The day after his return to Beijing, Yankovic made an appearance at the National Football Association (NFA) building at the beginning of this week's Operational Day. Although the future of the national men's soccer team and the future of coach Li Xiaopeng have not yet been decided, the postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou to September-October of the following year has made the preparation of China's men's soccer team for the Asian Games still a difficult task. As the head coach of the team, Jankovic will undoubtedly shift his focus to the preparation for the Asian Games.
According to the plan, Yankovic will combine the experience of leading the team during the East Asian Cup with an in-depth summary of the NFF and a new preparation program. From the Dubai Cup in March to the East Asian Cup in July, high-quality tournaments have allowed the Asian Games team, which is dominated by players in the 1999 age group, to accumulate a wealth of real-world experience and improve its practical ability. However, since the formation of the team, the number of participation in high-quality tournaments has not exceeded 10 games, and they are in dire need of more matches, especially high-intensity, high-confrontation international tournaments. Yankovic also expects that the team will be able to participate in as many international tournaments as possible in the coming year.
As a result of the epidemic, the National Football Association (NFA) is unable to invite teams from other countries to compete in China this year. In addition, the schedule shows that the remaining matches of the Chinese Super League, Chinese League A and Chinese League B will be played intensively in the second half of the year, and domestic professional league matches will also be scheduled during the international tournament cycle in September, which is the last part of the international tournament cycle before the Qatar World Cup.
As most of the members of the men's Asian Games team can be in the Chinese Super League, the first club stable appearance, such as Dai Weijun, Wu Shaochong, Han Jiaqi and other players are the absolute main force of their respective clubs, so in the league running cycle "squeeze" time for training is almost impossible.
In this case, "going out" is the only viable option for the men's Asian Games team. In fact, in order to help the national team in the epidemic period to solve the problem of "insufficient practical training", the National Football Association has cooperated with all parties, the 2003 age group U19 National Youth Football Team, 2001 age group U21 National Youth Football Team (the new National Olympic Team) sent to Eastern Europe for training, warm-up, and will soon participate in the U17 Asian Cup qualifiers. The 2006 age group U16 national youth team also concentrated in Yuxi, Yunnan Province on the 10th of this month, and then went to Japan for training and warm-up. For the men's football Asian Games team, which also has the important task of preparing for the war, the National Football Association will also give its full support. From a variety of actual conditions, this team is likely to be in the season after the end of the domestic professional league, cup, with reference to other national teams to visit the way, go to overseas training, warm-up. And from the U21, U19 two groups of national youth team feedback from the front of the situation, the team and soccer developed countries (regions) team warm-up value is much higher than in the domestic and local club team warm-up or internal teaching matches.
It should be noted that, although the National Football Association is actively promoting all levels of national teams to overseas training, but in the issue of player recruitment, each team will fully respect the interests of the club. For example, Liang Shaowen, an ageing defender of the U21 national youth team, who has just traveled to Japan with the national football selection team to participate in the East Asian Cup, has recently returned to the Beijing Guoan team. Also missing from the European training due to club demands are U21 national youth players Chen Yuhao from Wuhan Changjiang and Wang Shilong from Guangzhou. Guangzhou's Ling Jie and Hebei's Gao Yunan also did not travel with the U19 national youth team for similar reasons. It is reported that the National Football Association and the coaching staff of several national teams have reached an agreement, if some of the players due to club demand and indeed can be stable in the club tournament, then the national teams can not call up these players. After all, the Association to assist the teams to visit the training, but also to create high-quality practical opportunities for the majority of players.
