On February 22, the Chinese national football team announced the latest issue of the 39-man roster. Compared with the 52-man roster in January, the national football team has not changed much in terms of players, basically retaining the original main framework. What is more noteworthy is that the name of Wu Lei, the "first brother" of the national football team, is not in the big list; and Fernando, a naturalized player who "ran away" before playing against Japan last month, was still called into the training list by Li Xiaopeng.
The last time the national football team prepared for the round of 12, although Wu Lei came from Spain to join the big troops after the team arrived in Japan, his name also appeared in the previous 52-man list. And this time, Wu Lei was directly removed from the list, and people can't help but wonder: Is it true that the last two games of the round of 12 matches, the national football team must completely abandon Wu Lei?
In stark contrast to Wu Lei's defeat, five naturalized players, Axon, Alan, Luo Guofu, Fernando and Jiang Guangtai, were all selected for the training list. Among them, Fernando "ran" back to his hometown in Brazil before the last national football match against Japan, which had already caused great controversy at that time; this time, the national football team was "obsessed" to summon him again, was it hoping that the player would "prodigal son turn back", or did he feel that his face was not hurt enough?
As far as the news obtained so far, because Fernando has no intention of returning to the Chinese league to play, the call for the national team has actually long been excited. In this case, the national football team still includes him in the list, and the risk of encountering a second "punch in the face" is extremely high.
On the other hand, because of the sudden new crown last month, Axon did not participate with the national football team, and now it is only a month before he fell ill, recruiting such a "high-risk" player into the team, I don't know whether the national football team has the corresponding psychological preparation. Considering that the four Brazilian naturalized players all came from Brazil, if there is a "thunder", the consequences will be unimaginable.
For naturalized players, Li Xiaopeng's attitude is obviously preferred, no matter whether these players can come or not, what the status is, there must be a place for them on the list. In the last match of the national football team against Vietnam, Luo Guofu and Alain, who had not played or trained for more than two months, appeared in the starting lineup, but their performance was very weak. Taking a step back, even if the four Brazilian naturalizations all respond to the call of the national football team, how many states can they come up with now?
Of course, for Li Xiaopeng, if his task is only to stuff naturalized players into the national football list and try to send them all to the field, then this national football 39-man list has no problems, or even completes the "task" well; and if Li Xiaopeng's purpose is to make the last two games of the national football team have a more dignified ending, then some of his practices may still be difficult to harvest a desired ending.