After sleeping at the airport, Fernando withdrew from the national team match.
The official microblog of the national football team and the spokesperson of the Chinese Football Association have been busy lately.
According to the arrangement, the national football team departed from Shanghai to Tokyo on the 23rd to prepare for the round of 12 matches with the Japanese team, but the game has not yet been played, and a number of naturalized players have accidents in the process of returning to the team, which makes the Chinese Football Association have to continuously carry out crisis public relations.
An important game is imminent, but the interests of the players are uneven, which is really worth a good scratch on the head of the new national football coach Li Xiaopeng.
Axon posted on social media saying he was positive for COVID-19.
Naturalized players have "returned" to Brazil
This time the national football team visited Japan and Vietnam, the Chinese Football Association was originally ready to recruit four naturalized players from Axon, Fernando, Alain and Luo Guofu, of which Axon was the first to withdraw from the competition list.
On January 21, he announced on social media that he was infected with the new crown , which was originally a force majeure , but many netizens believed that letting Axon return to Brazil instead of participating in domestic training was itself special.
"Thank you all for your concern. I did get the coronavirus after Christmas, and this time I regret not being able to travel to Japan to compete with the national team. Axon revealed, "Now I am also actively training, adjusting my state, looking forward to returning to the national team as soon as possible and putting on the national team shirt again." Thank you to the fans for their concern and support for me! ”
The morning of the following 24th, it was supposed to be the day that the other three players arrived in Tokyo. But before 10 o'clock, the official microblog of the national football team released a message saying:
"Alain and Lo Have arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport on a Dutch flight and will meet up with the national team after obtaining normal nucleic acid test results."
However, during his transfer in Amsterdam, Fernando learned that his family members had health problems and applied to the team to return to Brazil. After the approval of the national team coaching staff, Fernando has taken the opportunity to return to Brazil and will miss this World Preliminary Tournament. ”
Fernando's positioning is already in Brazil.
Subsequently, "little motorcycle" Fernando also wrote on personal social media : "I would like to thank the FA for its understanding and for letting me leave, when I was at the Amsterdam airport, my family had health problems." I wish the team a win in these two matches of the 2022 Fifac world cup qualifiers and thank you again. ”
It is worth noting that the positioning of this dynamic is the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
Family members have health problems, which is also a normal situation, before Guo Tianyu was not selected for this list, the national football official gave the same reason. Before the national football team left for West Asia to play Australia and Oman last November, many of the local players who lost the selection also took leave for family reasons, which has become the most official reason for the players to lose the national team.
But since naturalization, Fernando has not yet played for the national football team - the official documentary data of the national football team shows that during the round of 40, he suffered a muscle strain during the training before the game against Guam and withdrew from the team, and then there was news that Fernando was dissatisfied with the coaching staff...
After the defeat, some senior media people also wrote such a paragraph on social media, "The small motorcycle is no longer the small motorcycle that was willing to come to China for 300,000 US dollars in 2015. ”
The national football team said that Fernando was absent because of family reasons.
People on the way, can bombard?
Compared with the at least superficially acceptable reasons for the withdrawal of Axon and Fernando, It is shocking that Luo Guofu bombarded the FA through social media on the way back to the team.
In the early morning of the 23rd, Luo Guofu posted on the social platform, "Our flight to Japan was changed to tomorrow, which made us wait at the airport for more than 8 hours, and now we need to wait for 14 hours, and there is no hotel or other place to rest." Congratulations on your organizational prowess, you have no respect for us at all. At the same time, he posted several photos of sleeping in a chair in the airport lobby.
Because of the epidemic, the cancellation of international flights is a common thing, and it is understandable that Luo Guofu complains that "people are on the road", but it is too much to bombard the Chinese Football Association for not respecting him. After all, flight cancellations are not something the Chinese Football Association can control.
Luo Guofu's shelling triggered a big discussion on social media, and the Chinese Football Association had to immediately "extinguish the fire" - through an interview with Xinhua News Agency, the relevant person in charge of the national football team immediately made an explanation:
Lo Guo Fu shelled the Football Association.
"The transit flight KL861 from Amsterdam to Japan was temporarily cancelled for operational reasons. The Chinese Football Association urgently contacted the KLM, KLM and the aviation service company for a solution. However, due to passport and visa reasons and the restrictions of national epidemic prevention policies, the 3 players could not travel to other eu countries for transfer. ”
In addition, because the hotel in Amsterdam Airport has long been fully booked, the Netherlands has cancelled the transit visa for epidemic prevention reasons, which has also caused Luo Guofu and others to be unable to go out of the airport to rest in the hotel in Amsterdam, so the 3 naturalized players can only rest in the airport waiting hall.
"The national team coaching team and working team have been in close communication with the players through video links, etc., seeking various solutions, and expressing understanding and apologies for the emotional fluctuations caused by the flight cancellations."
In the end, the Chinese Football Association booked the fastest flight from Amsterdam to Japan on the 23rd for 3 people.
Luo Guofu posted a picture and slept at the airport by himself.
Li Xiaopeng's "high emotional intelligence"
Of course, Luo Guofu could have avoided such a person on the road, but the above-mentioned naturalized players chose to return to Brazil for a vacation and then meet in Japan with the team.
After playing the round of 12 in November last year, after the team ended the quarantine, the local players participated in the remaining matches of the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup, while the naturalized players did not participate in the competition, and they returned to Brazil to enter the vacation mode.
To some extent, naturalized players, who already enjoy a leave of absence compared to home-grown internationals, are now bombarding managers for flight cancellations caused by force majeure on the journey.
Wu Lei and another naturalized player, Jiang Guangtai, have already met the team.
In this regard, Ma Dexing, a veteran media person, commented, "If it is also a Chinese and an international footballer, what kind of situation will it be if it happens to local players? I believe that I have long been drowned and squirted in the saliva. ”
"Now that I am a naturalized player, everything that happens seems to be the complete fault of the Chinese Football Association. Why doesn't the local international have other ideas? For the whole team, how can we do a good job of team building? ”
In order to avoid such controversy from continuing to expand, the Chinese Football Association has taken the initiative to clarify the posture - on the afternoon of the 24th, head coach Li Xiaopeng once again tried to minimize the storm of naturalized players returning to the team through interviews.
Li Xiaopeng, who has always been praised as having a high emotional intelligence, said, "Their wishes are good, they have traveled thousands of miles to Japan, and there is no doubt about the confidence and cohesion of the team. There were some small twists and turns along the way, but the end result was good. ”
After all, everything that has happened in the past few days will eventually play a role in the combat effectiveness of the national football team, and time will prove everything.