On September 5, the official website of the Chinese Football Association issued a new round of coach selection announcement, clarifying that the core task of the new coach is to improve the team's competitive level, improve FIFA ranking, and strive for the 2030 World Cup.
Because this is the first time that the Chinese Football Association has recruited coaches from the world in an open and transparent manner in recent years, and no longer has the rigid requirements to be "familiar with Chinese football" or "having Asian coaching experience", this coach selection has attracted widespread attention in the industry.
According to domestic media reports, after the Football Association issued the announcement of the new coach selection, many European coaches recommended themselves, including Cannavaro, the most familiar to Chinese fans.
In April this year, Cannavaro was dismissed from Dynamo Zagreb, Croatia. Since then, he has been unemployed at home. No matter where he has recruited, as long as he is interested, of course he can try to submit his resume.
But objectively, although it is about to be over 52 years old Cannavaro, who is one year old, meets the requirements in terms of age and understanding of Chinese football, but judging from his ability and team-leading performance since his coaching, it is probably not enough to bring the Chinese men's football team out of the trough and enter the 2030 World Cup.
In December 2014, Cannavaro served as the executive coach of Guangzhou Evergrande. This was his first time as the head coach's seat, but was fired in June of the following year.
In July 2016, Coach Ka came to Tianjin to coach and led the team to the Super League successfully. He left office in November 2017 and returned to Guangzhou.
During his second coach at Guangzhou Evergrande, he led the team to win the 2018 Super Cup and the 2019 Super League championship.
But in comparison, what impressed people more was that he was dismissed once for poor leadership and was sent to the study class once.
In September 2021, the Guangzhou team was all gone, and the club finally terminated the contract with Cannavaro.
In fact, Cannavaro coached Guangzhou Evergrande for the second time, and the cooperation between the two sides should have ended long ago, but it was because Cannavaro was reluctant to give up the high salary at the beginning, and the investors could not bear the sky-high termination fee, so they barely maintained for four seasons.
About Cannavaro's experience in coaching in Guangzhou, some fans joked, "He was the only coach who turned over the aircraft carrier before the collapse of Guangzhou Evergrande Group."
Canavaro's relationship with the Chinese national font occurred in 2019. At that time, Lippi resigned angrily after the Asian Cup. Cannavaro became the acting head coach of the national football team and led the national football team training team to participate in the "China Cup", and the result was two consecutive 0 Losing against Uzbekistan and Thailand by 1.
After losing these two games, nothing happened...
Leave China and return to Europe, Cannavaro's coaching experience and achievements still have not many highlights.
In September 2022, Cannavaro became the head coach of Serie B team Benevento, but led the team to 17 games, with only 3 wins, 3 draws, 7 With a negative record, the team's relegation format is in danger. He was fired in less than 5 months after taking over the team.
In April 2024, Cannavaro, who had been unemployed for more than a year, came out again to "work for short-term work", and took over Serie A Udinese, who was fighting hard for relegation on the front line.
In the following month and a half, Cannavaro led the team to a record of 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, and Udinese did not escape until the last round.
However, after the season, Udinese did not renew his contract with Cannavaro.
At the end of 2024, the Croatian League giant Dynamo Zagreb invited Cannavaro to the team.
Canavaro originally hoped to use Dynamo as a springboard for coaching the top European clubs in the future, although he also led the team to the Champions League as he wished and won AC at home Milan, but Dinamo Zagreb and fans attach more importance to the Champions League One. His trip to Croatia ended in less than 5 months.
In the past six months, Cannavaro has been at home. Although he can still maintain a high enough exposure in various football activities, the new European season has begun, and it seems that he is still far from returning to the coaching seat.
But as a professional football coach, his score is indeed Cannavaro's flaw.
Caravaro, as a professional coach, led the team to 250 games, of which 177 games were led by the Chinese men's football team and the Chinese professional team, accounting for 71%, and the percentage of the total winning games reached the level of the Chinese team's victory. 79%.
Another set of data is that Cannavaro has made Guangzhou Evergrande win rate in China's league and cup matches of 72%, but the winning rate of leading the team in the AFC Champions League has dropped to 37.5%.
Interestingly, on this international match day, the Italian national team defeated Estonia 5-0 in the World Cup and defeated Israel 5-4, and the new coach Gattuso ushered in two consecutive victories in his debut.
All are "06 Champions Team" Member, Cannavaro posted a photo of himself with Gattuso on social media and wrote, "Take us to the World Cup, my friend (the Italian team has missed two consecutive World Cup games)!"
Last season coaching in Croatia, Cannavaro was dismissed early and was fired by Dynamo Zagreb's live line; and Gattuso's coaching Hayduke ranked third in the league with a 2-point difference.
But after the end of the season, Gattuso took over the coaching post of the Italian national team, and Cannavaro was also one of the candidates for the national team at that time.
However, two resumes, one of which says Guangzhou Evergrande, Benevento, Udinese, Dynamo Zagreb, and the other says Palermo, Pisa, AC Milan, Naples, Valencia, Marseille, and Hayduque.
Who would you choose if you were a senior executive of the Italian Football Association?
In an interview before, Cannavaro said many times that his coaching career plan was to go from Serie A team to European giants and then to Italian national teams.
Now, Cannavaro is watching his former national team friend become the head coach of the Italian national team, and he has been getting farther and farther away from his dream after class several times.
Cannavaro sent his resume to the Chinese Football Association, which undoubtedly had some meaning of throwing a stone to ask for directions. As for whether the Chinese Football Association will choose itself, he may not have too much hope...
