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The Asian Cup will be held in Doha, Qatar on January 12 next year, and the national football team plans to assemble in Shanghai on December 17, led by Jankovic to fly to the United Arab Emirates for training, and finalize the 23-player list of participants in the Asian Cup through warm-up matches with Oman and India.
The Asian Cup is the top competition in Asian football hosted by the AFC, with 24 teams participating in the tournament and held every four years. The 2015 Asian Cup was held in Australia, the 2019 Asian Cup was held in the United Arab Emirates, and the 2023 Asian Cup was originally scheduled to be hosted by China in June this year, but it was cancelled due to the epidemic, and Qatar was selected as the host country. Although the Qatar Asian Cup is still called the 2023 Asian Cup, the tournament will be held from January 12 to February 10, 2024.
It is reported that Jankovic will lead 26 members of the national football team to start a trip to West Asia, and at present, Zhang Yuning, Dai Weijun, and Lin Liangming have gone to Shanghai in advance to start physical training. Wang Qiuming, Jiang Guangtai, and Li Shuai, who missed the national football team's November training camp and failed to participate in the first two rounds of the round of 36 due to injury, will return to the "Yangjia Army" if nothing else.
According to the usual practice, in the list of 23 players in the national football Asian Cup reported to the AFC on January 2 next year, there should be 3 goalkeepers, namely Yan Junling, Liu Dianzuo, and Wang Dalei.
However, some people said that Jankovic also plans to recruit Chengdu Rongcheng's 22-year-old goalkeeper Jian Tao to participate in the preparation for the Asian Cup, and there are as many as 4 players competing for the goalkeeper position of the national football team, which is somewhat surprising.
On the one hand, when Jankovic organized the national football team to train in Dalian in October, he recruited Shenhua's 25-year-old goalkeeper Ma Zhen to participate in the training camp.
On the other hand, the 6th training camp of the national football team this year recruited another young goalkeeper, from the perspective of preparation, international football quota and competition, as long as Yan Junling 3 people did not have an accident, Jian Tao is ironclad impossible to be selected into the 23-man national football team competition list, therefore, this international player quota is actually wasted.
Considering that Chengdu Rongcheng won the fourth place in the Chinese Super League this season, if the naturalized international Ackerson continues to be defeated, Jian Tao's selection can also comfort Chengdu fans;However, how should Yang Shuai solve the embarrassment that the Zhejiang team, the third runner-up of the league, does not have an active international player?
In fact, from Perrin to Lippi to Jankovic, these three foreign head coaches have similarities when finalizing the list of the national football team for the Asian Cup.
For example, during the Perrin period, the Football Association and the head coach also had a 50-man training roster. The list of training camps announced on October 29, 2014 is 41 people;The training squad announced on 3 November is 23 players, excluding some veterans and U22 internationals who are set to participate in the Asian Cup.
On November 26, 2014, the training list was announced as 31 people, and there were 4 goalkeepers at that time, namely Zeng Cheng, Wang Dalei, Yang Zhi, and Yan Junling;Later, Zhao Xuri was recruited, and the number was reduced to 29;On December 27 of that year, Perrin officially announced the list of 23 players for the national football team to Australia.
What is surprising is that at that time, Yan Junling of Shanghai SIPG squeezed out Beijing Guoan goalkeeper Yang Zhi, who withdrew due to injury, at the last moment, and Pei Lan also recruited Liao Lisheng, Liu Binbin and Li Ang 3 21-year-old National Olympic players, and Feng Xiaoting, Li Xuepeng, Zhao Xuri, Rao Weihui, Yang Ultrasound, Wang Tong and others became disappointed.
Another example, during the Lippi period, in October 2016, the Italian officially served as the head coach of the national football team, and from December 2017, the East Asian Cup began to prepare for the "change of blood", Wei Shihao, Gao Zhunyi, Yang Liyu, He Chao, Liu Yiming, Deng Hanwen and other 6 early 20 National Olympic players performed well, and the East Asian Cup national football team 2-2 South Korea, 1-2 Japan, 1-1 North Korea, Wei Shihao, Yu Dabao scored 2 goals each.
On November 27, 2018, the Football Association announced the list of 27 people for the national football team, and on December 17, 25 people were announced, including 4 goalkeepers: Yan Junling, Zhang Lu, Wang Dalei and Guo QuanboOn January 5, 2019, the Football Association reported the AFC in the 23-man list of the Asian Cup, and in the end, Li Xuepeng was defeated, and Beijing Guoan teenager Guo Quanbo was not listed, and the substitute was Tianjin Quanjian's goalkeeper Zhang Lu.
Assuming that Jankovic recruits 26 players to prepare for the Asian Cup, 4 goalkeepers + 3 Zhang Yuning who went to Shanghai for training in advance + 3 Jiang Guangtai who lost due to injury, there are already 10 internationals, and there are 16 left.
In the first two rounds of the round of 36 of the World Preliminary Championship, the national football team 2-1 Thailand started 11 people, 5 substitutes played, and 16 people played;The national football team 0-3 South Korea also had 16 players on the field.
In addition to Liu Dianzuo and Wang Dalei 2, the only players who did not get out of the round of 36 were Xie Weijun, Xu Haofeng, and Lin Liangming.
The Sino-Thai and Sino-Korean wars coincided with Yan Junling, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Zhang Linpeng, Wei Shihao, Wu Xi, Liu Binbin, Tan Long, Wu Lei and other 9 people, the change is that the left back in the first game is Li Lei, the back has Li Ke, the second left back is Liu Yang, and the back has Wang Shangyuan;In both games, it was Dai Weijun who came on as a substitute.
Since the Asian Cup is a conference system, which is different from the home-and-away format of the World Cup qualifiers, the 23-man roster of the national football team cannot be changed after it is finalized 6 hours before the start of the first game.
The team that reaches the final and wins the championship must fight seven games, and the national football team needs to play five games if it wants to reach the last eight, so when Jankovic considers the Asian Cup roster, young players who can play in different positions and are in good physical condition are the key candidates.
Jiang Guangtai, Li Shuai, and Wang Qiuming returned from injury, and the corresponding positions are central defender, left back, and midfielder, who will be defeated?
In the 2023 Asian Cup, the Chinese team was drawn into Group A, and the opponents in the same group were the host Qatar, Tajikistan, and Lebanon. If the national football team advances to the 1 8 finals as the top of Group A, the opponent will be one of the teams C3 D3 E3;If they qualify as the 2nd place team in Group A, their opponents will be C2;If they qualify as the third place in Group A, the first opponent in the knockout round will be one of the teams from B1 and C1.
The 4 teams in Group B are Australia, Uzbekistan, Syria, and India;Group C 4 teams are Iran, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, and PalestineThe 4 teams in Group D are Japan, Indonesia, Iraq, and Vietnam;The 4 teams in Group E are South Korea, Malaysia, Jordan and Bahrain.
It can be found that before the national football team reaches the top 8 of the Asian Cup, it will not encounter one of the 4 teams in Group F Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Oman, and it is expected that Jankovic will lead the national football team to surpass the results of the top 8 of the previous two Asian Cups and reach the semifinals.