China News Service, Beijing, December 3, title: Who "replaced" Li Tie?
China News Agency reporter Xing Chong
In 1997, at the Golden State Stadium in Dalian, the Chinese team suffered a reversal and lost the initiative to enter the World Cup in France. Forty thousand fans chanted "for Li Tie".
Since then, in Li Tie's playing career and coaching career, he often mentioned this three-character boo and summed it up as an experience of mentality under pressure.
"After experiencing this, I am not so afraid when facing pressure. Now I am facing no matter how much pressure I am, my heartbeat is 50 times, and the morning pulse is 40 times."-January 5, 2020, Li Tie in the national football player The coach said at the inaugural meeting.
However, in less than two years, he once again encountered "changing Li Tie".
It's just that this is a non-technical and tactical substitution.
When Li Tie took office, the outside world had very good wishes for him and Chinese football.
He is known as the "Tie Shuai". He has gone from being a "baby who can't play football" to a member of the national team who went with the team to the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, and then to the coach of the Chinese men's national team. He is full of exceptionally gorgeous inspiration. Color; his team aims to forge into an "iron army" and shouts the slogan "Unity is iron"-"I hope to enter the World Cup again with the national team."
Despite the subsequent outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Li Tie led the national football team to overcome various difficulties and completed the final 4 rounds of the World Preliminary Asian Top 40 with a record of victory, and successfully advanced to the top 12.
The contract between Li Tie and the national team is automatically renewed, from a six-month contract to a five-year long contract.
The picture shows Li Tie.
However, entering the top 12 stage, Li Tie began to encounter many doubts.
For example, at one time a maximum of two naturalized players played in each game. In the first game against Australia, even five substitutions were not reserved for the stronger and more experienced Alan and Luo Guofu; in the face of the Oman team, which is very likely to win, Li Tie replaced both offense and defense at the same time and eventually "self-destructed the Great Wall" and was tragically equalized by the opponent.
After six rounds, the national football team only won 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, ranking second to last in the group.
This coaching result is not excellent, but it is basically a true manifestation of the current strength of the national football team.
The World Cup regulars Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia are far above the Chinese team. Although Oman's equalization is off-standard, the second round of the match against Australia can be regarded as a compensation to some extent.
A lot of news broke the news that the five-year long-term contract between the Chinese Football Association and Li Tie is actually intended to strive for a breakthrough in the 2026 World Cup.
The 2026 World Cup will expand to 48 teams, and the probability of the national football team entering the World Cup is undoubtedly greater.
Even if the 2022 World Cup is hopeless, it is not unacceptable.
From the performance point of view, Li Tie is not in a situation where he must be dismissed. The straw that crushes him may be the scenes of "dramatic events" after the Australian team.
At the post-match press conference, Li Tie delivered a 32-minute "speech". With full firepower, Li Tie pointed the finger at the outside world:
"No one knows all the players of the national team and the Super League better than me." "Said that there is a home court and there is no home court. There is a problem with the brain. If these two games are played in Suzhou, we may get six points." "I don't want to be in Comment on any player here, but I want to say, everyone, I spend more time on football than anyone else"...
Li Tie's "Tucao" not only failed to win the support of public opinion, but was accused of lacking the role of the head coach of the Guozi head.
However, what further detonated public opinion was that he subsequently posted advertising content on social platforms, especially pictures of competing products from the national team sponsors, rashly violating business rules.
The coach who lacks the spirit of contract puts the team that had previously dismal results into an even more embarrassing situation.
This series of off-site disturbances boosted the process of "changing Li Tie".
Before surging public opinion, Li Tie took the initiative to submit his resignation to the Chinese Football Association.
On December 3, the Chinese Football Association officially announced that it had accepted his application for resignation.
It is undeniable that Li Tie has made contributions to Chinese football. He is still a leader among Chinese Mesozoic football coaches, but he has to admit that he also needs to pay for his full personality.
At present, Chinese football is going through an unusually cold winter, the Chinese Super League team is in financial crisis collectively, and the National Football team is almost hopeless to hit the World Cup.
What people hope to see is that the national team coach, who represents the overall image of a country's football, can lead the team and even the entire Chinese football, igniting hope for improvement in the trough.
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