According to Wang Xiaorui, a reporter from Sports Weekly, Shanghai Harbor, composed of reserve team and first-team substitutes, flew from Pudong International Airport to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, at noon today, officially opening the journey of the new season of the AFC Champions League. But unlike the previously reported 26-man AFC Champions League squad, Harbour only took 20 players with him to Thailand this time. Several players who were previously brought to Suzhou by the first team to participate in the Chinese Super League, such as Chen Wei, Du Jia, Zhang Wei, Zhang Yi and Chen Chunxin, are not listed, and former international Fu Huan is the leader of the Harbor AFC Champions League team.
According to the report, the Harbor team has been preparing for the new season of the AFC Champions League since the beginning of the year, but the situation has not been too good. The biggest variables come from the frequent changes in the coaching staff and the uncertainty of the participants. From the beginning of the year to the present, the team has gone through three coaching team training, and finally in early June, it was finally determined that the "Sino-Japanese combination" was determined by Wu Bing, the former assistant coach of the national youth team, partnered by Japanese coach KaneKo Takashi. As for the big list, it was not until this Thursday (17th) that it was finally fully implemented. Among them, Nie Meng, a full-back who has been training with the first team since the beginning of the year, also received a notice to go south to Thailand on the 17th.
Born before 1997, there are only two players left: former international Fu Huan and former Olympic midfielder Jia Tianzi. It is understood that the reason why Chen Wei, Du Jia, Zhang Wei and others did not go out with the team was based on the personnel needs of the first line team of the harbor. Especially in the position of goalkeeper, Yan Junling has just returned to China from the United Arab Emirates with the men's national football team, and is still in the quarantine observation period. If Chen Wei and Du Jia go with the team to the AFC Champions League, Lecco will encounter the embarrassment of having no goalkeeper available when he leads the first team to train every day. However, it is even more unfortunate that young goalkeeper Liang Kun, born in 2003, suffered an injury some time ago. As a result, the Harbor team went to Thailand to compete in the AFC Champions League, and there was only one goalkeeper left to use - Guo Tong, the goalkeeper of the national youth team, and the overstretched use of personnel was evident.
Under such circumstances, the elite generals that this harbor team can rely on are concentrated in the oldest Fu Huan, as well as several former national Olympic players Hu Jinghang, Lei Wenjie, Gao Haisheng, Wei Lai and so on. As for fu huan, who has attracted much attention, it is reported that it is likely to serve as the captain in this AFC Champions League journey. With his age and seniority, it is also a shame for him to wear an armband in this harbor team. However, regarding the allocation of jersey numbers in the game, it is expected that the team will follow the earliest reported AFC Champions League roster of more than 50 people. As a result, in this AFC Champions League, there will be a number of Harbor players wearing "big" shirts above the 30th.
In addition, in order to do a variety of support services in an all-round way, the harbor team carried 20 players in addition to 16 additional coaches, team doctors and staff to go south together, and the total number reached 36. At present, the Harbour Club has set up two sets of plans for the team's return trip. If it is unable to qualify in the qualifiers, the team is expected to leave for Shanghai in the early morning of the 26th. If you can successfully enter the group stage, you will initially plan to return to china on July 13.
(Editor: Yao Fan)
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