After an 11-hour long-distance flight, the new Chinese men's national team led by Jankovic arrived in New Zealand, and will next play two international A warm-up matches with the New Zealand men's football team on March 23 and 26, which is the first official match of the national football team after Chen Jiayuan's accident, and it is also the official debut of Yankovic after taking office, but it was snubbed by CCTV and reporters.
During last year's World Cup qualifiers, Chen Jiayuan accompanied the entire national football team to the same away stadium, all by arranging charter flights to arrive at the competition point, while most people took the more expensive and more comfortable business class, and Chen Jiayuan used personal connections to solve the problem of logistics support of the national football team.
Now that Chen Jiayuan was suddenly investigated, the Football Association arranged to choose a low-key, this time to New Zealand gave up charter flights, while not taking business class, the number of people traveling is about 45, choosing an ordinary civil aviation passenger plane, the vast majority of players are sitting in economy class.
After arriving in New Zealand, manager Jankovic did not let the team rest and immediately led the players to a recovery training in order to adjust for jet lag as soon as possible.
The list of the national football team for this away game, there is no naturalized player, Axon and Jiang Guangtai, who were previously selected for the training list, were abandoned by Jankovic at the same time, because the physical condition of the two is not up to the requirements, so the next warm-up match between the national football team and the New Zealand team will appear in the lineup of the whole Chinese class, including Wu Lei, Lin Liangming, Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng, Liu Yang, Deng Hanwen, He Chao, Xie Pengfei and others are expected to start at the same time.
According to the latest world rankings, the national football team ranks 80th, the New Zealand men's football team ranks 104th, the difference between the two teams is 24 places, but the overall strength of the national football team is in the downside, after all, the squad is there, the New Zealand men's team has 22 people playing in overseas leagues, of which 11 play in the European League, and the national football team does not even have one.
According to statistics, the past three games against the New Zealand men's football team have been friendly matches, and the national football team is expected to continue to win this away game because of the different attitude of the opponent.
Unexpectedly, the national football team's expedition to New Zealand has been paid attention to, first of all, CCTV did not arrange a live broadcast, preferring to broadcast the game video in other sports fields at the same time, and secondly, only 2 domestic reporters reported with the team, both from a media outlet of "Sports Weekly", reporter Ma Dexing revealed this.
All this stems from the poor results of the national football team itself, and it is inseparable from a series of negative events of the Chinese men's football team at this stage.