BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Football Association (CFA) introduced on Friday that 50-year-old Serbian Aleksandar Jankovic has been appointed as the top coach of China’s males’s nationwide group.
“To prepare for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup and 2026 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, the CFA decided, after the assessment of experts, to hire [Aleksandar] Jankovic as the new head coach of China’s men’s national team,” learn a CFA assertion.
A former assistant supervisor of Serbia’s under-21 group within the 2000s, Jankovic, who additionally had spells with a number of European golf equipment together with Serbia’s Red Star Belgrade and Belgium’s Standard Liege, will make his debut on March 23 when China performs a pleasant in opposition to New Zealand in Auckland.
The Serbian first joined China’s U19 B group in September 2018 earlier than taking cost of the reformed Chinese U23 squad in preparation for the postponed Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.
He led a principally U23 squad to the East Asian Football Championship in Japan final July, the place his group completed third amongst 4 collaborating groups.
According to the CFA, Jankovic’s compatriot Dejan Djurdjevic will take over his place as the top coach of the Chinese males’s soccer group for Hangzhou 2022, which to be held in September.