The list of "Ivan Phase I" is mainly recommended by the Chinese team

　　In order to prepare for the third and fourth rounds of the World Preliminary Round of 36 against Singapore on March 21 and 26, the Chinese men's football team will regroup in Shenzhen early next week.

After the new coach Ivankovic went to Jinan on the evening of the 6th to watch the first round of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals Shandong Taishan VS Japan's Yokohama Marinos, the national football coaching staff will combine the first round of the Chinese Super League and the Taishan AFC Champions League match. Based on the inspection results and the recommendations of the Chinese team members, the lineup for this training session was finalized.

　　The team will gather on the 11th and finalize the training roster today.

　　Due to the short time he took office and the limited scope of the inspection, Ivan's team is likely to draw a list of more than 30 players, and then select about 25 players based on the training situation in Shenzhen to participate in the two world preliminaries.

From the current point of view, the "Ivan Phase 1" training lineup will most likely be dominated by players who participated in the World Cup preliminaries in November last year and the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, and are likely to be supplemented by players like Li Yuanyi of Taishan team who have played in the Chinese Super League or Some of the "new faces" who performed well in the AFC Champions League.

　　On the evening of the 6th, Ivan, three foreign assistants and Chinese assistant coach Zheng Zhi and others went to the Jinan Olympic Sports Center to watch the AFC Champions League match between Shandong Taishan and Yokohama Marinos.

This is also the second game that Ivan has attended as the new coach of the national football team after the Super Cup on February 25.

After the trip to Quancheng, Ivan and his party returned to Beijing on the 7th. On the 8th, he will also go to Tianjin to attend a media meeting.

Since the national football team is about to gather on the 11th, the coaching staff will finalize the list of players for the new training session by the 8th at the latest.

　　In fact, including the game on the 6th, Ivan and the three foreign assistants have attended less than 5 games together. With such a tight time limit, the scope and intensity of their inspections of players are very limited.

In this case, Ivan is in great need of the help of Chinese assistants.

In other words, when it comes to team formation, the new coaching team needs to get recommendations from Chinese coaches on specific candidates.

　　Optimizing the national football lineup "newcomers" are expected to join the team

　　To be honest, the reorganization of the national football team is by no means limited to coaching changes, and the optimization of the lineup is also urgent.

Compared with the Asian Cup, the new national football training lineup will inevitably undergo considerable adjustments.

It is difficult for some international-level players who have a low appearance rate in the club due to injuries or other reasons, or even no appearance record, to be recruited by the new coaching staff.

For example, Liu Binbin, the main player of the national football team during the Asian Cup, is currently suffering from injuries, so it is difficult to join the new national football team.

　　Some "newcomers" who have performed outstandingly in the league and have satisfactory statistics in all aspects are expected to join the team.

For example, after entering the 2024 season, the 31-year-old player Li Yuanyi of the Taishan team started every game in the Taishan team's last 4 official games (3 AFC Champions League and 1 Chinese Super League), playing at the "8th position" Ziru has made great contributions to the Taishan team on both offense and defense.

It would not be a surprise if he could be selected for the national football team for the first time.

　　Recently, Shenhua team's attacking midfielder Xu Haoyang has also received high calls for being selected for the national football team.

In the Super Cup, Xu Haoyang showed his delicate footwork and outstanding passing awareness under the attention of Ivan.

However, whether his relatively weak physical condition can adapt to international competitions that emphasize high confrontation and high rhythm still needs to be considered by the national football coaching staff.

In addition, naturalized player Fernando has recently returned to form, and he has also been in the national football reserve lineup for a long time.

　　The time to take over is short and players’ status can be checked through training camps.

　　When Jankovic coached the national football team, he always maintained the habit of recruiting no more than 26 players for each training session, thereby ensuring that the team reserves two players of equal strength for each field position while minimizing the waste of human resources. .

However, because Ivan took over the team for too short a time, he did not know enough about most of the candidate players, so he had to conduct training to closely examine the players' true technical abilities and physical condition.

From this point of view, the lineup for the first training session will need to be expanded, and the specific number is likely to be more than 30 people.

　　According to the plan, after Ivankovic met with the media in Tianjin today, he returned to Jinan on the 9th to watch the highlight of the Chinese Super League that night - the match between Shandong Taishan and Beijing Guoan.

Both teams have been major players in sending international players in recent years, and Ivan needs to take this opportunity to learn more about the key players of the two teams.

　　Text/reporter Xiao Nan