The Chinese men's soccer team traveled to Thailand yesterday afternoon after completing its final domestic training session for its first World Cup qualifier, according to the Daily News. The trip to Thailand was extraordinarily secretive, with the team's head coach, Jankovic, scheduling only one official training session, and even that was only half-heartedly done during set piece drills.
China have reportedly departed from Shenzhen for Bangkok to begin their 13th bid for a World Cup ticket. Head coach Jankovic is keeping the tactics of the match between China and Thailand on the 16th very much under wraps. It is reported that today's "stamping" activity is mainly to let the players get used to the local weather and field conditions, and there is not much in terms of tactics. After this match, the fate of the Chinese team may change completely.
Since the 11th, the Chinese team has begun targeted training. In these training sessions, the main focus was on localized pressing and attacking and defensive transition. Coach Jankovic has worked out the training plan very carefully and emphasized the need for players to strictly observe tactical discipline, a valuable lesson learned from the warm-up matches. Due to the end of the Chinese Super League season, the national team players were fatigued as a whole, in addition to some players having injuries. Therefore, the Chinese team did not experience "high-intensity" training in Shenzhen during the preparation, and did not simulate a full-court confrontation. Due to the lack of testing, it is not yet known whether Coach Yang's tactics are actually effective.
Considering that the mighty South Korea is in the same group, for both China and Thailand, the first match is very critical and there can't be any mistakes or they will be passive. Because of this, the coach attaches great importance to the tactical confidentiality of the work, for several consecutive days to take measures to seal training, to ensure that the training content is not leaked. The Chinese team reviewed the training content in the morning of the 14th in the field of the Shenzhen Grand Olympic Center. Considering that it is difficult to ensure the secrecy of the training in the away game, so only arranged today a stepping on the field training, so that the players to find the feeling and state, positioning ball training is only half-true, will not be completely show the real tactical design, hope to be able to give the opponent an unexpected blow.
