China Super League (soccer league)
The drums of war are beating again, and the July 15 fixture list is especially notable for the match between Guangzhou and Henan. The postponed match sees the team led by Kasai and Yan Dinghao return to league action. Facing a window of more than two months, Kasai says he faces a challenging road ahead. In the next 28 days, they have to face 10 games, which is undoubtedly a huge test for him.
In the face of an intensive schedule of matches, Kasper admits that he believes no team can be fully prepared and can only move forward one step at a time. When players need to rotate, it is crucial to grasp the timing. Sometimes keeping players healthy and appropriate game rotation is more important than pursuing results. Considering that a number of international players participated in the Top 40 tournament, the Guangzhou team only played one warm-up match during this break, and only 15 or 16 players from the first team participated in the training, which is seriously understaffed.
Talking about the condition of the national players, Kasper made special mention of Fernando's withdrawal due to injury. He believes that he has been very cautious in using Fernando in the club, but he didn't expect that he still got injured in the national team game, which made him feel very annoyed. According to reporter Cheng Jinzhao, Fernando has not fully recovered after returning from the national team, and is now unable to train with the team, there is a great possibility that he will not be able to participate in the next phase of the first stage of the game, and hopefully will be able to regain his health in the September 12 tournament.
Northwestern Lookout reports that the national soccer team has apologized to the Guangzhou team for Fernando's injury, which may have been due to an increased load from the rush to train.
In fact, Fernando has only made one appearance so far this season, playing only ten minutes against Cangzhou. His injuries have been plaguing him since the beginning of the year, and if he is re-injured in the May training session, he won't be able to recover until September, which is undoubtedly a very serious injury. In addition, although the international players have trained during the isolation period in Suzhou, it looks more like general rehabilitation training, the quality is difficult to guarantee.
Kasai also drew on Italy's success and warned the national soccer team that we can't go too far in pursuing shortcuts to success. He knows that the grouping of this 12-team tournament is not ideal, to face a number of strong teams, but he still hopes that the national football team can succeed in advancing to the World Cup, because only in this way can afford to pay for the past year or so.
Indeed, over the past year or so, the Chinese Super League has made huge sacrifices to make way for the national soccer team, especially this time with the super devil schedule of 10 matches in 28 days. Under such conditions, I am afraid it will be a heavy blow to the future development of the national soccer team if it fails to qualify for the World Cup.
