According to the scheduled plan, China's men's national soccer team will gather in Shanghai on August 18th to prepare for the Qatar FIFA World Cup Asian Zone 12 tournament, which will be launched in early September. However, just this weekend, Guangzhou City Football Club came with heavy news that Tang Miao, the captain and the main right back of the national team, was unfortunately seriously injured. It is reported that Tang Miao will undergo surgery on August 10, and is expected to recover at the earliest by the end of the year, which will make him sure to miss the first six rounds of the 12-team tournament. Tang Miao has become the first national football starter to suffer a serious injury before the 12-team tournament, which is undoubtedly a big blow to the national football team.
However, according to sources, the coaching staff of the national soccer team has drawn up a huge list of alternative international players for the Top 12, far more than the 60-odd who played during the 40-team tournament. 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 12-team tournament. In the right back position, Wang Gang and other injured players are available for Li Tie to pick.
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 on Tuesday (10th), and is expected to recover at the earliest by the end of the year. The schedule shows that the first six rounds of the 12-team tournament will be completed during the 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 deeply regretted Tang Miao's serious injury. "He has a task in the national team, and in the club team and so hard working. Really feel sorry for him ......", the person said.
Like Guoan club, both the CFA and the national team coaching team feel regret and sadness for this down-to-earth veteran who suffered a serious injury at this time. It is understood that the CFA will take proper care of Tang Miao in accordance with the rules, just as it did with Guangzhou City FC.
As of August 8, the CFA has not been able to confirm whether our team will be able to play at home. However, since our team is playing away against Australia in the first round of the 12-team tournament, the team's pre-match preparations, especially the training preparations, have already been executed in a step-by-step manner. Unsurprisingly, the whole team will assemble in Shanghai from the 18th, and then according to the first opponent, Australia confirmed the home venue to implement the travel itinerary.
Affected by the epidemic, our team faces the possibility of participating in consecutive home and away matches outside the country, and it is likely that the preparations and matches will be carried out under strict closed-loop conditions of epidemic prevention. In this case, the CFA, in addition to assisting the national football team to properly organize the epidemic prevention, tourism, hospitality in the tournament area, the organization of the training ground and other matters, but also need to select a sufficient number of able to fight the national football team to cope with the intensive schedule and long-term 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 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 performance, 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 12 strong tournament traveled to the international football list, will inevitably make some adjustments. In addition, some of the players who were not on the list have also performed well in the recent Chinese Super League, so they have also been able to add to the list. As the AFC has no specific limit on the number of players initially enrolled for the 12-team tournament, the coaching staff of the national football team will be able to include all the names of the players who meet the conditions for recruitment into the list.
As for who replaces Tang Miao during the Big 12 after his absence. Currently 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 currently available alternative wingbacks, Wang Shenchao and Gao Junyi are both capable of playing on the left and right flanks, and the two have played in the harbour 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, is not impossible to try.
On August 8, the 13th round of the Chinese Super League will start first 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.
