According to the plan, after the whole team completed the second internal teaching match of the Shanghai training camp on the afternoon of the 20th, the coaching team of the Chinese team will finalize the "25 (preferred players) + 4 (candidate players)" international football list for the 7th and 8th rounds of the round of the 12 rounds. The unsuccessful players will leave the team one after another from the 21st and return to various places for vacation.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the Chinese team held the second internal teaching match of the first training session of the new year at the Yuanshen Stadium in Shanghai, which was also the last warm-up match before the away game in Japan. According to the coaching staff's idea, the coaching team will select 25 players from the 52 players involved in the training list after this game to participate in the two upcoming round of 12 away matches against Japan on January 27 and Vietnam on February 1.
Beijing Youth Daily learned that the 25 people who finally registered for the competition also included "overseas players" who met the requirements of the coaching staff and had the conditions to join the team, that is, Wu Lei and Li Lei, two players who played for European clubs, and 5 naturalized (naturalized) players, if anyone was selected, they were also among the 25. The coaching staff will determine how many players will be selected from the 44 players who have arrived in Shanghai to accompany the team to Japan based on factors such as the visa situation of the "overseas players". At present, Wu Lei, Alain and Jiang Guangtai are the most likely to rush directly from Spain and Brazil to Japan to meet the team. As for whether several other overseas players can be in place, it needs to be comprehensively considered by the coaching staff.
According to the plan, the Chinese team will depart Shanghai on a charter flight on the afternoon of the 23rd and fly to Tokyo, Japan. The international players who failed to join the squad will leave the team from the 21st. Considering the considerable uncertainty in the recruitment of "overseas players", in order to cope with the unexpected situation, the coaching team also circled 4 alternate players on the basis of determining the initial selection of 25 players. These four people will follow the team at least until the whole team goes out, in case of emergency.
It is also understood that due to the limited number of personnel in the delegation to Japan and some coaches still have the heavy responsibility of leading the team, about half of the local assistant coaches participating in the current national football training will leave the team after the end of the Training in Shanghai, and local coaches such as Zheng Zhi and Sun Jihai are expected to go to Japan with coach Li Xiaopeng.
It is also understood that the new Spanish assistant coach of the national football team, Pep, will depart from Barcelona to Tokyo, Japan on the evening of January 22, local time, and then meet with the national football team on the 23rd. Prior to this, Pep had already followed the information of the Top 12 Chinese team and the rest of the opponents through modern technology, and also watched such matches as the FA Cup final. This has created favorable conditions for him to carry out new work in a timely manner.
Text/Beiqing Sports Xiao Zhao