Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, March 19th, question: Ka Shuai’s test of national football training-2019 China Cup prospect
Xinhua news agency reporters Wei Hua, Ma Bangjie, lu Xianting
The 2019 China Cup International Football Championship will go to war in Nanning, Guangxi on the 21st. This year, the Chinese Cup, which lacks stars such as Bell and Cavani, has a little lack of star appearance. However, no matter in the new coach Cannavaro or the Chinese men’s football team assembled for the first time after the Asian Cup, this competition has strong practical significance.
On the 15th, the handsome Chinese men’s football team who had been vacant for nearly two months finally welcomed a new host. The Chinese Football Association announced that Guangzhou Evergrande coach Cannavaro will lead the team to the China Cup as the head coach. The team had to appear in an international A- level event in less than a week after gathering, and the preparation time left for the Italian was a little hasty.
On the one hand, in the China Cup in 2018, the Chinese team led by Lippi lost to Wales and Czech in succession, and the attitude of some players also aroused heated discussion from the outside world, therefore, Cannavaro undertakes the task of “a snow before shame” for the team. On the other hand, Cannavaro, who has just taken over the team, also needs to gain the trust of football associations and fans in such competitions.
Different from the direct “airborne” position of most foreign handsome men, the fate between Cannavaro and Chinese football has begun since 2014. From Guangzhou to Tianjin and then to Guangzhou, Cannavaro has been in China for more than four years. Compared with his predecessors such as Peran, this is undoubtedly a major advantage for him, moreover, his personal charm and affinity smile also won a good reputation among the players and fans. The shortage of KOCA handsome is also obvious. In his not-long coaching resume, he not only has no experience of leading the team with national character, but also has no heavy honor matching his career as a player.
There is no specific information about the card manager contract in the official announcement of the Chinese Football Association, but even if it is only the status of the transition manager, if there is a good answer sheet in the Chinese cup, this will undoubtedly lay a solid foundation for its future retention.
In the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, the Chinese team with an average age of over 29 became one of the “oldest” teams. At this time, after taking over the national football team, Cannavaro, who was good at training the newcomers, announced the first big list showing a younger trend, with only eight players participating in the Asian Cup. Although there are still veterans like Feng Xiaoting and Zhan Junmin in this list, more and more “post-93rd generation” and “post-93rd generation” come to Cannavaro. Although only Lv Wenjun and Xie Pengfei are the new players in the real sense, it is also an obvious fact that the age structure of the team tends to be reasonable. Obviously, Cannavaro is making a reserve for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
According to the schedule, the Chinese team will face the Thai team in the first battle. This is the opponent who was defeated by the Chinese team 2:1 in the Asian Cup 1/8 final not long ago, and may face the Uzbekistan team later. Unlike last year’s successive competition with two European teams, such a schedule setting will be more conducive to the national football preparation for the next FIFA World Cup qualification. The 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifier, the top 40 in Asia, will start on September this year. At that time, it is still unknown what kind of opponents the Chinese team will encounter, but the training of FIFA World Cup qualification has started since the Chinese Cup.