At present, the national football team announced a new roster in advance, a total of 52 players, as well as more than double-digit assistant coaches, will start training in Shanghai to prepare for the round of 12. This is the first training camp organized by Li Xiaopeng after taking office, most of the players with high external demand have been successfully selected for the national football team, and only 41-year-old Zheng Zhi did not have the opportunity to train the list of players, and was finally invited to join the national football coaching team.
Today, the Shanghai media "Oriental Sports Daily" revealed that the national football team hopes that Zheng Zhi can accompany the team to the top 12 matches, mainly to help the national football team communicate with several naturalized players, so that Li Xiaopeng can more easily coach the national team, after all, he has just taken office.
The latest coaching list of the national football team, a total of 12 former internationals, Zheng Zhi's shortlist has attracted the most attention. Zheng Zhi is the only member of the coaching team who has not retired, not only the executive manager of the Guangzhou team, but also the captain of the team, led the team to achieve good results in the second stage of the Chinese Super League, and made many appearances, showing a good competitive state, and still maintaining a high standard in the 2 positions of the back and the center back, so some fans called on the national team to recall Zheng Zhi, and the national football team urgently needed Zheng Zhi to sit in the back position.
Previously, during the period led by Li Tie, the national football team faced the problem of "waist weakness" in several games in the round of 12, Wu Xi attacked strong and defended weakly, Zhang Xizhe's ball style was soft and unstable, Arthur Junmin was also weak in attack and defense, and physically able to play half the game at most, and the ability of international players such as Chi Zhongguo and Xu Xin was not enough.
In the end, Li Xiaopeng, like Li Tie, also looked down on Zheng Zhi's competitive state, who did not return to the national football team as a player, and finally returned to the national team for the first time as a member of the national football coaching team.
Li Xiaopeng and Zheng Zhi have a very good relationship, when Zheng Zhi joined the Shandong Taishan team before, Li Xiaopeng helped Zheng Zhi integrate into the team in the team, and has always taken care of Zheng Zhi, who is Zheng Zhi's big brother.
At present, Zheng Zhi's entry into the national football coaching team means that he has no chance to represent the national football team in the top 12 in advance, and whether he will fight with the team away is still unknown.
From the perspective of Zheng Zhi's age and state, at most playing one or two seasons to face retirement, the national team after the end of the round of 12, but also to rebuild, young players are the first choice, so zheng zhi missed this round of 12 matches, the national team's career can also be said to end early.