After a crushing defeat in the Asian Cup for more than 20 years, there was a lot of condemnation in China. Fans even organized millions of people to invite Chen Yu to return. In such a heartbreaking and angry situation, a trace of good news finally came from overseas.

On July 21, 2007, Chen Yu's friend Gao Fei revealed in an interview with the Football News that given that the environment of Chinese football has changed a lot, Chen Yu is already considering the issue of returning to the national team. As for whether he will return when he will return, he is not clear.

Although this was not Chen Yu's personal promise to return, Gao Fei and Chen Yu are very close. If he said such words, it means that Chen Yu must have said such words. This is a great comfort to Chinese fans. Now Chen Yu has become the only hope for Chinese football to rush into the South African World Cup. If Chen Yu can return, Chinese football, which has fallen to the bottom, is expected to regain vitality.

Two days later, Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin answered Chen Yu and the national team again in an interview with a reporter from CCTV Sports Channel. Zhang Shubin said: "Now Chinese football has fallen into a desperate situation. If this continues, the enthusiasm of Chinese fans will be completely lost, which is very likely to destroy the hope of the future rise of Chinese football. Therefore, Chen Yu considered returning to the national team and bringing the national team to the World Cup qualifiers. However, the conditions for returning are not yet ripe. First, the national team has not yet selected a head coach, and second, the Chinese Football Association has not yet determined the chairman in charge of football. After the national team head coach and the Football Association Chairman are determined, Chen Yu's return to the national team may be put on the agenda. Now he is still on vacation."

For a long time, Chen Yu and his agent Zhang Shubin have either avoided or refused the issue of returning to the national team. They have never mentioned the matter of returning. Although the return is still not on the agenda, the news revealed is still full of hope.

This incident has even appeared many times in sports news at all levels. Although there is only one sentence, "It is rumored that Chen Yu may return to the national team in the near future", this sentence is enough to make fans across the country happy, and the degree of joy is no less than when the Chinese team reached the Asian Cup final.

Although Chen Yu didn't hear Chen Yu say the words of returning to the national team in person, Gao Fei and Zhang Shubin's words were also very important. The fans still chose to believe that those fans who jointly petitioned also turned their goals to the choice of the national team head coach.

At this time, the Football Association also followed the expectations of fans for the first time, conducted a poll on the candidates for national team head coaches online and on paper media, asking fans whether they hope to hire local coaches or foreign coaches, or to combine local and foreign coaches.

After experiencing the coaching like Zhu Guangdo, fans now almost unanimously believe that foreign coaches have higher levels. Even if they fail in the end, they will not be as cowardly as local coaches. However, fans also believe that local coaches do not understand China's national conditions and Chinese players, and must be a good local coach to be the leader and assist foreign coaches in maintaining locker room relations.

After a crushing defeat in the Asian Cup and severe criticism from the General Administration, the Football Association became obedient and actively responded to the fans' calls, promising to establish a coaching team that combines local and foreign countries, establish a national team coach selection committee, and go to Europe to personally select the head coach.

People don’t leave without a head, and birds don’t fly without a head. After Yan Shiduo left office, the Football Association has no leader. Nanyang, the vice chairman of the Football Association, is currently hosting the work. Now the qualifying match for the South African World Cup qualifiers is about to begin soon. If the Football Association chairman is unable to produce a long time, the job of selecting coaches may be loud and the rain is small, so it is difficult to have much efficiency.

The General Administration of Sports has long recognized this problem. It is just that the executive chairman of the Football Association is a department-level cadre. The competition for such a position is obviously very fierce, and this open and secret struggle will last for a long time, but this time it violates the convention. Half a month after Yan Shiduo left office, the General Administration of Sports announced the candidate for the next executive vice chairman of the Football Association. Former director of the Water Sports Management Center Weigo replaced Yan Shiduo as the executive football association of the Football Association.

Obviously, this is another football amateur who manages football work. However, the executive chairman of the Football Association is a state cadre, and it is impossible to choose the highest football level as the chairman. Therefore, the final candidate is definitely not the most suitable candidate, but the result of mutual compromise between the interests of all parties. Fans can only accept this.

However, everyone knows that what determines the national team's performance is not the level of the Football Association chairman, but the level of the head coach and the players. As long as the Football Association chairman does not play the opposite role, he is not the thing that fans pay the most attention to. What fans care about most is the candidate for the national team's head coach.

Although the original national team head coach selection criteria were very high-profile, there were actually only two. One was to listen to the leadership of the Football Association, and the other was to be of good quality and low price.

Needless to say, there is no one who dares to be disobedient. Among the foreign coaches, the only one who is not so obedient is Milutinovic, who is the most successful one.

Now Chinese football is about to enter a new era with Chen Yu as the leader. At this time, the Football Association's standard for choosing a coach is not only obedient and affordable, which is that it must be recognized by Chen Yu. This is the instruction of the General Administration of Sports. In fact, the senior officials within the Football Association now know that even the General Administration of Sports is just obedient and that Chen Yu's supporters are from the upper class.

But the Football Association is facing a problem now, that is, everyone knows that Chen Yu is about to return to the national team, but Chen Yu has never made any statement. His willingness to return is just a private commitment, so it is impossible for the Chinese Football Association to directly ask Chen Yu for his opinion on the selection of coaches.

However, such a problem cannot be difficult for the leaders of the Chinese Football Association. After August, the Chinese Football Association took the lead in launching two head coach candidates for polls.

One of these two coaches is Former Yugoslav coach Forado and the other is Former Yugoslav coach Santrachi. Both of them have coached in China. Forado led Dalian Shide to the league championship, and Santrachi led Shandong Luneng to win the double championship. They are both familiar with Chinese football, but are recommended by Duykovic, the head coach of the Chinese National Olympic Team. The Football Association has introduced these two people as coach candidates, which can be considered a careful consideration.

In the polls of domestic fans, Santrachi's approval rating is higher than Forado, but the support ratings of both of them are not more than 40%, which shows that domestic fans are not optimistic about these two people.

It is normal for fans to not be optimistic about these two people. Although Qiannan's head coach is not low, Qiannan is not the mainstream of world football after all, and their successes are mostly achieved in the club and have not made any great achievements in the national team. It is hard to say how much help a coach like this can bring to Chinese football when he comes to China.

Of course, the fans' opinions are not taken into consideration by the Chinese Football Association. They only care about the opinions of the leaders of the General Administration and Chen Yu. It is impossible to directly ask Chen, and Chen Yu would not pay attention to them. The new chairman of the Football Association, Weigo, is also an old official, and he may not know much about football. However, he is very clear about the complex relationship between the Football Association and the fans, the General Administration, and Chen Yu. Shortly after launching two coach selection goals, Weigo found Guo Zuojin, the former national team assistant coach, who is also Chen Yu's fellow villager, and asked him to ask Zhang Shubin and Chen Yu's views on these two candidate coaches.

The Chinese coach selection is so vigorous, and Chen Yu and Zhang Shubin don’t know anything about it, that is definitely impossible. Zhang Shubin honestly told Guo Zuojin his attitude. He believes that the two former coaches, Forador and Santrachi, are unquestionable, and both are worthy of the Chinese team, but it is hard to say whether they are suitable for the Chinese team.

Zhang Shubin said it very tactfully, but his meaning does not agree with Forado and Santraci coaching the Chinese team. Zhang Shubin and Chen Yu are closely related, so his meaning is basically equivalent to Chen Yu's meaning.

Moreover, Zhang Shubin’s meaning is very clear now, which is to find a coach suitable for the current Chinese team.

After Forado and Santrachi were denied by Chen Yu and Chinese fans, the Chinese Football Association quickly launched two other candidates, one was French coach Trussier who coached the Japanese team, and the other was Dutch coach Hiddink who had achieved great success in the South Korean team. He continued to hype in domestic media and let fans vote for it.

Hiddink and Trussier's status in the minds of Chinese fans is much higher than that of Forador and Santraci, especially Hiddink, who has received support from almost 70% of fans.

However, these are of course not important to the Chinese Football Association. Their purpose is to spy on Chen Yu's attitude through this. So Guo Zuojin and Zhang Shubin once again became the messenger between the Chinese Football Association and Chen Yu.

Guo Zuojin once again asked Zhang Shubin what he thought of Hiddink and Trussier, the two coaches, Zhang Shubin, took a higher look, especially Hiddink. Zhang Shubin thought that he was a real world-class coach, but Zhang Shubin said that Hiddink's style of play may not be suitable for the Chinese team, because the characteristics of Chinese players are very different from those of Korean players and Dutch players. If Hiddink copied the successful trick in South Korea, he would probably suffer a Waterloo in China.

Trussier's coaching style is more suitable for teams like Japan with delicate skills, but most of the Chinese players are a group of rough guys, and they can stop for a few meters away when they stop. Let Trussier be the coach of the Chinese team for a long time, and the skills and tactics of Chinese players should be improved, but it is hard to say how effective it will be if Trussier wants to play in the World Cup qualifiers.

Zhang Shubin said a lot about the two coaches Hiddink and Trussier, but the meaning revealed by so many words is the same as before, and these two coaches may not be suitable for the Chinese team.

The coach in the South is not suitable, the coach in the French is not suitable, and the coach in the Netherlands is not suitable. So what kind of coach is suitable?
Chapter completed!