On the evening of March 24, Beijing time, the national football team will usher in the competition with Saudi Arabia's top 12 matches, and the "Li Jiajun" who has no chance to qualify will fight for honor in the last two matches. In an interview, Xu Xin also said that everyone will go all out to strive for breakthroughs and progress.
Just before the national football team goes out, another national team will take the lead in debuting. The 1999 chinese U23 team will challenge the first opponent of the "Dubai Cup" International Invitational Tournament in the early morning of Beijing time, the host UAE U23 team. Since the U23 national football team will participate in the Asian Games men's football match held in Hangzhou in September this year, after the national football team was out of the round of 12, the national youth team aroused new expectations from fans.
After the big brothers lost to Vietnam, this pressure also spread from the national football team to all the national teams.
In the last training session before the game yesterday afternoon, the whole team began group confrontation training after a simple preparation activity, and head coach Jankovic asked the players to quickly play the ball within two feet after receiving the ball, which also greatly improved the rhythm of training, and the whole training rhythm was no less than the official game.
In the past, in the last training before the official game, the coach would often choose the main training of restoration, but Jankovic did not think so, emphasizing discipline, physical confrontation and sacrifice spirit is his leadership policy.
"My request is simple, not for one person. This is the rule of the world of football, and if you want to win in a high-intensity confrontation, you must have a strong body. If the physical fitness and strength are not up to the mark, we will lose. Players have to know what unhealthy food is and you can eat a little more, but you also have to train harder for that. Jankovic even bluntly said that a player with a fat rate of 15% cannot play at a high level.
Not just for others, Jankovich is almost strict with himself: 10 kilometers a day, extremely healthy diet... In his team, all players must eat breakfast before 8 o'clock, and players with a body fat rate of more than 10% cannot play.
It may seem harsh, but looking at the world, you have to pay for being a better player unless you don't want to.
Although there has been no official competition for two years, the Dubai Cup is not a big test for Jankovic, and at the Asian Games in August, China's U23 will participate as the host, but what kind of answer sheet can be handed over at that time, perhaps we can also glimpse it from the Dubai Cup.