U23 national football team
Training does not reduce the amount
Today (23rd) evening, China's 99-year-old U23 national football team will play in the host UAE team for the first round of the Dubai Cup. However, in the last practice yesterday (22nd) afternoon, head coach Jankovic did not reduce the amount of training because the team was going to participate in the game, on the contrary, he still arranged a fairly intense training session.
In addition, after many efforts and continuous bargaining, CCTV finally reached an agreement with the Dubai Cup Organizing Committee to broadcast the Dubai Cup tournament in which the U23 national football team of the Chinese 99 age group participated in the live broadcast. This is undoubtedly good news for fans who care about Chinese football.
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Liu Zhurun may replace Tao Qianglong to start
Since they will participate in the Dubai Cup the next day, according to the requirements of the organizing committee of the event, all participating teams must undergo nucleic acid testing the day before the game, and a report of all participating players with negative nucleic acid tests need to be submitted to the competition supervisor before the competition. Only those who are negative can play, and if they test positive, they must be quarantined and never allowed to compete the next day. This is also to ensure the safety of all participants. Therefore, at noon yesterday (22nd), the U23 national football team received nucleic acid testing in advance at the hotel where it stayed. This is the second collective nucleic acid test carried out by the team after staying in the hotel. In the evening, the test report came out and all the players were OK. In this way, the U23 national football team can send all players to play.
As with previous days of training, the U23 national team is still training at the training ground used by the first team within the Sharjah Club training base. The team left the hotel at around 16:00 p.m., took a bus to the training ground, and started training on time at 16:30. After a series of preparatory activities began, Jankovic directly followed the two groups that had been assigned before the training, and launched an 11-on-11 team confrontation training in the half-court, and clearly stipulated that each player must play the ball within two feet after receiving the ball. The players immediately began a variety of scrambles, the atmosphere is no less than the game, and the whole rhythm, the connection is very fast, especially the players in the confrontation directly out of the various tackles, the scramble is very fierce, the whole confrontation lasted about 15 minutes.
After a simple replenishment, the players, under the command of the physical fitness coach, carried out several sets of rapid round-trip sprints on the field. Subsequently, Jankovic arranged for the players to continue to re-launch the 11-on-11 squad confrontation within a half-court period. As in the first half, the players still did not hesitate to fight and fight on the field physically. It can be said that throughout the training, the fight between the players of both sides is everywhere.
It is worth noting that in the warm-up match against the UAE's Waheda team in the previous two days, Tao Qianglong started and swam behind the center. But after half-time, Tao Qianglong was replaced, becoming the first player in the team to be replaced. The other players did not have five players to be replaced at the same time until the U23 national football team equalized the score. Obviously, Tao Qianglong was replaced, which was related to the performance in the first half was not ideal. In the confrontation yesterday afternoon, Tao Qianglong was assigned to the substitute side and was not able to wear a yellow vest. Of course, during the confrontation, Tao Qianglong also exchanged vests with the other side. Judging from this situation, it is very likely that Tao Qianglong will not appear in the starting lineup today (23rd) evening as a starter.
After the end of the entire team confrontation, Jankovic also arranged for the team to practice set-pieces such as free kicks and corners to prepare for the Sino-Argentine war.
According to the arrangements of the organizing committee, the match between the Chinese team and the UAE team will be arranged at the Maktoum bin Rashid Stadium, and the match is scheduled to kick off at 20:00 p.m. (24:00 Beijing time). Before this match, China's opponents Thailand in the second round will play Qatar first, and the game will also be played in this stadium. This also allows the U23 national football team to watch the Thai team's game in advance, and by the way, prepare the outpost battle in advance for the second round of the game.
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CCTV broadcast the U23 match live
As early as the news that the U23 national football team will participate in the Dubai Cup, many fans who still care about Chinese football are constantly inquiring about the news to find out whether CCTV will broadcast this game in order to watch the game and understand the situation of this team. After all, after the men's national team has been eliminated in the World Preliminary Round of 12, the next step is to look at the performance of the young players in this team, and wonder if you can see some hope in these young players. On the other hand, the team in this age group has never appeared in front of Chinese fans in the past two and a half years, and although the team itself has organized many training camps in China, it has never participated in an official competition. In this way, CCTV also failed to broadcast, which made it impossible for fans to know more about the situation of this team.
It is understood that after the U23 national football team confirmed to participate in the Dubai Cup, CCTV has contacted the organizers of the event at the first time, hoping to understand the copyright situation. Of course, CCTV is also more hoping to meet the wishes of domestic fans, so that everyone can know more about this team and care about the future of Chinese football. However, in the process of negotiation, it took a bit of trouble. The most important thing is that the other party's quotation is too high. The reporter has previously reported that perhaps because all parties in the participating teams have raised broadcast demand, the price offered by the organizers of the event is 1 million US dollars (packaging price). This price is still too high for CCTV or tv stations in other participating teams.
After discussion, CCTV decided to buy the broadcasting rights at the last moment, of course, the price certainly did not need to be so high. However, to allow domestic fans to see the performance of young players of the U23 national football team, especially in the current period when Chinese football is in a low period, broadcasting the international warm-up match of the U23 national football team is also a kind of support for Chinese football by CCTV.
According to the arrangement, the first round of the U23 Chinese U23 National Football Team in the Dubai Cup is against the host UAE team on March 23, the start time was originally scheduled to start at 16:00 local time in the United Arab Emirates, and after consultation, it has been postponed to 20:00 local time (0:00 a.m. Beijing time on March 24). Moreover, for better broadcasting, the playing field was changed from the originally planned Awell Stadium, one of the main stadiums of the Aheli Shabab Club, to the better Maktoum bin Rashid Stadium. This stadium is the main stadium used by the UAE national team when it participated in the World Preliminary Round of 12 in January this year, and it was also one of the stadiums used in the 2019 Asian Cup.
However, the second round of matches against Thailand on March 26 was still scheduled to take place at 16:00 local time (20:00 Beijing time). The opponents and timing of the third round on March 29 will not be finalized until the end of the second round.