New National Football League roster release: an analysis of complexity, explosiveness and predictability

Beijing time on January 7, Li Xiaopeng took over the head of the national football team, the first national football training list was unveiled. The list is characterized by a large number of players and a high percentage of young players. A total of 52 players and 41 staff members to form the largest national team in history. 16 and 20, the national football team will play two warm-up matches, and then reduced the lineup, is expected to 25-30 people will travel to Japan and Vietnam's World Qualification Tournament.

National football team first "big national team" training mode

Li Tie resigned, the General Administration of Sports led the Football Association to set up a men's football operations leading group, the General Administration of the leadership as head, Chen Xuyuan as deputy head, integrated resources, focusing on the advantages of strengthening the management of the national team. The current list shows "big national team" features, during the preparation for the Winter Olympics, a number of sports teams also use a similar model.

The large national team model is conducive to coaches' in-depth understanding of athletes, promoting healthy competition and selecting the best players. But soccer has its own special characteristics, the number of first team daily training needs to be strictly controlled, more than 30 people will affect the technical and tactical training. Li Xiaopeng how to manage such a huge daily training, become the focus.

The 52-player roster is 19 more than in the previous trip to Sharjah, showing a certain "draft" nature. Such a large lineup, technical and tactical training is difficult to start, need to wait until after the weight loss can officially start.

It is worth noting that the leadership team has equipped head coach Li Xiaopeng with a large team of assistants covering the league's first-line coaches and managers. In addition, there are also long-term foreign coaches such as Jose Pep. As many as 15 people of the assistant coaching team, including Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, Sun Jihai and other veterans. How this think tank will serve the national team is unclear. Some of the personnel have not even received the notice to report to the national team yet.

Most of the list may only be short-term cameos, such as Chen Yang, Yu Genwei, Zheng Zhi and Li Jinyu, who are all first-team managers in the Chinese Super League, and Li Leilei and Wang Liang, who are serving as assistant coaches, making it difficult for them to split their time. Sun Xiang, on the other hand, serves as deputy general manager of the Harbor team and is preparing for the AFC Cup final with the team.

In terms of fitness coaches, Hu Yu is a long-term partner of Li Xiaopeng and is still coaching at Wuhan. Owen Wilk, an assistant coach at Shenhua, was introduced to Li Xiaopeng by Fabio. The coaching staff will also undergo a downsizing before the trip to Japan.

The average age of the national soccer team has dropped

The average age of the national team in Li Tie's era has been the highest in Asia, and the average age of the players in the 12-team tournament is more than 30 years old. Li Xiaopeng recruited a number of young players for this training session, and the average age of the national team has dropped. The youngest player is Jiang Shenglong, a center back born in December 2000, and young players such as Han Jiaqi, Dai Weijun, Liu Ruowan, and Wu Shaochong have also been called up due to their outstanding performance in the league.

Of the national team players from Li Tie's era, Barton, Gao Junyi, Wang Qiuming and Dong Chunyu failed to make the current national team. Barton and Gao Junyi were rested due to injuries, and Dong Chunyu was replaced by teammate Wang Zhifeng after losing his starting spot in Wuhan.

Shenzhen team midfielder Dai Weijun was selected for the first time in the national team list, now still belongs to the Hong Kong Football Association of China, the naturalization of the work has not been completed, does not affect the participation in the national football training. It is reported that Dai Weijun's naturalization work is close to completion, can soon represent the national team.

All five naturalized players who participated in the 12-team tournament have been selected for the current training session of the national football team. According to the training notice, the overseas athletes will report to the place where the team will compete on January 23rd. The only naturalized players who are currently most promising to represent the national football team are central defender Jiang Guangtai. Luo Guofu, Ekerson, Alan and Fernando have already returned to Brazil, and it is still uncertain whether they can travel to Japan to join the team. Even if they arrive in Japan, without systematic training for a long time, it will be difficult for them to find their game form.

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