Returning to Beijing the next day, Yankovic stepped into the office building of the National Football Association. Although the composition of the next phase of the national men's football team and the head coach Li Xiaopeng's stay is not yet clear, but the Asian Games was postponed to next year's September to October, the national football team's preparations for the Asian Games is still steadily progressing. As the team's head coach, Jankovic will undoubtedly shift his focus to the Asian Games preparations.
Yankovic plans to combine the experience of leading the team during the East Asian Cup with an in-depth summary of the NFF and a new preparation program. From the Dubai Cup in March to the East Asian Cup in July this year, high-quality matches have allowed the Asian Games team, which is dominated by players of the 1999 age group, to accumulate valuable real-world experience and improve their practical ability. However, since the formation of the team, the cumulative number of high-quality matches has not exceeded 10, and they are in dire need of more opportunities to play, especially high-intensity, high-confrontation international matches. Yankovic himself hopes that the team can participate in as many international matches as possible in the coming year.
Affected by the epidemic, the National Football Association (NFA) is unable to invite teams from other countries (regions) to compete in China during the current year. In addition, the schedule shows that the remaining matches of this season's Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division, including the critical rounds of matches relating to the interests of various competitions, will be played intensively in the second half of the year, in which domestic professional league matches will also be arranged during the international competition cycle in September, which is the last period of the international competition cycle prior to the start of the World Cup in Qatar.
As most of the members of the men's Asian Games team can get stable playing time in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division clubs, and players such as Dai Weijun, Wu Shaochong and Han Jiaqi are even the absolute mainstay of their respective clubs, it's almost impossible to "squeeze" time for training within the league's running cycle.
In this case, "go out" for men's football Asian Games team is a practical way. In fact, in order to help the national team in the epidemic period to solve the problem of "lack of practical training", the National Football Association and the collaboration of all parties, has successively sent the 2003 age group U19 national youth team, 2001 age group U21 national youth team (the new national Olympic team) to Eastern Europe training, warm-up, and will participate in the U17 Asian Cup qualifiers The 2006 age group U16 national youth team also concentrated in Yuxi, Yunnan Province on the 10th of this month, and then went to Japan for training and warm-up. For the men's football Asian Games team, which also has the important task of preparing for the war, the National Football Association will also give its full support. From a variety of actual conditions, this team is likely to be in the season after the end of the domestic professional league, cup, with reference to the other national teams to visit the way, to go overseas training, warm-up. And from the U21, U19 two groups of national youth team ahead of the reflection of the situation, the team and soccer developed countries (regions) team warm-up, its value is much higher than in the domestic and local club team warm-up or internal teaching matches.
It should be noted that, although the National Football Association actively promote all levels of national teams to overseas training, but in the issue of player recruitment, the teams will fully respect the interests of the club. For example, Liang Shaowen, an ageing defender of the U21 national youth team, who has just traveled to Japan with the national football selection team to participate in the East Asian Cup, has recently returned to the Beijing Guoan team. Also missing from the European training due to club demands are U21 national youth players Chen Yuhao from Wuhan Changjiang and Wang Shilong from Guangzhou. Guangzhou's Ling Jie and Hebei's Gao Yunan were also unable to travel with the U19 national youth team for similar reasons. It is reported that the National Football Association and the coaching staff of several national teams have reached an agreement that if some of the players are due to club demand, and indeed can get stable playing time in club tournaments, then the national teams can not call up these players at all. After all, the Association to assist the teams to visit the training, but also to create high-quality practical opportunities for the majority of players.
