The two coaches of the national football team, Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng.
The evening of January 4 is the final round of the 2021 Chinese Super League regular season, followed by the promotion and relegation play-offs and the FA Cup final, and the 2021 season will be completed.
At the end of this month, the national football team will play two away matches with Japan and Vietnam in the seventh and eighth rounds of the round of 12, and the Chinese Football Association will soon announce the national team list.
According to the surging news reporter, this national team list will be very different from the past - the final model is likely to be a large list of close to 50 people.
To some extent, the latest list of the national football team is very similar to Lang Ping's second coaching of the women's volleyball team before, as well as the "red and blue national team" model of the Chinese men's basketball team in recent years.
New players such as Gao Tianyi will participate in this training session.
50-man national team lineup?
Usually, the national team training player model common in world football is about 25-27 people, and the final head coach who participates in the competition will choose 23 people.
During the national football round of 12, because of the long-term training and competition in West Asia, former coach Li Tie selected 33 players, which is almost the largest number of training players that the national team can afford, otherwise it is difficult to carry out daily training in a field.
Previously, according to Beijing Youth Daily, new players who are active in the Chinese Super League, including Gao Tianyi and Yan Dinghao, will participate in this training session. In addition, according to the surging news reporter, experienced veterans like Zeng Cheng, who missed the last stage of the round of 12 due to injury, will also return to the national team.
Similarly, due to the consideration of gradual upgrading, a group of international players in the 1993-1997 age group, such as He Xi, Li Shenglong and Wei Zhen of Shanghai Harbor, are also expected to be selected for the big list.
In addition to some international footballers with inspection implications, the national team also has a considerable number of absolute main players, such as some backbone players in the Li Tie era's top 12 matches, so that the entire national team list will be greatly exceeded.
If all goes well, the national football squad will be announced in about a week, when the number of players may approach 50.
Zheng Zhi will join the new national team coaching staff.
Emulate the women's volleyball team and set up a "big national team"?
The new national football team can be said to be a new national team formation model under the new management. Previously, according to a number of media disclosures, the management of the national team has changed, and the sports management department has begun to intervene in the management of the Chinese Football Association.
In fact, in addition to the expansion of the player list, it is matched by the increase in the list of coaching staff.
Recently, a number of former internationals from different periods have entered the list of national football coaching teams, including Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, Zhao Junzhe, Li Jinyu, Li Leilei, Sun Xiang and Sun Jihai.
Coupled with Shenhua physical fitness coach Owen Wilk and some of the former national football coaching staff who stayed behind, it is not a big problem for national football players to train in two sets of teams.
In fact, such a concept similar to the big national team, there is no lack of precedent in the three major goals.
As early as Lang Ping's second time in the process of leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to prepare for the Rio Olympic Games, she proposed the concept of "big national team" - there are more than 30 people in the big list, and there are more than 20 people participating in the training each time, and each position always maintains three or four people competing.
Not only the increase in the team, the coaching staff is also very large, in addition to Lang Ping and Lai Yawen, there are six male coaches, three doctors, in addition to the team doctor Wang Kai, who has been with the team, there are medical experts and rehabilitation engineers from the United States.
In 2017, the Chinese men's basketball team also adopted the model of "red and blue national team".
At that time, the national team coached by Li Nan was called the "red team", and the national team coached by Du Feng was called the "blue team". Finally, before the 2019 World Cup, the two national teams merged into one, headed by Li Nan.
From the perspective of actual combat effects, the Chinese women's volleyball team has cultivated a number of players through the big national team model in the Rio cycle, and Gong Xiangyu, Yuan Xinyue and so on have emerged. But on the men's basketball side, the "red and blue mode" is basically considered unsuccessful with the failure of the local World Cup.
Can the men's national team model go smoothly now? Maybe time will slowly give the answer.
(The Paper)