The national soccer team will travel to Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18 to prepare for the Asian Cup, according to Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Blush. For this trip to the West Asia region, they will choose a regular civilian flight and try to keep everything simple. As for the warm-up match opponents during the training period, there is still some uncertainty.
The national football team will travel to West Asia to participate in the game, and the same as before to Bangkok, Thailand to participate in the 36 away games, will take the ordinary civil aviation flights. In the new cycle, the national football team must adhere to the principle of "all from simple, thrifty travel, according to the need to protect" when going out for training and participation.
According to the original plan, the Chinese national soccer team will play four warm-up matches in the UAE. Among them, they are scheduled to play a warm-up match against Oman on December 29, followed by another warm-up match against India on January 6 next year. The national soccer team has been able to get in touch with both teams quickly thanks mainly to the close relationship between Jankovic and the head coaches of both teams.
However, there is a need to reconfirm about whether the match against India is going to be played as scheduled or not. This is because the Chinese national soccer team has made adjustments to its Asia Cup preparation program after the match against South Korea.
It was initially planned that the national team would travel to the UAE on December 10 after a week of training in Shanghai, according to reports. However, the date of the full team's concentration will be postponed to December 17 due to the fact that some of the national players need to participate in matches such as the AFC Cup final and the AFC Champions League matches. Therefore, the coaching team needs to adjust the details of the current overseas training and warm-up matches accordingly. As a result, there are still uncertainties in the national team's warm-up program during the UAE.
It is also understood that the national soccer team will train in a fixed training base during its stretches in Abu Dhabi. In order to warm up for matches, the team will invite their opponents to come to the training as much as possible or play matches at venues close to the training site.
