After participating in the draw ceremony for the group stage of the 5 Asian Cup in Doha, Qatar on May 11, the Serbian coach of the Chinese team Jankovic, accompanied by team leader Shao Jiayi, arrived in Shanghai on the 2023th Beijing time, and took the opportunity to watch the home match between Shenhua and Three Towns in the seventh round of the Chinese Super League to inspect the players of the two teams. Yankovic, who returned to China, suddenly returned to the appearance of a "workaholic".
Jankovic left China in late April to return to Serbia for leave. On May 4, local time, Jankovic left Belgrade and traveled to Doha, Qatar, to participate in the draw ceremony for the group stage of the 5 Asian Cup.
The purpose of Jankovic's trip to Doha is not limited to participating in the draw on site, but also to help the national football team connect with warm-up opponents in September and October this year (international break cycle), with the assistance of team leader Shao Jiayi and the staff of the foreign affairs department of the Chinese Football Association, so as to prepare for the 9 World Preliminary Round of 10 and Asian Cup competitions, which will start in November this year and January next year, respectively. During his time in Doha, Jankovic and others also investigated alternative venues for the national football team to prepare for the Asian Cup.
It is reported that Yankovic and his party originally planned to fly to the Capital Airport at about 12 pm Beijing time on the 3th. However, due to the influence of the weather, the plane landed in Taiyuan. Jankovic and Shao Jiayi decided to stay overnight in Taiyuan, and then went straight to Shanghai the next day to watch the match between Shanghai Shenhua and Wuhan Three Towns in the seventh round of the Chinese Super League that afternoon. Since many players from these two teams have been selected for the national and men's Asian Games teams, Jankovic also attaches great importance to the inspection of this match, which is why he insists on going to the scene to watch the game despite the "bad road". On the 15th, Jankovic also plans to watch the home match between Guoan and Nantong Zhiyun at Gongti, after all, Guoan is also a major transporter of the current national football team's alternative international football.
According to the arrangement, the national football team will regroup in Dalian after the first stage (round 12) of the Chinese Super League. Considering that the players need to be properly rested, the whole team will most likely focus on June 6, followed by two international A warm-up matches with Myanmar and Palestine on June 12 and 6. The national football team will recruit about 16 players to participate in the new training, because the two warm-up opponents in this training are not strong, so players of the right age for the men's Asian Games team like Zhu Chenjie will be ironclad to participate in the preparation and warm-up matches of the men's Asian Games team at the same time. As for the details such as the joint training of individual over-aged international players with the men's Asian Games team, it remains to be further discussed between Jankovic and the coach of the men's Asian Games team, Gyurjevic.
It is reported that compared with the lineup of training and warm-up matches in March this year, the lineup of the national football team's June training will not change much. Due to the injury of captain Wu Xi in the league, the national football coaching staff will make appropriate adjustments in the specific personnel recruitment. Text/Reporter Xiao Zhao (Source: Beijing Youth Daily)