Shanghai Shenhua will have new active national players officially debut in the training session on January 27, this is according to Li Bing, a reporter from Oriental Sports Daily. Moreover, the national team players will be competing with other players under Slutsky's guidance after completing the Asian Cup tournament.
Shenhua players were given a two-day vacation after returning to Shanghai from Shenzhen. This is naturally a rare opportunity to adjust for the players who have hardly stopped training since they started in Haikou.
China returned home early after failing to qualify for the Asian Cup group stage. This is actually a surprise for Shenhua manager Slutsky. If the Chinese team can enter the Asian Cup round of 16 or even 8, Shenhua's national team players will have to wait until the end of January or early February at the earliest to return to the team, and will probably miss the team's first game in the "Equalizer Cup" invitational tournament. For Slutsky, he no longer needs to stare at the TV to observe the performance of his players as he did in the past.
In order to represent Shanghai Greenland Shenhua soccer team to get familiar with each other as soon as possible, Coach Slutsky arranged the training at Kangqiao base. On the one hand, he wanted to see the physical condition of the national team players and the new foreign aiders. This year, the club has hired Robin as the head of sports medicine, who will collect data on these players and establish a player-specific database to ensure that the coaching staff can adjust the training content and intensity in a timely manner according to the different conditions of each player. On the other hand, Slutsky will also be like in Haikou training, for these new players to arrange the business aspects of learning, so that they as soon as possible to understand Slutsky's tactical concepts and the requirements of the game play, so that all the players as soon as possible to stand on the same "starting line".
Despite the relatively unexpected cancellation of the match against Riyadh Victory, the return of the national team players is also a little earlier than planned. Overall, the pace of the team's preparations for the upcoming matches will not change much. We will be organizing high-quality warm-up matches to condition the players and allow the starting lineup to gel. These remain the two goals that Coach Slutsky needs to achieve.
Meanwhile, Shanghai Shenhua is moving forward with the introduction of new internal and external reinforcements as planned. If all goes well, the team will welcome a new current national team member to make his official debut when they regroup on the 27th.
With the addition of the national soccer team and new foreign aid, it is certain that Slutsky will feel the happiness brought about by "strong soldiers and horses", but at the same time, he will also face the "sweet trouble" of "who should be used" and "who shouldn't be used". "The "sweet trouble". After all, from the current situation, Shenhua team almost every position has three, four or even five or six players, even the national team members, in the next game will also face fierce competition. So as head coach, Slutsky's task is much more than simply selecting 11 players to play.
According to Slutsky, every player is vital to a team and possesses great value. His task is to organize the players effectively so that they can play their role in the team.
