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recently, after shanghai shenhua reversed tianjin jinmen tiger 2-1 in the chinese super league, shanghai shenhua head coach slutsky was asked about taking over the chinese national team. he said that he is now focusing on shanghai shenhua club.

a media reporter asked slutsky directly at the post-match press conference: you have been well received by the industry recently for your substitutions and tactical changes in many games. you have also served as the coach of the russian national team when you were the coach of cska moscow. if there is such an opportunity, are you willing to help the chinese national team?

slutsky did not answer the question directly, but said: "i am still concentrating on doing my job well. i love shanghai shenhua club and all shanghai shenhua fans, so i am very happy here now and don't want to think about anything else."

from slutsky's point of view, he once coached cska moscow and also served as the coach of the russian national team. so if he could negotiate all the conditions, he would have no problem serving as the head coach of the chinese national team while coaching shanghai shenhua. so his answer was actually neither refusing to coach the chinese national team nor closing the door to coaching the chinese national team.

in fact, this is not the first time that the media and chinese fans have believed that slutsky should be the head coach of the chinese national football team. after shanghai shenhua defeated pohang steelers 4-1 this month, shanghai media shangguan news published an article commenting that shanghai shenhua coach slutsky provided a template for on-site teaching for chinese national football coach ivankovic.

the shanghai media said that the positive example of a head coach turning the tide through on-the-spot adjustments was undoubtedly shanghai shenhua head coach slutsky. facing the strong korean pohang steelers, the russian-coached shanghai shenhua team was completely suppressed in the first half, with 0 shots in 45 minutes; if pohang steelers had not been unlucky and hit the crossbar twice, shanghai shenhua might have fallen behind 0-2 in the first half.

after the halftime break, slutsky replaced midfielder wang haijian with the injured foreign center forward malele, restoring the team's most familiar 4312 foreign center forward configuration. in the second half, shanghai shenhua began to take the initiative. although pohang steelers scored the first goal through a counterattack, the game was completely taken over by shanghai shenhua, and they eventually defeated their opponent 4-1.

the shanghai media concluded that shanghai shenhua's overall strength has declined significantly over the past 10 years, and the victory won by slutsky was the first time shanghai shenhua won the afc champions league in 15 years. slutsky's on-the-spot command and strategic planning were the turning point for shanghai shenhua to complete the big turnaround, and he almost directed this victory single-handedly.

most chinese fans probably would not agree with the shanghai media's crazy praise of slutsky. after all, slutsky's so-called on-the-spot command was just to replace the local player wang haijian with the foreign aid malele. this operation of replacing a foreign aid with a domestic player is really not a brilliant move. and even if slutsky really coached the chinese national football team, there would be no foreign aid for him to replace.

as we all know, shanghai shenhua has performed very well this season, which of course has something to do with head coach slutsky. if shanghai shenhua's current head coach is still wu jingui, then shanghai shenhua's results may not be as good as they are now.

but it cannot be ignored that shanghai shenhua's outstanding performance is closely related to the five foreign players in their team. with the help of naturalized player fernando, shanghai shenhua can theoretically field a lineup of six "foreign players" in a game. in other words, the key to shanghai shenhua's good performance this season is not head coach slutsky, but the fact that the team has five foreign players + one naturalized player, and the quality of these five foreign players is very high. this is why shanghai shenhua has always maintained the possibility of winning the championship in the chinese super league, and is not afraid of korean teams in the asian champions league.

if slutsky is really allowed to coach the chinese national football team, then i'm afraid i can only use the classic line from the movie "duds": your true colors are revealed!