Shen Feng is not only the offensive core of the Dragon National Team, but also a player of the appropriate age of the newly formed National Olympic Team, so his task of competing in the national team in the next two years is very heavy, and he will often encounter situations like now, when the itinerary of the Dragon National Team and the National Olympic Team clash.

However, at this stage, the core of the preparation of the Dragon Country Football National Team is the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates in January next year, and there are still nearly two years to go before the 2020 Olympic Games, so there is no need to be too anxious.

Therefore, Shen Feng's current focus is still on the Dragon Country team, although the Dragon Country team's trip to West Asia is just a pure warm-up nature, but he will still go with the team.

The new Dragon Country team assembled on September 2, and after a few days of training in Yangcheng, on September 5, flew to Qatar, and after a few days of adjustment in Doha, at 0:00 a.m. on September 8, Dragon Kingdom Beijing time, first played a warm-up match with the Qatar team; Then he moved to Bahrain, and in the early morning of September 11, Dragon Kingdom capital time, he played another warm-up match with the Bahrain team.

These two games, in fact, are not of high value for the training of the Dragon Nation team, because the group stage group draw for next year's Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates has been completed, the Dragon Nation team is grouped into Group C, and the opponents in the same group are Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines.

Although the two opponents of the Saudi Arabian team and the Dragon team in this warm-up match, the Qatar team and the Bahrain team, are in the same West Asian region, the team style and tactical system of the Saudi Arabian team are still quite different from the Qatar team and the Bahrain team.

In addition, although the UAE is also a West Asian country, the weather conditions in West Asia in September are still different from those in January, so it is not suitable for the environment to warm up in West Asia now.

In addition, the intensive schedule of the Dragon Super League some time ago, for this group of players in their respective clubs, are the main players, the consumption is very large, and now after an emergency assembly, and then after a long flight to West Asia to play, how the state of the players is maintained, is also an aspect of doubt.

Especially in the previous Asian Games, the U23 age group players of the Dragon Country did not show the ability to be among the Dragon Country team and sit firmly in the main position, in order to ensure the Dragon Country team's record in the Asian Cup next year, Lippi only recruited three U23 players in the training list of the Dragon Country team, among which Liu Yiming withdrew from the training camp due to injury before going to West Asia, so that the U23 players who came to West Asia with the team were only two, namely Shen Feng and Wei Shihao.

Shen Feng's position in the Dragon Country team is of course unshakable, Wei Shihao as one of the three players who went to Russia with the team, but did not get the opportunity to play, after returning to the Dragon Super League, he performed well in the recent games of the Guoan team, and won the opportunity to call up for himself, but in the case of Lippi recruiting Shen Feng, Wu Lei, Gao Lin, Yang Xu, Xiao Zhi and other forward players at the same time, Wei Shihao wants to get the opportunity to play in this warm-up match The probability is not large.

This makes the average age of this year's Dragon Country team, like the World Cup, a little older.

Especially on the back line, among the players recruited by Lippi this time, Deng Hanwen, Shi Ke, and Liu Yiming were unable to go to West Asia with the team due to injury, which made the average age of the starting guard line of the Dragon Country team predicted by the media in these two warm-up games more than 30 years old!

Young players can't afford to take the lead, forcing Lippi to rely more on veterans in next year's Asian Cup, which slows down the update and iteration of the Dragon Country team, which is the most serious problem facing the Dragon Country team at present!

The Dragon team wants to achieve satisfactory results in the next World Cup cycle, and at present, it seems that they can only hope that this group of young players aged 97 who are the same age as Shen Feng can grow up quickly and take over the baton from the team's big brothers.

And this Asian Cup, now there are only four months left before the start of the competition, and it is unrealistic for the Dragon Country team to dig out and cultivate enough young players like Shen Feng who can be used in such a short period of time.

In the last two years, by the improvement of the general environment of the football circle, as well as the call of positive energy idols like Shen Feng to join the young players in the sport of football, grow up, Dragon Football can achieve a comprehensive rise in the true sense!

The cultivation of football talents is not an overnight thing, but a long-term system project!

Longguo football in the previous few layman leaders under the leadership of quick success, has taken a long detour, fortunately in the past two years after the deepening of reform, has embarked on the right path of development, as long as guard against arrogance and rashness, unswervingly in accordance with the established line to go on, the prospect is very good!

After all, the population base of the Dragon Country is incomparable to any country in the world, which is the basis for the Dragon Country Football to have the ability to catch up and achieve its rise!

Lippi set a clear goal for this warm-up trip to West Asia, which is to train the team and inspect newcomers!

Although Lippi abandoned a large number of U23 players in the training list of the Dragon Country team this time, he also recruited a group of "newcomers" who had never been selected for the training list of the Dragon Country team during his tenure at the helm of the Dragon Country team, or were rarely selected, such as Yu Hai of the Shanghai Port team, Yang Xu of the Quan Jian team, Zhang Chengdong of the Huaxia Happiness team, Wang Tong of the Luneng team, Yu Yang of the Guoan team, and Mu Rehemaitijiang of the TEDA team.

Of course, Lippi has also eliminated some players who have been in poor form or injured in recent league games.

Therefore, although in terms of reserves, the Dragon Nation team is not like the first opponent of this warm-up match, the Qatar team, there are many newcomers, but they have not fallen into the embarrassing situation of no one available.

At least, there are Shen Feng and Wu Lei on the front line, Zhang Xizhe and Zheng Zhi in the midfield, and there is no big problem with the organization and attack of the Dragon Country team.

Zheng Zhi and Shen Feng, the old and the young, are the indispensable core of the Dragon Country team at present, and there is no need to continue to investigate, and they were recruited in this training camp, mainly to ensure that they and other teammates cooperate tacitly, so Lippi did not take the two of them into account when formulating the starting list for these two warm-up games.

Since the team was not the strongest, the purpose of the game was mainly to scout the players, so Lippi did not set too high a goal for the result of this warm-up match.