In last week's developments, China's soccer association released a notice of the first national football training session of the new year through official channels. This list brings together 15 Chinese and foreign assistant coaches and 52 players, the lineup is huge, which is a new high since the professional league.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, apart from the 16 international players who participated in the final of the AFC Cup, a few players involved in the Chinese Super League promotion and relegation playoffs, and a few naturalized players who are far away from Brazil, all the other international players who have been selected for the current training list will be arriving in Shanghai for signing on as scheduled.
News of Zheng Zhi's arrival at the hotel.
Such a large coaching team is also of great interest - this list of assistant coaches includes almost all of the current league's top tier of young coaches and management talent. In addition, there are also foreign coaches such as Jose Pep, who has been working with Li Xiaopeng for a long time.
Among them, there are as many as 15 assistant coaches, and there is no lack of veterans who have played for the national team for many years, such as Zheng Zhi, Shao Jiayi, Sun Jihai and others.
According to the surging news reporter, most of the local coaching staff members basically just come to the national team for a short-term cameo - for example, Chen Yang, Yu Genwei, Zheng Zhi, Li Jinyu and others are now the head coach of the first team of the Chinese Super League, Li Leilei, Wang Liang and others serve as assistant coaches, it is difficult to be two at a time, and Sun Xiang also serves as a deputy general manager of the Shanghai Harbor team.
But they will all come to Shanghai on time to participate in this training, so far only Sun Jihai a person due to the recent participation in the training course for coaches and postponed to 15 to the team.
Yu Genwei's figure.
In the two foreign coaches, Shenhua physical fitness coach Owen Wilk was introduced by Li Xiaopeng's former chief assistant coach Fabio when he coached Luneng, Li Xiaopeng and Fabio's partnership was very successful. Later, Fabio left Luneng, Jose Pep replaced Fabio as the chief coach of the character, he and Li Xiaopeng also have very good collaboration.
It can be said that the form of local assistant coach plus foreign assistant coach is the popular trend of our national football world in the past two decades, so the outside world is also looking forward to Li Xiaopeng can find a suitable foreign helpers in the national football.
Zhao Junzhe came to the National Football League to sign in.
Li Xiaopeng's best helper
In fact, early this year during the coaching Wuhan, Li Xiaopeng wanted to take Pep, but because of the new crown infection in Spain, Pep regret no Chinese Super League - short of foreign assistant coach support, is also considered to be Li Xiaopeng led Wuhan results are very mediocre for a very important reason.
This time to take office as the head of the national football team, Li Xiaopeng still chose Pep to continue to serve as a helper, which is also reflected from the final list of the national football team.
Pep has been a longtime assistant coach for Barcelona's ladder team, and he led the team to back-to-back victories over Real Madrid and Benfica during his tenure as assistant coach of Barcelona's U19 youth team, winning the UEFA Youth League title in 2014.
At the end of 2015, he followed Jordi to China as assistant coach of Qingdao Yellow Sea in the Central League. In addition, he was a tactical counselor at the Harvey's Soccer Camp, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science and Physical Education for Soccer from the University of Lleida, Spain, and has a UEFA Advanced Coaching License.
If all goes well, Pep will join the national team in Japan, but by then there will be only three or four days left between the start of the competition, whether Pep can enter the character as soon as possible, may play a key role in the national team's two matches against Japan and Vietnam.
Jose Pep (third from right) worked with Li Xiaopeng as an assistant coach at Shandong Taishan in 2019.
According to the national team arrangements, the afternoon of the 12th will start the first training, training before Li Xiaopeng will be in the Century Park Stadium to accept the media interviews, which is also the first time Li Xiaopeng face the media after taking office.
Now, this training epidemic prevention has become the national team's top priority. The Chinese team in Shanghai training period, move and live and live in strict compliance with the provisions of the epidemic - without the permission of the team, team members are not allowed to leave the resident hotel.
In other words, the entire team's movement track during their stay in Shanghai simply remains between the hotel and the training ground.
