At noon on February 7, Beijing time, the national football team suddenly announced the news, confirming the recruitment of 9 new stars and a 28-year-old midfielder Liao Lisheng, the 9 new stars are Gao Zhunyi, Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu, Wu Shaocong, Gao Tianyi, Han Jiaqi, Jiang Shenglong, Tong Lei, Duan Liuyu. This time the operation of recruiting new people directly released the signal that the national football team ushered in 2 major changes, first, the national football lineup changed dramatically, due to the lack of access to the World Cup in the early two rounds, the lineup will be dominated by young players and focus on the future; second, the goal of the national football team has changed dramatically, the team's goal has changed from impacting the 2022 Qatar World Cup to running into the lineup system and promoting new people, and the next game will not pay too much attention to winning and losing, kicking out the spirit, so that people can see that the future is the primary goal of the national football team.
The addition of 10 internationals covers the front, middle and back three lines of the lineup, which means that Li Xiaopeng's next important work is to reconstruct the front, middle and back lines of the lineup, hoping to increase the vitality of the national football team through young players. Striker Yang Liyu, like Guo Tianyu, Zhang Yuning, Wei Shihao and others, is the potential core main force of the next World Preliminary Tournament; midfielders Duan Liu Yu, Gao Tianyi and Dai Weijun have become the young players just needed by the national football team, and the talent reserve of the national football midfield is quite thin, and the next World Preliminary Tournament may have to pin hopes on these players.
Backline, Gao Zhunyi, Jiang Shenglong, Tong Lei, Han Jiaqi, Wu Shaocong and Zhu Chenjie and other young players let the national football team see more hope on the defensive end, the back line is also the best line of the national football talent reserve, Li Xiaopeng as long as the matching of the appropriate tactical system, let them form a good overall, the overall strength of the national football backline is not as difficult as the midfield.
After the 10-person substitution, the national football training list will increase to 36 people, including 26 people who have previously gone to the away field to play Japan and Vietnam and 10 people who have been added this time, the detailed 36-man list is: Wang Dalei, Liu Dianzuo, Yan Junling, Zhu Chenjie, Zhang Linpeng, Wang Shenchao, Arthur Junmin, Wu Xi, Xu Xin, Jin Jingdao, Zhang Yuning, Zheng Zheng, Yu Dabao, Tan Long, Ji Xiang, Deng Hanwen, Chi Zhongguo, Wei Shihao, Liu Yang, Liu Binbin, Dai Weijun, Luo Guofu, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei, Jiang Guangtai, Alan, Gao Zhunyi, Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu, Wu Shaocong, Gao Tianyi, Han Jiaqi, Jiang Shenglong, Tong Lei, Duan Liuyu, Liao Lisheng.
This time to adjust the supplementary list, Li Xiaopeng should look at the long term, not only to prepare for the final matches of the two World Preliminary Round of 12 in Asia in March, but also to prepare for the East Asian Cup in July, the task of running into the lineup and training young players is arduous and long. According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the national football team resumed training on February 6 after returning to China by plane from Vietnam on February 3, but all employees adopted closed quarantine until February 24.
According to the schedule, the national football team will be on March 24 home against Saudi Arabia, 29 away against Oman, due to the domestic difficulty in hosting home matches, the next home of the national football team may be arranged in the United Arab Emirates again, the media predicts that the next training time of the national football team is about mid-March. The 10 people who made up the recruitment will enter the training station of the national football team in Suzhou, conduct closed training, and train until the end of the month, in advance to prepare for next month's World Preliminary Tournament.