Li Xiaopeng preliminarily delineates a large list of assistant candidates, the new national football team will gather in Shanghai in early January next year
According to the plan, the Chinese men's football team will gather in Shanghai around January 10 next year to prepare for the 7th round of the Asian Tournament of the Qatar World Preliminary Tournament at the end of January and early February. The Japanese team and the 8th round will be played against Vietnam. the match of.
Although the next management model of the National Football Team has been adjusted with the establishment of the "Preparation Leading Working Group", the support and guarantee of the Chinese Football Association for the new coach Li Xiaopeng under the leadership of the National Football Team remains unchanged.
The list of national football assistants and the new international team will also be officially finalized after New Year's Day.
The Chinese men's football team gathers early next year
The Chinese Football Association announced through official channels on December 3 that Li Xiaopeng would replace Li Tie, who had resigned, as the new head coach of the Chinese Men's Football Team.
Almost at the same time, a leading working group for the preparation of the Chinese team, led by the sports management department and jointly launched with the Chinese Football Association, came into being.
This means that the management model of the Chinese team has changed compared to the past.
According to the plan, the Chinese team will travel to Japan on January 23 next year to prepare to participate in the 7th round of the top 12 match with the Japanese team on January 27.
It is understood that before the official announcement of the change of coaches, the members of the Chinese Football Association's national football protection team began to prepare for the new training camp.
When the team is concentrated early next year, the six major working groups including epidemic prevention, competition, and foreign affairs will be in place.
Qi Jun, the head of the Strategic Planning Department of the Chinese Football Association who has just become the national football team leader, will not accidentally be the team leader of the team's epidemic prevention work group.
The team’s overseas preparation and competition patterns are consistent with previous rounds of competitions. For example, due to epidemic prevention considerations, the Chinese team will go to Japan and Vietnam to participate in away games and will still take chartered flights.
"Human Resources" is the main problem
At present, the main problems plaguing the new National Football Team are focused on "human resources".
First of all, as of now, the new national football coaching staff has confirmed that Li Xiaopeng will serve as the coach, and other assistants are still to be determined.
It is understood that during the National Football Preparation Leadership Working Group meeting held in Shanghai last weekend, a large list of assistant candidates was preliminarily delineated based on Li Xiaopeng's opinions. Some candidates are still "on their posts", and some even play important coaching roles in the club.
Out of respect for the club, neither the Chinese Football Association nor Li Xiaopeng will "disturb" such candidates for the time being, and will communicate with them on specific cooperation matters after the season ends.
It is reported that most of Li Xiaopeng's favorite local assistant coaches are his national team teammates in his player era, and some of them have participated in major events such as the 2002 World Cup or the 2004 Asian Cup.
Prior to this, news showed that Li Xiaopeng hoped that the Spanish coach Pep, who had assisted him in the club team, could come to China to participate in the coaching work of the national football team.
So far, there is no real progress on this matter.
In the situation that the selection of assistants is difficult for a while, Li Xiaopeng does not rule out the possibility of fighting for individual members of the original national football coaching team to stay on the team. For example, goalkeeper coach Ou Chuliang is one of his goals.
As for the Chinese Football Association's Belgian technical director Kreis and British physical fitness coach Adrian Lamb in the national football coaching team, there is a high probability that they will stay on the team.
The list of training camps will be confirmed after New Year's Day as soon as possible
In the selection of national football, Li Xiaopeng also faces difficulties.
On the one hand, after the start of the second stage of the Chinese Super League, due to the unprecedented intensive schedule and other factors, the two internationals Wang Gang and Wu Xinghan were seriously injured.
As the league competition intensifies, it is not ruled out that more international players will suffer accidental injuries.
On the other hand, among the 4 active-duty naturalized nationals, except for the defender Jiang Guangtai, the other 3 have returned to Brazil.
At present, the Chinese Football Association has instructed a dedicated person to keep in touch with these people, but as relevant people said, "They (nationalization nationals) can theoretically represent the Chinese team, but how to maintain the state after returning to China (Brazil) is not easy to control. It’s normal. The mother team doesn’t pay and they can’t play in the league.”
It is reported that Li Xiaopeng will focus on the inspection work of the national team in the near future.
Restricted by objective factors, the national football coach team and the new international training team list will not be confirmed until after New Year's Day at the earliest.
Text/Reporter Xiao Zhe
Coordinator/Wang Haozhou