On May 10, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced an urgent notice about the third training session in 2021. It is reported that the Chinese men's national soccer team plans to start training and participate in a series of tournaments between May 14 and June 16, 2021, in Shanghai and Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, respectively. This training period is a full six days earlier than the previously announced May 20th.
It is worth mentioning that according to the relevant agreements, the matches between Henan Songshan Longmen and Guangzhou, originally scheduled for May 15, and Beijing Guoan and Hebei, scheduled for May 16, will also be postponed until after the 40-team tournament.
Six days in advance of the training, for the national football team, is the last grinding training for the 40 strong match, compared to the previous arrangements, this training is a whole six days in advance.
On April 8, the schedule for the 2021 Chinese Super League season was officially announced. In the schedule, the first phase of the tournament adopts a "5+9" system, with five rounds of matches from April 20 to May 17, and subsequent matches starting on June 21st. This is the Chinese Super League for the Top 40 to make a compromise, in the entire Top 40 before and after the week without organizing any game, so that the international players can rest assured for the country.
However, now the national team's requirements are once again upgraded. Not only asked for early training, but also proposed that the May 15 Henan Songshan Longmen and Guangzhou team, May 16 Beijing Guoan and Hebei team game postponed, in order to let the Guangzhou team and Beijing Guoan, the two "big international players" have more adequate preparation time. Other matches will remain unchanged.
This arrangement has sparked no small amount of controversy. Regardless of the usefulness of training six days in advance, just from this sudden move, it is enough to see the FA's neglect of the league rules. After all, the fifth round of the Chinese Super League has opened on May 14th. Against prior planning, the temporary call-up of international players to participate in training is inherently unfair to teams with a large number of international players. 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, there are Shandong Taishan's Artemisia, Jin Jingdao and Wu Xinghan, Hebei Football Salon's Yin Hongbo and Guangzhou City's Tang Miao, five players who have been 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
As a matter of fact, the postponement of the entire fifth round of the Chinese Super League is also one of the alternative plans prepared by the CFA.On May 9, the preparatory group of the working alliance temporarily summoned 16 Chinese Super League salons for a general manager's meeting on the line. The meeting showed that the national team needs to train early, and asked the 16 salons to vote on the modification plan of the tournament system. Among them, the No. 1 plan was to adjust only the most affected matches between Guoan and Hebei (Suzhou Region) and between Guangzhou and Henan Songshan Longmen (Guangzhou Region), both of which should have more than five or more international players; and 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 indicate that the final No. 1 plan passed with 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 minority to majority, the final decision to adjust only two matches.
Certainly, delaying only two games will have a much smaller impact on the league than postponing an entire round of games. 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 Chinese soccer this year is the Top 40 match. From the Chinese Super League system to the salons have given the green light to the national soccer 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 CFA and the working league have also acquiesced to Li Tie's request several times in a row, allowing the national team to expand its training needs, and even threatening the fairness of the working league.
"Fear of injury" should not 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 alliance launched a coordination meeting. At the meeting, some people directly asked the national team's coaching team, "What exactly are the reasons and justifications for your request to advance the training?" "As coaches, don't you know that the effect of adjusting the players' competitive state through a formal 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 if you think about it, when "fear of injury" can also 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, fear of injury has never been a reason for the national team to break the rules of the league and arbitrarily request an early buildup, preventing the national players from playing.
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 boat is driving forward, encountered a storm, we need to work together, if the boat ran aground, no one can be spared." In April 1, the CFA held a salon in charge of the work conference, made a "military order" Chen Xuyuan had said so.
