The Asian Cup will be part of a rapid getting-to-know-you phase for the bulk of teams and their coaches in Australia, adding an extra layer of difficulty — and
intrigue — to the continental championship.
Laurent Depoitre Jersey .There are plenty of new players for the quadrennial tournament starting Friday, and more new faces
in the coaching ranks — only six of the 16 teams had the same coach at the end
of 2014 that they started the year with.Defending champion Japan arrived over
the weekend missing one of its stars — and with a new coach.Defender Atsuto
Uchida, who has not fully recovered from a tendon injury in his right knee, will
remain with his German Bundesliga club Schalke 04 for treatment, coach Javier
Aguirre said. Uchida, who has 71 caps, was a member of the team that beat
Australia in the 2011 Asian Cup final.Aguirre was hired in August to replace
Alberto Zaccheroni after Japans poor World Cup campaign in Brazil last
summer.The Japanese begin their title defence against the Palestinian team in
Newcastle on Jan. 12, three days after the tournament opener between Australia
and Kuwait in Melbourne.South Korea also has a new coach, former Real Madrid
midfielder Uli Stielike, who replaced Hong Myung-bo in September after a
similarly disappointing World Cup performance. Hell be attempting to bring the
continental trophy back to South Korea for the first time since 1960.South Korea
arrived in Australia with six European-based players for the tournament, but
there was no place for former Arsenal striker Park Chu-young. Park, who left
Arsenal early in 2014 and fared poorly at the World Cup, recently joined Al
Shabab of Saudi Arabia.The South Korean squad includes Son Heung-min of Bayer
Leverkusen, one of four players from the Bundesliga, and midfielder Ki
Seung-yeung of Swansea City in the English Premier League.Performances in last
months Gulf Cup also resulted in Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain all
firing their coaches.Bahrains coach had the shortest tenure of them all. Adnan
Hamad, one of Asias most experienced coaches, was appointed in August only to be
fired three months later after his team failed to advance to the knockout stages
of the Gulf Cup.Kuwait started the Gulf Cup in promising fashion but fired
Brazilian coach Jorvan Vieira following a loss to Oman. Vieira, who led Iraq to
the 2007 Asian Cup title, was replaced by former Tunisia midfielder Nabil
Maaloul.Saudi Arabia has changed coaches more than 20 times since reaching the
second round of the 1994 World Cup. At nearly two years, Juan Lopez Caro lasted
longer than most, but was let go after losing the final of the Gulf Cup in
Riyadh to Qatar.Romanian Cosmin Olaroiu, formerly in charge of United Arab
Emirates club Al Ahli, took over as the new Saudi coach.Iraq also fired its
coach, Hakeem Shaker, following a last-place finish in its group at the Gulf Cup
and replaced him with former national player Radhi Shenaishil.Host Australia is
still getting used to its new coach, too. Since Ange Postecoglou was hired in
October 2013, the Socceroos were knocked out in the group stage of the World Cup
and have won only once in their last 10 matches.Postecoglou included 16 of the
23 players he took to the World Cup in his final 23-man squad for the Asian Cup.
Seven of the players took part in the last Asian Cup in 2011, including Tim
Cahill, captain Mile Jedinak, Robbie Kruse and Tommy Oar.Its been almost six
months in the making since the FIFA World Cup, Postecoglou said. Weve had a
series of games where there have been some pretty clear objectives, particularly
in terms of broadening the pool and seeing whether we could get some better
balance in the squad and more depth.The tournament hosts have slid to No. 100 in
the world rankings, and are just 10th among the Asian teams. But New York Bulls
striker Cahill said that wasnt such a bad thing.OK, our rankings have dropped,
our football has improved, Cahill said of Australias strong opposition in the
past year.We could have played Qatar, UAE and Japan in Australia (for) possibly
two out of three wins. Our rankings would have stayed up a bit and everyone
would have been happy. It would have put a smoke screen over what really we
should be learning about.Jedinak, the last Australian player to arrive in camp
following his Premier League duties with Crystal Palace, feels the Socceroos
have a legitimate chance of winning the Asian Cup.I think 100 per cent weve got
the right blend, Jedinak said. We know whats happened in the last year, in terms
of the games ... its all been built up toward this point.___Associated Press
writer John Duerden contributed to this story.
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