Two men’s national football teams end the closed training camp in Hainan during the quarantine period
2022-04-24 11:00:40Source: Guangzhou Daily
Two men’s national football teams end the closed training camp in Hainan during the quarantine period
The future of “Li Jiajun” is uncertain
Zhang Zhe, all media reporter of Guangzhou Daily
On April 24, both the Chinese men’s football team and the U23 men’s national football team were disbanded on the spot after the closed training camp in Haikou during the quarantine period. Next, what will be the fate of the two men’s national football teams?
U23 National Football Team
First fight the East Asian Cup and then the Asian Games
At the beginning of April, the Chinese men’s football team and U23 national football team returned to Haikou from West Asia after finishing the top 12 match and the “Dubai Cup”, and then entered the “14+7” quarantine period on the spot. During the isolation period, both national football teams conducted closed training sessions.
After the national football team defeated the Asian top 12 in the preliminaries, there is no competition task this year. Affected by factors such as the epidemic and Zhuqiang’s preparations for the World Cup in Qatar, it is also difficult for the national football team to implement high-quality international warm-up matches during the rest of the international match day cycle this year. For the national football team, it is still unknown how the preparations for the 2023 Asian Cup will start. The Chinese Football Association and the management of the national football team will make a comprehensive summary of the current top 12 competition of the national football team. Among them, the issue of coach Li Xiaopeng’s departure and retention will be mainly studied. Before that, Li Xiaopeng’s coaching team was still leading the training step by step, and was preparing for the next job of inspecting players in the professional league division.
Compared with the uncertain future of the national football team, the task of the U23 national football team this year will become the top priority of the Chinese Football Association. After three years without international competition, the U23 national football team won the fourth place in the “Dubai Cup” in March, which is a valuable training opportunity. U23 foreign coach Jankovic believes that through the “Dubai Cup”, the team has shown many positive factors, and has seen a lot of room for improvement both at the psychological and tactical levels.
Affected by the epidemic, the East Asian Cup football match that was supposed to be hosted by China in July was changed to Japan, and the Chinese Football Association also decided to send the U23 national football team to participate. From a time point of view, the most important task of the U23 national football team this year is to participate in the men’s football match of the Hangzhou Asian Games in September, with the goal of securing eight and four. The U23 national football team will take the East Asian Cup as the most important training opportunity before participating in the Asian Games.
In order to complete the mission and goals of the Asian Games, the U23 national football team and the national football coaching team decided to transfer two U23-aged national football players, Dai Weijun and Zhu Chenjie, to the U23 national football team after consultation. It can be seen from the final stage of the top 12 matches that Zhu Chenjie has demonstrated excellent defensive ability and experience in the backline of the national football team, while Dai Weijun has injected new changes into the national football team in the midfield. Their participation in the future will enhance the U23 national football team in the The overall strength of the midfield. During the training camp in Haikou, Zhu Chenjie and Dai Weijun had already joined the training of the U23 national football team, and Yankovic recognized their abilities very much.
According to the rules of the Asian Games men’s football game, each team can also register 3 over-age players. At present, the U23 national football team has decided to second Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng and Zhang Yuning from the national football team. This will be the Chinese men’s football team since the 2006 Doha Asian Games to add over-age players to the Asian Games again. The experience of the two veterans Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng will undoubtedly further help the U23 national football team. Zhang Yuning can partner with high center Guo Tianyu, which will enhance the offensive impact of the U23 national football team in the future. The three overage internationals also joined the training camp of the U23 national football team in the late stage of the Haikou training camp. Jankovic believes that they can set a spiritual example for young players. Of course, taking into account the interests of the Chinese Super League teams, there are still variables in the three overage players who will eventually participate in the Asian Games.
Chinese Football Association plan
League makes way for Asian Games
Since the Chinese Football Association has now focused on the construction of the U23 national football team this year, the outside world is inevitably worried that the Chinese Football Association will not use the league to make way for the Asian Games like last year? Judging from the recent communication between the Chinese Football Association and the preparation team of the Chinese Football Federation, the current plan is to not arrange professional leagues during the Asian Games football match days, and instead arrange the FA Cup competition.
Affected by the epidemic, the Chinese Super League, which was originally scheduled to start at the end of April, was forced to postpone the start. At present, we are striving to start in early May. The full-season competition is divided into 4 stages, and a two-week interval is planned to be reserved between each two stages.
In the first stage, the 18 Chinese Super League teams will be divided into 3 groups in a tournament system. As for the selection of the first stage of the Chinese Super League, it is basically determined that the Meizhou Division will host a group of events. As for the other two groups, the organizers tend to arrange the competition in Dalian and Kunming respectively. However, the Dalian Division is still implementing relevant procedures for this matter. Affected by the recent domestic epidemic, Kunming City is still uncertain whether it can undertake Chinese Super League matches. In the absence of other options, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory group do not rule out holding the first-stage Chinese Super League matches of the remaining two groups in one place. At the same time, the Chinese Football Association has also initially determined that the FA Cup this season will be held in preliminaries from June to July, and the main game will be divided into 6 rounds from September.
Due to the FA Cup and the Asian Games in September, all three professional leagues are suspended, which is relatively fair to clubs with players participating in the Asian Games. However, the time left for the Chinese Super League to play 34 rounds in the new season is very limited. In order to ensure the quality of the league, the Chinese Football Association will, in principle, strive to control the interval between every two rounds of the Chinese Super League to an average of more than 72 hours.