On February 7, Henan Songshan Longmen Football Club officially announced that the whole team will be re-centralized on February 15, firstly in Zhongmou base for physical recovery training, and a series of related work such as contract renewal, signing and winter training with players whose contracts have expired, and then it will be carried out one after another.
So far, many Super League teams have yet to finalize their training dates, with Henan Songshan Longmen and Wuhan Sanzhen being the first of the 18 teams to begin preparations for the new season. The foreign aiders will gather more than a week later than the local players. After all, they had limited time with their families due to last season's epidemic, so the music department took care of them accordingly.
Recently, the Chinese Football Association released new rules for 2023, which allow only 30 players to be registered for the new season in the Chinese Super League, including five foreign aiders, five U21s and three goalkeepers, with the remaining 17 essentially belonging to the mid-career generation, so a large number of players will certainly be at risk of being cut for the new season. Foreign aiders are also facing the real problem of reorganization, and these problems must be solved one by one after the centralization.
The 2022 season was a remarkable year for the Dragonmen of Mt. Henan. Despite being affected by the suspension of Dorado and Karanga, the team ranked sixth with 17 wins, 8 draws, 9 losses and 59 points. At the beginning of last season, Songshan Longmen set the goal of retaining the sixth and fighting for the fourth, and the final result preserved the bottom line goal of the season set by the club.
According to the past practice, the whole team will start the winter training earlier, but due to special reasons, this year's re-centralization is slightly delayed, which makes Henan fans worried. After all, today's Chinese soccer environment is quite bad. Now the decision to re-centralize the time, so that Henan fans finally breathed a sigh of relief, hanging heart can also be put down. After all, it is not easy for the Central Plains Iron Army to continue to participate in the Chinese Super League against the backdrop of a poor environment, and the dark clouds hanging over the team's head can be removed.
