Reporter Chen Yong reports On March 5, the Chinese Football Association announced the list of the first phase of the 2007 elite player training camp in 2025, in this list, in addition to 34 players, Djurdjevic and his U20 national team (05 national youth) coaching staff members are impressively listed. At present, although he has not completed the task of leading the team to the U20 World Cup, Djurdjevic is expected to transfer to become the head coach of the 2007 national team (07 national youth) with his good performance at the overall level.

After the 05 national youth completed the task of the U20 Asian Cup, the next national youth team will naturally be the 07 national youth. In 2024, the 2007 age group will organize two elite player training camps, respectively in July and December, which is also the normal procedure for the formation of national teams at all levels of the Chinese Football Association - first set up elite player training camps, and then form a formal national team. Of course, like the national junior team, because it is one group a year, there will be a national selection team in the middle.

The first Elite Player Training Camp in 2025 is completely different from the two Elite Player Training Camps in 2024: the first Elite Player Training Camp in 2024 has a total of 66 people, which is a standard training camp configuration, and the training camp is divided into three groups to compete against each other; The second phase of the elite player training camp in 2024 has 67 players, and some players who have not participated in the first phase of the training camp due to the league have been recruited. However, in 2025, the elite player training camp has been reduced to 34 people, greatly diluting the nature of the training camp, which is actually close to the nature of the national selection team.

Normally, the next U20 Asian Cup is at the beginning of 2027, so the formation time of the 07 national youth is this year, which is actually the reason why this elite player training camp is closer to one team. However, the current list and the list of participants in the U20 Asian Cup in two years are destined to be very different, and the important reason is that the 2007 age group elite player training camp mainly recruits players from the 2007 age group, and the 2008 age group currently has the U17 national team, which will participate in the U17 Asian Cup in April, and if promoted, it will also participate in the Qatar U17 World Cup in November.

Only after the completion of the international competition task in the 2008 age group, the 07 national youth can absorb the players of the 2008 age group in an orderly manner, and the 07 national youth can be called a complete national youth at that time. But before that, the relevant training and competitions of the 07 national youth must still be carried out in an orderly manner.

The biggest difference between the 2007 Elite Camp and the previous two sessions is the coaching staff. The two elite training camps in 2024 are all drawn from all sides, such as Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao are the coaches of the national team, Huang Bowen is the coach of the Asian Games team, and Li Leilei, Sun Shoubo and Dong Xuesheng are the coaches of the national youth team.

But the 07 elite player training camp has almost shifted the coaching staff of the 05 national youth team: the training camp is still led by Fu Bo, the technical director of the Chinese Football Association, but the coaching staff members are Djurdjevic (05 national youth head coach), Klyadic (05 national youth assistant coach), Wan Houliang (05 national youth assistant coach), Li Leilei (05 national youth goalkeeper coach), Dong Xuesheng and Sun Shoubo (05 national youth team trainer), this is a complete 05 national youth coaching staff, of course, the coaching staff also supplemented Zang Haili and Gao Lin.

Judging from the composition of the coaches of the 07 elite player training camp alone, the possibility of Djurdjevic taking over the 07 national youth is very large.

Regarding Djurdjevic, in the U20 Asian Cup, his use of players in some games, especially in the key quarterfinals, has aroused doubts from the outside world, but in terms of the overall process of his coaching of the 05 national youth, his shaping of the team has been successful as a whole: first, the team has shown a relatively stable technical and tactical style; Secondly, and very important, the team's technical and tactical style of play has been widely recognized, with both control and anti-counter capabilities, and it has also shown sufficient combat effectiveness in the U20 Asian Cup; Third, from the perspective of the overall mental outlook of the team, the 05 national youth is also trustworthy.

The problem of personnel use is mainly at two levels, one is that he really reuses and trusts fewer players, and even lacks the stable configuration of "11 + 5", once the main lineup is changed, it will bring about a decline in combat effectiveness, which actually leads to his second problem, the lack of initiative in on-the-spot substitutions, and often passive response.

The Chinese Football Association still recognizes Djurdjevic's overall ability to lead the team, of course, the Football Association also noticed some problems in his coaching process, and also conducted in-depth communication and summary with him. In this case, if Djurdjevic can fully summarize the experience and lessons of the 05 national youth, coaching the 07 national youth will at least have a relatively high bottom line.

Of course, the 07 national youth has not yet been formally formed, and the possibility of change cannot be ruled out, and this elite player training camp may also be an investigation. As for the 05 National Olympic team, since the U23 Asian Cup will be held in 2028, players in the 05 age group will participate in the league, the preliminaries and finals of the National Games this year, plus the recruitment of the national team and the U22 national team, there is no need and space for formation in the short term. If Djurdjevic ends up transferring to the 07 national youth team, the 05 national Olympic team will naturally hire a new head coach.