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U19 national youth coach will not be able to come to the team in the short term
In order to prepare for the qualifiers for the new U20 Asian Cup (formerly U19 Asian Youth Championship) to be held in Saudi Arabia in September, the 2003 U19 National Youth Team re-focused on June 12.
However, Yang Zhi, Huang Bowen, and Lu Feng, the trainers who participated in the last training session in Haikou, are not currently in the coaching and management team of this training session. Yang, Lu and Shao Jiayi, the team leader and assistant coach, were absent from this training session due to their participation in the coaching training course.
Training June 12th
7 people less than 31 people in the previous period
The Spanish coach Antonio, goalkeeper coach Tomo, assistant coach Freddy, and fitness coach Farrar are affected by objective factors and are temporarily unable to lead the team in China.
For the time being, Antonio can only guide the team to prepare for the game through remote online methods.
There is a high probability that he can only go directly to Saudi Arabia to join the team before the start of the game.
Under the background that the coach has been absent from the team for a long time and the team has no chance to hold any international warm-up matches in the short term, the quality of the team's preparations and the prospect of impacting the U20 Asian Cup competition may not be optimistic.
According to the training notice announced by the Chinese Football Association, the 2003 U19 National Youth Team will conduct the third training session of the year at the Shandong Luneng Football School in Weifang from June 12 to 28 to prepare for the upcoming U20 Asian Cup qualifiers in Saudi Arabia in September. .
Affected by various objective factors, a total of 24 players participated in this training session, 7 less than the 31 players in the previous period.
What is even more interesting is that the coaching team members who participated in this training camp have undergone considerable adjustments.
For example, the former international players Yang Zhi, Huang Bowen and Lu Feng who served as trainers in the previous period are not in the camp of the current training coaching team.
Although the names of coach Antonio, team leader and assistant coach Shao Jiayi appeared in the training list, they did not appear in the training site of Luneng Football School.
It is understood that Shao Jiayi, Yang Zhi and Lu Feng will participate in the first AFC/Chinese Football Association A-level coach training course in Qingdao from June 13 to July 10 according to the notice of the Chinese Football Association. , therefore unable to participate in the training of the U19 National Youth Team in this issue.
Online remote coaching of team training
Not good for preparing for war
As for coach Antonio and several foreign assistants, affected by the epidemic, they have not been able to return to China to participate in offline team leadership work.
During the previous two training sessions, Antonio had to guide the team’s training through remote online methods.
In the case of a shortage of coaches, former international players Zhang Pengsheng, Zong Lei, Cao Yang and Liu Jian joined the team's coaching staff as trainers, and joined hands with assistant coach Du Zhenyu, trainers Liu Cheng and Zhang Xinxin to lead the team.
Although with the help of modern technology, it is not uncommon for the coach to direct the team's training and even games online, but in terms of the convenience of work and the quality of words and deeds, such an arrangement will have an adverse effect on the team's preparations.
The same thing worth noting is that, in the 3 training sessions organized by the team this year, the members of the coaching team have been adjusted during the period.
Taking goalkeeper training as an example, when coach Tomo was temporarily unavailable, former international Yang Zhi was the one who assisted in goalkeeper training.
After Yang Zhi participated in the A-level study class, the former international footballers Zong Lei and Zhang Pengsheng took over from him.
In addition, the name of former international Sun Ji, who was selected for the team's first training coaching team this year, did not appear in the list of the next two training sessions.
Former international Huang Bowen, who had been in the lineup of the previous two coaching teams, was also not selected.
Imagine that different coaches have different coaching styles and personalities, which will have different effects on players.
Players and coaches need a considerable amount of time to get familiar with and run in.
Therefore, frequent changes of coaches may also affect the efficiency and quality of the entire training.
U19 National Youth Team
Facing huge difficulties and challenges
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that since the national football team ended the Qatar World Preliminary Tournament in late March, there is no more important task of preparing for the competition this year. Some of the team's former coaching team members and management staff have also gone to other national-brand teams to work and help. For example, Ou Chuliang, the former goalkeeper coach of the national football team, has already assisted the Chinese women's football team.
In addition, the former national football staff participated in the relevant work of the 2001 U21 National Youth Team (New National Olympic Team) and the U19 National Youth Team.
However, these adjustments cannot help the national brand echelons at all levels to solve more practical difficulties.
Compared with the U23 national football team whose preparations were relatively normal this year, the other national teams of the men's football team faced different degrees of difficulties in preparation for the competition.
For them, the biggest difficulty is the lack of high-quality international warm-ups.
The three training sessions of the U19 National Youth Team this year are arranged in China, but due to objective factors such as the epidemic, the Chinese Football Association cannot invite teams from other countries (regions) to come to China to warm up.
Like the U21 national youth team, the U19 national youth team and the 2006-age U16 national youth team preparing for the U17 Asian Cup qualifiers can only accumulate actual combat experience by warming up with some domestic club teams.
With the start of professional leagues at all levels one after another, such warm-up opportunities are hard to find.
According to the draw results of the U20 Asian Cup qualifiers in late May, the U19 Chinese National Youth Team will be divided into Group A with the qualifier host team Saudi Arabia, the final host team Uzbekistan, Myanmar and Maldives.
Although Uzbekistan was directly promoted as the seeded team in the final stage, its preliminaries were not counted.
But the Saudi U19 team is strong and plays at home.
It is difficult for the U19 national youth team to compete for the top spot in the group.
According to the competition rules, the second-place teams of the 5 best-performing groups in the 10 groups in the preliminaries will join the top 10 teams of the 10 groups and the host Uzbekistan to enter the final stage.
This means that the 2003 U19 national youth team must not only strive to maintain a complete victory over Myanmar and Maldives, but also strive for as many goals as possible.
And this is undoubtedly a huge difficulty and challenge for the U19 National Youth Team who lacked practical training opportunities during the preparation period.
Text / Newspaper reporter Xiao Xun