According to the scheduled program, the Chinese soccer team coaching team in the afternoon of the 20th to complete the Shanghai training of the second internal teaching match, will quickly determine to participate in the upcoming 12th round of the seventh and eighth round of the challenge of the "25 (main players) + 4 (alternative players)" list of international players. At the same time, the players who failed to be selected will leave in turn from the 21st, each returning to their hometowns for vacation.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the Chinese team started the second internal teaching match of the first training session of the New Year at the Shanghai Yuanshen Stadium, which is also the last warm-up match before they go on the road to Japan. The coaching team plans to handpick 25 players out of the 52 players to participate in the two away challenges of the Top 12 matches against Japan on January 27th and Vietnam on February 1st after the match.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the 25 registered players will also include those "overseas players" who meet the requirements of the coaching team and have the conditions to return to the team, such as Wu Lei and Li Lei, who play for European clubs, as well as five naturalized players. The coaching team will decide how many of the 44 players arriving in Shanghai will travel with the team to Japan based on the visa status of the "overseas players" and other factors. Currently, it seems more likely that Wu Lei, Alan and Jiang Guangtai will travel directly from Spain and Brazil to Japan to join the team. As for the other overseas players can be in place, still need to coaching team comprehensive assessment.
Plans show that the Chinese team will take off from Shanghai on the afternoon of the 23rd on a chartered flight to Tokyo, Japan. The international players who failed to make the list of travelers will leave the team one after another from the 21st. In view of the uncertainty of the recruitment of "overseas players", the coaching team, after determining the 25-player preliminary squad, has also identified four additional alternates. These four players will stay with the team at least until the trip to deal with any emergencies that may arise.
It is reported that due to the limitations of the quota of personnel to go to Japan as well as some coaches are still shouldering the important responsibility of leading the team, about half of the local assistant coaches of this period of training of the national football team will leave the team after the end of the training in Shanghai. Zheng Zhi, Sun Jihai and other local coaches are expected to follow the head coach Li Xiaopeng to Japan.
In addition, Pep, the new Spanish assistant coach of the national football team, is scheduled to depart from Barcelona later on January 22nd local time and fly to Tokyo, Japan, and join the national football team on the 23rd. Before his departure, Pep has already paid attention to the information about the Chinese team and its opponents in the 12-team tournament through modern technology and watched the final of the AFC Cup and other matches, which facilitates him to carry out his new job quickly.
