According to the deployment, China's men's football team is expected to assemble around August 17 to cope with the Qatar World Preliminary Asian Zone 12 tournament, which opens on September 2nd. Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter revealed that the key purpose of the coaching team to extend the preparation cycle is to arrange for the team to participate in several high-level international warm-up matches before the 12-team tournament to ensure the effectiveness of the preparation.
It is reported that, taking into account the characteristics of the 12 strong match and the intensity of the competition, our team's preparations will focus on non-conference opponents. Affected by the epidemic and international and domestic epidemic prevention policies and other multiple factors, the national football team from mid-August to November 16 to complete the first six rounds of the 12 strong match focused on nearly four months of preparation and competition during the period may continue to train and live in a relatively closed environment. Therefore, the 12 strong match on the whole team and coaching team personnel of the physical and psychological test will be unprecedented.
Despite the national soccer team's four consecutive victories in the second half of the Top 40, the real test on a technical level is actually only the final round match against Syria. This is the only top Asian competition the national team has been involved in since November 2019, when they finished the first round of the 40-team tournament, nearly two years ago.
For the time being, the AFC is likely to comply with the wishes of the WFC and the sponsors and keep the home-and-away system of the 12-team tournament unchanged. In view of the global epidemic prevention situation is still severe, countries (regions) epidemic prevention policy and international travel conditions are still strict, the national football team in the next six months is difficult to invite other countries (regions) teams to enter the warm-up. In other words, if the national football team wants to realize a high-quality warm-up, I am afraid that it needs to go out of the country.
It should be noted that if the CFA is able to contact a suitable opponent for the national football team, then the national football team does not rule out the possibility of a visit in late August to participate in the warm-up matches and the first round of the first round of the 12-team tournament away matches on September 2, after the pre-training. Similar training mode may be throughout the whole process of the 12-team tournament. Early extension of the pre-match training time, in fact, also for the team to visit the warm-up in advance to create the conditions.
Usually, the national football team to determine the warm-up opponents will not be the same group of opponents in the 12 strong, so the main target will focus on the other group of six teams. If affected by the epidemic and other factors, these teams can not warm up with the national football team, then the CFA will target to turn to the same group of opponents with the national football team with similar technical and tactical style of the Asian teams.
The schedule shows that the national football team will participate in the first six rounds of the 12-team tournament in September, October and November this year. During this period, the national footballers will not only be unable to return to their clubs to participate in the AFC Cup, but may even be unable to reunite with their families as they continue to live and train collectively during the nearly four-month preparation and competition cycle. The CFA will also try to fight for some favorable conditions for the national football team according to the results of the grouping of the 12-team tournament, such as trying to communicate with other member associations to swap some of the national football team's home and away matches, so as to allow the national football team to travel and prepare for the game.
