Source: Football Gazette
By Haoxuan Zhang, Special Correspondent
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of Suning's full staff, Suning Group Chairman Zhang Near East around the 2021 Suning to adhere to what, what to believe in, what to advocate a reunion speech. However, this "all staff" may need to put an apostrophe, because the Jiangsu team players have not been centralized. At the beginning of this month when the team vacation, the players were told, when to re-centralize to "wait for the notice", after the concentration is to continue in Nanjing or go to the field of winter training, the team up and down is not clear, until now, the players have not waited for the centralized news.
Last year, the Jiangsu team arrived in Dubai by plane from Shanghai on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to start the second phase of winter training. Since Suning took over Jiangsu soccer, generally speaking, the team's first phase of winter training until around New Year's Eve before the end of the second phase of winter training start time in the Spring Festival holiday. However, this year, for various reasons, the team as early as February 6 to enter the holiday, put ten days of vacation, has not received the notice to return to the team.
Holidays become longer, the players have more time to be with their families, especially some of the players children are still small, it is possible to take advantage of this holiday to develop a good relationship with their children. However, the players also know that "every holiday fat three kilograms", more can not be long-term no systematic training, so basically will choose to go to the gym training, running, do strength, but will not play "wild ball", the most at home to move the ball.
On February 19, the team's U23 youngster Haimiti showed a picture of him training on the lawn of a park in Zhenjiang, while the day before, team captain Wu Xi and fellow international player Li Ang, Nanjing player Feng Boyuan, as well as the team's Chinese assistant coach Cao Rui, team doctor Lao Pan and other team members, rode a shared bicycle in Nanjing's Jiangxinzhou, completing a 20-kilometer ride for training, and along with them, there are also two players, Zhou Yun and Ji Xiang, whose contracts have already The team's contract has expired.
At the end of last year, Zhou Yun and Ji Xiang contract expiration, so after the team regrouped in January this year, they did not return to the team to participate in the winter training, but to the Jiangsu Provincial Soccer Training Base located in Jiangning, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and old teammates to train together to maintain the state, there are also the two Jiangsu Youth Training trained players grow up in the place, Jiangsu Football Sun Tian era, the team's training base is also located in there for a long time, the players! The team's training base was also located there for a long time during the Jiangsu football Sun Tian era, and the players ate and stayed there.
The team is slow to concentrate, the players can only think of their own way to train, the upcoming 2021 season, Jiangsu team will be what a face, at present everyone does not have a definite answer in mind, can only "let nature take its course".
During the Lunar New Year, there are a lot of hot movies, such as "Hello, Lee Hwan Young", etc. In previous years, the players didn't have much time to go to the cinema with their families, while this year, they are not in much of a mood to watch them. It is understandable that the players have such a mentality, after all, there are too many unknown factors for the team now.
Previously the first phase of winter training, the team's training by the Chinese coach Cao Rui and his family are in Nanjing, did not return to the foreign physical fitness coach Hippolyte led the team, the club's director of youth training Fairvio Pia in the sidelines of the "supervisor", the 53-year-old Italian has been in Inter Milan, Napoli, Sampdoria as a director of training or youth team manager, and also served as Sassuolo, Padova, Monza and Cremona team manager with a UEFA professional coaching license. The 53-year-old Italian has served as youth training director or youth team manager at Inter Milan, Napoli and Sampdoria, as well as manager of Sassuolo, Padova, Monza and Cremona, and holds a professional coaching license from UEFA. And Pia together "supervise the war", and Suning U15 ladder team goalkeeper Li Rui, several goalkeeper training temporarily by several goalkeepers in the oldest Gu Chao led.
Currently, five of the 16 Chinese Super League teams have yet to centralize, including Jiangsu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Hebei and Jinmen Tigers, with Qingdao set to begin training this week. According to past practice, Jiangsu will continue its preparations for the new season after re-centralizing in the second phase, during which several warm-up matches will be played. But now, the team lost the head coach, several foreign aid are not, the new season team planning in the end how, who is not clear, the players can now do, only "wait" word.
