of Lippi team also watched the match on the spot, after the game, a reporter asked Schmidt, the head coach of Beijing China national security team, how many players in the team could be selected for the national team. Schmidt avoided talking about this, but said, “this should be the decision made by the coach of the national team”, however, due to the aging trend of the International age of Guangzhou Evergrande team, many players of Beijing Zhonghe Guoan team, including naturalized players, have the strength to occupy a place in the national team, and Lippi will naturally not turn a blind eye.
The idea of building a team “taking Beijing Zhonghe Guoan and Guangzhou Evergrande players as the main framework” is a significant change compared with the new national football team of Lippi in 2017. In the Asian Cup of the United Arab Emirates in January this year, our reporter saw Lippi’s face on the spot many times with helpless expressions-the experience of the old players was precious, but a team that lost its vigour, in the Asian Stadium, the opponents who are trying to speed up the pace of attack and defense are less than half a bit cheaper. This is also an important factor for the national football team to defeat the Philippine team and the Thai team to be “relieved.
In the top 40 games in 2019 and the top 12 games in 2020, it is imperative for the national football team to spit out the new ones. According to the regulations of the Asian Football Association, on July 17, the group draw ceremony for the top 40 Asian qualifiers of the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be held in Doha. The national football team urgently needs to keep the top 8 “seed” position in Asia, in order to avoid stronger opponents at the starting line as much as possible.
FIFA’s latest national team ranking in April showed that the top eight Asian teams were Iran, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Chinese, the ninth to twelfth teams are Iraq team, Syria, Uzbekistan and Oman-The National Football score is 1327 points, and it is difficult to surpass the seventh team Saudi (1342 points), however, if you are careless, you will be surpassed by Iraq team of 1319 points.
Keeping the qualification of “seed” means that there will be no other team in the group. Therefore, Lippi and the national football team must win in the warm-up match of two FIFA matches in June, in other words, in another three weeks, the outpost battle against the 2022 Qatar World Cup will begin.
The 12th round of the Chinese Super League will end one after another on June 1 and June 2. The 13th round will be fought again on June 14. The 12-day interval is the first training period after Lippi returns to the national football team, during this period, the national football team will face the carefully selected opponents Tajikistan and Philippines in Tianhe Stadium. The direct task of these two battles is to ensure that Fifa points are not surpassed by Iraq team.
Everything is for getting out, everything is for the World Cup. In 2011, fans thought Camacho had caught up with the best era of Chinese football: the reform of football system was vigorous, campus football was booming, and Wanda Group cleared financial obstacles for the Chinese Football Association, but two years later, a farce told FIFA left a bad impression on both sides. Now Lippi has caught up with a better era of Chinese football: “Football enters the World Cup” has risen to the national strategy. The State Sports General Administration coordinates all resources and strives to “qualify”. The coach’s authority almost completely controls the team, and his personal annual salary has doubled 4 times more than Camacho……
This may be a successful start, but what Chinese football urgently needs is still a successful result.
BEIJING, May 6th
China Youth Daily · China youth online reporter Guo Jian Source: China Youth Daily
