There are still 8 days left before the opening of the Asian Cup, and the national football squad has finally surfaced. Today, Beijing time, the official website of the AFC updated the 26-man roster of the national football team to register for the Asian Cup, led by Wu Lei and Wei Shihao, and the unrelated naturalized player Aikesen continued to lose the selection, and Li Ke was also not among them......
The 26-man squad for the Asian Cup of the national football team
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Goalkeepers: 1-Yan Junling (Shanghai Port), 14-Wang Dalei (Shandong Taishan), 12-Jian Tao (Chengdu Rongcheng), 25-Liu Dianzuo (Wuhan Three Towns)
Defenders: 2-Jiang Guangtai (Shanghai Port), 3-Zhu Chenjie (Shanghai Shenhua), 4-Li Lei (Beijing Guoan), 5-Zhang Linpeng (Shanghai Port), 13-Xu Haofeng (Shenzhen), 19-Liu Yang (Shandong Taishan), 22-Wu Shaocong (Turkish Youth Union), 23-Lin Liangming (Dalian), 24-Jiang Shenglong (Shanghai Shenhua)
Midfielders: 6-Wang Shangyuan (Henan), 8-Xu Xin (Shanghai Port), 10-Xie Pengfei (Wuhan Three Towns), 15-Wu Xi (Shanghai Shenhua), 16-Gao Tianyi (Beijing Guoan), 17-Chen Pu (Shandong Taishan), 18-Dai Weijun (Shanghai Shenhua), 20-Wei Shihao (Wuhan Three Towns), 21-Liu Binbin (Shandong Taishan), 26-Wang Qiuming (Tianjin Jinmen Tigers)
Forwards: 7-Wu Lei (Shanghai Port), 9-Zhang Yuning (Beijing Guoan), 11-Tan Long (Changchun Yatai)
Except for the national football team's preparation camp last month, Li Ke was late for the first training session of the national team in the United Arab Emirates and was replaced by coach Jankovic with Xu Xin, the final 26-man squad for the Asian Cup of the national football team is the same as the previous training list.
For this list, the biggest focus of the outside world is that coach Jankovic has brought four goalkeepers, even more than the three in the forward position. Judging from the previous situation, such as these young players who were selected for the training camp for the first time are just a little run-in with the team to adapt to the training mode and rhythm of the national team, but when the squad is released, their names will most likely not be among them. And this time, the 22-year-old Chengdu Rongcheng goalkeeper Jian Tao was selected for the national team training list for the first time and was able to enter the final squad, which somewhat surprised the outside world.
Such a surprise is not in Jian Tao himself, as the best goalkeeper in the two months last season, Jian Tao has undoubtedly become the key training object of the future national football goalkeeper. What is puzzling is that there are still many hidden dangers in the national football team on the front line. Although Wu Lei and Tan Long have long been the team's forwards, in addition, the only remaining striker Zhang Yuning has not yet shown signs of returning to his best condition......
On the offensive side, the midfield of the national football team is equipped with players such as Wei Shihao, Lin Liangming and Xie Pengfei, whose personal abilities can help the national football team open up some situations on the offensive end. But the team still needs to have a threat point in the attacking third that can contain the opponent, and when only Wu Lei, Tan Long and Zhang Yuning are too few, it is good to bring an extra striker, and even add a barrier in the middle and back when the back line is relatively abundant.
Speaking of the national football team, with the recent appearance of the hit TV series "Flowers", Fan Zhiyi once again broke the circle and succeeded, using his superb acting skills to let the people of the whole country better understand the history of Shanghai. In a recent interview, Fan Zhiyi said that this is an obligation as a Shanghainese......
The TV series "Flowers" is set in Shanghai from the 60s to the 90s of the 20th century, and tells the story of the major changes experienced by Chinese society at that time. For Chinese football, the beginning of the A-League in 1994 represented the beginning of the professionalization of Chinese football, and it was also a year of gradual take-off. And not long after that, in 1998, there was also a "flowering" moment in the national football team.
In the 1998 Dinas Cup, the predecessor of the East Asian semi-finals, when the national football team fell behind 1-2 at the end of the game, Zhu Qi failed to score the ball in the face of a great opportunity. After the game, Wu Chengying and Liu Jun surrounded Zhu Qi to discuss the ball he kicked just now, and there was Hu Yunfeng who was silent behind him. Halfway through the conversation, Fan Zhiyi joined the discussion, and a group of national team players communicated in Shanghainese, like a real version of "flowers" in Chinese football......
If you pay enough attention to Chinese football, then the 1998 Dynas Cup must be the "memory anchor" of the national football team in your mind. In that game, although it was the first official match led by Englishman Houghton as the coach of the national football team, the national football team still won 2-0 in the last game against Japan. Fans will not forget that Fan Zhiyi had the opportunity to shoot a penalty shot in that game to help the national football team expand its lead, and the national football team finally fell to the runner-up due to a goal difference disadvantage, and the prize money was also a lot less. After the game, there were even media reports, with the title "Fan Zhiyi kicked $100,000 away".
However, the reason why we call it a "memory anchor" is because in the 26 years since that tournament, we have not been able to defeat the Japanese team. When the "flowers" of the past bloomed to the "epiphany" that entered the World Cup in 2002, the water flow to this day is "flowers". When the national football team once again embarks on the journey of the Asian Cup, perhaps we can only stick behind them with good wishes......