Wang Hongliang's rise to prominence is reminiscent of Li Xiaopeng's career trajectory. As the outstanding local coach in the history of China's women's soccer, Li Xiaopeng has accumulated valuable experience in the women's soccer coaching career, and won the heartfelt trust of the players by virtue of his extraordinary ability to integrate the team and high emotional intelligence. Although his coaching performance was not that remarkable, this experience laid a solid foundation for his later brilliant achievements in the Chinese Super League and the national team. Now that Wang Hongliang is following in his footsteps on this career path, there is much speculation as to whether or not he can become the "godfather of soccer" after Li Xiaopeng.
However, there are still many fans who are skeptical about the FA's initiative of "customizing national team coaches". They believe that the training of local coaches should not rely solely on the national team, but should gradually accumulate teaching experience through the professional league platform. Some fans even said half-jokingly: "The national team of others is to build players, but our national team has become the cradle of the coach!" This reflects our country's soccer in the coaching talent reserves on the long-term short board, to solve this problem is not an overnight success.
