The national football team prepares for the top 40 matches for the first 20 days of training this year, coach Li Tie offers "devil training"

　　Warm-up 6-game winning streak

Cheer up together in 2021, wish all fans and friends a happy New Year and wish you all the best!

　　—— National Football Coach Li Tie

　　After the warm-up match with Changchun Yatai on February 9th, the first 20-day 2021 training session of the Chinese National Men's Football Team ended.

"Multi-pronged approach" has become a feature of the national football training this season. Coach Li Tie has prepared high-intensity training for the international footballers. The Chairman of the Chinese Football Association Chen Xuyuan made a special trip to Haikou to visit the class. International referees preached the rules for the team...After all, the national team Playing in the world preliminaries is the most important task of Chinese football this year. It is a task that the national football team must complete to qualify from the top 40 to the top 12.

　　personnel

　　New Year's first training Li Tie examines many newcomers

　　On January 14, the Football Association announced the first training list of the National Football Team in 2021. A total of 27 players including Alan and Exon were selected.

Compared with the training list in October last year, the national football team's current training personnel have changed greatly. The two naturalized players Li Ke and Jiang Guangtai are absent due to temporarily unable to return to the country. Zhang Linpeng is in the recovery period after surgery, and Guo Tianyu is training with the U22 national football team.

　　After the start of the training camp, Li Tie had to face personnel changes caused by various situations.

The first-time naturalized player Alan was quarantined for a long time and could only report at the end of the team's training camp; Wei Shihao withdrew from the training camp due to injury, and the National Football Team recruited Guangzhou City's Chang Feiya for this.

Many players were recruited for their outstanding performance in the league last year. For example, Wang Gang, Zheng Zheng and Yin Hongbo were all selected for the first time in the national team coached by Li Tie.

　　Li Tie said at the beginning of the training camp: "The team hopes to use the time before the Chinese New Year to let the players we want to examine become familiar with the team's tactical play as soon as possible. Although it is impossible to be 100% sure, the probability of (the top 40) is the game. So we need more players.” Although some players are absent, this training session has achieved the purpose of examining the players and may provide Li Tie with a variety of options in the future.

　　The goal of the training camp is not just that. As a reserve period for the new season, Li Tie has offered high-intensity "devil training" shortly after the start of the training camp.

Yan Junling, who entered his personal winter training time in early December last year, originally ridiculed himself as "the first person to start winter training", but he quickly discovered, "The special training I did outside is nothing to Brother Tie." It is the training intensity with distinctive Li Tie characteristics-when he led the Wuhan team to overtime, he used a winter training period to reduce the body fat of all players to below "12".

After all, to lay a good physical foundation is a team that shows resilience in the game.

　　test

　　Warm-up and full victory striker weakness still to be resolved

　　On January 2 last year, Li Tie officially became the head coach of the National Football Team. However, affected by the epidemic, the National Football Team did not participate in any official competitions and training time was very limited in the more than a year after "Iron" took office.

The team's current lineup running-in degree, technical and tactical play can only be tested by the warm-up match.

　　During the training period, the national football team arranged two warm-up matches: on February 5, the team beat Hebei Huaxia Fortune 5 to 1; on February 9, with Wu Xinghan’s supplementary shot and Zhang Yuning’s penalty kick, the national football team Defeat Changchun Yatai 2-0.

While winning both games, the national team also exposed the chronic problem of insufficient offensive power.

In the match against China Fortune, Li Tie used a set of lineups in the first and second half, but the team's performance in the second half was not satisfactory and only scored one goal.

In the second battle, facing Changchun Yatai, who took a defensive formation, the national football team did not perform well on the offensive end. After Wu Xinghan's supplementary shot broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute, Li Tie's team fell into a situation where it won't score until the 80th minute , Chi Zhongguo created a penalty kick, Zhang Yuning only expanded the score.

　　From mid-January last year to early February this year, Li Tie's national football team played 6 warm-up matches with domestic club teams, winning all of them and scoring 24 goals.

However, after all, the warm-up match is different from the official match, and the true strength of the national football still needs to pass the actual test.

　　In the latest family photo taken by the National Football Team, Li Tie was ranked C in the center of the front row, with Exon standing behind him.

According to the outside world's previous speculation, Alan and Exxon may be able to resolve the embarrassment of the "weak front" of the national football team.

It's just that Alan arrived late in the training camp and failed to participate in the first warm-up match. The second game also came off the bench, and his performance was mediocre because he was still in the recovery period.

Whether this combination of naturalized players can be a good medicine to solve the chronic problems of the national football still needs time to test.

The good news is that with Wu Lei, Wei Shihao, Fernando and other players joining in the future, the national football team will have more offensive combinations on the front line.

　　Guarantee

　　Pay attention to "software" in preparation

　　As it is about preparing for the top 40 games, the Chinese Football Association and the National Football Coaching staff attach great importance to this training.

The Chairman of the Football Association Chen Xuyuan made a special trip to Haikou to explore the squad and communicated with the whole team on the theme of "Building a national team capable of fighting and having a good style" on February 8.

It was not only the chairman of the Football Association who went to the site to visit the team, but the heads of multiple functional departments of the Football Association related to the work of the national team gathered in Haikou to fully communicate with the team's head coach Li Tie on the preparation for the top 40 match.

　　At the same time, another "software" of the national team in the international arena is also valued.

During this training camp, international referees Ma Ning and Wang Di made two rules announcements for the team.

In the past, the Chinese team suffered many losses in international competitions due to penalties and inability to understand the rules.

In the rules presentation, two international referees analyzed the videos of typical cases, the penalty data and the referee's law enforcement characteristics to help the international players learn how to effectively communicate with the referees on the court, understand and apply the rules more accurately, and improve Sports performance.

It is reported that similar interactions with referees will become normal in the national team.

　　While the national football team is intensively preparing for the game, another focus is undoubtedly when the final rounds of the top 40 games will start due to the epidemic.

The AFC has previously expressed its strong desire to restart the top 40. At the beginning of January this year, the AFC requested the participating member associations to report the name of the home game venue and the planned kick-off time.

According to the schedule at the time, the Chinese men's football team played against the Maldives at home on March 25 and played away with Guam on March 30.

However, the current situation of the Asian epidemic is still complicated, and it is obviously difficult to kick off the home and away games as scheduled for the top 40.

The current news shows that the top 40 competition will be held in early June with a conference system, and the teams participating in the third stage of the world preliminaries will be determined before June 15.

　　In the previous competition, the Chinese man who missed the round was enough to rank second in Group A with 7 points, 8 points behind the top Syrian, and he was only able to win the final 4 rounds and rank among the 4 best-performing groups. 2 qualified.

Li Tie and the national team still have time to prepare if they can answer the question of the top 40.

　　National Football Warm-up Record on January 18, 2020, 8 to 0, Shenyang Urban Construction, January 21, 2020, 1 to 0, Wuhan Zall May 21, 2020, 4 to 1, Shanghai SIPG

　　May 26, 2020, 4 to 0 Shanghai Shenhua, February 5, 2021, 5 to 1 China Fortune, February 9, 2021, 2 to 0 Changchun Yatai

　　Note: From January last year to February this year, the national football team won six warm-up matches and scored 24 goals.

　　Written by/Beijing News reporter Zhou Xiao