According to the scheduled plan, China's men's national soccer team will be assembled in Shanghai on August 18th to prepare for the Qatar World Cup Asian Zone 12 tournament, which will start in early September. However, at the end of the week, the Guangzhou City Football Club came to the bad news that Tang Miao, the captain of the team and the main right back of the national football team in the 40th round of the tournament, suffered a serious injury. It is reported that Tang Miao will undergo surgery on August 10, and the earliest recovery time will be until the end of the year, which means that he will miss the first six rounds of the 12-team tournament. Tang Miao has also become the first national football starter to suffer a serious injury before the 12-team tournament, which is undoubtedly a huge loss for the national football team.
However, it has been reported that the national soccer coaching staff has recently drawn up a huge list of alternative international players for the Top 12, far more than the 60 or so who played during the Top 40. The head coach will select about 30 people from this list to participate in the upcoming Shanghai training and the first two rounds of the Top 12 tournament. At right back, the likes of Wang Gang, who has recovered from injury, are among the options available to Li Tie.
On the evening of August 7, Guangzhou City Football Club announced through official channels that captain Tang Miao has torn the lateral meniscus of his right knee and will undergo surgery next week. Beiqing-Beijing Headline 8 verified from Guangzhou City Football Club that Tang Miao's surgery will take place next Tuesday (10th), and it is expected that he will not recover until the end of the year at the earliest. The schedule shows that the first six rounds of the 12-team tournament will be completed this year, so Tang Miao will be sure not to participate in these six rounds.
The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou City Football Club told Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter that the club feels very sorry for Tang Miao's serious injury. "He shoulders a heavy responsibility in the national team, and he also puts his best foot forward in the club. Really feel sorry for him ......," the source said.
As with Guangzhou City Football Club, both the CFA and the national team's coaching staff feel regret and sadness that the hard-working veteran has suffered a serious injury at this time. It is understood that the CFA will next treat Tang Miao as well as Guangzhou City Football Club in accordance with the regulations.
As of August 8, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has not been able to confirm whether it will be able to play home matches in its home country. However, the team's pre-match preparations, especially the training preparations, are already on track as the national football team will face Australia away in the first round of the 12-team tournament. Unsurprisingly, the whole team will gather in Shanghai from the 18th onwards, and then the travel itinerary will be finalized in detail according to the confirmed home venue of the first opponent, Australia.
Affected by the epidemic, the Chinese team is faced with the possibility of participating in home and away matches outside the country one after another, and it is likely that the preparations and matches will be carried out under strict closed-loop conditions to prevent the epidemic. In this case, the CFA in addition to help the national football team through the front station properly organized epidemic prevention, travel, hospitality, training venue organization and other matters, but also need to carefully select a sufficient number of able to fight the national football team to deal with the intensive schedule and a long period of time closed centralized working environment.
It is understood that before the national football team to participate in the 40 strong match, the coaching team had first circled more than 60 people's national football alternative list. Through the 40 strong match and after the first stage of the Chinese Super League, part of the selected candidates for international football (such as Tang Miao) appeared to be injured or poor athletic state, part of the candidates for international football (such as Wang Gang, Zhu Chenjie) to recover and excellent condition, so Li Tie in the selection of the 12 strong match out of the international football list, it is inevitable to make some adjustments. In addition, some of the players who were not in the list before also performed well in the recent Chinese Super League, so they were also able to add to the list lineup. As the AFC does not have a detailed limit on the number of players that can be initially enrolled in each of the participating teams for the 12-team tournament, the coaching staff of the Chinese team will be able to include all the names of the players that meet the conditions of the call-ups in the list.
As for Tang Miao's absence, who will take his place, at present Li Tie's selection is relatively rich. For example, Wang Gang, the Guoan player who missed the second half of the 40-team tournament due to injury, was the main right back for the national soccer team in the first half of the 40-team tournament during Lippi's reign, and he had an eye-catching performance during the recent Super League matches on behalf of his club. As for the alternative side backs available now, Wang Shenchao and Gao Junyi are both capable of playing left and right, with both playing in the harbors and at Evergrande's starting left back position. Recently, Li Lei, Jiang Zhipeng and other different periods of the main left back of the national football team in their respective clubs are also more outstanding performance, in this case, Wang Shenchao, Gao Junyi can be completely liberated to the right side of the road. In addition, one of the main center backs of the 40 strong national football team Linpeng has also served as the right back of the national football team and the Guangzhou team, if Li Ang and comeback Zhu Chenjie can be timely top, then Zhang Linpeng was moved to the side, it is not impossible to try.
On August 8, the 13th round of the Chinese Super League will start in Guangzhou. Li Tie and his assistants are highly concerned about the last 2 to 3 rounds of the first phase of the league (there is still 1 round left in Suzhou), in order to cope with unforeseen circumstances such as Tang Miao's serious injury. According to the routine of the last two years, Li Tie tends to recruit about 27 people to participate in the training of each period. And in view of the major 12 strong match and the reality of the epidemic at the moment, he did not rule out the possibility of a moderate expansion of the training lineup. And specific personnel planning is likely to be around 30 people.
