2024-01-29 23:54:00
Original title: Asian Cup Round of 16 guides the national football team’s coaching selection
Guo Jian, special correspondent of China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily
On the evening of January 30th, Beijing time, on the third match day of the Round of 16 of the Asian Cup in Qatar, the Thai team will challenge the Uzbekistan team at Janub Stadium. Compared with the Thai team that was reversed 2:1 by the national football team at home in the World Cup Asian Qualifiers in November 2023, the biggest change for the Thai team in this Asian Cup is not that the forwards Somkrasin and Dangda are absent due to injuries, but that The “owner” of the team was changed from the 48-year-old Brazilian Bolkin to the 56-year-old Japanese Masatada Ishii. This change allowed the ambitious Thai team to eliminate impetuosity to a large extent and added to the team’s growth. The calm temperament necessary during the process.
“It is true that the injuries to the two main players have had a certain impact on us, but this is the best time for every member of the national team to prove themselves.” Masatada Ishii said after leading the team to Doha, “We must improve our physical fitness. There have been improvements in terms of tactics and tactics and our goal is to do our best moving forward.”
If it were Bolkin, he would have used the slogan “Qualify the group and strive for the top 8” to stimulate the emotions of Thai fans. However, the ups and downs of the Thai team’s current state are precisely due to the expansion of mentality. Ishii Masatada took over the Thai team on November 22 last year, and the trigger for Bolkin’s dismissal was the team’s aggressive tactical choices in the second half, which gave the national football team room for reversal.
Ishii Masatada will not turn stone into gold – as long as the time is extended to a league season or a cup cycle, fans will naturally understand that there is no magic coach in the world. The cruel reality is that every famous coach has to carry huge pressure to work every day – -His rapid integration with the Thai team benefited from the Japanese football philosophy that Bolkin’s predecessor Nishino Lang instilled in Thai football. Although Nishino Nishino’s coaching performance of the Thai team was not good, the valuable experience accumulated during the failure process has helped the Thai team continue to improve its combat effectiveness in recent years. In this Asian Cup, the Thai team in Group F successfully defeated the Kyrgyzstan team 2:0 in the first game and drew with the Oman team 0:0 in the second game. After locking in the qualification in advance, they shook hands with the Saudi team 0:0. 3 With 1 win, 2 draws and 5 points, they advanced directly. Of the 24 teams in the group stage, in 36 games, only Thailand and Qatar managed to keep clean sheets. This result is no accident.
“Winning and winning 3 points is of course the most ideal thing, but we have to know what we need.” Ishii Masatada’s caution helped the Thai team stay calm before facing Uzbekistan: “Sometimes it is very important not to lose. , I am satisfied with our performance in the group stage, and I hope the team’s good condition will continue into the next game.”
Japanese coaches have been supporting Southeast Asian teams for 10 years, from youth training coaches to national team coaches. In addition, in 2014, Japan announced that players from seven Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Cambodia) would not join the J-League. Occupying the quota of foreign players (each club is limited to 1 person), the improvement of the football level in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other places is by no means falling from the sky, but is caused by many factors such as youth training, studying abroad, and naturalization with coaches and players as the main body. The inevitable result of intertwining.
When the Asian Cup knockout round kicked off, the national football team, which had 3 games, 2 draws, 1 loss and 0 goals in the group stage, once again entered the coaching selection process: Jankovic failed to complete the task indicator of “qualifying for the Asian Cup group stage” in his contract. The Chinese Football Association needs to confirm the new coach as soon as possible to lead the team for the two “back-to-back” World Cup qualifying round of 36 games with Singapore in March this year. In view of the fact that the subsequent home game against Thailand, which has changed coaches, is not guaranteed to win, the two games against Singapore , only by scoring all 6 points can we take the initiative – the current coach of the Singapore team is Japanese Nishitani Takayuki. If the Singapore Football Association is dissatisfied with the team’s consecutive losses to South Korea and Thailand and decides to change coaches, Park Hang-seo, the Korean coach who once coached the Vietnam team, Most likely to take over.
What kind of coach does the national football team need? In addition to the Thai team, there are also choices for the top 16 teams in the Asian Cup for reference. Even if the Indonesian team lost to Australia 0:4 in the first round of the knockout round, its head coach, Korean Shin Tae-yong, also received firm support from the players and fans. After all, the Indonesian team has already created a record if it can advance to the group stage and stand on the 1/8 finals stage. Team history. What’s more, in this offensive battle with the Australian team, the Indonesian team, whose average age is less than 23 years old, showed no fear. They even actively sought physical confrontation and made every effort to launch a fierce attack on the Australian team’s defense. The scene of losing the knockout round 0:4 and still receiving crazy support from tens of thousands of fans at the scene proved that they are on the right path of “satisfying fans”.
“We adopted a more proactive style of play, and we also found the team’s confidence.” The Indonesian team went around the field to thank the fans. After the game, head coach Shen Taiyong took the initiative to communicate with Australian team coach Arnold. His ambition is to establish The competitiveness of the Indonesian team in Asia, “We have created history in this Asian Cup. This is not the end, this is the beginning of our progress.”
What Ishii Masatada and Shin Tairyong have in common is that they both have professional experience coaching first-class clubs and even national teams. The heartfelt love for football makes this kind of coach continue to study the business intensively, build a tactical system for the team according to the development trend of international football, and regard challenging strong opponents as their own responsibility. Korean Kim Bang-kun, who failed to lead the Malaysian team out of the group stage, is also widely trusted for bringing the team to the best ranking in history.
The Malaysian team was in the same group as South Korea, Bahrain, and Jordan in this Asian Cup. They were eliminated with 1 draw, 2 losses, and 1 point. However, the team almost “drove the Korean team crazy” with a 3:3 score in the final round. One of the classic battles of the Asian Cup. The South Korean team once attacked with all its strength, but the Malaysian team’s speed and intensity on both ends of the offense and defense were brought to the extreme. Not to mention the South Korean team’s other intentions, in terms of the quality of the game alone, the Malaysian team has completely shed its “fish belly” image.
An army is easy to come by, but a general is hard to find. The ups and downs of Chinese football can only be seen from the selection of coaches (including temporary acting coaches) in the past 10 years: Camacho, Fu Bo, Perrin, Gao Hongbo, Cannavaro, Lippi, Li Tie, Li Xiaopeng, Jankovic… On average, they change almost every year. Now the Chinese Football Association is faced with the choice of coaching at the critical juncture of the anti-corruption “replacement”. The Asian Cup is obviously a “gold rush” treasure land. After all, China The direct competitors in football are only third-tier teams in Asia.
China Youth Daily, Doha, January 29
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