According to the scheduled program, the Chinese men's football team will take the Qatar Airways plane in the early morning of August 26, departing from Shanghai, flying to Doha, Qatar, for the first two rounds of the Qatar World Cup Asian qualifying round of 12 matches to be launched on September 2 and 7 to prepare.
Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned on August 23, China's national team coaching team has determined the three captains of the current 12-team tournament candidates. As with the previous 40 matches, Wu Xi, Artemisia Artemisia, Yu Dabao, the three veterans in the team will once again shoulder the responsibility.
The burden of captaincy still falls on the shoulders of Wu Xi, Artemisia Artemisia, Yu Dabao
Recently, the Chinese national team has been training at the Houpaier Football Park base in Shanghai's Minhang District. In view of the players have just experienced the intensive schedule of the Chinese Super League, head coach Li Tie in the early training intentionally reduce the intensity of training, and timely arrangements for the players to rest. 20 afternoon, Li Tie also allowed the players to temporarily leave the resident hotel, go to the downtown area of Shanghai to meet with friends and relatives, and have dinner together.
At the media conference for the National Football League's Top 12 held in Shanghai on August 22, Li Tie and team leader Zhang He repeatedly emphasized the importance of encouraging and de-stressing the national players, as the team is likely to face a long period of closed training, competitions and life outside the country next.
Li Tie told Beiqing Daily, "Although I don't calculate precisely, I spend a lot of time communicating with the players every day. I don't want this communication to be like an interrogation, and prefer that we can communicate calmly and relaxedly."
In the national football team to strengthen the ideological and psychological communication work, the veterans of the "pass on" role is particularly important. Therefore, Li Tie coaching staff chose Wu Xi, Artemisia Jun Min, Yu Dabao three veterans as the captain during the 12 strong match, this choice with the team in late May this year to determine the captain candidate is completely consistent.
All three captains have played over 60 matches for their country
Authoritative soccer data site shows that in this national football training lineup of 33 players (including substitutes into the defender Zheng Zheng, Wang Shangyuan), on behalf of the national team to participate in more than 50 games a total of five players, according to the number of games from high to low are Artemisia Junmin 83 games, Zhang Linpeng 82 games, Wu Lei and Wu Xi 71 games each, Yu Dabao 61 games. A total of three members of the team have not appeared for the national team in official matches, namely goalkeeper Dong Chunyu, back-rower Xu Xin, and naturalized striker Luo Guofu. Among the players who have made appearances, the one who has made the least number of appearances is Wang Shangyuan who has only made 2 appearances in the East Asian Cup. The next four players with three appearances are naturalized striker Alan, naturalized defender Jiang Guangtai, goalkeeper Liu Dianzha, and wing-back Wu Xinghan.
In the current national football training squad, Zhang Linpeng, Yu Dabao, Zhang Xunzhe, Zhang Yuning, Yan Junling, Wang Dalei, Wu Xi, Artemisia, Wu Lei, Yin Hongbo, Wang Shenchao, Gao Junyi, Liu Binbin and other 13 players have been selected in the last Russia World Preliminary Round 12 training squad, which Wang Dalei, Gao Junyi, Liu Binbin did not play in the last 12 games.
It is thus logical that Wu Xi, Artemisia Jun Min and Yu Dabao will become team captains. In fact, since Li Tie took office at the beginning of 2020, in the first training organized by him, Artemis, Yu Dabao and Zhang Linpeng were selected as captain candidates. Subsequently, Zhang Linpeng missed a few training sessions due to injury, so the captain's choice was adjusted at the beginning of this year. Wu Xi, who has gradually played the center of the midfield in the tactical system of the national football team in recent years, became one of the new captain candidates.
Wu Xi is likely to be the "first captain".
In the view of the national football coach, management team, "captain" is not only a kind of honor, but also a kind of responsibility, is the coach, management team and the ideal communication bridge between the players. The national football team can break into the 12 strong match, thanks to the players on the field of the players to go all out, the CFA to provide quality logistical support, but also thanks to the whole team of unity. In the process, the three captains have effectively fulfilled their duties as captains, both on and off the field, helping the coaching team to lead the team and unite the other teammates, especially the young and naturalized players who are inexperienced in international tournaments.
From the recent preparation of the national football team, the game situation, Wu Xi is likely to appear as the "first captain" in the first round of the national football team 12 round of the first round against Australia in the starting lineup. Artemisia Junmin and Yu Dabao will be on standby according to the team's tactical needs. When not on the field, they will also take the lead in cheering for their teammates on the field, handing out water and sending towels.
