In the afternoon of March 6, the national football team embarked on a training journey at Mission Hills Haikou soccer base, continuously carrying out more than 2.5 hours of intensive training in the gym and natural grass field.
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In the previous Li Xiaopeng coaching, there has not been such a high-intensity, rotating training mode. The Haikou training "devil mode" is designed to quickly enhance the physical reserves of the international players, enhance the team's "defensive hardness" in the actual battle.
According to the plan, except for 5 naturalized players and Li Lei, who plays for Grasshopper in Switzerland, the remaining 33 international players should have arrived in Haikou on 3 March. However, due to various objective factors, only 20 players arrived on March 3rd. The remaining players will return to the team in the next few days.
There were two main reasons for the players' late arrival. On the one hand, due to the epidemic, some international players either delayed their return trip after the end of the quarantine on February 24 or continued their home quarantine upon arrival, and they needed time to rest and reunite with their families. On the other hand, some of the players' clubs have been in turmoil recently, and they need to negotiate with their clubs about cooperation. For example, Xu Xin and Ji Xiang did not join the full team training for the first time until the 6th. Yan Junling and Tan Long joined the team on the evening of the 6th and the morning of the 7th respectively, while Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng arrived in the afternoon of the 7th and participated in the day's training session.
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While the coaching staff expects the players to return to the team as soon as possible, they also fully respect their professional rights and interests, and hope that they will be able to devote themselves fully to the national team's preparations and matches after solving their personal problems.
From the beginning of the 4th Haikou training, the Chinese team has raised the intensity of training to a high level. Unlike the previous high and low intensity interspersed training, this training has been maintained for several consecutive days of high intensity. To the afternoon of the 6th, the training intensity reached its peak - the team in the Mission Hills soccer training base for no less than 45 minutes of physical training, and then transferred to the outdoor natural grass field for compact ball training, group confrontation training is also in which the outdoor training lasted more than 90 minutes.
It is worth noting that apart from Jiang Shenglong and Wu Shaochong, two defenders who augmented the U23s, the rest of the 20-odd international players participated in the whole of the ultra-high-intensity training session.
For this period of training in the early stages of high-intensity training, the team explained that although the team did not have access to the Qatar World Cup, but from the long-term development considerations, the team needs to quickly improve the "hardness of the defense" in the actual battle. Haikou preparations for the early stage, the main goal is to strengthen the physical reserves of the international players, to enhance the "defensive hardness" in the actual battle. A team source said: "Even if the last two games of the 12 strong to win difficult, the team should show the spirit, at least in the momentum can not collapse."
The international players generally feel physically tired after several days of intense training, mainly due to the compact and seamless training content. The coaching staff put forward strict requirements on the players' ball speed and quality in the process of offensive and defensive transitions and overall defense, and corrected errors on the spot.
According to the plan, after completing four to five high-intensity training sessions, the Chinese team will usher in its first warm-up match of this training period on the 9th of this month against Changchun Yatai, a strong team in the Chinese Super League (CSL). Yatai finished 4th in last season's Chinese Super League, thanks in large part to its excellent defensive counter-attacks, and its defensive hardness is more prominent throughout the league. Therefore, the warm-up match between the national soccer team and Yatai is highly targeted.
