Reporter Chen Yong reports On May 24, the national football team started a new training camp in Pudong, Shanghai. The national football team will play in the last two games of the round of 18, the first game against Indonesia is particularly crucial, and a win must be made to ensure the continuation of hope, and once the consequences of a draw are unpredictable, a loss will directly miss the play-offs. In fact, in order to qualify for the Asian play-offs of the World Preliminary Championships, two consecutive wins can be guaranteed.
In addition to the national football team, during this June break, the U22 national team and the U16 national team (09 national youth) will also start training, in addition, the 2010 age group national team (10 national youth) and the 2011 age group national team (11 national youth) have opened the coach selection mode.
First of all, let's look at the most concerned national football team, the national football team has started training, from May 24th to June 4th, the national football team has 12 days of preparation time, which is very ample preparation time. Of course, for the national football team, how to keep the international players in good condition for up to two weeks (the end of the FA Cup on May 21) is a problem.
The U22 national team announced the training list on May 22, and the training camp coincided with the U20 group qualifiers for the National Games, so the training list was mainly composed of players in the 03/04 age group, and Wang Yifan, He Yiran and Xuan Zhijian, who did not have the task of qualifying for the National Games, were also selected into the list, in addition, Wei Xiangxin, who was in the age group of 08, was also recruited. The U22 national team will be tasked with qualifying for the Under-23 Asian Cup in September, where 11 group winners and four of the best group runners-up will qualify for the finals. The Chinese team is in Pot 2 and has won the right to host the group competition.
In this training camp, the U22 national team will play two warm-up matches with the Myanmar national junior team in China, and then go to Belarus for a cultural exchange activity and a warm-up match with the Belarusian team.
The U18 national team (07 national youth) has not yet been formed, the main reason is that the U18 group qualifiers for the National Games will be held from mid to late June, and most of the players are currently preparing for the National Games with their respective National Games teams, and the formation of the U18 national youth team will be carried out after the end of the U18 group qualifiers for the National Games.
The U16 national team (09 national junior team) has started training camp and will participate in the Hohhot Four Nations Tournament, which will play against Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Australia on the 28th, 30th and June 1st. The U16 national team will participate in the 2026 U17 Asian Cup qualifiers to be held in November, and the Chinese Football Association is currently bidding for the qualifiers and is soliciting competition areas.
On the 23rd, the Chinese Football Association also issued a notice on the selection of coaches for the 2010 age group national team (10 national youth) and the 2011 age group national team (11 national youth). The previous selection team coach of the 10 national youth was Spaniard David, but he is not the official head coach. The 11 national junior teams have not yet been formed, and they will compete in the 2027 and 2028 U17 Asian Cups.
The selection of the two national junior teams is open to outstanding coaches at home and abroad, of which there are three priority criteria for the selection of coaches: those who have worked as head coaches of professional football teams in many countries are preferred; Experience as head coach of a professional football team in Asia is preferred; Those who have participated in international football competitions sponsored by FIFA or Intercontinental Football Federation as a coach are preferred.