On February 22, the Chinese men's national football team announced the new 39-man training list, and Barton from Tianjin Jinmen Tigers was on the list. According to the plan, the Chinese men's football team will officially lift the quarantine on February 24 and disband in Shanghai, and a week later, the whole team will regroup in Haikou to prepare for the last two round of 12 matches.
After losing back-to-back to Japan and Vietnam in the two round-12 matches around the Lunar New Year, the Chinese men's soccer team has decided to miss the World Cup in Qatar two rounds in advance. According to the epidemic prevention regulations, all members of the national football delegation began a 14 + 7-day quarantine after returning to China from Vietnam, and the whole team was quarantined in the "closed loop" of Suzhou. It is reported that the national football team conducted the last outdoor joint training of this training in Suzhou on February 22, and on the 23rd, the team left the Suzhou resident hotel and was collectively transferred to the designated hotel in Shanghai in the closed-loop mode of epidemic prevention, and after receiving the nucleic acid test and passing, the whole team was disbanded in Shanghai on the 24th. However, the national team is not on this horse, according to the plan, the whole team will be re-concentrated on March 3.
There are 39 players in this training list, including 10 players added at the beginning of this month, a total of 32 people participated in the recent Suzhou training camp, and the left-back Li Lei, who plays for the Swiss Grasshopper Club, as well as Jiang Guangtai, Luo Guofu, Axon, Alain and Fernando, are also listed. In addition, The Tianjin Jinmen Tigers' Barton also returned to the national football team again after recovering from injury. Although the national football team has now failed to qualify for the group, Barton is still full of expectations for the upcoming national football journey.
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I am very happy to be selected for the national football team again, and I will always follow the Jinmen Tiger to participate in winter training until the march 3rd assembly. During the holiday period has also been paying attention to the dynamics of the national football team, the World Cup qualifier out is definitely regrettable, losing is no one wants to see, but now the result has become a foregone conclusion, can not blindly immerse in regret and regret, should think about how to improve and break through in the next training. In this national team training, I first of all want to train well, let the manager see my characteristics, and strive to follow the big troops to these two games, my expectation for myself is that if I have the opportunity to play, I can't leave regrets for myself, I want to play my technical characteristics without reservation to fight to grab the attack, hoping to get the first goal of my national team.
———— Chinese men's soccer player Patton
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After the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers officially assembled in Shanghai on February 17, Barton has been training with the team normally. In the final round of last season, Barton left the court early due to injury in the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers game against the Cangzhou Lions, and now he has recovered from the injury and begun to gradually find his form.
Although this holiday has been around for a long time, I have been playing two games a week when I am almost recovering from injury, running in the gym three times a week, and doing some strength training, so I have maintained my good state. The yoyo test on the first day of coming back was also more satisfactory, and there was no problem with injuries and could train normally. At the beginning of last season, it was also before the start of the league this team was formed, so far in the new season, the reinforcements are good, the winter training is not good, all the work is in an orderly manner, as a team member, this year we must be more confident, we just need to take every training class seriously, cooperate well with our teammates, run more, and the rest is to see results in the game.
It is worth mentioning that Wu Lei, who maintained full attendance in the World Preliminary Round before this, and Guo Tianyu, a young center, were not selected for this period of training. It is reported that this is the Chinese Football Association and the Coaching Staff of the Chinese team for the development of the players' careers, temporarily do not disturb their normal training in their respective clubs, but the national team will keep in touch with them, if the national team still has the need to recruit, then the two of them can also go straight from Europe to the West Asian competition site. Judging from the composition of this training list, head coach Li Xiaopeng is interested in "promoting" young players. Among the 10 players added at the beginning of this month, except for Liao Lisheng, who was born in 1993, the remaining 9 are "post-95" players. This also means that the focus of the next preparation of the national football team will shift to the 2023 Asian Cup and the 2026 World Cup.
In addition, although the Chinese men's football team has missed the World Cup in advance, for the only two remaining World Cup matches, from any point of view, the national team will not give up easily, which can also be seen from the recruitment of overseas players and naturalized players. In terms of coaches, in view of the parallel state of national team training and pre-season preparation of clubs, coaches who work in their respective clubs temporarily leave the national team, and those coaches who do not serve in the club will continue to assist Li Xiaopeng. In addition, Brazilian physical coach Owen Wilk and Spanish assistant coach Pep will also continue to participate in the second training camp of the national football team.
Although similar to the "Li Xiaopeng Phase I" training camp, as many as 39 people were selected for the training list, but also affected by the epidemic, the Chinese team could only train through "internal confrontation" before participating in the round of 12 in late March. In practice, the total number of players representing the Chinese team in West Asia is likely to not exceed 25. After the historic away defeat to Vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese team were under tremendous pressure. Li Xiaopeng and his disciples can only regain their dignity through the last two rounds of competition, and avoid letting Chinese football continue to explore in the trough.