Reporter Chen Yong reports Although there was no winter training plan before, after considering the needs of team building and technical and tactical improvement, the national football team finally started a 10-day short-term training camp in mid-January. The General Administration of Sports of China and the Chinese Football Association also attached great importance to this training camp and took this opportunity to link up with the club. In this winter training, we can also generally see some changes in the management model of the national football team.

Winter training, a decision after comprehensive consideration

After the national football team's game in November last year, the national football team did not formulate a winter training plan at that time, but then after comprehensive consideration, including referring to the opinions of the coaching staff, this short-term training camp was finally determined.

On the one hand, from November to March, the interval between national football events is 4 months, and if a team is always dispersed within 4 months, there will still be a lack of team building; On the other hand, the national football team still has many problems in terms of technical tactics and set-piece attack and defense, and the current points situation of the national football team has the possibility of impacting the top four in the group, so it is necessary to make more adequate preparations, and then start this short-term training camp to improve the technical and tactical ability of the national football team. In other words, this short-term training camp has considerations at the level of team building, as well as at the technical and tactical level.

Considering that the preparation tasks of each club are also intense, especially the preparation time of Shanghai Shenhua, Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Port participating in the AFC Champions League, coupled with the general antipathy of all parties to the long-term training camp of the national football team, the training camp of the national football team is not long, it is a short-term training camp of 10 days.

"I am very happy to have successfully organized this training camp, and we very much hope to achieve positive results from this training camp, I want to take a look at the state of the previous players, understand the specific situation of the new players, and at the same time analyze the completed games, so that the players are more familiar with the technical and tactical requirements of the team, and have a better performance in the next games." Ivankovic is still very happy about the smooth development of this training camp.

The General Administration of Sports of China and the Chinese Football Association attach great importance to this training camp. As early as the 9th, when the national football team was training, Xu Jiren, vice chairman of the Football Association in charge of the national football team, was absent from the second meeting of the 12th General Assembly of the Chinese Football Association, and rushed to Haikou to meet the national football team. On the 10th, Zhang Jiasheng, deputy director of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, and Li Kemin, deputy head of the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation, also rushed to Haikou to go to the national team with Xu Jiren and other relevant football association leaders to discuss with the heads of the clubs who trained in Haikou to understand the basic situation of each club and the arrangements for the 2025 season, and communicated the construction of the future national team and the club's support for the national team.

2025 management sinks to the league period

In the work report of the Chinese Football Association, in the 2024 season, four main aspects of work have been carried out on the construction of the national team: straightening out the management system of the national team; It has improved the selection and recruitment mechanism of the national team, focused on the construction of the national team talent database, and promoted the replacement of the old and the new in an orderly manner; to build a large national team; Highlight the pertinence of strengthening the ideological and political work of the national team. Among them, in terms of ideological and political work, the leaders of the General Administration and the Football Association have sunk to the national team to communicate and unify their thinking through various forms.

In 2025, the construction of the national team will be further refined. Among them, at the management level, we will continue to explore and innovate the management model of the national team, and in view of the management problems of the national team being concentrated in the short term and dispersed in the long term, as well as the centralized and usually decentralized management problems of the national team, the management service will be lowered from the training period to the league period, that is, to further strengthen the linkage between the General Administration, the Football Association and the club. During the Haikou training camp, the General Administration, the Football Association, the Chinese Football Federation and the club discussed the clearest signal.

In addition, it is necessary to continue to give play to the role of party branches in the national team and promote the ideological and political construction of national teams at all levels. In the details, focus on physical strengthening and training level improvement.

In 2025, in addition to the national football team to continue to compete in the last four rounds of the top 18 in March and June, in February, the U20 Asian Cup will be played in Shenzhen, and in April, the U17 Asian Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia, which are the three most important tasks at the national level. The goals of the three national teams are: the national football team to fight for the top four in the group and then advance to the next stage of the World Cup qualifiers; The U17 and U20 national teams are aiming to qualify for the U17 World Cup and the U20 World Cup. It should be noted that the qualifying places for the U20 Asian Cup are 4, which will be held locally; There are as many as 8 places for the U17 Asian Cup, but it is not held locally.

In addition, the U16 national team will participate in the 2026 U17 Asian Cup qualifiers at the end of the year, and the U23 national team will participate in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers.