The coach of the national football team has changed hands again!
Ivankovic left his post after less than 200 days in charge, and the Football Association urgently initiated the process of changing the manager.
This news is like a bombshell, causing an uproar in Chinese football.
It seems that the dilapidated "aircraft carrier" of the national football team is going to change helmsmen again, but I don't know if it can sail to the other side of victory this time.
Just when the fans were still sighing for the dismal performance of the national football team in the top 18 of the World Preliminaries, an unexpected good news quietly came.
The other opponents in Group C seemed to have collectively suffered a "defeat pill" and overturned in the second round.
This wave of "divine assists" made the national football team's qualifying situation suddenly take a turn for the better, and it was like a drowning man suddenly grasping a life-saving straw.
Good things are grinding.
The drama of the change of coach of the national football team has begun to be staged again.
This time, Gao Hongbo, the former "firefighting captain," had a very high voice, but he was ruthlessly "passed" at the last moment.
This football version of the "palace fight drama" is dazzling, what is the coach selection criteria of the Football Association?
Is it competence or relationship?
Or are they just playing a game of "Big Wheel" to see whose name they can turn to this time?
Looking back on the past ten years, the national football team has changed nine head coaches, which is more frequent than changing clothes.
Every coach came, and it was a bold statement of "to bring the national football team to new heights".
The result?
It's not standing still, it's even going backwards a few steps.
This reminds people of the old saying: "If you change the soup without changing the medicine, it will still taste like that."
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A netizen couldn't help but complain: "The speed of the national football team changing coaches is faster than my mobile phone!"
Every time I switched, I thought something would change, but what happened?
It's still the familiar recipe, it's still the familiar taste.
Where is this kicking, it's clearly a farce of 'coach's roulette'!
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Looking at the results of these coaches, it is simply laughable.
Ivankovic won 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses in 6 games, averaging 0.83 points per game.
Li Xiaopeng is even worse, with a 3-month tenure, 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in 4 games, with an average of 0.25 points per game, which is simply a record low.
Such a report card, placed in any normal football country, I am afraid that it would have been smashed home by fans with rotten eggs long ago.
Some netizens pointed out sharply: "The problem of the national football team is not the coach at all, but the problem of the entire football environment."
Fake gambling has polluted the pure land of football, the former Football Association leadership collapsed and became corrupt, there were 120 match-fixing games in leagues such as the Chinese Super League, and 60 football people were banned.
Where is this playing football, it is clearly playing a 'football version of the Water Margin'!
In such an environment, even if you invite the world's top coaches, I am afraid it will be difficult to make a difference.
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This netizen's point of view really hit the nail on the head.
The problem of the national football team is by no means a simple change of coach that can be solved.
It's like changing the driver of a broken car and hoping that it will turn into a racing car, isn't it a fool's dream?
Jack Ma's views on Chinese football have attracted widespread attention.
This Internet tycoon hit the nail on the head!
He said: "Chinese football is not short of money, what is lacking is the system and changing the rules of the game.
This is even more valuable than his Alibaba.
Ma Yun also said that he invested in Evergrande Football not to see if Evergrande wins, but to "kick open the door to see what happened inside".
The result?
He found out that football was like this, and no wonder it was not good.
Ma Yun's other metaphor is even more hilarious: "11 people play like one person, and 11 people in the national football team play like 110 people, the ball is cut off when it reaches the midfield, and there are very few shooting opportunities."
"This parable, absolutely!
It's like watching a show where everyone wants to be the protagonist, and the result?
Not even a decent supporting role.
A veteran fan expressed his opinion on this: "Jack Ma is so right!
The problem of the national football team is not only the problem of the coach, but also the lack of team spirit of the players, and the individual ability also needs to be improved.
It's like saying, 'You give a bunch of amateurs a top-notch guitar and they can't play the level of a rock band!'
'What we need is not just a good coach, but also a good football environment, starting from the academy and developing really good players.
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In the end, Jack Ma gave us a little hope.
He said that it is difficult for Chinese football to be bad now, and through this anti-corruption storm in football, it is time to bottom out and rebound after falling to the bottom.
This is almost like cheering up a company on the verge of bankruptcy: "Don't be afraid, we have nothing to lose but to move up!"
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Not everyone is optimistic about the future.
Some netizens said: "I don't know how many times I've heard this kind of 'bottoming out' statement."
Every time there is a change of coach, every time before a big tournament, there are people who say that we have hit the bottom and can only bounce back.
The result?
We found out that hell has no bottom.
I just hope that the national football team can play steadily and stop setting a new record low.
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This pessimism is not unreasonable.
The performance of the national football team has indeed disappointed the fans too many times.
The rhetoric before each competition turned into self-comfort in the end.
This repeated disappointment has caused many fans to have "learned helplessness".
Nor can we completely lose hope.
Football is round, and there are always times when the game is unexpected.
Just like the top 18 of the World Preliminaries, although the national football team ate two stuffy sticks in a row, the performance of other opponents was not satisfactory, but it gave the national football team a ray of life.
If the national football team can win 1 draw and 1 win against Australia and Indonesia in the World Preliminary Round in October, it will be able to reach the top four with 4 points and retain the initiative to advance to the next round.
Some netizens expressed cautious optimism about this: "Although the performance of the national football team has been disappointing, the situation has indeed taken a turn for the better this time.
We need to believe that as long as there is a chance, there is hope.
Although the strength of the national football team is indeed limited, the football game is full of variables.
Maybe this time, we can really do a miracle?
At the very least, we have to give the new manager a chance and give the players some confidence.
No one is more eager to win the game than they are.
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No matter how well the national football team performs, as fans, we should all support and encourage it.
When the players are fighting on the field, they are also fighting with the hope of the whole country.
We can criticize, we can be disappointed, but we should not give up hope.
Can the new head coach lead the national football team to create a miracle?
The answer to this question, I'm afraid, only time will tell.
But in any case, we want to see a stronger, more competitive national team.
For a big football country like China, having a strong national team should not just be an unattainable dream.
Let's end this article with the words of a netizen: "No matter what the national football results are, we are all Chinese and should support our national team."
Maybe we are still very weak now, but as long as we don't give up, one day, we will see Chinese football shine on the world stage.
At that point, all the disappointments and setbacks we have experienced will be a stepping stone to success.
Come on, Chinese football!
Come on, national football!
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