Tuesday afternoon, Zhejiang soccer team embarked on a journey to Foshan, launched a nearly month-long intensive training, this closed training will last until April 8th.
Previously, the Zhejiang team in Kunming training, but due to the difficulty of finding a warm-up match opponent, the team had to return to Hangzhou in advance. Affected by the epidemic prevention and control, the team in Hangzhou during the arrangement of the two warm-up matches were not held as scheduled.
Last Saturday, the Zhejiang team was scheduled to play a warm-up match with Jiangsu Zhongnan Keji Yuan in Zhongtai Base. Jiangsu Zhongnan Kerjian is preparing for the new season of the Chinese B League after their success in the B League. However, due to epidemic restrictions, Jiangsu Zhongnan Kerdijian could not travel to Hangzhou, and the warm-up match was canceled.
This is the second warm-up game canceled by Zhejiang team last week. Originally, Zhejiang and Shanghai Jiading agreed to play a warm-up match last Tuesday, but due to the same anti-epidemic reasons, Shanghai Jiading could not leave Shanghai for Hangzhou, and the two sides had to give up the match.
During the winter training in Kunming, the Zhejiang team had two warm-up matches with the Zhejiang U21 team, and so far there has not been a real sense of "foreign war". In order to save money, many teams choose not to go out for winter training, Zhejiang team in Kunming is difficult to find opponents, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, want to arrange a warm-up game has become extremely difficult. Fortunately, the players have a positive mindset, a player said: "If we can't find a team, we'll train on our own, the more difficult the time, the more we have to work hard to maintain a good state."
The Zhejiang team traveled to Foshan this time, because there are many teams there are also training, Zhejiang team has the opportunity to find a warm-up match opponent. Moreover, the Zhejiang team had trained in Foshan last year and finally succeeded in the Super League. This time, although the change of the hotel and training site, but the team still hope to continue the good luck.
The next important task for the Zhejiang team is to improve the team's strength through warm-up matches. During the training period in Foshan, the team arranged four warm-up matches against Qingdao Youth Island and Guangxi Pingguo Ha Loud and Clear Football Club, which have just succeeded in the first division, as well as Guangzhou, the eight-champion team of the Chinese Super League, and Wuhan Sanzhen, which is also a newly promoted Chinese Super League team.
Despite the changes in the Guangzhou team lineup, Zhejiang can use this opportunity to understand the strength of the new season of the Chinese Super League opponents. Wuhan three towns is the earliest team to start training in the Chinese Super League, this year's reinforcement is very strong, known as "the strongest reinforcement team", is also regarded as the outside world as the dark horse of the new season of the Chinese Super League, they will become the touchstone of the Zhejiang team.
Currently, Zhejiang team has four foreign aiders, Mu Xiekui, Frank, Matthews and Evolo, from the foreign aid configuration, there is a lack of a defender. In the new season, the Zhejiang team will face the powerful attack of the Chinese Super League team, therefore, an excellent foreign aid center back is the team's urgent need. In terms of reinforcements, Zhejiang has signed mostly free agents, and the club has officially announced the signing of Rong Hao and Zheng Xuejian, while Gao Di and Zhang Jiaqi have joined the team's training program, and they will be part of the team as well. Gao Di and Zhang Jiaqi have been selected for the national soccer team, and in the 2:0 victory over Macedonia in 2014, the two former "twin stars of the national soccer team" had come off the bench together, of which Gao Di also scored a goal.
