Written by /Zhao Yu
At three o'clock in the afternoon of January 12, Li Xiaopeng, the new coach of the national football team, officially led the team to appear. Along with him, there were also assistant coaches at the big name level: Ou Chuliang, Li Jinyu, Zhao Junzhe, Shao Jiayi, Zheng Zhi, Chen Yang, Wang Liang and so on.
Sun Jihai and Yu Genwei are temporarily unable to come to the team due to personal affairs, and will report in the next few days. Some people joked that these people formed a team, and young people may not be able to play them.
After arriving at the training ground, these people chatted in a circle, and everyone used to be basically teammates of the national team, or very familiar, there was no sense of distance.
The national football training list was written with 52 players, and only half of the training came on the first day. The 15 players in the Tarzan and Harbor teams who played in the FA Cup had two more days off and reported on the 14th. Wei Zhen did not participate in the second leg of the game, so he came to the national team in advance to train with him.
Zhu Chenjie was unwell and suspended the national team for a few days. Li Shuai and Liu Ruovan played in the play-offs and also arrived two days late. The current trend of the 5 naturalized players is also relatively clear, Jiang Guangtai is reunited with his family in Dubai, and Alain, Axon, Luo Guofu and Fernando are in Brazil.
According to the principle, these 5 people will go directly to Japan to meet the team, but who can go and who can't go, Li Xiaopeng has no score in his heart, even if the verbal promises of these people are very good.
The other is the two foreign players, Li Lei and Wu Lei, who can only go directly to Japan like naturalized players. Counting, the national team currently has only 27 players, and Yin Hongbo has recovered in the hotel for physical reasons, so only 26 people have come to the training ground, which is exactly half of the training list.
However, there will be more and more people in the next few days, and Century Park has only two football fields. The quality of the lawn is good, but I don't know if so many people can completely stand up when the time comes. To be sure, the training ground must be particularly crowded after the crowds are assembled.
Li Xiaopeng said that after the people are together, they will be divided into two teams, and different coaching teams will bring them. On the 16th, an internal match was played to find the feeling first, and players who had participated in the FA Cup final did not play this game. On the 20th, the two teams will have an official internal teaching match, simulating the round of 12 against the Japanese team. After playing this game, it will be clear which players will go to Japan and which will not go.
The national team will go to Japan in late January, and when the time comes, it will be greatly slimmed down, about 25 or 6 players will accompany the team, the rest will return to each home, and the assistant coaching team will not have to go to so many people.