On the night of January 8, Beijing time, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced the new national team list, which is so large that it reaches as many as 52 people. Soon after, well-known media person Ma Dexing made an in-depth analysis of this list, pointing out that the scale of the Shanghai training may be limited to 46 people at most.
Five naturalized players are listed in this 52-man roster. Despite the fact that Ackerson, Luo Guofu and others have been released from their contracts with the Guangzhou team and returned to Brazil, the coaching team coached by Li Xiaopeng still included them in the training list. However, according to Ma Dexing's analysis, only Jiang Guangtai is expected to participate in the Shanghai training among these five naturalized players, while the remaining four will be absent. If the final list of travelers includes Ackerson and others, they can only fly directly from Brazil to Japan to meet with the team.
Madsen further pointed out that due to the 14+7 days of quarantine in China, it would be difficult for Exxon and others to catch up with the national team's training even if they left for Shanghai immediately. If they end up playing with the team in the World Cup, they will have to travel from Brazil to Japan to join the team, but their health status will be unknown at that time.
Ma Dexing revealed that the National Team Management Department has been in constant communication with the naturalized players, expecting them to fulfill their commitment and preferably arrive in Tokyo to join the team when the national football team arrives in Japan on January 23rd.
In addition to these four naturalized players can not participate in the Shanghai training, two foreign players Wu Lei and Li Lei also can not participate. They will fly from Europe to Tokyo to meet up with the national soccer team when the 12-team tournament comes around. Ma Dexing said, this means that in the announced 52-man list, at most only 46 players will be concentrated in Shanghai for training.
It is reported that the national football team plans to first play an internal teaching match on January 16, when the closure of the game will be finalized by the coaching staff. (Source: DD)
