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January 11, the national football team assembled in Shanghai, opened the 2022 first assembly. The biggest challenge in front of Li Xiaopeng is to quickly integrate the team to prepare for the next training. Pudong Century Park soccer stadium is about to usher in a team made up of many players, enough in number to form three teams. From the 12th to the 23rd, Li Xiaopeng will have to complete the task of "zero to whole" in less than two weeks, to form the away lineup for the Asian qualifying round 12 matches in Japan and Vietnam. This is not only his first test as a national football manager, but also a big test can not afford to lose.
-Li Bing, Eastern Sports Daily reporter
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Two internal warm-up games to decide roster for Japan
Describe Li Xiaopeng's feelings when he first coached the national football team, "strong soldiers and horses" four words can not be more apt. Even if Wu Lei and Li Lei delayed return in Europe, naturalized players can not participate in the Shanghai training, but Li Xiaopeng hands hold 46 players card, assistant coaching team is also luxurious to the extreme, "people shortage" word for him, does not apply.
Li Xiaopeng's first training session after taking over ran into the same problem as his predecessor Li Tie: a lack of warm-up matches.
The national soccer team had invited Shenzhen to warm up in Shanghai last October when preparing for the 12-team tournament. After Li Xiaopeng took office, he hoped to arrange two high-quality warm-up matches during the training period in Shanghai, but the international tournament could not be arranged, and the warm-up with the Super League China A team could not be realized because of the end of the league. On the one hand, the team is on vacation after the play-offs, and most of the foreign aiders have already arranged their return trips, so the possibility of the complete line-up playing is very low; on the other hand, the players at the end of the season are physically and mentally exhausted, and the value of the warm-up matches is also not great.
Therefore, the national football team in the first training in 2022, exceptionally called in 52 players. In addition to responding to the principle of forming a "big national team", internal teaching matches have also become the main way to warm up. The industry generally believes that this is the best choice at present. On the one hand, the coaching staff can examine more players in close proximity, and cultivate young players from a long-term perspective; on the other hand, through internal competition, not only can solve the problem of warm-up matches, but also select players who meet the requirements of the national team.
In the plan, "Peng a period" in Shanghai training period will be 16 and 20 for two warm-up games. As Shandong Taishan and Shanghai seaport players to wait until the 14th to report to the 16th game may not have too much investigation significance. The real reference value is the match on the 20th. It is expected that the list of the team to travel to Japan and Vietnam will be around 25 people, excluding Wu Lei and Li Lei who will go to Japan directly, as well as the naturalized players who have not yet been confirmed, less than half of the players may be able to go to Japan with the team, the elimination rate is quite high.
