Li Ke and other four players failed to be selected and naturalized player Exxon returned to the team

National Football Team confirms 26-man roster for Singapore

　　Yesterday evening, the Chinese men's football team held its last training session in Shenzhen before heading to Singapore. The team also determined the roster of 26 players before training.

It is understood that the four players and Li Shuai, who retired due to injury, will not go to Singapore with the team.

This means that the three newcomers Li Yuanyi, Cheng Jin, and Wang Zhen'ao, as well as the naturalized players Fernando and Exxon who returned from this training camp, will all be included in the team's 26-man lineup for the away game in Singapore.

　　In preparation for the two upcoming World Cup Asian Top 36 matches against Singapore on March 21 (away) and 26 (home), the Chinese team gathered in Shenzhen on the 11th of this month.

The new head coach Ivankovic combined his own investigation and the recommendations of Chinese assistants to finally select 31 players to participate in this training session.

According to the registration rules for the top 36, each team can register up to 23 players per game.

Taking into account the possibility of accidental injuries during preparations, the Chinese team's coaching staff finally decided to take 26 players to an away game in Singapore after discussion.

This means that a total of 5 players will not be able to travel with the team to Singapore for the away game.

　　Previously, Li Shuai, the left back from the Harbor Club, was seriously injured and left the team shortly after arriving to report and returned to Shanghai to recover from his injuries.

During the recent preparations for the national football team, left center back Li Ang, also from the Harbor Club, suffered an ankle injury and was in obvious pain, and it was confirmed that he would not be able to go to the away game with the team.

A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that in addition to Li Shuai and Li Ang, three other players, Li Ke, Xie Wenneng and Zhao Bo, were not allowed to travel with the team to Singapore.

In fact, Li Ke once asked for leave from the national football team because he went home to deal with urgent matters. He did not arrive in Shenzhen to join the team until the day of the 15th.

However, due to previous injuries, his physical condition was not ideal and he was ultimately unable to travel to Singapore with the team.

　　Xie Wenneng and Zhao Bo were selected for the national team for the first time as absolute newcomers. They had previously shown solid technical skills and good competitive form when they represented the club team respectively.

However, the young Xie Wenneng is currently an Olympic-age player and is also shouldering the important task of helping the National Olympic team compete for tickets to the men's football main game of the Paris Olympic Games.

According to the plan, the National Olympic team will travel to West Asia on March 21 to prepare for the new U23 Asian Cup and Olympic preliminaries finals. During this period, the team will also participate in no less than 6 warm-up matches. Therefore, the National Olympic team The team also needs attackers like Xie Wenneng to reinforce the front line.

Since the current national football team has recruited many offensive players including Zhang Yuning, Button, Wu Lei, Wei Shihao, Lin Liangming, etc., and the naturalized player Exon has returned to the team after receiving rehabilitation treatment, under this circumstance, Ivan’s coaching team finally decided Release Xie Wenneng so that he can rush to support the Olympic team in time.

　　As for Zhao Bo's failure to be selected, it has nothing to do with his ability, but at the goalkeeper position. The team has already reserved three experienced goalkeeper candidates, Yan Junling, Wang Dalei and Liu Dianzuo.

Due to the limited number of registrations for the official competition, the coaching staff will register 3 goalkeepers as usual, so they can only temporarily abandon Zhao Bo.

Three newcomers, Li Yuanyi, Wang Zhenao, and Cheng Jin, finally stayed on the team. This is actually in line with the current needs of the national football team to strengthen personnel on various lines.

Ivankovic has previously stated that the national football team will recruit about two newcomers to the team for each training session in the future.

This approach is actually beneficial to optimizing competition within the team and speeding up personnel blood renewal.

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　　New coach Ivan explains the choice of players to go to the country

　　Head coach Ivankovic gave some explanations for the failure of five players including Li Ke and Li Ang and Exxon's selection into the lineup.

　　He said: "This time we selected 31 people to enter the training list to see the performance of more players. The players from the Shandong (Taishan) team arrived a little later, and in the end we still had some players injured. Li Shuai, Li Ang is injured, so they will not go to Singapore with us."

　　Regarding the failure of newcomer Xie Wenneng, Ivan explained: "Xie Wenneng's situation is quite special. His performance is still very good, but in the national team, there are more candidates for his position, and there are also more similar types. So we first Let him report to the Olympic training camp so that he can better prepare for the U23 Asian Cup."

　　Ivan also mentioned another newcomer, goalkeeper Zhao Bo.

He said: "Zhao Bo's performance is also very good, but the number of people this time is limited. I believe he will come again for the training camp in June."

　　As for Li Ke, Ivan explained: "He was injured before the season and has just recovered, and his condition has not reached the best level yet. We also have other options in the defensive midfielder position, such as Wang Shangyuan, Micro Motion, and Gao Tianyi. I can play this position. So I made a choice."

　　Regarding the status of other players, Ivan commented: "All our players performed very well and worked very hard in this training camp. We will definitely make detailed arrangements for this game and hope that everyone can go all out."

　　Ivan also specifically mentioned Exxon's return to the team.

He explained: "At the beginning of the training camp, Exxon came here (Shenzhen). We talked with him in detail. After communicating with him, he performed physical therapy on his knee injury and now basically He has recovered. Maybe he is not 100% capable of playing 90 minutes, but we believe that as long as he plays 5 minutes or 10 minutes, he can have a positive effect on the team. We don't have many options at the forward position. , so his arrival means a lot to us.”

　　(Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Nan)