On March 11, a piece of news spread quickly in Beijing time: four naturalized players in Brazil announced that they could not arrive in Dubai on schedule to receive physical assessment from the national team's foreign physical trainer due to injuries and other problems. As a result, the Chinese men's soccer team will probably give up drafting them for this training session. Jiang Guangtai will be the only naturalized player left in the national team's lineup for the last two matches of the upcoming 12-team tournament.
Jiang Guangtai is currently in Dubai, with the national team's foreign physical fitness coach for physical training, waiting for the Chinese team to meet. According to the original plan, the Chinese team will arrive in Dubai on the 17th. Previously, the national team had informed the four Brazilian naturalized players to fly to Dubai from Brazil around the 10th to train with the national team's specially recruited foreign physical trainers, in order to improve their physical condition, and then to be tested by the national team. However, this arrangement was eventually rejected by the four naturalized players.
According to sources close to the situation, the four have generally said that they will not be able to make the trip to Dubai for fitness training within a week. Lo Kok Fu is injured, while Fernando, Allan and Ackerson have different reasons.
In the face of this situation, the Chinese men's soccer team may not call up these four players in this training session. It is reported that in the first two games away from home with Japan and Vietnam, naturalized players, although in time to Japan to meet with the team, but the physical state is not ideal, the state of play is not satisfactory. The coaching team proposed to let the four go to Dubai a week earlier, it is hoped that they can strengthen their physical fitness, keep up with the pace of the team's training, so that in the big team after the reunion, can maintain the same training rhythm with the national team.
"Although the last two group matches the situation of the national football team has not been optimistic, but the team will still go all out and fight for the best results." A team source said, "the hands of the existing these cards, the coaching staff will naturally select the best physical condition, the most abundant physical fitness, the best athletic state of the players on the field, whether it is a local player or a naturalized player, the key lies in who is in the best condition, who will be able to get the opportunity to play."
After these two group matches, the Chinese men's soccer team will officially move towards the 2023 Asian Cup. As to whether the four Brazilian players will say goodbye to the national team, there is no conclusion yet. In the future, they still have the possibility of being called up by the national team if they have a good performance in the league.
