According to the scheduled plan, the Chinese men's football team will be assembled in Shanghai on August 18th to prepare for the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone 12 tournament which will be unveiled in early September. However, just this weekend, Guangzhou City club came with the heavy news that their captain and the main right back of the 40-team national soccer team, Tang Miao, was unfortunately seriously injured. It is reported that Tang Miao will undergo surgery on August 10th and is expected to recover only by the end of the year at the earliest, which means that he will definitely miss the first 6 rounds of the 12-team tournament. Tang Miao has also become the first to suffer serious injuries before the 12 strong match, the main player of the 40 strong match for the national football team, which is undoubtedly a huge loss for the national football team.
However, according to sources, the coaching staff of the national soccer team has recently drawn up a huge list of alternative international players for the Top 12 tournament, far more than the 60 or so who played during the Top 40 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, the injured Wang Gang and others are options that Li Tie can consider.
On the evening of August 7, Guangzhou City FC 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 Club that Tang Miao's surgery will take place on 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 definitely not be able to participate in these six rounds.
The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou City club told Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter that the club deeply regretted Tang Miao's serious injury. "He has a heavy responsibility in the national team, and he fights so hard in the club. Really feel sorry for him ......," the source said.
As with Guangzhou City Club, both CFA and the national team coaching team 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 take proper care of Tang Miao in accordance with the regulations, just as Guangzhou City FC did.
As of August 8, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has not yet confirmed whether the Chinese team will be able to play home matches in the hometown. However, the team's pre-match preparations, especially the training preparations, have been put in place on schedule as the national football team is playing 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 implement the travel itinerary in detail according to the home venue confirmed by the first opponent, Australia.
Affected by the epidemic, the Chinese team is faced with the possibility of participating in consecutive home and away matches outside the country, and it is likely that preparations and matches will be carried out under strict closed-loop conditions to prevent the epidemic. In this case, the CFA, in addition to helping the national football team to properly organize the 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 cope with the intensive journey and a long period of closed and concentrated 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 listed candidates for international football (such as Tang Miao) appeared injured or poor athletic performance, part of the candidates for international football (such as Wang Gang, Zhu Chenjie) to recover, and the state of the outstanding, so Li Tie in the selection of the 12 strong match to travel to the international football list, it is inevitable that some adjustments should be made. 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 team for the 12-team tournament, the Chinese coaching staff will be able to include all the names of the players that meet the conditions of the call-ups in the list.
As for who will take Tang Miao's place during the Top 12 in his absence. At present, Li Tie's choice is still relatively rich. For example, Wang Gang, an international player who missed the second half of the 40-team tournament due to injury, was the main right back of the national soccer team in the first half of the 40-team tournament during Lippi's reign, and he has been in eye-catching performance during the recent Super League competition on behalf of his club. And among the alternative side backs available now, Wang Shenchao and Gao Junyi are both capable of left and right, 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 national football main left back 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 of the road, 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 each phase of training. 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.
