When the whole country is still immersed in the joy of women's football winning the Asian Cup, as a background board, negative teaching materials, and mocking objects, the Chinese men's football team, which has also been repeatedly mentioned, has also quietly made an adjustment - the Chinese men's football team officially announced that 10 new players participated in the Suzhou training camp. Among these 10 players, except for Liao Lisheng, born in 1993, and Gao Zhuanwing, born in 1995, the other players are all "post-97s", obviously, after completely losing the qualification for the 2022 World Cup, the Chinese men's football team has opened a new cycle of training plans. Of course, the future of China's men's football team is not just a matter of recruiting a few not-so-young young people.
The 10 new players recruited by the national football team this time are Duan Liuyu of Shandong Taishan, Liao Lisheng, Gao Zhunyi, Yan Dinghao, Yang Liyu and Wu Shaocong of Guangzhou team, Gao Tianyi of Guoan, Han Jiaqi of Guangzhou City, Jiang Shenglong of Shanghai Shenhua, and Tong Lei of Dalian. Among them, most of them are the old faces in Li Xiaopeng's first training list, and only Liao Lisheng, Duan Liuyu and Tong Lei are newcomers in the absolute sense.
Tong Lei, as Dalian's best local player this season - the professional data website sofascore for him to play a season average score of 7.03, second only to the two Swedish foreign aides, the position is the most scarce right-back of the Chinese men's football team, therefore, li Xiaopeng at the beginning of the flag, his call for selection is very high, but somehow, Li Xiaopeng finally chose Li Shuai, whose performance is obviously worse, this time Tong Lei's selection can also be regarded as in line with the voice of the fans. Similar to Tong Lei, Liao Lisheng, who performed prominently in the second stage of the league, can also be regarded as the "lost pearl" of the previous national football training list, but from the perspective of the time, the national football team did not lack people in the back position, with a large number of players such as Wu Xi, Xu Xin, Jin Jingdao, Arthur Junmin, Chi Zhongguo, Zhang Xizhe, Wang Shangyuan and so on, and his final defeat did not cause much controversy.
But who thought, in the end, the Chinese men's football team but in their strongest link has a problem, two world preliminary matches, Wu Xi and Xu Xin's performance are disaster-level, Li Xiaopeng recruited the 29-year-old Liao Lisheng this time, I am afraid it is not just for the future training, the league has always been known for his bravery and physical strength, it is likely to replace some of the main players who have not performed well. As for Duan Liuyu's selection, it is somewhat incomprehensible, although last season, Duan Liuyu had 3 goals and 1 assist in the league, but throughout the season, he only started for Shandong Taishan 5 times, averaging only 36 minutes per game, and has been completely reduced to a substitute.
The 10 newcomers recruited by the national football team this time have been interpreted by the outside world as a signal that more young people will be used after the two rounds of 12 to train troops in the future, but it has to be said that the most direct purpose of this supplement is to allow the national football team to maintain the training intensity during the closed isolation period, and it is difficult to say how many people can finally enter the list of the two top 12 matches in March. You know, after Alain, Luo Guofu, Jiang Guangtai and Wu Lei left, the international footballers who returned to China with large troops were actually only 22, including 3 goalkeepers, and they could not put together two sets of squads for group confrontation. The Chinese men's soccer team will not be able to lift the quarantine until February 24, during which normal training must be arranged to maintain its status. It is understood that the Chinese men's football team has begun physical training in the hotel gym since the weekend. The team plans to start the first collective outdoor joint training after returning to China tomorrow (February 8), and the addition of many new people will also promote internal competition in the team.
For these newcomers, the pressure they face to be selected in the current public opinion environment is different from the past. Because in the new year's nest of defeats to Vietnam, but also because the Subsequent Chinese women's football team showed the opposite of the strong will, so that the Chinese men's football team, which was already in the whirlpool of public opinion, was once again pushed to the cusp of the storm, dodging the ball, making mistakes, chopping chickens in white, eating sea cucumbers... All kinds of ridicule emerge in an endless stream, in the future, the women's football team in Suzhou closed isolation, will certainly be taken out from time to time to "torture", the two world preliminary tournaments in March, although the victory and defeat have long been irrelevant to the overall situation, but the Performance of the Chinese men's football team every minute will still be taken under the magnifying glass, and every mistake will become the "black material" in the future. Under such huge pressure, whether these newcomers can show stronger morale and more engaged attitude is probably more important than their own technical and tactical ability.
Of course, as one of the "earliest teams to prepare for the 2026 World Cup", the Chinese men's football team wants to get rid of today's embarrassing situation, just relying on supplementing a few new people to participate in the training, and it is far from enough to use a few more young players in the game, and the team still has a series of problems to be solved. For example, how long can Li Xiaopeng take it? Judging from the current situation, the last two rounds of the round of 12 will probably still be commanded by him, but what about after the round of 12? Whether it is from Li Xiaopeng's personal will or the technical and tactical ability he has shown in the game, he is not a suitable candidate for long-term leadership. Does the national football team want to reactivate the foreign marshal, and is the Kim Jong-fu that the Korean media broke out really have a thing or catch the wind and catch the shadow? After all, there is an East Asian Cup in July this year and a more important Asian Cup next year, and as the host of two events, the Chinese men's football team obviously can no longer perform as badly as the Top 12.
For example, when will the 2022 season calendar be released? Judging from the poor performance of the Chinese men's football team in the last two round of 12 matches, last season, the extremely unreasonable league schedule was hard to blame. This season, the Chinese Super League has expanded to 18 teams, and it is necessary to make way for the World Cup to end early, and in July, it will insert an East Asian Cup, and the schedule will become a problem again. How to arrange the schedule reasonably and coordinate the balance between the league and the national team training will affect the state of the international footballers to a certain extent. As fans said in a message under the official micro of the Chinese football team, "Don't just think about training, only train without playing, the players are stupid, quickly restart the new season, maintain league coherence is king ..."