"If you look to high-level football, they all play between 12 and 15 meters between each other. It is a dynamic block. A dynamic block is what I saw he brought in a pretty short period," he said.

Li said his dual careers as both player and coach equip him with the credentials to take over the post left by Marcello Lippi, who resigned on November 14th, 2019 following a 2-1 away loss to Syria.

"I received football training in Brazil and luckily I played all the three games China played at the 2002 World Cup finals, after that I joined Everton," he said.

Li played at Everton for 34 Premier League games over four season's before being transferred to Sheffield United in the summer of 2006.

In 2017, he joined Lippi as the Italian's assistant at Guangzhou Evergrande.

"I learned a lot from Lippi, which made me what I am today," he said.

"Now as a coach, I can say nobody knows more than me about the Chinese national team players," he said.

The CFA said they will build a competent team of experts to help Li.

"As a coach, you don't need to afraid to have quality people around you, because quality inspires quality," said Van Puyvelde.

"Don't surround yourself with people who only say yes, but surround yourself with people who want to add some additional quality. When you put the additional quality together, the team around the team also will be better," he said.

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