After the national football team successfully advanced to the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone 12, how to rationalize the subsequent matches of the current season of the Chinese Super League has become the focus. To this end, the CFA senior management, the national football coaching team and management team, the club preparatory group is actively discussing the recent response strategy. According to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter revealed that the national football coaching team has put forward the proposal to start the preparation training for the 12 strong match in advance, the CFA clearly expressed support.
As the first 6 rounds of the 12 rounds of the tournament will be in September, October, November, unless the national footballer is absent, or else the Super League even across the year will not be able to complete all 30 rounds of matches. As for whether the Chinese Super League can implement "Plan B" to shorten the schedule to 22 rounds, from the actual situation, there is also a certain degree of difficulty. Therefore, during the discussion, the proposal of "halving the league schedule to only 15 rounds of single round robin matches" was put forward.
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National soccer team wants to start training early
The success of the national football team to qualify for the Top 12 is certainly gratifying, but the Chinese Football Association (CFA), the national football team and the Chinese Super League (CSL) stakeholders are also facing challenges as a result. The calendar shows that the first game of the 12-team national football tournament will start on September 2, until the end of the next year on March 29th. The first six rounds of the tournament are centrally organized in September, October and November of this year. As the Chinese team 12 rounds of matches "home, away" cross, which, they will be in the first round, round 4, respectively, to challenge the second and third gear away from the team. Therefore, from a strategic point of view, this year's six games, especially the two away matches, may be largely swayed by the national football competition trend, so the national football coaching team attaches special importance to the quality of preparation for this period of time. Head coach Li Tie made a proposal to the CFA to start the next training session in advance.
It is reported that recently, is with the national football team together in Suzhou to accept the isolation investigation of the Chinese Football Association Chairman Chen Xuyuan also listened to the club preparatory group, the association league department about the rest of this season's Super League tournament competition plan report.
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It's hard to play a full schedule of Super League games even across the year
However, there is no clear statement yet on how the Super League will run due to the impact of the epidemic and the preparation for the National Football League's Top 12 tournament. According to the advice of the national football coaching team, the team plans to advance the new training to mid-August to start, which means that the whole team must ensure at least two weeks of training time by the start of the Top 12 tournament. This means that the Chinese Super League will have to be suspended by mid-August.
According to the requirements of the anti-epidemic rules, the Chinese team will have to undergo at least 14 days of collective closed quarantine after returning to China late at night on June 17, Beijing time, and then face seven days of autonomous quarantine, so they will not be able to return to their clubs until around July 8 at the earliest. Therefore, the earliest they can return to their clubs will be around July 8, so the earliest the first stage of the sixth round of the Chinese Super League matches will not start until mid-July.
According to normal estimates, from mid-July to mid-August, the Premier League will play about six rounds of matches at most, and based on a full season of 30 rounds, half of the matches won't be able to be played within this period. And because the national football team prepares for and participates in the 12-team tournament in September, October and November, it is also impossible for international players to participate in the Premier League during this period.
It should be noted that, to be 12 round of the 6th round on November 16, after the end of the Premier League, even if the run across the year, it is also very difficult to play the remaining nearly 2/3 of the way. 12 round of the last four rounds of the tournament will be organized in the next year, respectively, January 27, February 1, March 24, March 29, the next season of the Asian Champions League will be the next year, around the beginning of the March if the national football team in the 7th round of the 12 round of the tournament before regrouping, then the season must be wrapped up by mid-January or even the first half of next year at the latest. If the national football team regroups before the seventh round of the 12-team tournament, then this season's Super League will have to be wrapped up by mid-January at the latest, or even the first half of the next year. In such a tight time, the Chinese Super League want to play 30 rounds of matches, it is impossible to complete the task, unless the international players collectively give up to participate in the remaining matches of the Chinese Super League. And from the perspective of the rules of competition, such an arrangement is not conducive to the international players to adjust their competitive state. In addition, the weather and the organization of the tournament can not be ignored.
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Reducing the full season's 30 rounds of Super League matches to 15 rounds
Reducing the schedule to 22 rounds is another plan proposed by the club's preparatory team. In other words, after the first phase of the Super League, the top 4 teams and bottom 4 teams of the two groups will play the remaining 8 rounds of the second phase. However, once the next phase of training for the national football team starts early, then the Super League will at most play about 11 rounds of matches before the Top 12. From the end of the 6th round of the 12-team tournament on November 16th to the middle of January next year, there are less than two months. And the international players in the 12 strong match after the return, but also need to rest some, then 11 rounds of Super League games can be played during this period, the answer is self-evident.
It is understood that, in the face of a variety of intertwined with the reality of the difficult problem, involved in the discussion of the league's work, there are people proposed "Plan C", that is to say, will be a full season of 30 rounds of matches in the Chinese Super League halved to 15 rounds of matches, the tournament using a single round-robin system. Such an arrangement may be more conducive to meeting the needs of fair competition on the surface, but the tournament scale is greatly reduced on the league's image, brand appeal will bring great damage, including the league's commercial partners, including the parties are afraid that it is difficult to accept such a result.
It is reported that the 6th round of CSL matches will be played around July 18 at the earliest, while the two matches between Guangzhou and Henan Songshan Longmen and Beijing Guoan and Hebei in the 5th round will be played before the 6th round. Regardless of how the rest of the Chinese Super League runs, the unprecedented tightness of the schedule is predictable.
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AFC affected by outbreak
No invitations sent to the draw ceremony for the 12-team tournament
According to the AFC's work schedule, the Qatar World Qualification Asian Zone Phase 3, and the group draw ceremony for the 12-team tournament will be held on the afternoon of July 1 at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Due to the severe situation of epidemic prevention and control in the world and the obvious epidemic in Malaysia, the AFC has not issued invitations to the participating member associations to participate in the offline draw, and representatives of the associations and their teams will participate in the draw through online means.
It is understood that the AFC will have a moderator and a small number of staff on hand to assist with the draw as it takes place. Representatives of the participating member associations and their teams will participate online. This is the safest and fastest way for the industry to organize meetings and communicate with each other in the context of the epidemic. For these reasons, the CFA was unable to send anyone to Malaysia to participate in the draw. It is reported that the CFA and the national football team attached great importance to the draw, including the Ministry of National Management work league, foreign affairs and other related functions of the Association are also paying close attention to this matter, in order to ensure that the results of the draw was introduced the first time to communicate and exchange response plans to assist the national football team to prepare for the 12th round of the tournament, and at the same time to ensure the smooth operation of the Chinese Premier League to the maximum extent possible.
