Chinanews.com, November 16th. The Chinese Basketball Association announced on the 16th that the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team will be the famous Serbian coach Aleksandar Djordjevic who once led the team to the runner-up in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
At less than two years before the opening of the Paris Olympics, this decision means a lot to the Chinese men's basketball team.
The New China National Men's Basketball Team has participated in all Olympic competitions since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Until the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team missed the Tokyo Olympics due to failing to achieve the best results in Asia.
The reason for missing the Olympics for the first time this time goes back to the reorganization of the 2014 Basketball World Championships into the Basketball World Cup.
FIBA has significantly restructured the way to obtain Olympic qualifications, combining Olympic qualifications with World Cup results. The Asian team with the best performance in the World Cup will get an Olympic seat from the continent. This competition system is full of stronger competition. and greater uncertainty.
The professionalization of head coaches has become the standard for all strong teams, and they must devote themselves to the preparation and training of all stages of the game.
Judging from the overall trend of international basketball, the evolution of tactical styles has accelerated, and the overall competitiveness of each team has continued to increase. It also puts forward higher requirements for the head coach's international vision, technical and tactical level, and for knowing the main opponent.
After fully communicating with all parties, comprehensively considering the characteristics of domestic and foreign coach candidates, and analyzing comprehensive factors such as task cycle, coaching experience, professional qualifications, schedule and available candidates, the Chinese Basketball Association finally locked in the Serbian coach Joel. jevich.
The 55-year-old Djordjevic became the fifth foreign head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team after Harris, Jonas, Deng Huade and Yannakis.
As a player and coach, Djordjevic has had outstanding records in the world. As a player, he helped Yugoslavia win the Olympic silver medal in 1996 and the World Championships in 1998.
As a coach, he coached the Serbian national team from 2013 to 2019, won the 2014 Men's Basketball World Cup runner-up and the 2016 Olympic silver medal.
Djordjevic has been coaching in top European professional basketball clubs such as Panathinaikos and Fenerbahce for a long time, and his technical and tactical level and coaching ability have been recognized in the international basketball world.
The Chinese men's basketball team is the first Asian team he coached.
Prior to this, Harris, Jonas and Deng Huade had all led the Chinese men's basketball team to the Olympic Games, and the famous Greek coach Janakis also had a lesson from failing to show the coaching ability that matched his reputation during the coaching of the Chinese men's basketball team. Championship only won the fifth.
Therefore, for the Chinese men's basketball team and Djordjevic, who has been coaching European teams for a long time, it is necessary to have a chemical reaction as soon as possible, complete a series of important tasks such as player selection, training, and preparations in a short period of time, and build a team that is famous in the world. With enough competitive teams in the range, these jobs don't require a huge amount of effort.
After seeing that the Chinese men's basketball team won the right to qualify for the group in the fifth window period, Djordjevic especially thanked coach Du Feng for his achievements, which laid a good foundation for him to lead the team to play well in the sixth window of the World Cup qualifiers. Base.
Especially in the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, Djordjevic and the Chinese men's basketball team will face more severe tests in competitions with more powerful teams.
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