With the arrival of April 11th in Beijing time, the domestic soccer transfer window is about to draw to a close, leaving only the last thirty hours or so for each club to attract reinforcements. However, Beijing Guoan, one of the favorites to win the title in the new season, announced yesterday that it had brought in two new recruits, and the team's recruitment work has come to an end. As the new season is about to start, Guoan has both welcomed the good news and had to face the challenges.
After yesterday's announcement of the last two new recruits, Guoan today at the Fengtai Sports Center held a meeting of new recruits and the first open training session of the new season. In this meeting, this season to join the Cao Yongjing, Gao Tianyi, He Zhengyu, Park Yang and foreign aid Sosa five new aid made a full appearance.
In the open training session after the meet and greet, Guoan fans also saw a long-lost face - Bakambu. Previously, Bakambu tested positive for nucleic acid and was diagnosed as an asymptomatic infected person, and was then placed in isolation for treatment. When Guoan officials released this news, many fans were worried that Bakambu would miss the start of the new season. However, under active treatment, Bakambu recovered quickly and returned to the team on March 29 to participate in the second half of the team's third phase of training.
It is worth mentioning that today is also the birthday of the Chinese Super League Golden Boot. In the public training, Bakambu is active. According to soccer reporter Zhao Yu reported that in training, Bakambu also shows various celebratory gestures after scoring a goal, and attaches great importance to interacting with the fans who come to the field to watch the training. Whenever Bakambu shoots, the fans in the stands will send him warm cheers.
The return of Bakambu is undoubtedly good news for Guoan before the start of the new season. With the Chinese Super League Golden Boot in town, the team's hopes of winning the title will be greatly increased.
However, at the same time as Bakambu's return, Guoan suffered another bad news, another foreigner was injured.
Currently, the Guoan lineup, including newly introduced foreign aid Sosa, has only four foreign aiders available for the upcoming season. Unfortunately, at this time, the team's core foreign aid in the defense line, Kim Min Ja, was injured.
Reporter Zhao Yu revealed that Guoan's first foreign aid to return, Kim Min Ja, was injured in a previous training session, with a broken bone between his toes, which has affected his normal training. In the open training session conducted this morning, Kim Min Jae did not participate in the training.
With an injury like Kim Min Ja's, surgery might have been a better option. However, due to the long recovery period from the surgery and the important matches ahead for the national team and Guoan, he eventually opted for conservative treatment. This also means that Kim Min Jae will miss the first few rounds of the new season until the pain in his toe goes away and he can make his comeback.
According to the previously released schedule for the 14 rounds of the first phase of the new season, Guoan's opponents for the first two rounds are the two Shanghai teams Shenhua and Shanghai Hong Kong, which are the most complete teams in the Chinese Super League at present. Even with a full lineup, these two matches will be tough battles, not to mention the fact that they can only face them with three foreign aiders, so the difficulty of the match can be imagined.
The good thing is that newcomer Sosa can play both center back and midfield positions and can temporarily replace Kim Min Ja. But with only three foreign aiders to start the season, Guoan's road to the title in the new season is destined to be tougher than ever.
