On May 10, the Chinese National Football Association (CNFA) issued an emergency notice for the third training session of 2021, revealing that "China's men's national soccer team will depart urgently from May 14 to June 16, 2021, to start training and participate in a series of tournaments in Shanghai and Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province." This move is a full six days earlier than the originally planned May 20th.
Behind the sudden changes, the May 15 match between Henan Songshan Dragons and Guangzhou and the May 16 match between Beijing Guoan and Hebei will also be postponed until after the Top 40 tournament.
emergency assembly
This is the final assembly and training for the national football team for the 40-team tournament, six days ahead of schedule compared to the past.
On April 8, the schedule for the 2021 Chinese Super League season was announced. In the schedule, the first phase of the game to adopt the "5 + 9" model, April 20 to May 17 for five rounds of matches, followed by June 21 to restart the subsequent tournament. This is the Premier League for the 40 strong match to make adjustments to ensure that the entire 40 strong match before and after the week without arranging any matches, so that the international players can feel at ease to play for their country.
Now, the national team's demands have escalated again. The national football team not only in the time required to assemble in advance, but also put forward on May 15, Henan Songshan Longmen and Guangzhou team, May 16 Beijing Guoan and Hebei team game postponed to give Guangzhou team and Beijing Guoan this two "international football big" more preparation time, other game arrangements remain unchanged.
This adjustment has sparked no small amount of controversy. Regardless of how useful it is to assemble six days in advance, just from this sudden move, it is enough to see the FA's disregard for the rules of the league. After all, the fifth round of the Chinese Super League has already started on May 14th. Against prior planning, the temporary recruitment of international players to participate in training, for the number of international teams itself has a certain unfairness. The postponement of only two matches, Guangzhou and Beijing Guoan, has further distorted the already unfair system. In the two matches on the 14th alone, five players from Shandong Taishan's Artemisia Junmin, Jin Jingdao and Wu Xinghan, Hebei FC's Yin Hongbo and Guangzhou City's Tang Miao were called up to return to the team. Since the Football Association has already made the intention to postpone, why can't we all be treated the same and postpone the fifth round of Super League matches as a whole?
13 votes to 1
In fact, the postponement of the entire fifth round of the Chinese Super League is also one of the alternative plans prepared by the National Football Association.
On May 9, the Working Alliance Preparation Group called an impromptu meeting of the 16 National Premier Salons for an on-line general manager's meeting. The meeting pointed out the need for the national team to assemble early and asked the 16 salons to vote on a revised plan for the tournament system. Among them, the No. 1 plan was to adjust only the most affected matches between Guoan and Hebei (Suzhou Region), and Guangzhou team and Henan Songshan Longmen (Guangzhou Region), both of which should have more than five or more national players; the No. 2 plan was to postpone the entire fifth round of the Chinese Super League. Two sets of plans by the 16 salon general manager to do a vote. Relevant sources said that the final No. 1 plan was passed by a high vote. 16 salons with 13 votes in favor of the No. 1 plan, 2 abstentions, 1 vote against. According to the principle of majority rule, the final decision was to adjust only two matches.
Granted, postponing just two matches will have a much smaller impact on the league than postponing an entire round of matches. It is understood that Shandong Taishan, Henan Songshan Longmen, Hebei, Shanghai Shenhua and other salons that outsiders believe have been partially affected by the program have expressed their understanding of the plan.
After all, the most important task for the national soccer team this year is the Top 40 match. From the Chinese Super League system to the salons have given the green light to the national football team. The league automatically left a window of time for the Top 40, which is the biggest concession for the national team. However, it is clear that Li Tie, the head coach of the national team, is not satisfied. The National Football Association and the working league also acquiesced to Li Tie's request several times in a row, allowing the national team training needs to expand, and has even threatened the impartiality of the working league.
"Fear of injury" shouldn't be an excuse.
On May 7, in response to the issue of the advancement of the national team training. The national team and the working league launched a coordination meeting, at which someone directly questioned the national team coaching team: "What exactly are the reasons and justifications for your request to advance the training?" "Coach, don't you know that the effect of adjusting the players' competitive state after an official competition like the league will be worse than the effect of your national team only training and not competing?" According to relevant reports, during the meeting, the national team coaching staff could not give a more appropriate statement, and the unapologetic reason given was, "Fear of injury!"
This argument seems to make sense, but think about it, when "fear of injury" can be used as a reason for a soccer team not to play, how can we expect it to play well? In the top five leagues, the fear of injury has never been a reason for the national team to break the rules of the league and arbitrarily request an early assembly to prevent the national players from playing football.
Of course, everyone is looking forward to the national football team to get out of the line, longing for the national football team to stand in the center of the world green field one day. But can relying on privilege to make endless demands really have a good effect?
"The Nationals and Sharon share honor and disgrace. This ship is driving forward, encountered a storm, we need to work together, this ship if it runs aground, no one can be spared." In April 1, the National Football Association held a salon in charge of the work of the meeting, made a "military order" Chen Xuyuan had said so.
