After 14 days of closed isolation in Gusu and Shanghai as well as seven days of community health monitoring, the Chinese men's soccer team was disbanded at noon on July 8 at a hotel in Minhang District, with the players returning to their respective clubs to prepare for the upcoming re-start of the Chinese Super League in the middle of this month. Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter revealed that in order to prepare for the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone 12 starting on September 2, the Chinese team plans to regroup in mid-August, the location is likely to remain Shanghai. Striker Wu Lei, who plays for Espanyol, is expected to depart from Shanghai around the 14th of this month and return to Spain to prepare for the new La Liga season.
According to the provisions of the domestic epidemic prevention, all members of the Chinese men's football team on June 17 from Shanghai entry, has been in Gusu, Shanghai, two places to accept isolation observation and community health testing. July 1, the team from Gusu to Shanghai, some members of the team living in Shanghai in accordance with the local epidemic prevention provisions of the return to home on their own isolation. And Guoan, Luneng and other international players in compliance with the provisions of the epidemic prevention, but also in Shanghai and the club team to meet, because the club's recent preparations in Shanghai, and with the national football team to live in the same hotel, was able to return to the team ahead of schedule, participated in the afternoon of the 7th between the two teams of the internal teaching match. Other members of the national football team returned to their respective clubs on July 8 after the community health monitoring period.
In order to cooperate with the preparation of the national football team, the Chinese Football Association (CFA), after communicating with the preparatory group of the China Football Association (Professional League) and the Chinese Super League clubs, decided to conduct two matches of the fifth round of the Chinese Super League and the remaining nine rounds of the first phase (rounds 6 to 14) of matches between July 15 and Aug. 12, and at the same time compressed the full-season fixture schedule from the originally scheduled 30 rounds to 22 rounds. Accordingly, the national football team initially determined that the new training time will be set around mid-August. Prior to this, the CFA national football preparations to ensure that the working group has been part of the Shanghai area candidate venues, hotels for research, not surprisingly, the first phase of the new phase of the national football training will be organized in Shanghai, the specific training place may be the previous many times to accept the national football training Houpaier Football Park.
An important reason for the new training of the national football team to advance and lengthen the cycle is that the coaching team hopes to organize some high-quality warm-up matches for the team before the Top 12 tournament, in order to help the whole team to adapt to the high-intensity competition of the World Preliminary Cup. Considering the current severe world epidemic and the tense situation of domestic epidemic prevention, the new training may be organized separately at home and outside the country, so that the national football team to implement the world warm-up plan. At present, the CFA is actively communicating with all parties, on the one hand, for the team to fight for home games of various facilities, on the other hand, for possible accidents in advance to make plans, and timely communication with the World Football Organization and related member associations of the organization of the game.
As the only player in the national football team who plays for an overseas club, Wu Lei is scheduled to leave Shanghai around July 14 and travel to Spain to meet with Espanyol, and then take part in the team's preparation for the new La Liga season.
The schedule shows that the national soccer team will face Australia on the road in the first round of the 12-team tournament. Although the Australian team has not yet confirmed whether it will be able to play in its own country, it is likely that the team will use a third-party venue as its "home", which means that the Chinese team's first-round match outside the country is almost a foregone conclusion. In this case, if the national football team goes to train outside the country before the match, then Wu Lei will also be rushed from Spain directly to the training place to meet with the team.
According to the requirements of the AFC, the participating member associations of the 12-stage tournament should submit their respective representative teams (national teams) on the 16th of this month at the latest 12-stage tournament home field and alternative home field organization of the program. It is reported that the CFA is actively communicating with all parties, the specific program is expected to be introduced next week.
