{"id":5588,"date":"2017-07-27T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2017-07-27T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:10:51","slug":"thailand-head-coach-milovan-rajevac-conflicting-philosophies-hurting-chinese-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/27\/thailand-head-coach-milovan-rajevac-conflicting-philosophies-hurting-chinese-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac: Conflicting philosophies hurting Chinese soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac, who worked in China as an assistant coach with Beijing Guoan in 2002, has some comments about top-flight <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/26\/chinese-super-league-clubs-deny-debt-problems-warning-chinese-football-association\/\">Chinese Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian coach thinks that Chinese players are having to deal with too many conflicting methodologies when they play for their clubs and their country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to adapt quickly to get to know anything because the players from China and from the other countries, they are different,&#8221; Rajevac said, as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/canadaSportsNews\/idCAKBN1AB1MA-OCASP\">Reuters<\/a>. &#8220;You have to adapt quickly to see how to handle them and there are many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean if you pay the most money that you&#8217;ve bought the best quality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There can be many reasons for that, but if you look at the league and the number of players and the effort they&#8217;re making, they should be challenging more for qualification for the World Cup. Their results should be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 16 clubs in the Chinese Super League this season, only two are managed by local coaches. A total of nine different nationalities work in the country&#8217;s top flight, including World Cup winners Luis Felipe Scolari and Marcello Lippi, former England head coach Fabio Capello and ex-Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac, who worked in China as an assistant coach with Beijing Guoan in 2002, has some comments about top-flight Chinese Super League. The Serbian coach thinks that Chinese players are having to deal with too many conflicting methodologies when they play for their clubs and their country. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to adapt quickly to get to know anything because the players from China and from the other countries, they are different,&#8221; Rajevac said, as quoted by Reuters. &#8220;You have to adapt quickly to see how to handle them and there are many reasons. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean if you pay the most money that you&#8217;ve bought the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/27\/thailand-head-coach-milovan-rajevac-conflicting-philosophies-hurting-chinese-soccer\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Thailand head coach Milovan Rajevac: Conflicting philosophies hurting Chinese soccer&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[154,83,684,68],"class_list":["post-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-milovan-rajevac","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}