National football Haikou winter training, the best "team building"

Reporter Liu Xiangyu reports from Haikou The weather in Haikou is cloudy and sunny, and the cold wind blows people shivering for a while, and the sun is shining for a while. This made the players of the national team training in Haikou suffer from colds, and the national team coach Ivan has not been "spared", he has a cold for a few days, but "minor injuries are not in the line of fire", on the training ground, he can often be seen wiping his nose while directing training.

The national team's training camp this time was very targeted, and it took ten days to solve some tactical details, such as set-piece defense. The team's daily training will be open to the media for a certain period of time, but the tactical training is kept secret throughout the whole process, so the national team has opened two training grounds in Haikou this time, one is open, and the other is fenced around and tightly covered with cloth.

Since the clubs are also in the winter training period, and several Chinese Super League teams such as Shenhua, Guoan, Zhejiang, and Rongcheng are also training at the Haikou base, so the national team players and club teammates can often meet on the training ground. Guoan has the most players selected this time, if you count Wu Shaocong, who has not yet been officially announced, there are a total of eight people. Guoan was split into "two teams", half of the team practiced here, and the other half team practiced on the national team training ground not far away, which was rare in the past.

Xu Jiren, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, has been accompanying the national team in Haikou and has not missed almost every training session. The leaders of the Football Association followed the team throughout the winter training, which also reflected the importance attached to this training camp. Personnel from various clubs also occasionally go to the national team venue to "visit the door", such as Shao Jiayi, the head coach of Qingdao West Coast, who also served in the State Management Department before, came to the national team, and was very familiar with everyone, greeting each other and joking.

The national team's winter training lasted for 10 days, from January 9 to 18. In order to keep the players in shape and seamless when they return to the club, the amount and intensity of training for the national team is not small. In the past, the short-term training camp of the national team during the league period was basically one practice a day, but this time in Haikou is basically two training a day, and after three days of training, there will be a half-day rest. In the morning, it is usually a group of special training, including group tactical drills and physical training at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends; In the afternoon, there will be group confrontation and physical coordination training. Ivan is also very demanding when playing in groups, pressing every position on the defensive side, and attacking players are only allowed to touch the ball with two feet at most.

Although the amount of training is very large, the atmosphere of the national team's training camp is particularly good, which can be seen from the expressions on the faces of each player. "We often say in our team meetings that the atmosphere in the team has been the best in a long time." Wei Shihao said. This training camp was not during the competition, and the national team played well in the previous World Preliminary Tournaments and was recognized by the fans, which allowed the international players who have been under pressure to finally put down their psychological baggage, focus more and enjoy football more. Captain Wang Dalei also celebrated his birthday during the training camp, and this winter training became the best "team building" activity of the national team.

The old and the new are also the characteristics of this training camp. Among the training personnel, there are 11 post-00 players, 4 of whom are selected for the first time in the training list of the Ivan national team, and the old people of the national team also prepared a "generous gift" for the newcomers, and each newcomer had to be beaten and kicked, and everyone laughed. Happy off the field, fighting the field, and the confrontation training was not ambiguous at all, Han Pengfei injured his waist in the confrontation and missed the 11th day of training.

"The young players who are new to the team are also very dynamic. I'm one of the top players in the team, so let's take them to games and training. "Wei Shihao is also thirty years old in a blink of an eye, and he has become a big brother and a role model for young players.

This season's best newcomer, Hu Hetao, also learned from the national team and the old players. "I have a lot of exchanges with Brother Lei (Li Lei), for me he is a big brother, he can use experience to tell me how to improve my shortcomings, we usually communicate a lot, not only about life on the field, but also off the field." Hu Hetao said, "After every game, he helped me summarize my shortcomings, including after the game against Japan, he also communicated with me a lot, pointed out my shortcomings, and I will continue to learn from him in the future." ”

These players are rivals in the league, but they are teammates in the national team, and all of them are working towards a common goal: to reach the World Cup. Hou Yongyong, who has attracted much attention, has been training with the national team throughout the past few days, showing a good state, and he also said that he is very happy to be selected for the national team and cherishes the opportunity of this winter training, and hopes to represent the national team in the official competition in the future, and he will return to Norway after this training camp.

Not long ago, Zhang Jiasheng, secretary of the Party Committee of the Football Association in charge of the national team, and other relevant leaders also went to the Haikou national team station to have a discussion with the heads of the clubs who were training here.