May 6 news, according to the Beiqing reporter Xiao Miao news, June national football team to fight Thailand's world preliminaries life and death, Alain almost nailed back to the national football team. Beiqing reported the following:
On the evening of the 5th, accompanied by Chinese and foreign assistants such as Tokić and Shao Jiayi, Chinese men's football Croatian head coach Ivanković went to the Beijing industrial stadium to watch the 10th round of the Chinese Super League, Beijing Guoan hosted Chengdu Rongcheng's focal point of the game. It is understood that after the three Chinese assistants went to Germany to train and return home, the Chinese and foreign members of the national football coaching team will focus on the new phase of the team training international players in the near future. In the case of Wu Lei confirmed that he missed the June 6 China-Thailand "battle of life and death", the return of naturalized striker Alan is almost certain. Recently, the attacking forward Xu Haoyang, who has been playing well at Shenhua, and Zhang Xizhe, who is "getting more and more demonic with age" at Guoan, are still a must.
The battle between Guoan and Rongcheng was undoubtedly the most watchable and powerful conversation in the Chinese Super League that round, and it also became the only game Ivan Kovacic went to watch live that round. Of course, Ivan's purpose of watching the game was not simply to watch the game, but to examine the key players with a purpose. Among the Guoan team, Wei Shihao and Wei Tao are worthy targets for Ivan, including Li Lei, Zhang Yuning and Zhang Xizhe.
However, in this marquee match, the foreigners of the two teams played the absolute protagonist. Not only the three goals are from the foreign aid, and foreign aid also affect the trend of the game. In the previous rounds of the game, under the restriction of Rongcheng's back Zhou Dingyang's mandatory defense, Guoan captain Zhang Xunzhe, who repeatedly gave away "scalpel" passes, did not perform well. However, Guoan's left back Li Lei, who became a substitute for the national team, ran all over the field, showing his physical fitness and simple defense.
In fact, Ivankovic hopes to find a suitable replacement for the two men by examining the league, as striker Wu Lei and midfielder Li Yuan are both suspended and missed the "life and death" match with Thailand in mid-June. From the current situation, the naturalized striker Alan, who plays for Qingdao West Coast, is the ideal replacement for Wu Lei. Although Zhang Yuning missed the last round of Guoan's match against Jinmen Tigers due to injury, and played a little bit of time as a substitute in the second half of the match against Hibiscus, Ivankovic very much recognizes Zhang Yuning's ability. Zhang Yuning and Alan have combined in Guoan's forward line before, and there has been a tacit understanding between them for a long time. Therefore, this Guoan team is responsible.
Judging from Ivan's statement at the beginning of his tenure and the recent survey of players by the national soccer coaching staff, the upcoming training of the new national soccer team at the end of May will definitely recruit a certain number of newcomers. In their recent surveys, the national soccer team's foreign coaching team has looked at a number of players who have excelled in the league. In addition to national soccer veterans like Zhang Xizhe, there are also young newcomers like Shenhua's Xu Haoyang and Guoan's He Yupeng. After 10 rounds of the Chinese Super League, Shenhua, Seaport (with one less round to play), Guoan, Rongcheng, Taishan, and Jinmen Tigers are ranked among the top six in the league standings, and most of the new national footballers will come from these clubs. Usually the top ranked clubs are also big athletes for international players, so international players are more likely to come from these teams.
Speaking at a press conference after leading his team to a victory over Sungai City, Guoan head coach Luis Suarez said he does not select players based on their nationality or age. When it comes to selecting international players, national soccer team manager Ivan also doesn't "draw the line" based on a player's age. That's why he has been paying attention to Zhang Xizhe and other veteran players recently. It is known that the main reason why Zhang Heizhe impressed the coach of the national soccer team was that he helped Zhang Yuning break the deadlock from "God's point of view" in the match between Guoan and Zhejiang. Although Ivankovic did not go to the game, but he also through the review of the game video attention to this detail.
In addition to the players mentioned above, some sharp players who are currently in the middle and lower league positions, or players with distinctive technical characteristics, have also attracted the attention of the national football coaching team. For example, left back Jiang Zhipeng and Zhejiang midfielder core Li Tixiang, who recently performed well on behalf of Wuhan Sanzhen.
It is understood that the coaching staff of the national football team is likely to draw up a preliminary training list based on the players' recent investigations, and then come up with the final candidates based on the status of the target candidates next in the league and possible personnel injuries.
So far, Alan has played 10 matches for the national football team, contributing 3 goals and 1 assist. Alan was last selected for the national football team in the last 12 of the 2022 World Qualifier.
