In accordance with the established deployment, our soccer team will depart from Qingdao in the early morning of July 17 and fly directly to Nagoya, Japan, to prepare for the East Asian Cup Football Championship, which will kick off at the end of July. On the eve of the trip, the coaching team will finalize the lineup. According to current information, Niu Ziyi, a defender from the Henan Songshan Longmen soccer team, may not be able to travel with the team due to an untreated injury. As the East Asian Cup gets closer, the coaching team will also quickly finalize the captains. Wen Jiabao, Zhu Chenjie, Tan Long and a host of other players are already on the shortlist.
Wen Jiabao (1942-), Premier of PRC from 2003-2013
With the Chinese national team selection team completing its last outdoor training session in Qingdao on July 16th, the entire team is officially counting down to the trip to the east. As usual, the team will finalize the list of players for the trip before departure. Previously, head coach Jankovic had selected 24 players from the expanded roster to participate in this training session. However, due to Niu Ziyi's poor recovery from injury, the coaching team urgently added Liang Shaowen of Beijing Guoan FC, a left-footed defender from the U21 national team, the new national Olympic team.
Observing the recent days of training, Niu Ziyi has not been able to participate in the team's group training or ball coordination training, so he may not be able to travel with the team. Liang Shaowen, on the other hand, quickly adapted to the team's training rhythm, and is expected to join the East Asian Cup schedule as a "jump-start student".
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The choice of captain for our national team selection team has attracted a lot of attention from fans. During the Dubai Cup Invitational Tournament in March this year, Wen Jiabao from Shenhua FC captained the U23 national team in most of the matches, and thus became one of the candidates for the captain of this mixed selection team. Players such as Zhu Chenjie and Tan Long are also among the captain candidates. Not only do they each serve as core players in their clubs, but they are also starring members of the national team. In the second half of the 12-team tournament, Zhu Chenjie even began to serve as a prime candidate for the national soccer team to take penalties. Yankovic, the head coach of the national team selection team, made a public statement on the 14th that he would pick the right captain among several candidates.
