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The Chinese men's football team, which is training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to prepare for the Asian Cup, has once again undergone personnel adjustments, and the naturalized player Li Ke has left the team due to family reasons, and is likely to miss the next Qatar Asian Cup.
Naturalized player Li Ke left the team for family reasons, and the Chinese Football Association urgently added Xu Xin to join the team, the speed was still unexpected, after all, there are still 23 days left before the first match of the national football Asian Cup against Tajikistan on January 13, 2024, after Li Ke has dealt with family affairs, he has enough time to return to the team before the start of the Asian Cup. Wang Qiuming and even Gao Tianyi can play in the back position, and being in such a hurry to recruit Xu Xin, who is not too good in the Chinese Super League, obviously blocked Li Ke's way back, and it seems to indirectly confirm the internal conflicts among national football players that have been circulated in the market.
Li Ke, whose contract with Beijing Guoan is about to expire on December 31, 2023, can still be renewed by the club to stay in the team, leaving the national football team for family reasons, the prospects for next season are unpredictable, and after Li Ke leaves, the Chinese men's football team that is about to participate in the Qatar Asian Cup is only Jiang Guangtai A naturalized blood player, plus Jankovic previously rejected Ackerson, Fernando, Luo Guofu, Alan and other non-blood naturalizations, the Chinese men's football team should be reused with Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning, The local players led by Tan Long and others have a very strong desire to weaken the proportion and role of naturalized players in the national football team, and Jankovic seems to be more in order to set things right for the Chinese men's football team, after all, the Chinese Football Association has always been indifferent to the naturalization policy, which is a well-known thing.
The Chinese men's football team, which has only one naturalized player available, Jiang Guangtai, compared to the three opponents in the group stage of the Asian Cup, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Qatar has a lot of naturalized players, the overall strength of the Chinese men's football team is obviously at a disadvantage, Jankovic to once again like the world preliminaries round of 36 away against the Thai team is not easy, and Jankovic's lack of experience in leading the team to the competition will test his ability to adapt on the spot, whether he can lower his body to fight the opponent, is obviously the key to the national football team to play the three group stages of the Asian Cup.
Jankovic, who has coached the Chinese men's football team for 9 months, led the team to win the key game against the Thai team in the round of 36 of the Asian Cup in the World Preliminaries, but failed to bring a greater improvement to the national football team. What kind of performance can be played in the Qatar Asian Cup, not only for training and coaching, but also to find the gap between it and Asian opponents and try to catch up. If the Chinese men's football team's results in the Asian Cup are not satisfactory, then Jankovic will likely become the backstabber.