Approaching the Qatar World Qualification Asia 40 Group A remaining four rounds of fierce competition from May 30 to June 15, the Chinese men's football team urgently adjusted the preparation plan, decided to advance the training time to May 14 to start, such an arrangement may lead to the players to miss the fifth round of the
China Super League (soccer league)
Race.
Originally, the national football team was scheduled to assemble on May 20 in Gusu. However, considering the importance of the game, the coaching staff decided to advance the assembly time by one week to around May 14 after fully communicating with the Football Association, the professional league and other parties.
Due to the strict epidemic prevention and security requirements of the tournament, the team will have a week's training in Shanghai before moving into the tournament area. As a result, the players expected to participate in the Top 40 are likely to be unable to play in the 5th round of the Chinese Super League.
The schedule released by FIFA and AFC shows that China's remaining matches in Group A will be played from May 30 to June 15 in Gusu. The coaching staff has reserved about 10 days for the team's pre-match preparation according to the schedule, which means that the team will arrive in Gusu on May 20 at the latest.
However, on May 7, news came out of the Super League that the players were likely to leave the tournament after the 4th round. The specific reason for this is that the National Football League's assembly has been brought forward by about a week, with a possible assembly date of May 13th or 14th.
China Super League (soccer league)
The schedule shows that the 5th round of matches will start on May 14, which includes Guangzhou, Beijing
national security
Teams such as Shanghai Harbour and Shanghai Shenhua will play their matches on the 15th, 16th and 17th respectively. This means that if the players are called up for the Top 40, they will not be able to play in the 5th round of the Chinese Super League.
It is reported that the main purpose of the national football team's early assembly is to improve the quality of preparation. Since Li Tie officially took charge of the national football team at the beginning of last year, the team has accumulated six training sessions and eight warm-up matches. However, due to factors such as epidemics and injuries, the lineup for each training session has been adjusted to a certain extent. A number of important players, including Fernando, Jiang Guangtai and other naturalized players, have not even practiced with the team in the current year, which is bound to have an adverse effect on the national football team's main lineup for the 40-team tournament. Logically speaking, the early assembly will help the coaching staff to strengthen the lineup.
In addition, after the first few rounds of this season's Chinese Super League, some players were injured, and candidate international players also had different states in the league, which brought certain variables to the team's preparation for the sprint of the 40-team tournament. Head coach Li Tie also needs to take advantage of the last training session before the tournament to "check the gaps", while looking for the most ideal combination of lineups to polish.
It is understood that in recent days, the Football Association and Li Tie and other members of the national team coaches and management team have also arrived at the Gusu tournament to discuss preparations. The Chinese team can accept early training, inseparable from the professional league preparatory group and the club's great understanding and cooperation. In particular, the clubs obviously have to make huge "concessions" so that the international players can participate in the national team training in a timely manner.
It is worth noting that, as the hosting of the Top 40 match requires the strict implementation of all kinds of epidemic prevention and security measures, the standard of which is consistent with the previous Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Play-off Round 2. Therefore, even if the national football team assembled in advance, it is not possible to prematurely stationed in the tournament area. In this case, Shanghai has become the most ideal place to hold the first stage of this training. If there is no accident, located in Shanghai Minhang District of the Houpaier Sports Park base will undertake the national football team in Shanghai during the training task. Since May last year, this place has hosted the national football training 3 times, and the training in March this year is also arranged here. The training conditions here are first-class, closer to the Gusu district, Shanghai and Gusu city have similar climatic conditions, which is actually conducive to the preparation of the national football team.
