With the implementation of the plan, China's men's football team is expected to gather around August 17 to build up for the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone 12 tournament, which will start on September 2nd. One of the intentions of the coaching team to extend the preparation cycle is to organize several high-level international warm-up matches before the tournament to ensure the effectiveness of the preparations, according to a report by Beiqing-Beijing Headline.
It is reported that, given the nature of the 12-team tournament and the difficulty of the competition, our team's warm-up strategy will focus on non-conference opponents. However, affected by the epidemic and global and domestic anti-epidemic policies, the
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After assembling in mid-August to completing the first six rounds of the Top 12 on November 16, the team may continue to train and live in a closed collective environment for nearly four months. As a result, the physical and mental test for the entire team and the CFA's operational team personnel will be unprecedented for the 12-team tournament.
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Entering the Round of 12 with four straight wins, the key matchup that really tested the technical side of the game was actually only the final game against Syria in the second half of the Round of 40's four matches. This is also the first time since November 2019
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The only top Asian competition to be involved in almost two years since the end of the first round of the Top 40.
At present, it seems likely that the AFC will comply with the wishes of the WFC and the sponsors and keep the home-and-away system of the 12-team tournament unchanged. With the world and domestic epidemic prevention situation still severe, and the strict epidemic prevention policies and international travel conditions in various countries (regions) around the world, it will be difficult for our team to invite teams from other countries to enter the country for warm-ups in the next six months. In other words, our team may need to go out of the country if it wants to realize high-quality warm-ups.
It is important to note that once the CFA for the
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Contacting the right warm-up opponents, then
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It is not ruled out that after a domestic training session in late August, a trip to participate in warm-up matches and an appearance in the first round of the 12-team away competition on September 2nd. This form of training is likely to continue throughout the course of the 12-team tournament. The pre-tournament training time will be extended, in fact, is also for the team to visit the warm-up in advance to create the conditions.
In accordance with the usual practice, our team to determine the warm-up opponents are not likely to be the same group of opponents in the 12 strong, so the primary target will be locked in another group of six teams. If affected by the epidemic and other factors, these teams can not warm up with our team, then the CFA will turn the goal and our team in the same group of opponents with similar technical and tactical style of the Asian teams.
The schedule shows that our team will participate in the first six rounds of the Top 12 in September, October and November this year. The international players will not be able to return to their clubs to participate in the Super League Cup tournament during this period, and may even be unable to reunite with their families as they continue to live and train collectively during the nearly four-month cycle of preparations and competitions for the 12-team tournament. The CFA will also try its best to organize the grouping results of the 12-team tournament for the
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Get some favorable competition conditions, such as trying to communicate with other member associations to switch some of the
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The number of home and away contests to facilitate the
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of traveling and preparing for war.
