On January 13, the Chinese men's football team ushered in the second training day of this training camp. Due to the delay in the registration of all the players participating in the FA Cup final and the Chinese Super League play-offs, the team currently has only 27 people participating in training. But even so, the training ground has become very lively. After all, this is the first training session of the national football team after the new coach Li Xiaopeng took office, and the team is about to leave for Japan in ten days to continue to compete in the round of 12. "It is indeed an honor to lead the national team to training matches, and of course the responsibility is also enormous. Now our most immediate goal is to try not to drop the chain during the New Year and give fans across the country a satisfactory answer. Li Xiaopeng said.
The line of fire became the coach of the national football team, and Li Xiaopeng's first task after taking office was to lead the team to continue to compete in the round of 12. Without time to examine the players, he recruited a total of 52 people for this training. Among them, except for the 5 naturalized players and Wu Lei and Li Lei, who play overseas, the remaining 45 will all participate in the training in Shanghai. A few days before the training, only 27 people came to report. Shandong and Harbor have a total of 16 internationals, plus 2 people participating in the Chinese Super League play-offs will be postponed to meet the team on the 14th. When all the players arrive, the national football team will be divided into two teams for training, and then on the 16th and 20th, there will be two in-team warm-up matches. After two games, Li Xiaopeng will determine the national football roster for Japan.
In this training camp, all 5 naturalized players are absent, and if they go well, they will meet the team in Japan. However, in the end, several people can return to the team, Li Xiaopeng has no bottom in his heart: "When we communicated privately, they all expressed their attitude very well. Over the years, naturalized players have paid more attention to things on paper, and we don't have written things about representing the national football team. So, I'm not sure if they'll go to Japan to meet the team, and even if they do, I can't guarantee what their physical condition is. ”
This national football training is the first training of the new coaching team, and more than 10 local coaches, including Zheng Zhi, have also attracted attention. During these days of training, they are distributed in different areas of the training ground and lead the team members to carry out recovery training. In this regard, Li Xiaopeng said: "This coaching team has been very strictly screened, and my personal ability is not enough, many of them are the first-line head coaches of the Chinese Super League, and they have also made some sacrifices for the national football team to have a better performance." They contributed together for the national football team to compete in the World Cup, hoping that the team would play better in the future. Our coaching team also unified their thinking and tried to make the team perform better. ”
According to the plan, the national football team will train in Shanghai until the 23rd, and then the team will fly to Tokyo to participate in the match with japan on the 27th. The two round-of-12 matches in this period are standard away games, and after playing against Japan, the national football team will fly to Vietnam to play another away game. In particular, these two games are close to the Spring Festival, among which the match with Vietnam is on the first day of the Chinese New Year, although the possibility of trying to qualify is unlikely, but the two games of the national football team will still have a high degree of attention. In this regard, Li Xiaopeng also set a "small goal" for these two games: "The most direct goal is to try not to drop the chain during the New Year and give fans across the country a satisfactory answer." ”