The Chinese men's football Asian Cup training list was released
The only new face is a goalkeeper
On December 12, the Chinese men's national football team announced the training list of the Qatar Asian Cup, and the defender Jiang Guangtai of the Shanghai Port team, who missed the first two games of the top 36 of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in the Asian region due to injury, Wang Qiuming, a midfielder of the Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, and Lin Liangming, a striker of the Dalian team, returned.
The Qatar Asian Cup will start on January 13, 2024, and the national football team will play Tajikistan in the first game of the group stage. According to the plan, the national football team will assemble in Shanghai on December 17, fly to the Abu Dhabi training camp in the United Arab Emirates on the 18th, and prepare until January 7 next year, during which it will play warm-up matches against Oman, the Indian national team and local clubs.
Although the national football coach Jankovic has circled a 50-man squad for the World Preliminary Round of 36 and the Qatar Asian Cup, including some national Olympic and national youth players, the Serbs still follow the principle of "using practice instead of raw" in the selection of the Asian Cup preparation list.
According to AFC regulations, teams participating in the Asian Cup in Qatar must submit a 30-man roster by December 12 at the latest, and the final roster for the Asian Cup finals is 23. The national football team will finalize the preparation list to 26 players, mainly to deal with possible injuries during the three-week training camp, and will eliminate 3 people on the basis of the list to form the Asian Cup participation list.
There is not much new in the Asian Cup training list, most of the players are international players who participated in the two world preliminaries in November, except for Jiang Guangtai, Wang Qiuming and Lin Liangming, who returned from injury, Chengdu Rongcheng's 22-year-old goalkeeper Jian Tao is the only new face, and Xie Weijun, Barton and Li Shuai, who have been selected for the very high voice, are not on the list.
Jian Tao was previously the main goalkeeper of the U20 national youth team, whether it was the U20 Asian Cup or representing Chengdu Rongcheng in the Chinese Super League, his solid basic skills and mature psychological quality have been recognized, and he will serve as the fourth goalkeeper when he was selected for the national team for the first time.
At present, the national football team has not announced the goal of participating in the Qatar Asian Cup, but the Chinese men's football team has advanced to the quarterfinals in the past two Asian Cups. It is reported that like the last Asian Cup, the national football team did not book the return ticket after the end of the event mission in advance.
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chai Zhi.
List of 26 players of the national football team.
Shanghai Port Team: Wu Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Yan Junling, Jiang Guangtai.
Shandong Taishan team: Wang Dalei, Liu Binbin, Liu Yang, Chen Pu.
Chengdu Rongcheng Team: Jian Tao.
Shanghai Shenhua Team: Wu Xi, Dai Weijun, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong.
Beijing National Security Team: Zhang Yuning, Li Lei, Li Ke, Gao Tianyi.
Wuhan Three Towns Team: Liu Dianzuo, Wei Shihao, Xie Pengfei.
Tianjin Jinmen Tigers: Wang Qiuming.
Changchun Yatai Team: Tan Long.
Henan team: Wang Shangyuan.
Dalian team: Lin Liangming.
Shenzhen team: Xu Haofeng.
Turkish Youth United Team: Wu Shaocong.