Deeply troubled Chen Xuyuan, chairman of China's Football Association, faced an interview with Xinhua News Agency, revealing about the preparation strategy for the Top 12, "We have identified six key issues," Chen Xuyuan revealed that through the three away matches at the end of the 40-team tournament, China's Football Association has gained valuable experience and full preparation in the aspects of away defense and home confirmation .
[Commander's Movements]
Although head coach Li Tie said in an interview that he has not yet determined whether to renew his contract, Chen Xuyuan gave a clear response to this question: "Li Tie's contract renewal is just a rumor. We have evaluation and feedback on the coaching team every year. As long as the team stays on the right track, the coaching team should work steadily, rather than replacing the head coach whenever there is a setback. Therefore, Li Tie does not have the problem of whether to renew his contract or not. Now, he is leading the team to go all out to prepare for the Top 12."
In fact, in addition to the assessment mechanism of the Football Association and the recognition of Li Tie's coaching ability, there is no possibility or necessity to change the manager for this Top 12 match. Considering that the preparation time before the first 12 strong match in September only left the isolation period (14 + 7) from West Asia back to the country and the training period starting in mid-August (lack of 20 days), such a short period of time to replace the coach will undoubtedly cause great harm to the national team. Recall when Camacho replaced Gao Hongbo, the official announcement of less than 20 days from the first match of the Top 20, the final result of the lesson is profound, our soccer community will not easily forget.
[Home security]
Although the epidemic prevention situation within Asia is still severe, but up to now, the 12 strong match system has not yet changed, so how to ensure the home field, to avoid the embarrassing situation of giving up the home field again, become the most important need to make plans and coordination of the Football Association. In response to this, Chen Xuyuan said: "the next preparation, we identified six key issues, one of the issues is the organization of home and away. We hope we won't have to give up the home field because of us. The most important of these is the issue of epidemic prevention. It depends on our national epidemic prevention policy and the harmonization of FIFA and AFC. It is an uncertainty. Of course, we need to be fully prepared and it would be best if the home stadium can be organized; if not, what do we do?"
This 40 strong match to give up the home field to every international player has brought great psychological pressure, fortunately, the Football Association in the protection level to do very well. The home field of this 12-team tournament is very different from the home field of the 40-team tournament system, the stay of the visiting team are not the same, and China's women's Olympic qualifiers against South Korea's home tournament is more similar to the coordination of a relatively easy.
[Away from the epidemic]
The home-and-away system of the 12-team tournament puts higher demands on the national soccer team's away defense, but the Football Association has already gained a wealth of experience through this off-site tournament. Chen Xuyuan said: "We found that three of the hotel staff tested positive and two were suspected positive. We immediately held an emergency meeting and took a series of measures, including closing all the team's rooms, hotel attendants were not allowed to enter, and all services were done by our people. We organized new chefs and everyone was not allowed to go out for non-work. We set strict requirements, standards and disciplines for epidemic prevention, which were strictly enforced and checked. It was made clear that everyone was both the enforcer and supervisor of the epidemic prevention, reminding each other."
The national team from June 3 to 16 conducted five nucleic acid test, three serum test, the results are all qualified. Precisely because the epidemic prevention measures are done so in place, the Football Association dared to promise the players: can do a good job of epidemic prevention, can guarantee the health of everyone, can guarantee a smooth return to the country. I believe that with this experience, in the 12 strong match away from home level, the international players do not need to have any psychological burden, easy to fight.
[Warm-up event]
Before the 40 strong match, the outside world is full of worries about the national football team, on the one hand, because the entire preparation period of the national football team to the end of the people, on the other hand, because, the entire preparation period of the national football team did not have A-level warm-up matches, well, the national team is very good to overcome the difficulties and complete the game. Then prepare for the 12 strong match, this can not realize the situation of high level warm-up matches will still appear? To this Chen Xuyuan also gave an answer: "We identified other topics, such as our team in the preparation process, we must carry out several quality games. Since the Top 12 is completely different from the Top 40, there is a need to have several quality matches. This is very important for our preparation for the Top 12."
In order to ensure that the national football team to prepare for the war, it is necessary to organize high-quality warm-up matches awareness is of course good, September to November does not organize the league, indeed, there is also a warm-up time, but want to organize a high-level team to enter the country for the game, but still need to consider the detailed anti-epidemic policy, which is not the level of the Football Association can be coordinated. If you want to play matches away from home in the Top 12, the coordination ability of the State General Administration of Sports is extremely demanding.
[League coordination]
Although Chen Xuyuan in an interview about the relationship between the league and the national team's top 12 matches, reiterated "the league is a very important cornerstone of our country's soccer, can not be sacrificed because of the national team league" principle, but in fact, the league for the national team to make way for the inevitable. On the one hand, this year's anti-epidemic policy decided that from September to November, the league not only to consider the national football team preparation time, but also to consider the quarantine time of the national football team, and therefore can not organize the game; on the other hand, the national team has been put forward in August to advance the requirements of the 10 days of training, the program to complete the first phase of the remaining nine rounds of the game program is also faced with the adjustment of the program, in this way, there is a Chen Xuyuan said that Chen Xuyuan said, "in the national team preparation, during the game, the Chinese Super League shall not continue" situation. "We are studying three specific programs, but also to consult the views of the Chinese Super League clubs, and finally form a league program that we generally accept." Chen Xuyuan said. From the newspaper understands the situation, not across the year to play 22 rounds finished, should be the most likely program.
