Original title: The Chinese Basketball Association announced that the Serbian Djordjevic will be the coach of the Chinese men’s basketball team.
On November 16, the Chinese Basketball Association made adjustments to the head coach of the Chinese men’s basketball team, announcing that Du Feng would no longer serve as the head coach, and at the same time selected Serbian Alexander Djordjevic as the head coach of the Chinese team. men’s basketball.
Djordjevic had been coaching the Serbian men’s basketball team for 6 years, and led the team to second place in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He will lead the Chinese men’s basketball team to play in the sixth window of the World and Cup qualifiers the 2023 Worlds, and strives to lead the team to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Team experience
Won several international competition medals
Serbian coach Djordjevic succeeded Du Feng as the new coach of the Chinese men’s basketball team.
According to the plan, Djordjevic will arrive in China on the 18th. After completing the quarantine in Hangzhou, he will go to the CBA League Division for detailed exchanges and communication with the Chinese Basketball Association and relevant personnel, and start in full the formation of the Chinese men’s basketball training team and the national team The team inspects the work.
As a player and head coach, Djordjevic has won Olympic, World Cup and European Championship medals many times. Djordjevic has played for Partizan Belgrade, Olympia Milan, Bologna, Barcelona, Real Madrid and other teams as a player. He also played briefly in the NBA. As a coach, he has trained many top clubs with excellent results.
Objectively, Djordjevic has a good leadership resume and coaching experience.
coaching style
Emphasis on protection and tight control
After retirement, he coached club teams such as Milan Olimpia, Treviso Benetton, Panathinaikos, Bayern, Bologna and Fenerbahce, winning the Italian, Turkish and UEFA Champions League titles. From 2013 to 2019, Djordjevic served as the head coach of the Serbian men’s basketball team. Among them, he led the team to win the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and led the team to win fifth at the 2019 World Cup.
Some Serbian coaches who served as assistant coaches in the CBA once introduced Djordjevic’s coaching style to a Beijing Youth Daily reporter: a typical European coach, strict control of the team, and an iron fool coach. He emphasized defense and even considered it as the first element for the team to win; he trained the rhythm of the team’s game and quick offensive and defensive transitions etc. The Serbian coach said of Djordjevic: “He is a natural winner and has an amazing desire for victory. He is a fighter and will never admit defeat. At the same time, he was also an excellent defender, so I I hope to pass on these successful experiences to the team he leads.”
adjust to run in
Choose players that suit your system
There are also many things that worry the outside world about Djordjevic’s training. For example, Djordjevic has relatively little understanding of basketball and Chinese players. It must take him some time to select players that suit his system and playing style. After that, a basketball team must Chinese men go through a period of mutual adaptation and adjustment. But at the same time, the number of warm-up games and official games of the Chinese men’s basketball team is relatively small, and the opportunities for the team to run in are relatively limited, and they will face the arduous task of getting tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics in the World Cup. From this point of view, there are many uncertain factors for Djordjevic to lead the team. Undoubtedly, tight time and heavy tasks are the truest portrait of Djordjevic leading the team. The biggest goal of the Chinese men’s basketball team is to return to the Olympic Games. If Djordjevic can lead the team to do this, then his training resume will add a lot of color once again. (Reporter Song Xiang)
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Du Feng resigned
He kept the coach’s bottom line
On November 16, the Chinese Basketball Association thanked former head coach Du Feng for his contribution and dedication to the Chinese men’s basketball team in the past three years, and Du Feng also said that being able to fight for the country is the most valuable experience. no matter as a player or as a head coach and top honors. Du Feng also expressed his gratitude to the Chinese Basketball Association, all members of the men’s basketball team and all sectors of society for their strong support, and said that he will continue to work hard to contribute to football Chinese basket in the future.
In fact, during Du Feng leading the Chinese men’s basketball team to compete in the fifth window of the world qualifiers, local media in Serbia have reported that Djordjevic will become the new coach of the Chinese men’s basketball team. It is obvious that at this time when the Chinese men’s basketball team is facing such an important event, the news of the upcoming coaching change will definitely have a negative impact on the team. But fortunately, the Chinese men’s basketball team withstood the pressure and won the world qualifiers with Iran and Bahrain men’s basketball teams, successfully qualifying for the 2023 World Cup.
Du Feng has coached the Chinese men’s basketball team for three years. At this time, he gave up the coach of the national team. There are many factors, but one of them is his personal wish. According to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, after Du Feng led the team to compete in the Asian Cup and the fourth window of the World Qualifiers, he has already expressed his desire to resign. But at that time, there was less time for the selection of a coach and it could not be completed, so Du Feng continued to lead the team to compete in the fifth window of the world qualifiers.
For Du Feng, in these three special years, he should have received a lot of training and endured a lot of pressure. In the past three years, there are actually two major events for the Chinese national men’s basketball team, the first is to qualify for the Olympics, and the second is to enter the World Cup. In this way, in Du Feng’s three-year national team coaching career, the bottom line goal that must be achieved has also been achieved.
Du Feng took office on October 31, 2019. At that time, China’s basketball talent and performance were in a trough. Under such circumstances, the situation of the national team was not optimistic when Du Feng took over. . Many players who can enter the national team in the league were injured, and the field was extended. What is even more chilling is the doubts and abuse. This the most stressful and painful thing for a coach.
Du Feng has done his best in the past three years. He went abroad to play with his players. There are many things to worry about and pay attention to at certain times. As a coach, he has more responsibilities. Maybe we can’t do better, for example, the position in the Asian Cup can be improved, and the World Cup qualifiers can win more and win more when playing against teams like Iran and Bahrain.
Du Feng’s national team coaching career is over, and he has at least kept the bottom line of his position. (Reporter Liu Ailin)
