In the late afternoon of March 6, the Chinese men's soccer team set foot on the Mission Hills Soccer Training Base in Haikou, where a comprehensive training session lasting more than two and a half hours took place in the gym and on the natural grass field.
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Under the coaching of Li Xiaopeng, the first time to show the indoor and outdoor training grounds of continuous high-intensity operations. This training mode quickly brought the team into an almost harsh "devil rhythm", designed to quickly improve the physical fitness of players, enhance the team in the actual battle, especially the toughness of the defense.
According to the scheduled plan, except for 5 naturalized players and Li Lei, who plays for Grasshopper Switzerland, the remaining 33 players should have arrived in Haikou on March 3rd to join the team. However, due to various objective factors, only 20 players arrived on that day. The remaining players will return to the team in the following days.
There are two main reasons why the players failed to arrive on time. On the one hand, affected by the epidemic, some international players either delayed their return trip or continued home quarantine locally after the last period of closed quarantine, and they needed time to rest and reunite with their families. On the other hand, some players need to deal with their cooperation with their clubs due to the turmoil at their clubs. For example, Xu Xin and Ji Xiang did not join the full team training for the first time until the 6th, while starting goalkeeper Yan Junling and striker Tan Long joined the team on the evening of the 6th and the morning of the 7th respectively. Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng, on the other hand, joined the team in the afternoon of the 7th and participated in the full team training.
Although the coaching staff would like to assemble the players as soon as possible, they also fully respect the rights and interests of the players as professional players and expect them to devote themselves to the preparation and competition of the national team after dealing with their personal problems properly.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the intensity of the Chinese team's training has been cranked up to a higher level since the Haikou training session began on the 4th. With the previous high and low intensity training alternating different, this period of training has been many consecutive days to maintain high intensity. By the afternoon of the 6th, the training intensity reached a peak - the team completed no less than 45 minutes of physical training at the Mission Hills soccer training base, followed by an immediate transfer to the outdoor natural grass field for a compact ball training, including intense group confrontation, outdoor training for more than 90 minutes.
It is worth noting that, in addition to Jiang Shenglong and Wu Shaocong two age players reinforce the U23 national football team in the same place at the same time to prepare for the game, the other 20 or so international players without exception participated in the whole of this ultra-high-intensity training session.
For this period of training in the early stage to take high-intensity training, the team explained that, although the team can not participate in the Qatar World Cup, but from the long-term development considerations, the team needs to quickly improve the "hardness" in the actual battle. Haikou preparation for the early stage, the main goal is to strengthen the physical reserves of the players, to enhance the toughness of the actual battle. "Even if it is difficult to win the last two games of the Top 12, the team should also show the spirit, at least in the momentum can not fall," said a team source.
At the end of the recent training session, the international players generally felt physically tired, mainly because the training was compact and almost seamless. The coaching staff put very strict requirements on the players' offensive and defensive transitions, and the speed and quality of the ball's movement in the overall defense, and there was a lot of error correction.
According to the plan, the Chinese team will carry out 4 to 5 times in a row after high-intensity training, on the 9th of this month ushered in the first warm-up game of this training period, the opponent initially identified as the Super League powerhouse Changchun Yatai team. Yatai team in last season's Chinese Super League to achieve good results in the 4th place, largely due to its excellent defensive counterattack and solid defense, which is undoubtedly a warm-up match for the national football team has a targeted significance.
