At 15:00 Beijing time on January 24, the Chinese men's football team carried out the first training after arriving in Japan, the whole team of 24 players participated, naturalized players Alain and Luo Guofu arrived in Japan late, they stayed in the hotel for recovery, Fernando took leave to return to Brazil, will not play in the next two World Preliminary Tournaments. Speaking of the away match against Japan, Li Xiaopeng hopes to bring happiness to the fans, go all out, and live up to his mission.
There are new changes in the naturalized players, and Li Xiaopeng affirms their attitude
Since the World Preliminary Round of 40, naturalized players have become the focus of fan attention. From Axon and Li Ke to Jiang Guangtai, Alain and Luo Guofu, 5 naturalized players have represented the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament and scored goals. In the round of 12, Li Tie's use of naturalized players caused a lot of controversy, and after Li Xiaopeng took office, he repeatedly expressed his attitude of attaching importance to naturalized players, because he did not want to give up any players who could help the national team.
In this national football training, Li Xiaopeng included all naturalized players who could play in the list, but Axon was helpless to be absent because of the new crown infection, and Alain, Luo Guofu, Fernando and Jiang Guangtai entered the list of Japan. Ideally, the four players arrived in Japan with the national football team on the 23rd, but Alain, Lo Guofu and Fernando were stranded in Amsterdam because of flight cancellations and could only postpone their trip. On the morning of the 24th, Fernando suddenly posted that he had returned to Brazil, which became a new change.
The national football team officially released relevant information in a timely manner, confirming that Fernando chose to take leave to return to Brazil due to the health problems of his family members, and the national football coaching team agreed to his application, and Fernando returned to Brazil from Amsterdam and would not play in the next two World Preliminary Round of 12 matches. Since the success of naturalization, Fernando has never played for the Chinese men's football team and has become the most "mysterious" naturalized player. Fortunately, Alain and Luo Guofu still arrived in Japan, and after relevant tests, they met with the entire national football team.
Li Xiaopeng also has his own views on the situation of naturalized players: "Their wishes are very good, from the departure to Japan, thousands of miles to here, the confidence to help the team is beyond doubt." There were some small twists and turns in the middle, which were normal under the current circumstances, but the results were good. In the first training on the 24th, 22 players who arrived in Japan from Shanghai and Wu Lei participated in the joint training normally, and only Jiang Guangtai participated in the naturalized players. Alain and Luo Guofu arrived at the hotel late, they stayed in the hotel to resume adjustments, and under normal circumstances, they could participate in the team training on the 25th. The new assistant coach of the national football team, Pep, has been in place, and he once served as Li Xiaopeng's assistant in the Taishan team.
Li Xiaopeng looked forward to fulfilling his mission, and Wu Lei stressed that he should still do a good job
For Li Xiaopeng, the first game of coaching the Chinese men's football team is to challenge Japan away, and the difficulty of the game can be said to be very large. In an interview before training, Li Xiaopeng said that all the players who arrived in Japan from Shanghai were in good shape and had the possibility of playing, and the situation of Wu Lei and naturalized players also depended on the performance of training. Speaking about the match against Japan, Li Xiaopeng said: "We all revolve around retaining hope to develop tactics, and the rest depends on the players' impromptu performance. I think the most important thing in the game is to play normally, and the coaching staff knows Japan very well, but they also have to focus on their own performance in the game. ”
If the national football team wants to retain the hope of qualifying, the away game against Japan must strive to win, and the first leg of the national football team is 0-1 against Japan, and the process and result of that game are not very ideal. Against Japan, Wu Lei also gave his own opinion: "Although the score in the first round was 0-1, it seems that the score is not very different, but from the process point of view, everyone is not particularly satisfied, this game we have to learn from the experience of the last game, no matter what the result is, show our spirit, the state of the team and the fighting spirit." We can't be like the first round, the scene is very passive, we have to play our own things out this time. ”
To some extent, compared with the first round of the fight, the national football team will face Japan's game more difficult, for which Wu Lei is not worried, he still emphasizes to do a good job: "Although Japan's strength is above us, we recognize the gap, no matter what the result, to play their own things, to show themselves, to show the good side." We have the ability to do some things well, everyone does their best to do well, and the team will be twisted into a rope. ”
From the time node, the national football team's away match against Japan is on January 27, the 25th of the waxing moon. With the Spring Festival approaching, Li Xiaopeng and Wu Lei both hope to play a wonderful game and repay the support of the fans. Li Xiaopeng said frankly: "I really hope to use a good game process and results to bring happiness to the fans, especially to give the fans a New Year's greeting, I believe we will also go all out and live up to our mission." ”