Chapter 195: Training Camp (1)
The latest training list of the Dragon National Team previously announced by the Dragon Football Association, Shen Feng's name, without surprise, was among them.
The 23-person squad for this training camp, Jianye team is still only one person, although the youth army of Jianye team has performed well this season, but it is still in the rising period of career, and there is still a certain gap from the standard of the national team.
Evergrande team has performed poorly in the AFC Champions League and Dragon Super League this season, stopping in the top 16 of the AFC Champions League, and only achieving four wins, three draws and four losses in the first 11 rounds of the Dragon Super League, and is currently in the league standings, only ranked eighth.
However, the Evergrande team is still the team that contributed the most players to the training squad of the Dragon Country team, with a total of Zheng Zhi, Zeng Cheng, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Deng Hanwen, and Li Xuepeng, six players, who were selected into the squad.
The team that contributed the second most international players is the Shanghai Port team, with five players selected for the training squad of the Dragon National Team, namely Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Shi Ke, Wang Shenchao and Cai Huikang.
The Guoan team, which has performed well in the Dragon Super League this season and is currently ranked second in the league standings, contributed four players to the training squad of the Dragon Team, namely Zhang Xizhe, Ji Zhongguo, Park Cheng and Wei Shihao.
The Luneng team, which is currently ranked fourth in the Dragon Super League standings, contributed three players to the training squad of the Dragon Country team, namely Wang Dalei, Hao Junmin and Zheng Zheng.
Two players from the Quanjian team were selected for the training squad of the Dragon Country team, namely Zhao Xuri and Liu Yiming; There is one player selected in the Yatai team, it is He Chao; There is one player selected for the R&F team, Xiao Zhi, plus Shen Feng, exactly twenty-three.
In addition to this list, there is also a shortlist, including Yu Hanchao and Gao Lin of the Evergrande team; Yu Dabao of the National Security Team; Wu Xi of Suning's team; Fan Xiaodong of the Yatai team; Zhang Chengdong, Yin Hongbo and others of the Huaxia Happiness Team.
The people on the shortlist will report together with the players on the training list, and they can be supplemented and adjusted at any time in case the players on the training list are injured or in a sluggish state during training.
The final training camp before the World Cup of the Dragon National Team is scheduled for May 22, and the location of the training camp is set in Chuncheng, the capital of Ji Province in the northeast.
According to the schedule of the World Cup in Russia, the three group games of the Dragon team will be played in three cities in Russia, and the first match against the host Russian team, which is the opening match of this Russian World Cup, will be played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, the capital of Russia.
The second match of the group stage, against Uruguay, will be played at the Rostov-on-Don Stadium, located south of Moscow, more than 1,100 kilometers from Moscow.
The third group game with the Egyptian team will be transferred to the Volgograd Stadium on the banks of the Volga River, which is located in the southeast of Moscow, more than 1,000 kilometers away from Moscow, which is more familiar to the Dragon people.
According to the meteorological records of previous years, the climatic conditions in the areas where these three stadiums are located are similar to Kyrgyzstan during the World Cup, and the dimensions of Volgograd and Rostock are also roughly the same as Kyrgyzstan Province.
According to the arrangement, the Dragon Country team will conduct a two-week closed training in Chuncheng City, Ji Province, during which they will play two warm-up matches with two specially invited teams.
The two warm-up matches will be played on May 27 and June 2 against Algeria from Africa and Paraguay from South America.
Although neither of these teams has qualified for the finals of this World Cup, the strength of the teams should not be underestimated.
Algeria have reached the finals of the World Cup four times in their history, and at the last World Cup in Brazil, they made a historic group stage and advanced to the round of 16.
Paraguay are also World Cup regulars, having qualified for the World Cup finals eight times in their history and reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In the latest edition of the FIFA rankings, both teams are also ranked in the top 40, a few places ahead of the Dragons.
The reason why the Dragons chose these two teams as their warm-up opponents before the World Cup is obviously targeted.
Algeria and Egypt are located in the same northern part of Africa, and there are some similarities in the team's tactical style; Paraguay and Uruguay belong to the same South American team, and the team's tactical style belongs to the South American school.
The Dragons chose these two teams as opponents for the warm-up matches, naturally in order to better prepare for the World Cup group stage with Uruguay and Egypt.
Before the opening of the World Cup, teams like Algeria and Paraguay with good strength and strong training value were all fragrant and sweet, and they were the objects of invitation to many World Cup participating teams.
In order to invite these two teams, the Dragon Football Association can be said to have done everything they can, and finally impressed them with a huge appearance fee.
In order to invite these two teams, the Dragon Football Association spent a lot of money and paid up to 3 million US dollars for the appearance fees of the two teams, which is converted into 40 million Dragon coins!
However, the Dragon Football Association did not lose, first of all, the ticket sales of these two games made the Dragon Football Association make a lot of money, that is, the venue that hosted these two games, the scale of the Spring City Sports Center, the home of the Yatai team, is not very large, and the number of spectators that can accommodate only 42,000 people can be replaced, if it is replaced by Tianhe Stadium that can accommodate 60,000 spectators, or the Beijing Bird's Nest Stadium that can accommodate 80,000 spectators, the Dragon Football Association can earn more!
The 84,000 tickets for these two warm-up games were snatched up by fans from all over the country within a few minutes of the opening of the sales channel, although the price set by the Dragon Football Association for these two games is much higher than that of a normal football match, the cheapest ticket is 388 dragon coins, and the most expensive near Taiwan tickets are as high as 2888 dragon coins!
But these 84,000 tickets made the Dragon Football Association earn more than 60 million, not only earning back the appearance fees paid to the Algerian team and the Paraguayan team, but also a lot of surplus!
In addition, infield advertising and commercial sponsorship can bring more revenue to the Dragon Football Association than ticket sales.
The Dragon Football Association has made a lot of money this time!
The profitable Dragon Football Association, the logistics of the Dragon team, also gave the highest treatment, during the entire training period, the accommodation is five-star standard, and the players, coaches have arranged a luxury single room, only the staff of the Football Association live in a double standard room.
In terms of diet, the Dragon Country Football Association not only specially equipped the Dragon Team with nutritionists, but also specially invited several national chefs, striving to make the players of the Dragon Country Team eat nutritious and healthy at the same time, but also take into account deliciousness!