Less than 20 days left from the World Preliminary Tournament, the training work of the national football team is about to start, just at 6 o'clock in the evening of Beijing time on January 7, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the Li Xiaopeng era, the first training list of the national football team, this list of up to 52 people, basically covering the best players in China, but also some players are selected and lost, which has caused heated discussion among fans, it seems that Li Xiaopeng's list is not satisfactory to the outside world.
First came the naturalized players, this time with Axon, Lo Kwok-fu, Fernando, Jiang Guangtai and Alain being selected again. From the perspective of strength, their selection is reasonable, but the problem is that in addition to Jiang Guangtai still staying in guangzhou, the other four are currently all back in Brazil to start the holiday mode, obviously they can not return to China in time to participate in the training, whether they can successfully catch up with the World Preliminary Tournament is not easy to say. This is just a name, but not a force, but also made the fans extremely angry.
It is generally believed that instead of this, it is better to choose more young players to give them the opportunity to exercise, after all, being selected for the national team is the highest honor for players, and many young players are waiting for this precious opportunity. As for these naturalized players, it is entirely possible to re-register them after determining whether they have returned to the team in the future, without the need to squeeze out 4 valuable places in such an early stage. What's more, whether these naturalized players have always maintained the state of the game after returning to China is still unknown, if the stomachs of Axon and Luo Guofu are enlarged again, I am afraid that their actual performance on the field is not as good as that of domestic players.
In addition to naturalization, the most controversial is Li Shenglong of SIPG. Although he has made as many as 21 appearances in the Chinese Super League this season, he has only made 9 starts, and the remaining 12 are substitute appearances, averaging less than 45 minutes per game, and he mainly plays the role of Mui, Chen Binbin or Yang Shiyuan. In the Chinese Super League, Li Shenglong scored two goals and 1 assist, but there was no bright performance, and there was not much praise on the defensive end.
In addition, his teammate Lu Wenjun is a player who is more worthy of being selected for the national football team. This season, Lu Wenjun was fully qualified in the league, 20 of which were starters, scored 7 goals, and sent 2 assists, and also scored 3 goals and 1 assist in the FA Cup, scoring 13 goals alone in a single season, far more efficient than Li Shenglong. Lu Wenjun has followed SIPG all the way from the Middle B to the Chinese Super League since the age of 16, and has always served as a substitute for Wu Lei for so many years, but he has worked hard and complained, and now that Wu Lei has gone overseas, Lu Wenjun has finally won the starting position, and he has finally become the core of leading the SHANGHAI team forward, so he is more worthy of the national football shirt.
Therefore, the four naturalizations and Li Shenglong's shortlisting are to make the fans angry. Of course, Li Xiaopeng also has the right side, he recruited Dai Weijun, a popular midfield star, he is also widely regarded as the successor of Zheng Zhi and Wu Xi, but his naturalization work has not yet been completed, and he does not have the qualifications to represent the national football team, which requires the Football Association to coordinate as soon as possible and strive to complete all the procedures before playing against Japan, so that the strength of the national football midfield can be further improved, and Li Xiaopeng does not have to use controversial players such as Zhang Xizhe and Yin Hongbo again.