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Wednesday, April 18, 2001, updated at 15:49(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
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Milutinovic Confident to Alter Destiny of Chinese National Football TeamChina Men's National Team left Kunming for another expedition of the world cup Asian Qualifier April 17 afternoon. Head coach Milutinovic is very confident of his team. He believes that he is capable of leading his team to success and make a change of the failure history.Milutinovic said that China has failed to qualify for the world cup several times. He is very anxious to alter the failure history. He said that China has made remarkable progress in recent years, players have come to a high level of football concept. So he is quite confident of the qualifier match. But sleek as he is Milutinovic said in a cautious way: football is a round and anything could happen once you start the match. Only when the game is over, can you know the final result. A total of 25 football players went to Xi'an for the group qualifying match. However, some veteran forwards are absent due to injuries and Milutinovic has to send Li Jinyu and Li Yi to serve as reinforcement. By PD Online staff member Li Yan
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