At noon on the 17th, the national football team arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport, nightfall, they also non-stop arrived at the Gusu Taimei Xianggu Li Hotel, began a strict epidemic isolation. But unlike what people think, the quarantine period of the national football team did not spend a leisurely day, but continued regular training, preparation for the 12 strong action has been launched.
After a perfect outing, the road to preparation for the National Football League opens again.
On May 31, after consultations between the national football team and the AFC, it was finalized that the 40-team tournament match scheduled to be held in Gusau would be cancelled and replaced by a match in Sharjah, UAE. In the face of this new journey, many people are skeptical.
Traveling to Sharjah, UAE, the national football team made full preparations in preparation and epidemic prevention, and eventually overcame multiple difficulties such as road, weather, and epidemic prevention, and achieved three consecutive victories in Sharjah - beating the Philippines 2-0, sweeping the Maldives 5-0, and defeating Syria 3-1, and finally won four consecutive matches in the second half of the 40-team tournament, and bettered the second place in the group to advance to the Round of 12.
The national football team took off from Dubai in the early hours of Beijing time on the 17th and arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport at around 11:00 p.m. on the same day. Due to the need for nucleic acid testing and waiting for the results at a designated quarantine point, the national football team was not able to travel to Gusau immediately. That night, the test results showed that all members of the national football team were negative. It can be said that at that moment, the national football team's trip to Sharjah has really come to an end, the team up and down a relaxed.
The national football team then left Shanghai by bus and arrived at the Taimei Xiangguli Hotel in Gusu late at night on the 17th to begin a 14+7 day quarantine against the epidemic.
On the evening of the 18th, the CFA held a small celebration for all the players, staff and security team of the national football team. Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the General Administration of Sport and party secretary of the CFA, and Chen Xuyuan, president of the CFA, attended the celebration and congratulated the national football team. 19th, the national football team had its first training after returning to China in Gusu, and the national football team only had one day's rest on the 18th, and then they were quickly put into the new training.
Due to the convenient conditions of Tai Mei Xianggu Li, the national football team can be isolated while training. As for the content of preparation, the current grouping has not yet been released, the national football team can not prepare for specific opponents, but can be prepared in general. After all, the strength of the opponents of the 12 strong match is not bad, the national football team needs to take a different strategy. Faced with the strength of close opponents, the national football team can draw on the game with Syria's technical and tactical preparations, but the face of stronger opponents, I'm afraid to be based on defense.
During this half-month isolation period, the national football team can fully prepare in terms of defensive tactics and defensive formations. By the time the national football team opens training again in late August, it will be possible to make more detailed preparations specifically for the two competitions in September.
Re-assembly is scheduled for late August.
At present, the AFC has basically confirmed that the 12-team tournament will adopt the home-and-away system, in which there are international competition days in September, October and November, and the competition dates are basically confirmed to be September 2nd, September 7th, October 7th, October 12th, November 11th and November 16th.
Despite the month-long gap between Sept. 7 and Oct. 7, and Oct. 12 and Nov. 11, the national soccer team was actually largely unable to return to their clubs to compete for a month due to training and vaccination rules.
First of all, the national football team training time, normal to start about 10 days before the game, even if there is a reduction, I'm afraid that it will take 7 days of time. Among them, if the last game is a home game, then in accordance with the rules, the national football team's 14-day closed isolation, is from the national football team's opponent's last player or staff entry to start counting, so that the national football team can save about a few days of epidemic prevention time, the national football team after the game, only need to be closed isolation for 10 days can be, but there are still 7 days need to be independent of the observation, the 7 days can not be carried out the game.
In this way, 17 days have passed, the next game of the national football team needs to be 7 days to 10 days in advance, full calculation, leaving the international footballers spare time at most only 3 to 7 days, if they return to the club to participate in the game, perhaps only play a game. The problem is that it is not possible for the international players to travel back and forth and risk injury or epidemiological risk for the sake of this one Super League match.
If the national football team plays away from home, then when they return home, they are faced with the 14+7 immunization rule, which takes three weeks, at which point preparations for the next game start again, and then there is even less time to come back to the club game.
As a result, it is basically impossible for international players to play in the league from late August until the end of November. If it takes all the internationals to restart the Premier League, it will be at least until early December. If it is a points system, it needs 8 games, a month simply can not finish; if it is a knockout system, it needs 6 games, theoretically can be completed in a month, on the whole, if you do not reduce the journey, the Chinese Super League across the year to become a probable event.
As for whether to consider keeping international players out of the league? But such an arrangement would be extremely damaging to some of the clubs with more international players.
Draw expects more suitable opponents
The group draw for the 12-team tournament, the AFC confirmed on July 1. On the afternoon of July 18, FIFA also announced the latest rankings of Asian teams, so far, the 12-team staging is confirmed: the first gear, Japan, Iran; the second gear, Australia, South Korea; the third gear, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates; the fourth gear, Iraq, China; the fifth gear, Oman, Syria; the sixth gear, Vietnam, Lebanon.
For the national soccer team, a good grouping is a must in order to get out of the Top 12. On the current situation, the first and second gear of the team are very strong, but the second gear of the team, Australia may be a little easier to resist than South Korea, they are physically stronger, but running ability, willpower, as well as technical and tactical level, there is still a little bit insufficient for the national football team, this is the opportunity.
The focus is on the third gear of the team, if the national football team can be divided with the United Arab Emirates, undoubtedly a very satisfactory result. And before that, Iraq in the third gear, obviously, fierce Iraq is more difficult to resist than the UAE. The fifth gear of the team, Oman or Syria difference is not big, but the sixth gear, the best choice for the national football team is Lebanon, Vietnam is now progressing rapidly, the more critical is the Vietnam small fast playing style, the national football team may not be able to adapt well.
Overall, the ranking of the current classification and the team's strength ranking is very close, the national football team must face 2 powerful opponents and 3 close to the level of the opponents, the national football team want to impact the World Cup, the need to be close to the strength of the 3 opponents desperately to get points, and then hope to snipe the strong team to get it.
