Two reinforcements from the Asian Games team have arrived, and the Olympic team will move to Belgium to participate in warm-ups

China's 2001 U22 Olympic team, which is training in Croatia, returned to Zagreb last weekend after two southbound matches, and began preparations for this week's two matches. Two players who previously participated in Dubai and Croatia with the 99-year-old U24 Asian Games team have also arrived to join the team, but Tao Qianglong and others remain in China.

The third confrontation was reversed

Last week, the Chinese Olympic team traveled south from Zagreb to near Split to compete in two matches against Croatia's First Division. On the afternoon of April 4, local time, the Olympic team played the second match of the Croatian League, and won 3-1. The next day (5th), the Olympic team went to a stadium in downtown Split to play the third match of the first division against NK Croatia Zmijavci.

In this game, the Chinese Olympic team sent another set of lineups to play, especially several selected former U20 national youth team players such as Hu Hetao, Bai Helamu and Mu Talipu all played, only central defender Liu Haofan did not play due to injury. Moreover, it is precisely because of the lack of personnel in the central defender position that Kim Shunkai, who played the day before, continued to wear the battle, and Kim Shunkai became the only Olympic player who played two consecutive games in two days. In this game, although the National Olympic Team is a new lineup combination, it still performed well after the start of the game, and was able to continue to control the initiative on the field, and Hu Hetao created a penalty opportunity in the opponent's penalty area, and Zhao Jianbo hit the penalty to help the National Olympic Team lead 1-0. This result was also maintained until the end of the first half.

Because Zmijavic lost 1-3 to the Olympic team in the first round of confrontation in the second half of last year, he did not want to lose again this time, and began to make continuous changes after changing sides, and by the end of the second half, the opponent had changed 10 players, and even replaced all the main players in the league. The National Olympic Team did not change and continued to use the lineup in the first half to deal with the opponent. Although the opponent used a counterattack to recover a goal, the Olympic team experienced a whole new scene in the final moments. Croatia's local referee who enforced the match also seemed to be well aware of Zmijavci's "routine", not blowing the final whistle as long as he did not score a goal. So, it wasn't until the 6th minute of stoppage time that the opponent scored the second goal, and the final whistle was blown immediately less than 2 minutes later. In the end, after 8 minutes of injury time, the Olympic team was reversed 1-2 and lost the match.

Of course, before the opponent scored the second goal, the Olympic team also had two excellent counter-attack opportunities, and if they could seize even one time, they could reverse the opponent, but unfortunately they did not seize it. Therefore, for the Olympic players, although they cannot win in the doorstep of others, the key is that they have not been able to do a good job. And this situation is still very helpful for players to play in Olympic qualifiers in the future, because no one knows if they will encounter similar situations when participating in major competitions in the future. Such an experience obviously helps the growth of the player.

However, regardless of the result of the game itself, the performance of the players is still very good, even the newly selected national youth team players can basically follow the requirements and deployment of the coach on the field, after all, the current result is not what the coaching staff and the team value. After the match with Zmijavci, the Olympic team boarded the return bus and rushed back to Zagreb overnight. After arriving in Zagreb, the team arranged a break the next day. Then, starting April 7, the team resumed normal training to prepare for the fourth and fifth matchups of the week.

Unlike the Croatian trip in the second half of last year, which was more for participation in the competition, during the Croatian training period in the first half of this year, in addition to participating in the competition, the team had relatively more time to train, because the team's overall technique and tactics still need to be more tempered through training, and participating in the competition is a test of the training effect. Therefore, so far, the Olympic team has been in Croatia for a month, but the density and frequency of competitions is not like the second half of last year, basically adopting the rhythm of one game a week, but generally arranging two consecutive games, and in these two games, the coaching staff of the Olympic team will divide the existing personnel into two, arrange all players to participate in the game as much as possible, so as to better observe the technical and tactical implementation of the players, and select players for the final Olympic qualifier team.

The Asian Games team arrived first and two people

In addition to the first batch of 22 players aged 01 who left from Shanghai, several players who played in the U20 Asian Cup with the U20 national youth team have also arrived and started training and competitions with the team. In addition, the Olympic team has six players who have been drawn to the U24 Asian Games team under the age of 99. After the Asian Games team returned home from New Zealand, two players have arrived in Croatia to join the team, while three players are still in the country, and two of them are likely not to participate in the Croatian training camp.

The first to arrive was central defender Liang Shaowen from Beijing's national security team. After returning home with the Asian Games team on March 28, Liang Shaowen made a slight adjustment and rested for three days before leaving for Croatia, and began training with the team on April 2. The reason why Leung left so early was because he was not able to play for the Asian Games team during his previous trip to New Zealand. Liang Shaowen himself very much hopes to be selected for the National Olympic Team to participate in this year's Olympic qualifiers, and the biggest difficulty of the National Olympic Team is the lack of central defenders, so Liang Shaowen left for the National Olympic Team in advance to report.

A circumstance that needs to be clarified is that originally, Ruan Qilong and Liang Shaowen, who were also from the Beijing Guoan team, were considered the most suitable central defender combination for the National Olympic Team, but before the team left, Beijing Guoan said that it would use Ruan Qilong in the new season, and the National Olympic Team agreed to keep Ruan Qilong in order to support Guoan. Unfortunately, Nguyen Chi Long suffered a serious injury (fracture) during a training match before the season, which not only greatly affected the employment plan of the national security team itself, but also made it unrealistic for Nguyen Qi Long to catch this year's Olympic qualifiers. In this case, the National Olympic Team can only re-find suitable candidates in the central defender position, and Liang Shaowen offered to return to the team early in this case, of course, the National Olympic Team could not ask for. Therefore, Liang Shaowen became the first "skipping" player to report to the National Olympic Team.

Abdu Rousuli from Shandong Taishan became the second "skipper" to report on April 7, and after resting, he traveled from Shanghai to Zagreb via West Asia. When he arrived in Zagreb, the Olympic team returned to Zagreb after two confrontations in the south.

According to the previous list of training camps announced by the Olympic team to Croatia, four players are still in the country. Among them, Liu Zhurun from the Shanghai Port team is recovering after returning to China for further surgery after breaking his nose during the warm-up match with the Asian Games team in Dubai. Due to the nose injury, it is not suitable for flying, so it is necessary to continue rehabilitation in China for the time being. And midfielder Abrahan Halik, also from Shanghai Port, has not traveled to Croatia for the time being because of a foot injury and is also actively receiving treatment after returning to the club. However, because the injury is only repeated and the situation is not serious, Halik will soon travel to Croatia to report to the team.

The remaining two players, Tao Qianglong and goalkeeper Huang Zihao, are likely to stay in China and play with the club team in the Chinese Super League or China League One. Originally, these two were also preparing to go to Croatia, but Wuhan Three Towns asked: Because the club wants to use Tao Qianglong in the new season, can it not go to Croatia for the time being? In view of the club's relatively resolute attitude, at this stage, in line with the principle of cooperating with the club, there is no requirement that the three towns in Wuhan must release people. Therefore, at the Super Cup in Hangzhou on April 8, Tao Qianglong's name also appeared in the substitute list of the Wuhan Three Towns team. As for Huang Zihao, it is because Nanjing City Team will focus on using it when participating in the China League One in the new season, and Huang Zihao himself has been the absolute main force of Nanjing City Team before he went to Croatia with the National Olympic Team. For the national Olympic team, because it is to participate in the competition, it is definitely beneficial to the growth of the players themselves, so for the time being, Huang Zihao was not forced to go to Croatia.

Will move to Belgium to warm up

In addition to participating in 12 matches against Croatian First Division and arranging international B matches with European national teams of the same age during the FIFA designated national team competition window, there is also an arrangement different from last year, that is, the team plans to go to Belgium in the middle of this month to participate in two or three warm-up matches.

It is important to make such an arrangement in the hope that the Olympic team can play as many teams as possible with different styles, techniques and tactics during the Croatian training period, so that the players can be more adaptable. Although the overall scene of European football is "fast-paced, high-confrontation and pressing", football is still very different between different countries. The Olympic team warmed up in Croatia, because the players of the Croatian team are generally more physically strong and more confrontational, so the Olympic players can be more adapted to the physical confrontation. However, in Belgium, because there are many black players in Belgian teams, especially in teams of this age group like the Olympic team, their physical quality is a different type than that of European players, and the tactical changes are more diverse. Therefore, the main purpose of arranging the national Olympic team to go to Belgium is to participate in the competition, play with several Belgian club teams, and let the players experience a completely different style of European football.

At the same time, because the environment and atmosphere of Belgium are completely different from Croatia, players have been training in Europe for a long time, and changing their residence during the period can constantly maintain the freshness of the players, and to a certain extent, it can also ensure the effect of training camp. It should be said that after the first Croatian training in the second half of last year, the Olympic team went again this time and improved and improved a lot on the previous basis. And all this is in the hope that the Olympic team will be the first to stand out in the first stage of the Olympic qualifiers in September this year and reach the final stage first.