On July 19th, Shanghai Shenhua returned to Kangqiao training base yesterday afternoon after a 5-day break to prepare for the next round of the Chinese Super League, which will start on August 5th, reports Weekly Shanghai. However, Wu Xi and seven other key players were absent from the training session.
After the match against Wuhan Changjiang on July 12, the Shenhua team disbanded on the spot and the players went home for vacation. Nevertheless, only a few players such as Bassogo, Bolaños, Qian Jie gave and Yang Xu returned to Shanghai with the team. Since March 7, Kangqiao base closed training, the team has spent more than four months of closed period, after the vacation, the players first rushed back to their hometown to reunite with their families.
Among the 18 Chinese Super League teams, Shenhua's 5-day vacation is considered shorter, but the players still returned to the Kangqiao base on time to start a new round of preparation training. As usual, the first training session after the vacation was relatively easy, and the coaching team only arranged some simple body wake-up training.
Unfortunately, Wu Xi has not yet returned to the team due to injury, Zhu Jianrong and Qian Jie gave are also in recovery and can not participate in training with the team. In addition, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Wen Jiabao and Liu Ruowan van with the national football selection team to fight in the East Asian Cup, is expected to return only early next month. July 27, Zhu Yue, He Longhai, Jiang Zhixin will report to the U21 national football team to participate in the Croatian B League, until early November to return. As a result, the coaching staff will probably draw a few players from the ladder team to join the first team soon to ensure the smooth progress of group confrontation training.
Xu Yougang and Cong Zhen, who did not enter the 35-man list in the first phase of the league, also returned to the Kangqiao base yesterday and participated in the team's training. At present, it seems that the two are expected to be supplemented into the first team list in the second phase of the transfer period.
In view of the current epidemic situation in Shanghai as well as the players up to four months closed period, Shenhua team this phase of the closed training program, but will take the walk training system.
