According to the scheduled schedule, the Chinese men's football team will be in the early morning of August 26, take Qatar Airways special flight from Shanghai, direct flight to Doha, Qatar, for the upcoming Qatar World Cup Asian qualifying round of 12 matches to be held on September 2 and 7 to make full preparation for the first two rounds of matches.
According to Beijing Youth Daily reported on August 23, China's coaching staff has recently determined the three captains of the current Top 12 tournament. Continuing the tradition of the 40-team tournament, Wu Xi, Artemisia Artemisia and Yu Dabao, three veterans of the team, will continue to serve in this important role.
Captain's picks confirmed: Wu Xi, Artemisia Junmin, Yu Dabao
Recently, the Chinese team has been training at the Houpaier Soccer Park base in Shanghai's Minhang District. Given that the players have just experienced an intensive Chinese Super League tournament, head coach Li Tie in the initial training intentionally reduce the intensity, and timely arrangements for players to rest. 20 afternoon, Li Tie also allowed the players to briefly leave the resident hotel, to the city of Shanghai to meet with friends and relatives and have dinner together.
At the media conference for the national football team's 12-team tournament held in Shanghai on August 22, Li Tie and leader Zhang He repeatedly emphasized the importance of encouraging and de-stressing the international players, as the team will likely have to go through a long period of closed training, competitions and life outside the country next.
Li Tie told Beiqing Daily, "Although I didn't make precise calculations, I spend a lot of time communicating with the players every day. I don't want this communication to be like an interrogation, I prefer that we can communicate calmly and with a relaxed mindset."
In the national football team to strengthen the ideological and psychological communication work, the veterans of the "pass on" role is particularly important. It is based on the consideration of these factors, Li Tie coaching staff chose three veterans as the team's captain during the 12 strong, respectively, Wu Xi, Artemisia Junmin, Yu Dabao. This choice with the team in late May this year to determine the captain selection is completely consistent.
All three captains have played over 60 matches for their country
Authoritative soccer data site information shows that in this period of the national football training 33 players (including the replacement of the defender Zheng Zheng, Wang Shangyuan two players), on behalf of the national team to participate in more than 50 games a total of five players, they are: 83 games of Artemisia Junmin, 82 games of Zhang Linpeng, 71 games of Wu Lei and Wu Xi, 61 games of Yu Dabao. There are 3 players in the team who have not represented the national team in official matches: goalkeeper Dong Chunyu, back-rower Xu Xin, and naturalized striker Luo Guofu. Among the players with appearance records, the one with the least number of appearances is Wang Shangyuan, who only had 2 appearances in the East Asian Cup. Next, a total of 4 players have 3 appearances, namely naturalized striker Alan, naturalized defender Jiang Guangtai, goalkeeper Liu Dianzha, and wing-back Wu Xinghan.
In the current national football training squad, Zhang Linpeng, Yu Dabao, Zhang Xunzhe, Zhang Yuning, Yan Junling, Wang Dalei, Wu Xi, Artemisia, Wu Lei, Yin Hongbo, Wang Shenchao, Gao Junyi, Liu Binbin and other 13 players had been selected in the last Russia World Preliminary Round 12 during the training squad of the national football team, of which Wang Dalei, Gao Junyi, Liu Binbin did not play in the last 12 strong match.
It is thus logical that Wu Xi, Artemisia Junmin and Yu Dabao will become team captains. In fact, after Li Tie took office in early 2020, he selected Artemisia Junmin, Yu Dabao and Zhang Linpeng as captains in the first training session he organized. Since then, Zhang Linpeng missed a few training sessions due to injury, so the captain's selection was adjusted at the beginning of this year. Wu Xi, who has gradually played the center of the midfield in the tactical system of the national football team in recent years, has become one of the new captain candidates.
Wu Xi is expected to be the "first captain".
In the view of the coach and management team of the national football team, the "captain" is not only an honor, but also a responsibility, and is the ideal communication bridge between the coach, the management team and the players. The Chinese team can bravely enter the 12 strong match, not only thanks to the whole team on the pitch to go all out struggle, the Chinese Football Association will give quality logistical support, but also thanks to the whole team of unity. In this process, the three captains, both on and off the field, have effectively performed their duties as captains, assisting the coaching team to do a good job in leading the team and uniting the other teammates, especially giving more care to the inexperienced young players and naturalized players.
From the recent preparation of the national football team, the game situation, Wu Xi is expected to become the "first captain", appeared in the first round of the national football team in the first round of the 12 strong match against Australia in the starting lineup. Artemisia Junmin, Yu Dabao according to the team's tactical needs, standby at any time. When not playing, they will also take the lead in cheering for their teammates on the field, handing out water and sending towels.
