In accordance with the scheduled process, China's soccer team coaching team in the afternoon of the 20th, after completing the second internal teaching match in Shanghai training, will quickly decide to prepare for the seventh and eighth round of the 12 round of the road showdown "25 (main selection) + 4 (alternative)" national team players list. At the same time, the players who failed to be selected will leave in turn from the 21st, each returning home to rest.
At the Shanghai Yuanshen Stadium in the late afternoon of the 20th, the Chinese team started the second internal teaching match of the first training session of the new year, which is also the last round of warm-up before going on the road to Japan. The coaching team plans to handpick 25 of the 52 players from this training session after this match, who will feature in the away matches of the Round of 12 on Jan. 27 against Japan and Feb. 1 against Vietnam.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the final list of 25 players will also include those who meet the ability of the coaching team and can return to the team in a timely manner, which means that Wu Lei and Li Lei, the two players playing in Europe and five naturalized players, if selected, will also be listed among them. The coaching team will decide how many players will go to Japan with the team from the 44 players arriving in Shanghai based on the visa status of the "overseas players" and other factors. At present, it seems that Wu Lei, Alan and Jiang Guangtai have the highest probability of traveling directly from Spain and Brazil to Japan to join the team. As for whether other overseas players can be in place, the coaching team still need to comprehensively consider.
According to the plan, the Chinese team will take a chartered flight from Shanghai to Tokyo, Japan on the afternoon of 23rd. And the international players who failed to be selected will leave one after another from the 21st. In view of the uncertainty of overseas player recruitment, the coaching team in determining the initial list of 25 people, but also identified an additional four alternative players, these four people will be at least with the team until before the trip, just in case.
In addition, due to the delegation to Japan personnel quota is limited as well as some coaches are still shouldering the heavy responsibility of leading the team and other factors, about half of the local assistant coaches will be in the end of the Shanghai training team, Zheng Zhi, Sun Jihai and other local coaches are expected to go to Japan with the head coach Li Xiaopeng.
It is reported that the new Spanish assistant coach of the national football team, Pep, is expected to depart from Barcelona later on January 22nd, local time, and fly to Tokyo, Japan, and join the national football team on the 23rd. Before the departure, Pep has been through modern technology to pay attention to the 12 strong Chinese team and the opponent's information, and watched the final of the AFC Cup and other matches, which for him to quickly start the work of the convenience of the conditions.
