On the evening of January 10, the players, coaches and staff of the Beijing Guoan first team flew from Beijing to Portugal to officially start overseas winter training before the new season. Coach Luis Suarez, a number of foreign players and members of the foreign coaching team will join the team in Portugal. In the coming month, the team will train locally and play high-level warm-up matches against a number of European clubs.
On the morning of the 10th, Beijing Guoan Club issued an announcement on the change of the first-team coaching team on its official social network. Among them, Sui Dongliang will serve as the first-team leader and assistant coach in the new season, assisting the head coach in daily management and training and competition work. The 36-year-old Portuguese coach Paulo Lobo replaced former goalkeeper coach Lima into the coaching team and was in charge of goalkeeper training. The original first-team leader Fu Bing, whose contract expired, will leave the team.
The adjusted coaching team of the first team of Guoan is: coach Ricardo Suarez, team leader Sui Dongliang, deputy team leader Jiang Xiaojun, most of the assistant coaches are Suarez's Portuguese assistants - Mauricio, Raul, Pedro, Luis, Lobo, and the other is Chinese assistant coach Tao Wei.
The first team of Guoan team, which had been training in Beijing for a week, ushered in a one-day holiday on the 9th, and the team returned home to pack their luggage and belongings, and the whole team regrouped at the Shunyi base on the afternoon of the 10th, and prepared to fly to Portugal, the destination of this winter training, in the evening. Li Ke, an international player who left the Chinese men's national football team for personal reasons, has also returned to Beijing and will travel to Portugal with the team.
It is understood that Suarez chose the training camp for the team. More than 20 European club teams will train here during this winter training period, and teams from second-tier European leagues such as the Czech Republic have already reached warm-up agreements with Guoan. Being able to play teaching matches against high-level opponents will solve the problems of poor start to the new season caused by the poor quality of the warm-up matches in the winter training period of the previous two seasons of the Guoan team.