According to the assembly order issued by the CFA, of the 31 players assembled by the Chinese men's national team in this cycle, except for striker Wu Lei, who plays for La Liga's Espanyol, the rest of the players must arrive at the team's resident hotel in Shanghai by 6:00 p.m. on August 19th to go through the signing-in procedure. Among them, the players from the first stage of the Chinese Super League in Guangzhou need to finish signing in before 12 noon on the 18th. It is reported that the team plans to start the first outdoor training of this training period at 4:00 p.m. on the 18th at the base of Houpaier Sports Park. In the coming week of Shanghai assembly, the players' physical recovery and fitness reserve will be the focus of attention.
In order to cope with the upcoming Qatar World Preliminary Asian Round of 12 in early September, the Chinese men's soccer team took the middle of this month as a starting point to carry out a week or so of assembly in Shanghai, followed by a trip to Doha, Qatar, to prepare for the first two rounds of the 12 rounds of the tournament against Australia's away showdown and an away challenge against Japan. The national team's coaching team and staff completed their check-in on the 17th, and players from the Guangzhou-based teams participating in the first phase of the Chinese Super League also checked in by 12 noon on the 18th. It is worth noting that only players from Guangzhou Football Salon and Shandong Taishan Salon have been called up for the tournament, with eight and six players from each of the two teams selected, occupying almost half of the national team's assembled lineup for this period.
Of the remaining 17 internationals, apart from Wu Lei, who plays for Espanyol, the other 16 could have delayed their arrival to the team until the 19th as they were representing their respective clubs in a bye to the 8th round of the Chinese Super League (CSL) in Suzhou, which took place on August 15th. However, given the tight timeframe for preparation, head coach Li Tie still decided to start training from the 18th.
Similar to previous training sessions, despite the players' general fatigue after an intensive league campaign, their desire to qualify for the World Cup Finals round in Qatar made it imperative for them to overcome the difficulties and enter the next phase of preparations with a full head of steam. It is reported that players have been arriving in Shanghai since noon on the 17th. The first to arrive was Jiang Guangtai, a naturalized player from the Guangzhou team, followed by Eckerson, Luo Guofu and other naturalized players as well as other players from the two salons in the Guangzhou region. Head coach Li Tie also arrived at the venue in the afternoon of the 17th.
In view of the serious situation of epidemic prevention and control, CFA and the management team of the national team have put forward strict epidemic prevention requirements for all members. All members will be uniformly tested for nucleic acid upon arrival. And during the matches in Shanghai and abroad, all members will be arranged in independent rooms. For meals and personal actions, the national team has set the same strict internal epidemic prevention rules.
Although as of noon on the 18th, only 14 international players to the team, but in order to help the team enter the state of preparation as soon as possible, Li Tie still decided to carry out the first outdoor training in the afternoon of this training session. Although the players after a few days of rest, but the body is still relatively tired, so the necessary physical recovery or "wake up" training will be the focus of the training sessions in the next day or two.
