At present, the national football team has successfully arrived in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and checked into a local hotel. Although there was no charter flight to the overseas training camp, the hotel in Abu Dhabi was fully enclosed, which is equivalent to chartering the hotel for training to ensure the training effect and privacy. Subsequently, the warm-up opponents of the national football team for this training were also determined, including the clubs of the local second-tier league and the Oman national team, and the significance of the training is still relatively obvious. Jankovic will use these warm-up matches to determine the squad for the Asian Cup. Due to the off-season in China, the state of the international players is different, and the squad may be different from the original during the Asian Cup.
However, when the national football team was training in Abu Dhabi, there was a sudden unexpected situation on the front line, that is, naturalized international player Li Ke left the team for some reason. According to official news from the national team, Li Ke asked for leave from the national team for family reasons and has now left the team and returned to the United States from Abu Dhabi. Originally, the national football team was very lacking in the back position, and now the departure of the main back is a headache for Jankovic. With Li Ke's departure, the national football team immediately recruited Xu Xin from China, who will soon rush from China to Abu Dhabi to join the national team. The lack of a main midfielder will greatly affect the effectiveness of training.
After the national football team arrived in Abu Dhabi, it had already conducted recovery training, but in the latest training session, Li Ke did not appear, and later the national football team officially announced that Li Ke had left the team. If the training cycle is not long, it will be possible to do without Li Ke, but this training camp will last for nearly a month and is connected to the Asian Cup schedule, so the coaching staff urgently recruited Xu Xin from China after consultation. Originally, Xu Xin was also in the selection list of the coaching staff, but he was not selected for the final 26-man squad.
At the same time that the national football team departed from Shanghai to Abu Dhabi, Shanghai Port also opened a training camp, so when Xu Xin received the notice, he was also in the state of training and immediately set off from Shanghai to meet the national football team. However, Xu Xin's current state is relatively average, and he is not even as good as the team's Maitijiang, but Jankovic's selection principle is that whoever participates in the training camp more times and is healthy will be chosen. As a result, the number of internationals at the harbour has increased by one more, contributing five internationals.
The specific reason for Li Ke's departure is unknown, and some fans ridiculed Li Ke for returning to the United States for Christmas, as well as New Year's Day and New Year's Day. However, as a professional player and playing for the country, I don't think Li Ke will give up playing for the national team for such reasons, and it is an important event like the Asian Cup. It is also unknown when Li Ke will return, and it is also unknown whether the national football team will recruit him at that time. Now the back position of the national football team is very weak, Li Ke has been away from the field for a long time due to injury, and he only returned this season, if he can't play for the national football team in the Asian Cup this time