According to the plan, the Chinese men’s football selection team led by Jankovic will gather in Qingdao on July 13, and then take a flight that takes off at 8:30 am on July 17 to Nagoya, Japan, ready to participate in the event held in Japan. The new East Asia Cup Football Championship. Constrained by various conditions, the national football selection team has only 3 opportunities for joint training from concentration to expedition. For a young team with only 4 players who have the experience of participating in international A-level competitions, this competition will undoubtedly face huge challenges and difficulties. While accepting the reality, coach Jankovic also put his main hope on the fighting attitude of the young players.
In the middle of the night on July 8, the Chinese Football Association announced the registration list of 24 players for the new national football selection team training and preparing for the East Asia Cup. Among the five “overaged international players” originally planned to be recruited, only Jiang Guangtai and Tan Long were selected. Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng and Zhang Yuning were not selected due to injuries in the league.
The registration information shows that among the 24 players, apart from Tan Long and Jiang Guangtai, only Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun have the record of appearances in international A-level events. The average age of the 22 U23 players is just 22.5 years old.
In addition to players generally lacking experience in international competitions, the mixed national football team also faces the problem of short pre-match running-in time. The calendar shows that the first stage of the Chinese Super League this season, that is, the first 10 rounds, ended on July 12. Although the games of some club teams ended on the 10th and 11th respectively. However, considering that the players had just gone through a very tight schedule in the league and needed a proper rest, the coaching staff gave up the plan to train on the 13th, which is the team’s concentration day. In this way, the national football selection team has only 3 opportunities for joint training from the time of concentration to the visit to Japan. How did Jankovic find the “best combination” to deal with the East Asia Cup in such a short period of time? The analysis of this problem is very technical.
Like the Chinese women’s football team that also went to Japan to compete, the Chinese men’s football selection team still needs to face the test of epidemic prevention work this time. According to the plan, the two teams will leave Qingdao together on a chartered plane that takes off at 8:30 am on July 17 and fly to Nagoya, Japan. Because the East Asian Cup men’s and women’s football matches were arranged at Toyota Stadium in Aichi Prefecture and Kashima Football Stadium in Ibaraki Prefecture. After entering Japan on the afternoon of the 17th local time, the two national teams will travel to their respective hotels by car.
In order to ensure the health and safety of the entire team during their visit, the Chinese men’s football selection team will learn from the relevant experience of the national football team during the World Preliminary Tournament and do a good job in various epidemic prevention work. However, during the period in Japan, the two national teams of men and women are likely to be affected by practical factors and cannot be placed in the closed loop of “bubble” epidemic prevention. In this case, all the staff will act collectively throughout the whole process, and the food and housing will be arranged in the station. The daily movement trajectory is kept between 3 o’clock in the station, training venue, and competition venue.
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