According to the plan, the Chinese men's football team will lift the quarantine on the 24th of this month, after which the international players will leave Haikou and return to their respective clubs to prepare for the new season of the Chinese Super League. Head coach Li Xiaopeng will also go to Beijing to report to the national football management on the last 4 rounds of the round of 12 and submit the next step. According to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, recently, the national football coaching team led the team to train in Haikou, Li Xiaopeng did not submit a resignation, and his whereabouts will be comprehensively judged by the national football management, and a decision will be made after communicating with all relevant parties.
Since returning to China late at night on April 3, the national football team has been closed and isolated in a relatively calm atmosphere. Due to the long quarantine period, the team arranged for the whole team to train normally at the Mission Hills Base in Haikou to help the international players maintain their competitive status and thus be able to calmly devote themselves to the journey of the new season of the professional league.
However, the recent news of "national football team may change coaches" uploaded on the Internet has redirected the focus of external attention to the national football team. Some media said that Li Xiaopeng has a greater possibility of voluntarily resigning. However, according to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, Li Xiaopeng's coaching team is still leading the team to train normally, and he himself has not submitted his resignation at present.
Will Li Xiaopeng voluntarily resign? In fact, on the evening of March 29, after the national football team defeated Oman by 2 goals in Muscat, Li Xiaopeng made a statement about "the team's skills are not as good as people" at the post-match press conference, but he did not talk about the issue of personal retention. At that time, Li Xiaopeng did not have a "quasi-spectrum" for li Xiaopeng to stay.
As we all know, after Li Tie's dismissal was a foregone conclusion, Li Xiaopeng's replacement was actually implemented in the context of the change of the management model of national football. In other words, his appointment was actually implemented under the leadership of the "National Football (Preparation) Leadership Working Group" led by the sports management department. Therefore, whether Li Xiaopeng and his team should stay or leave still needs to be decided by the "leadership working group" according to procedures. Since the national football team is currently undergoing closure and isolation in Haikou, the issue of its whereabouts cannot be discussed in the short term.
After the national football team failed to reach the final round of the Qatar World Cup, the focus of the Chinese Football Association's work on the men's national football team this year has shifted to fully cooperating with the U23 national football team to prepare for the game and play the Hangzhou Asian Games football match. In this case, Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun, two young players of the right age, as the stars of hope of the national football team, have transferred to the U23 national football preparation camp during their time in Haikou.
This year is the year of the World Cup, and the national football team is still affected by the epidemic and still has a high probability of missing the international competition in the two international matchday cycles before the start of the Qatar World Cup, in other words, the team has no major event tasks this year. In this case, there is no clear direction or signal for the national football team to go in the next period of time. As for whether it can continue to get the support of the management, Li Xiaopeng's team does not have a definite answer. This was somewhat embarrassing for him and his team members.
According to the previous practice of the national team to go out of the competition, after the national football team completes the competition task of a major event, the coaching team should make a profound summary of the team leadership situation to the management. If you are interested in continuing to lead the team, the coaching staff should also submit a preparation plan for the next cycle. From this point of view, neither Li Xiaopeng nor the team management will hastily make a "break up" decision.
It is worth noting that when the "Leadership Working Group" hired Li Xiaopeng's team, its original intention was to base itself on the long term and prepare for the team's participation in the Asian Cup next year. In the view of all parties, whether the coach is changed or not, the exit of the Chinese team in the top 12 will be a high probability event. In terms of reality or performance, Li Xiaopeng was on the verge of being killed when the team was on the verge of being out, and his inability to reverse the result of the team's defeat was foreseeable when he took office. Then for the 1 draw and 3 losses recorded by the team, the team management will also make an objective judgment.
In terms of personal style, Li Xiaopeng is unlikely to retreat. But like U23 preparing for the Asian Games, the work of the national football team next year's Asian Cup is equally significant, and more than 1 year seems to be not short, but for a team that has reached the bottom, the problems that need to be straightened out and improved are really complicated, and the work is not waiting for me. How will the national football team work next? The exact answer can only be given after it is clear as soon as possible that the coaching team has left the questions.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Zhao