On August 18, the national soccer team ushered in a crucial assembly, which was the last assembly before the Top 12 tournament, marking the team's entry into the decisive sprint stage. In the blink of an eye, on September 2, the much-anticipated 12-team tournament is about to kick off. This time, as with the previous 40 strong match, the national football team will travel to Doha, Qatar, still by the Football Association Chairman Chen Xuyuan led the expedition. This trip to Doha, the war, the national football team is looking forward to another good performance, Chen chairman can continue to dance, let us wait and see.
The original plan was to assemble on August 17, but the international players did not report on time. According to the arrangement, 14 international players from Guangzhou, including 8 from Guangzhou and 6 from Shandong Taishan, should report by noon on the 18th, and then the team will start the first practice in the afternoon. Suzhou's 16 internationals, including six from Beijing Guoan, three from Shanghai Harbor, two each from Shanghai Shenhua, Hebei and Wuhan and one player from Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, are required to report by 18:00 on the 19th. Wu Lei, who plays in Spain, is scheduled to arrive at the assembly site by August 26th.
This buildup arrangement for the national team aims to give the players a full rest. Previously, Guangzhou's players played 10 matches in 28 days, Shandong Taishan's players played nine matches in 25 days, Beijing Guoan and Hebei played 10 matches in 31 days, and Shanghai Harbor, Shanghai Shenhua, Wuhan and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger's players played nine matches in 28 days.
In terms of the schedule, the Guangzhou tournament was more intensive, and thus received six days of rest. Suzhou's schedule was adjusted halfway through the tournament and was relatively loose, and despite the tight preparation time, the national team still provided the players with three and a half days of adjustment time.
However, on the 17th, the national team's coaching team and staff team had already arrived first, which is "before the troops and horses move, food and grass first". In the national team's previous training, the Football Association team will be based on the task situation, 1 to 3 days in advance to arrive at the training site to prepare.
In the past period of time, the FA and the national team's logistical support work is very outstanding, especially in the process of the Top 40 match in Suzhou and the temporary change of the venue of the Top 40 match to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, the perfect protection work ultimately helped the national team to advance to the Top 12 matches, and at the same time in the prevention of epidemics, there were no accidents.
The national team's campaign for the 12-team tournament is facing many difficulties, some of which are difficult to overcome. For example, head coach Li Tie had hoped that the national team would be able to play some high-quality warm-up matches, but due to the conduct of the Chinese Super League as well as the current anti-epidemic situation, it's impossible for the national team to play warm-up matches before they officially go out to play in the 12-team tournament.
But there are some difficulties that must be faced and overcome.
The first and foremost challenge at the moment is the adjustment of the players' condition. After playing 9 or 10 matches in 25 to 31 days, the international players generally feel very tired, and how to quickly recover from fatigue is a major challenge.
The intensive schedule of the past month has brought not only physical exhaustion, but also psychological exhaustion. The key point is that physical exhaustion is still easy to recover from, while psychological exhaustion has a certain lag. We can find in the study of the past AFC Champions League team's embodiment, many teams in the double line of battle, often both lines of performance are good, after the end of the AFC Champions League back to the Premier League, the performance instead of falling into the trough, the reason is that the double line of battle players nerves, and once the double line of battle is over, the players nerves to relax, and then want to tighten up on the difficult.
The national team is of course also facing such a difficult problem, as far as physical fatigue is concerned, the national players about a few days of rest, coupled with a few days of adjustment, can be restored to a relatively good physical condition, but I'm afraid that the recovery of the mental state is difficult to say.
This requires the national team to be more attentive in the adjustment of the players' condition, first let them rest physically and mentally, and then through the adjustment, let them gradually recover physically and mentally, and finally maintain a good physical condition and mental state on September 2 when the game is played. This requires a more relaxed environment, a more reasonable organization, and more adequate encouragement.
In contrast, the technical and tactical preparations are secondary, the national team's first two matches against Australia and Japan are distinctive teams, the international players only need to firmly implement the tactical deployment set by the coaching staff.
Affected by the epidemic, the national team's first two rounds of the 12-team tournament is basically determined to be played in Doha, Qatar, but as of the afternoon of August 17, the first round of the first round of the September 2 "away" to Australia, the second round of the September 7 "home" match against Japan's specific Kickoff time has not yet been determined, and even in which stadium is still under discussion.
China's first match will be played on Australia's "home turf", so after the Australian FA confirms with the AFC and the Qatar Football Association (QFA) which stadium the first round will be played on, the QFA will apply for the same stadium as its first "home turf" (for the second round against Japan), barring any special circumstances. The AFA will also apply for the same stadium to play its first "home" match (against Japan in the second round) if there are no special circumstances.
Due to the importance of the 12-team tournament, coupled with the first two rounds of the game there are too many uncertainties, in order to ensure the smooth running of the game and the safety of the personnel, the Football Association this time will send a huge work team to travel with the team, this work team includes epidemic prevention, the game, the front, logistics, foreign affairs and other working groups, the number of people about 20 people or so, plus the team (31 international players as well as coaching team and administrative, medical, equipment and other functional groups of about 24 people), the entire delegation of about 75 people or so. According to the experience of the Top 40, Chen Xuyuan, the President of the Football Association, will accompany the team on the journey and conduct the whole on-site office, directing the organization of the game, logistics management and epidemic prevention and safety, foreign affairs liaison, forward publicity and other work.
According to the plan, the entire FA team, including the team, will depart from Shanghai and take a chartered flight to Doha on the 26th. Previously Chen Xuyuan led the team to complete the mission of the Top 40 after the true feelings, hot dance in the lounge of the picture had been widely spread among the fans, and I hope that this time the Top 12, he can continue to dance!
