The national football game has returned, and the competition system and schedule to be adopted by the Chinese Super League are still waiting, and the group stage of the AFC Champions League, another intercontinental event of the “Football New Year”, is about to begin again.
Yesterday was the departure day of the Beijing Guoan team. A group of 34 people set off for Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Of the 21 players, only 4 were from the first team and the rest were from the reserve team. The average age of the team was less than 21 years old. This morning, the Shanghai Haigang team went to Thailand to participate in the AFC Champions League play-offs. In addition to the reserve team, the lineup added Du Jia, Fu Huan and other first-team players. On the 24th, the Guangzhou team will also go to Thailand. Their AFC squad is all U22 players, including 6 U17 players. The youngest has just turned 16 and is a “high school student” in the usual sense. This arrangement of the three teams has made domestic fans’ attention to the AFC Champions League this season suddenly reduced, and at the same time they have a full understanding of their “choices”. After all, after the group game, the team has to return to China. Facing a three-week quarantine of observations, and the follow-up mission of the Chinese Super League, it is very unrealistic to send a first team to compete in the AFC Champions League.
What is the so-called “reality” faced by the Super League teams this year? In fact, as of now, they have not fully seen it clearly. For example, Chen Xuyuan, the chairman of the Chinese Football Association, said the day before yesterday that the Chinese Super League might take “New Year’s Eve measures”, which made clubs feel a little caught off guard. This feeling does not come from a lack of psychological expectations, but if things finally come true. If such a solution is needed, we are bound to face some practical problems.
The so-called practical problems, the most concentrated and prominent is the contract problem. According to the current “rules of the game” for Chinese Super League clubs, the annual work contracts signed with domestic players and foreign players basically end in the natural year, that is, the end of December 31 of the year. Once the league crosses the year, it is equivalent to a part of the work contract. The game requires players to complete outside of the current contract. How to deal with this situation? On the basis of empathy, what kind of agreement should the club verbally make with the players, or should it be a more rigorous supplementary contract? On the one hand, clubs need to further wait for the specific notice from the Chinese Football Association and the professional league preparatory group to make long-term discussions; on the other hand, many clubs have also “hanged” this issue on their agenda in the past two days.
Another practical problem is that the most troubled are several “big national football” clubs. They are also the strongest and most performance-seeking teams in the current Super League camp. If the Chinese Football Association is dealing with the relationship between the Chinese Super League and the National Football League preparing for the Qatar World Cup Asian qualifiers, the relatively prominent concept is the concept of international football players in the league. If the training time of the national football team is not too long, then Regardless of the smoothness of the league or the use of international players by these teams, there will be more guarantees. However, according to some of the previous trends of the national football’s playing in the top 40 matches, the pre-match training arranged by the national football coach Li Tie, usually time It is relatively long, so even if the league is New Year’s Eve, how to arrange the schedule and how high the participation of the international players in the league can be, it is still unknown.
In view of the sudden lengthening of the intermission period in the league, most of the Super League teams have recently put on long or short vacations. Next week is the time to re-enter the rhythm of preparations. The fitness coach of the Tianjin Tigers, Julio, spent his 44th birthday yesterday in isolation observation. The greetings and blessings from the coaching staff made him very happy and moved. He will officially start working next week. The guarantee of the game and bringing the physical condition of existing players to a new level is his next important task.
Our reporter Gu Ying
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