After a 1-0 win over the U21 national youth team in the warm-up match, the Tianjin Jinmen Tiger coaching staff gave the team a day off on February 28, and the players who had been training hard in Shanghai for many days finally had time to adjust. With the team coach Yu Genwei meeting with the team, the construction of the Jinmen Tigers in the new season is also accelerating. On March 1, a national football player will arrive at the team to train with the team, and what surprises Jinmen fans is that this Jun is still a former Jinmen man - he is Tianjin Football's own child Wang Qiuming.
Wang Qiuming is a native of Tianjin, as the leader of the TEDA 93 age group that year, Wang Qiuming entered the Tianjin TEDA first team in 2013 and officially started his top professional league career, with a flexible mind and excellent foot skills, he quickly emerged in the team. However, in the 2017 season, Wang Qiuming played less and less time in the Tianjin team, and eventually, Wang Qiuming transferred to the then Hebei Huaxia Happiness team before the start of the 2018 season. Although it is a little helpless to leave his hometown and wander outside, these four years have made Wang Qiuming's mind and skills more mature, and in 2019 he was selected into Lippi's national football team 35-man list, and last year he entered the national team coached by Li Tie with his excellent performance in the league.
Although the work contract between Wang Qiuming and Hebei team has not yet expired, Hebei clubs have been in a state of stagnation due to tight funds, and even now there is no official notification of when the players will train in winter. In this case, Wang Qiuming, who was in the year of playing, chose to return to his parent team to train with the team, no matter in any way, he is the most perfect choice for the Jinmen Tigers. In addition to Wang Qiuming, in terms of internal support, in the case that Li Songyi can no longer continue to play for the Jinmen Tigers in the new season, the club will continue to introduce domestic defenders in addition to introducing a central defender. Not surprisingly, this week there will also be a defender of the Jinmen deceased to meet the team in Shanghai.
With the successful conclusion of the Beijing Winter Olympics, now the Chinese people have shifted their attention to the domestic arena, and the Chinese Super League has once again become the focus of everyone's attention. In the online work meeting held last week, the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Federation informed the clubs at all levels of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division of the competition plan for the new season. Among them, the proposed start time of the 2022 Chinese Super League season is April 22 or 23, and ends on November 13, which is the deadline set by FIFA to cooperate with the Qatar World Cup.
According to beijing youth daily, there are 4 sets of plans in the new season of the Chinese Super League, three of which can play 34 rounds. Of course, no matter which set of plans, the Chinese Football Association tends to adopt a home-and-away format, after all, after two years of the conference system, the brand value of the Chinese Super League has been greatly affected, and the image of the professional league needs to be re-established. However, in view of the current complex domestic epidemic situation, if the home and away system is restored, whether the fans can enter the game still needs the approval of the higher authorities in the later stage. In addition, according to football, in order to cope with the sudden epidemic, the current home-away plan of the Chinese Super League is: 18 clubs are paired one by one, the opponent's home field becomes its own backup field, once it is unable to play at home, it is immediately transferred to the stadium where the "paired team" is located; if the paired team's stadium is also unable to receive for objective reasons, it will change the home field or directly to the opponent's ball game.
In addition, at present, many teams in the Chinese professional football league are facing a serious existential crisis, and the serious problem of wage arrears has become the biggest threat to the league. In the face of this problem, the Chinese Football Association intends to introduce a "three-step" plan, the purpose of which is to give clubs a buffer time of one to two years, so that leagues at all levels can develop more smoothly.
1. The 2022 season is set as a buffer year. This season's access review is on the net, and clubs need to use this season's precious time to solve the problem of unpaid wages as soon as possible.
Second, the 2023 season of access review: if the previous problem of wage arrears is not only not solved, but also in the 2022 season there is a phenomenon of wage arrears again, then the admission will be disqualified; if the previous problem of wage arrears is not solved, but there is no more wage arrears in the 2022 season, then the league will deduct 6 points (or other points).
Third, the 2024 season of the access review, as long as there is still unpaid wages, disqualification.
It is worth mentioning that according to reporter Ma Dexing, this year, the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation have decided to make every effort to ensure the full recovery of domestic leagues, and will not consider letting the league "make way" for the AFC Champions League, the East Asian Cup and the Hangzhou Asian Games. Indeed, with a total league time span of less than eight months and only 30 weeks available, the 2022 season will feature 34 rounds of the Chinese Super League, interspersed with seven rounds of the FA Cup, in addition to two FIFA national team match windows in June and September. Although the intensity of the schedule has decreased relatively compared to the past two seasons, the Chinese Super League teams will still face the challenge of a week of double matches many times this year.
Moreover, in the three important international competition tasks of the AFC Champions League, the Hangzhou Asian Games and the East Asian Cup, the impact of the Hangzhou Asian Games and the East Asian Cup on the Chinese Super League is relatively limited. The football competition of the Hangzhou Asian Games already has an age limit, which should be played by the U23 national football team, and the Chinese Super League will waive the appearance requirements of U23 players at that time. As for the East Asian Cup, although the Chinese Football Association has not yet decided whether the national team or the U23 national football team will play, this largely depends on the attitude of the Japanese and South Korean teams to the East Asian Cup. In other words, if the opponent does not send the national team to play, the Chinese men's football team is also very likely to let the U23 national football team participate in the East Asian Cup, but also for the Asian Games to train troops, so that the Chinese Super League can also adjust the U23 players' appearance policy to ensure the normal progress of the league.
In contrast, the biggest headache for event organizers is the AFC Champions League. However, unlike the previous practice of the Chinese Super League making way for the AFC Champions League, the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Federation Preparatory Group have no intention of suspending the Chinese Super League for the AFC Champions League this year. This is because the schedule of the Chinese Super League is already tight, and making way for the AFC Champions League means that the competition organization of the Chinese Super League will be fragmented again. Therefore, the plan of how to play in the AFC Champions League this season will be completely decided by the four Participating Chinese Super League clubs.
According to the current schedule, Changchun Yatai will take the lead in a play-off round on March 15, while Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Haigang and Guangzhou teams will directly enter the group stage in mid-to-late April in the form of a tournament system. Objectively speaking, if you go all out to play in the AFC Champions League, then the performance of the Chinese Super League of each team will inevitably be greatly affected, and I believe that most teams will not make such a choice that is not worth the loss. But on the other hand, if the reserve team or youth team is sent again as last season, the team's poor performance can also be expected, after all, the performance of the teams in the AFC Champions League also represents the image of Chinese football, so that the four teams competing in the AFC Champions League are in a dilemma.