Data map: Li Tie, the head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team, talks with players on the training ground.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin

  Chinanews.com client, January 14th, on the 14th, the Chinese football team officially announced the latest national team roster, including two naturalized players Exon and Alan.

The training camp is to prepare for the top 40 of the World Cup qualifiers. The training time is from January 22 to February 10, 2021, and the training location is Haikou.

  In the world's top 40 preliminaries, the national football team currently has 4 matches, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, with 7 points, and is behind Syria by 5 points, temporarily ranking second in the group.

  According to the original schedule, the national football team was originally scheduled to face the Maldives and Guam on March 26 and March 31, 2020, and the Philippines and Syria on June 4 and June 9, 2020.

However, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the remaining competition schedule of the top 40 has been changed many times.

Until August 2020, the AFC announced that the remaining matches of the top 40 will be postponed to this year.

According to media reports, the top 40 tournament may restart at the end of March.

Data map: On November 14, 2019, in the World Preliminary Asian Top 40, the national football team lost 1:2 away to Syria. The opponent scored the first goal in the game. After that, Wu Lei volleyed to equalize the score, and Zhang Linpeng accidentally got an own goal. The national football team fell behind again.

Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency

  Last year, the national football team did not participate in the international A-level competition, and finally FIFA ranked 75th in the world at the end of the year and 9th in Asia.

Compared with 2019, the national football year-end ranking has risen one place, and the Asian ranking remains unchanged.

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  Attachment: The latest national team roster