According to the Daily News.
national soccer team
commander-in-chief
Ivankovic (name)
Remaining optimistic about the group draw for the 18-team tournament.
The draw for the 2026 U.S.-Canada-Mexico World Cup Qualifier Asian Zone 18 will be held on June 27 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and China's head coach, Vladimir Ivankovic, is confirmed to participate in the draw. In the latest edition of FIFA national team rankings, China is ranked 13th in Asia and 88th in the world, and according to this result, will participate in the draw for the Asian Zone 18 of the World Cup Qualifiers as the 5th ranked team.
Ivan has returned home to Croatia, he will travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 26, to meet with the CFA sent a working group. Although it is impossible to grasp with which opponents in the same group, but Ivan still said he will be "positive and optimistic attitude towards the 18 strong grouping of the draw". The CFA and China's coaching staff have prepared information on the other teams in the 18-team tournament so that they can provide it to Ivan and his foreign assistants as soon as the results of the group draw are available. Ivan will follow the Chinese Super League and the state of the international players through the webcast, and his goal is to find more newcomers like Baihe Lamu and Xie Wenneng. It can't be ruled out that there will be new faces in the China camp for the next training session, and sources indicate that Ivan would like to see the average age of the Chinese team drop a bit more.
