After losing to Vietnam for the first time in history, the Chinese men's soccer team has completely no hope of reaching the final round of the 2022 World Cup. Therefore, the last two World Preliminary Round of 12 matches this year are only the significance of training for the current national football team.
As the team with the largest average age in this World Preliminary Tournament, more than half of the main squad of the Chinese men's football team are veterans over 30 years old, which is harmful to the future development of the national football team.
Therefore, the national team urgently needs to add new blood, let more young players to pick up the beams of the team, and make sufficient preparations for playing the Asian Cup held in China next year.
For the current national football team, what is most needed is a player who is willing to pay 100% of the efforts on the field for the honor of the country, regardless of personal gains and losses.
Therefore, in the latest edition of the national team training roster, there are also the names of many young players who have performed very well in the league last season, and the 26-year-old Barton is one of them.
Barton, who comes from the Guoan youth training system, was excavated by coach Xie Feng from the Guoan echelon. In the 2017 season, thanks to the new U23 policy introduced by the Football Association, Barton was given a large number of appearances. And he also used his outstanding performance in the league to repay Xie Feng's trust in him.
However, after German Schmidt replaced Xie Feng as Guoan's manager, Barton gradually faded out of the team's main squad. As he grew older, Barton lost his status as a U23 player, and guoan's successive coaches have never reused him.
In order to be able to play, Barton chose to leave Guoan last year and joined Tianjin Jinmen Tigers on loan. In Tianjin, Barton Nirvana was reborn and ushered in the second outbreak of his career.
As the team's absolute workhorse, Barton played in 20 games for the Tsumen Tigers last season, scoring 2 goals and contributing 3 assists to help the team successfully complete the relegation task.
Such data obviously can not fully reflect the role of Barton in the Tianjin team, in addition to goals and assists, Barton on the field at all costs of physical running, as well as active scrambling, in the Tianjin team's flanks on both ends of the attack and defense have played a very positive role.
It is precisely because of this spirit of daring to fight and not accepting defeat that Barton has won the favor of Li Tie, the former coach of the national football team, and summoned him to the national team.
Although he was unable to represent the national football team in the World Preliminary Tournament, Barton has always used a positive attitude to complete every national team training. The kung fu paid off, and in the second match between the Chinese team and Australia, Barton finally appeared as a national football team.
In the 80th minute of the game, Barton came off the bench, and although the rest of the game was running out, Barton did not relax at all. Near the end of the game, Barton received a pass from his teammate in the front court, broke through the defense of multiple people from the right side of Australia, and broke into the penalty area to break through the opponent's goal.
Unfortunately, with handball in the breakout, Barton's goal was blown to no avail. Although he failed to score in his debut, Barton's spirit of not accepting defeat was also unanimously recognized by the team's coaching staff, media and fans. Therefore, he has also become the focus of the future national football training object.
With an injury in the final round of the Chinese Super League, Barton missed the previous national team. But Li Xiaopeng did not forget him, and after Patton's injuries healed, he once again summoned him to the national football team.
Since the current national football team has no pressure to qualify from the group, in the last 2 round of 12 matches, Li Xiaopeng will definitely use a large number of young players. Barton, who is in his current year, will definitely be reused, and we hope that he can start in these 2 games and fight for the honor of the national football team.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Barton just joined the Jinmen Tigers last month, but due to the Tianjin club being punished by FIFA's ban on transfer, Barton is now unable to officially complete the formalities for the transfer to Tianjin, which also gives Barton's old club Beijing Guoan a chance to re-sign him.
It is hoped that coach Xie Feng can use his good relationship with Barton to persuade him to rejoin the Guoan team and once again wear the familiar green jersey to play in the chinese Super League for Guoan in the new season.