Shanghai Media: The National Football Team may organize training camps this year to warm up the World Cup teams in March next year

6686 Sports News on November 12 According to a report from the Shanghai media Oriental Sports Daily, with Shao Jiayi becoming the new coach of the national football team, the national football team is likely to organize a training camp within the year, and in March next year it will seek to warm up with the World Cup participating teams, and the target will be Asian teams that have qualified for the World Cup.

In early November, the Football Association officially announced that Shao Jiayi would be the new coach of the Chinese team. No press conference was held for such an attention-grabbing matter, and all parties remained tight-lipped. A week later, there are no further training arrangements for the Chinese team. It is understood that the Chinese Football Association has not given up the idea of arranging a training camp within the year, and how to implement it is still being studied.

However, with the merger of the national team competition days in September and October next year, a 16-day "super window period" will be formed. For the Chinese team that has no official match duties, it can theoretically play 10 friendly matches throughout 2026.

Relevant departments of the Chinese Football Association have begun planning for next year’s national team friendly matches, including contacting opponents in advance. The friendly match opponents in March may be Asian teams that have entered the World Cup.

Gain points and gain popularity by playing friendly matches, but for Shao Jiayi, showing the changes he has brought to the Chinese team through a series of friendly matches is not an easy task. Of course, Shao Jiayi's personnel recruitment was affected by the U23 Asian Cup and the Asian Games, and some of the national players of the right age could not be separated. Before the end of the Asian Games, the Chinese team will mostly rely on players born from 1995 to 2002 to support the field. There may be a buffer period for the replacement of old and new players.