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Live Bar August 16th News: After Antonio returned to the Chinese U21 men's national football team as head coach, reporter Ma Dexing wrote an article introducing the process of Antonio's return.

On August 16, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the new head coach of the U21 men's national football team. Antonio, the former head coach of the U20 national youth team, returned after a year and a half. He will lead the team to prepare for the 7th U23 Asian Cup in 2026 and the 2026 Asian Games in Japan. This is an expected result, but the process is full of drama.

On May 9 this year, the Chinese Football Association issued a notice to publicly recruit the head coach of the U21 National Men's Football Team. The "U21 Men's National Football Team" is actually the "U23 Men's Football Team" previously coached by Jankovic and Djurdjevic. At that time, it was mainly composed of players aged 1999. The goal is to participate in the 5th U23 Asian Cup in Uzbekistan in June 2022 and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September 2022.

After the announcement was issued, many coaches from all parties signed up. It is reported that the total number exceeds 60, including many European coaches and more than 10 Chinese local coaches who submitted their registration materials. Among the foreign coaches, many coaches who have coached in the Chinese Super League have signed up to compete, including Pedro, the Spanish coach who led the Wuhan Three Towns to win the 2022 Chinese Super League championship. Of course, there are many foreign coaches who are currently looking for work, unemployed at home and have quite brilliant resumes. Among the Chinese coaches, more than 10 people, including Shao Jiayi, who is currently the head coach of Qingdao West Coast Team, Gong Lei, who is currently the head coach of Guangxi Lanhang Team in China League Two, and Lu Bofei, the former head coach of Suzhou Soochow Team, have also participated in the registration. The Chinese Football Association will carry out the selection and recruitment in accordance with the relevant procedures based on the new coach selection method.