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If you coach the Chinese team again to enter the World Cup, Milu: Have dreams and work hard

7:23pm, 11 July 2025Football

"This photo on the screen is not very good, which makes me look old. I am only in my 80s." Former Chinese men's football coach Bora Milutinovic, who led the Chinese men's football team to the World Cup finals for the first time, appeared at the parallel sub-forum of "Civilized Exchange and Mutual Learning and People Knowing and Blind Dating" at the Ministerial Conference on Dialogue of Global Civilizations. This interesting opening remark ignited the atmosphere on the scene. On July 11, former Chinese men's football coach Bora Milutinovic appeared at the parallel sub-forum of the Ministerial Conference on Dialogue of Global Civilizations "Civilized Exchange and Mutual Learning and People Knowing and Blind Dating". Photo by Zhang Jianlin, Beijing News reporter

Bora Milutinovich was born on September 7, 1944, the former Yugoslav. He used to play for Yugoslavia's Belgrade guerrillas; France's Monaco and Nice; Switzerland's Winterthur; was selected for the Yugoslavia national team and retired in 1977. From 1983 to 1986, he served as head coach of the Mexico team. In the 1986 World Cup, he led the Mexico team to the quarterfinals for the first time.

After that, he led national teams such as the United States and Nigeria to the top 16 of the World Cup. Milu, known as the "saving expert", coached the Chinese national men's football team since 2000 and led the Chinese team to qualify from the Asian qualifiers on October 7, 2001, entering the World Cup finals for the first time in history. In 2002, he left the Chinese team.

At today's forum, Milu talked about his experience coaching the Mexico team. He mentioned that technology, tactics and physical fitness are several elements of playing good football. Without these elements, you cannot achieve good results. During the communication process, he also said "

Attitude is everything."

Interestingly, someone asked a somewhat challenging question in this forum. "If you have the opportunity to coach the Chinese national men's football team again, where will you start sending us to the World Cup?"

"Sorry, my English is not very good. But what I want to say is to have dreams, practice, and work hard." Milu picked up the microphone and asked, "Do you know which move is the most important in football?"

"It is the 'next move'. Of course, you have to do your best in every game and play 'Happy soccer'." Milu said.

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