After Chinese football experienced a fiasco in the Asian Cup for more than 20 years, there was a voice of condemnation in China, and fans even organized millions of people to jointly invite Chen Yu to return.

On July 21, 07, Chen Yu's friend Gao Fei revealed in an interview with "Football News" that in view of the great changes in the environment of Chinese football, Chen Yu is already considering returning to the national team, and he is not clear about whether he will return or when he will return.

Although this is not Chen Yu's personal promise to return, but Gao Fei and Chen Yu have a very close relationship, he said such a thing, indicating that Chen Yu must have said such a thing, which is a great comfort for Chinese fans, and now Chen Yu has become the only hope for Chinese football to rush into the World Cup in South Africa, if Chen Yu can return, Chinese football, which has fallen to the bottom, is expected to regain its vitality.

Two days later, Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin answered the question of 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, and if it continues like this, the enthusiasm of Chinese fans will be lost, and it is very likely to destroy the hope of the future rise of Chinese football, so Chen Yu has considered returning and bringing the national team to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, but now the conditions for returning are not yet mature, first, the national team has not yet selected a head coach, Second, the Chinese Football Association has not yet determined the chairman in charge of football, and after the head coach of the national team and the chairman of the Football Association are confirmed, Chen Yu's return to the national team may be on the agenda, and he is still on vacation. ”

For a long time, Chen Yu and his agent Zhang Shubin have either avoided or refused to return to the national team, and have never mentioned the matter of coming back.

This incident has even appeared many times in sports news at all levels, although there is only one sentence "Chen Yu is rumored to be back in the national team in the near future", but this sentence is enough to make the national fans happy, and their joy is no less than when the Chinese team reached the Asian Cup final.

Although I didn't hear Chen Yu say the words of returning to the national team in person, the words of Gao Fei and Zhang Shubin also carried a lot of weight, and the fans still chose to believe it, and those fans who jointly petitioned also turned their goals to the choice of the head coach of the national team.

At this time, the Football Association also complied with the expectations of fans for the first time, and conducted a poll on the selection of the head coach of the national team on the Internet and print media, asking fans whether they wanted to invite a local coach or a foreign coach, or a combination of local and foreign.

After experiencing the same coaching as Zhu Guanghu pig, now the fans almost unanimously believe that the foreign coach is at a higher level, even if he fails in the end, he will not be as bad as the local coach, but the fans also think that the local coach does not understand China's national conditions and Chinese players, and must have a good local coach to be the team leader and assist the foreign coach to maintain the locker room relationship.

After the Asian Cup fiasco and severe criticism from the General Administration, the Football Association became obedient and actively responded to the call of the fans, promising to establish a coaching staff that combines local and foreign countries, set up a national team selection committee, and personally go to Europe to select the head coach.

People have no head and do not go, birds have no head and do not fly, the Football Association has no leader after Yan Shiduo left office, and has always been the vice chairman of the Football Association Nanyang is presiding over the work, and now the qualifying round for the South African World Cup qualifiers will start soon, and the chairman of the Football Association will not be able to produce for a long time, and the selection of coaches is probably thunder and rain, and it is difficult to have high efficiency.

The General Administration of Sports has long recognized this problem, but the executive chairman of the Football Association is a department-level cadre, the competition for such a position is obviously very fierce, and this kind of open and secret struggle will last for a long time, but this time it is against 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, and Wei Ge, the former director of the Water Sports Management Center, replaced Yan Shiduo as the executive vice president of the Football Association.

Obviously, this is another football layman to manage football work, but the identity of the executive chairman of the Football Association is a national cadre, and it is impossible to choose the person with the highest level of football as the chairman, so the final candidate is definitely not the most suitable candidate, but the result of a compromise between the interests of all parties, which the fans can only accept.

However, everyone knows that it is not the level of the president of the Football Association that determines the results of the national team, but the level of the head coach and the players, as long as the president of the Football Association does not play the opposite role, he is not the most concerned thing by the fans, and the fans are most concerned about the selection of the head coach of the national team.

Although the original criteria for the selection of the head coach of the national team were very high, there were actually only two, one was to listen to the leadership of the Football Association, and the second was to be inexpensive.

Needless to say, there is no one who dares to be disobedient, and among the foreign coaches, the only one who is not so obedient is Milutinovic, and Milu 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 criteria for selecting the coach in addition to obedience and good quality and low price also have one more, that is, it must be recognized by Chen Yu, which is the instruction of the General Administration of Sports, in fact, the high-level people within the Football Association are now clear that even the General Administration of Sports is only following orders, and Chen Yu's supporters are from the top.

It's just that the current Football Association is facing a problem, that is, everyone now knows that Chen Yu is about to return to the national team, but Chen Yu has never expressed his position, and his willingness to return is only a private promise, so it is impossible for the Chinese Football Association to directly ask Chen Yu's opinion.

However, such a problem is difficult for the leaders of the Chinese Football Association, and after entering August, the Chinese Football Association took the lead in throwing out two head coach candidates for public opinion polls.

These two coaches are a former Yugoslav coach Forado, and the other is a former Yugoslav coach Santraci, both of whom have coached in China, Forado led Dalian Shide to win the league championship, and Santraci led Shandong Luneng to win the double, they are both familiar with Chinese football, but the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team, Dujkovic, recommended, and the Football Association launched these two people as coaching candidates It can be regarded as thoughtful.

In the polls of domestic fans, Santraci's support rate is higher than Forado's, but neither of them has a support rate of more than 40%, indicating that domestic fans are not very optimistic about these two people.

It is normal for fans not to be optimistic about these two people, although the level of the head coach of Qianyu is not low, but Qianyu is not the mainstream of world football after all, and most of the success of the two has been achieved in the club, and there is no great achievement in the national team, it is difficult to say how much help a coach like this can bring to Chinese football when he comes to China.

Of course, the fans' views are not in the eyes of the Chinese Football Association, they only care about the opinions of the leaders of the General Administration and Chen Yu, it is impossible to ask Chen directly, and Chen Yu will not ignore them, the new chairman of the Football Association, Wei Ge is also an old fritter in the officialdom, he may not know too much about football, but he is very clear about the complex relationship between the Football Association and the fans, the General Administration, and Chen Yu. Let him ask Zhang Shubin and Chen Yu what they think of these two candidate coaches.

China's selection of coaches is so vigorous, Chen Yu and Zhang Shubin want to say that they don't know, it must be impossible, Zhang Shubin is very honest to tell Guo Zuojin his own attitude, he thinks that the two former Yugoslav coaches Forado and Santraci level is undoubted, which one is worthy of the Chinese team, but it is difficult to say whether it is suitable for the Chinese team.

Zhang Shubin said it very tactfully, but the meaning of his words was not so much that Forado and Santraci coached the Chinese team, Zhang Shubin and Chen Yu have a close relationship, and his meaning is basically equivalent to Chen Yu's meaning.

And now Zhang Shubin's meaning is also very clear, that is, to find a coach who is suitable for the current Chinese team.

After Forado and Santraci were denied by Chen Yu and Chinese fans, the Chinese Football Association soon launched two other candidates, one is the French coach Troussier, who has coached the Japanese team, and the other is the Dutch coach Hiddink, who coached the South Korean team successfully, and continues to hype it in the domestic media and let fans vote for them.

Hiddink and Trussier have a much higher status in the hearts of Chinese fans than Forado and Santraci, especially Hiddink, who has the support of almost 7 percent of fans.

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

Guo Zuojin asked Zhang Shubin again about Hiddink and Troussier's views on the two coaches, Zhang Shubin, these two coaches have a higher look, especially Hiddink, Zhang Shubin believes that he is 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 South Korean players and Dutch players, if Hiddink copies the successful set in South Korea, it is estimated that he will encounter Waterloo in China.

Troussier's coaching style is more suitable for a team with delicate skills like Japan, but most of the players of the Chinese team are a group of rough brothers, and they can stop the ball a few meters away, so that Trussier has been the coach of the Chinese team for a long time, and the skills and tactics of Chinese players should be improved, but it is difficult to say how effective it is to rely on Troussier to play the World Cup qualifiers.

Zhang Shubin said a lot about the two coaches Hiddink and Troussier, but the meaning revealed by so many words is still the original sentence, and these two coaches are not necessarily suitable for the Chinese team.

The former Yugoslav coach is not suitable, the French coach is not suitable, and the Dutch coach is not suitable, so what kind of coach is suitable?

In the case that Chen Yu is not thorough, the Chinese Football Association can only continue to audition to see what kind of coach can enter Chen Yu's eyes.