In 2025, the national football team will open the door to "welcome the new year": Hou Yongyong was selected as the focus, and the 11 post-00s started the trend of youth

Reporter Chen Yong reports On the afternoon of January 3, the national football team announced the latest training list, which lasted for 10 days, from January 9th to 18th, it was a short-term training camp, and the training list was as high as 32 people, and there were as many as 11 post-00 players, of which 4 post-00 players were selected for the first time in the training list of the Ivan national team. In addition, the first selection of naturalized player Hou Yongyong became the focus.

After the match between the national football team and the Japanese team, the news at the time showed that the national football team had no intention of training during the winter training period to ensure the club's preparation and protect their interests.

However, the national football team finally decided to conduct a short-term training camp in mid-January. It is understood that the factors that ultimately determine the training camp are relatively simple: first, after the national football team played in November, there was an interval of nearly four months when it played again in March, and the team could not get together for such a long period of time, which was too long for the whole team, so one of the purposes of this training camp is the stability and construction of the team, or it can be understood as a "team building" of the national football team.

The second is technical and tactical considerations. At present, the national football team needs to summarize and improve more at the technical and tactical level, and at the same time make comprehensive improvements in the attack and defense of set-pieces, these tasks are difficult to complete before the match day in March, when the AFC Champions League Classic 1/8 finals will be held on 4/5 and 11/12 in March, at present, Shanghai Port, Shanghai Shenhua and Shandong Taishan are expected to advance, so the preparation time of the national football team is very tight. Therefore, the technical and tactical drills of this training camp are also an important content.

Of course, considering the club's preparations for the new season, the training camp is only 10 days in total, so as to minimize the impact of the training camp on the club's winter training.

There are a total of 32 team members in this training camp, and personnel inspection is also an important content. The list of the national team this time has increased by 6 people compared with the main list of Ivankovic before, namely Hou Yongyong, Yang Liyu, Wu Shaocong, Jian Tao, Mai Wulang and Wumi Tijiang, of which the last 4 are post-00 players. The absent players are Liu Dianzuo, Wu Lei and Jiang Guangtai, among which Liu Dianzuo's absence is considered by the national football team from the perspective of age.

Hou Yongyong's selection has attracted the most attention, Hou Yongyong has won the best player and top scorer in the Norwegian League, so his call for being selected for the national team has been high, and this is also the national team's official inspection of Hou Yongyong. Yang Liyu was also a member of the national team before, and after a relatively stable performance in Beijing Guoan last season, he also returned to the national team, and Beijing Guoan, who was selected with seven players, has become the first major player in the national team, including attacking midfielder Cao Yongjing and four strikers.

Wu Shaocong has been selected for the national team before, and as a post-00 player, he has always been a key player in the national football team. Jian Tao has also been the focus of the national team as a young goalkeeper, and he has previously been selected for the Asian Cup squad, but it is the first time he has been selected after Ivan took over the national football team. The selection of Mai Ulang and Umitijan was a bit of a surprise, but they have good potential as Under-21 players.

In contrast, some of the more well-known young players such as Yi Mulan and Wang Yudong are mainly the U20 national team with heavier tasks, and the U20 national team also released the training camp list yesterday, this training camp is to prepare for the U20 Asian Cup in Shenzhen in February. As a home-grown U20 Asian Cup, coupled with the previous good performance of the U20 national team, all parties attach great importance to it, and look forward to their good performance, and hope that they can have the opportunity to impact the U20 World Cup.

With the selection of Wu Shaocong, Jian Tao, Mai Wulang and Wumi Tijiang, the current number of post-00 players in the national team has reached 11, and the post-00 players who were on the list before were Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Wang Haijian, Xie Wenneng, Tao Qianglong, Hu Hetao and Baihelamu. In addition to Tao Qianglong, the other 6 post-00s players have all grown into the main players or main rotation players of the national team. The two highlights of the national football team in the 2024 season are the rebound of the top 18 results, and the second is the initial completion of rejuvenation.

With the increase in the number of post-00 players in the national team, the average age of the 32-member national football team is 26.69 years old (in terms of years old), which has decreased significantly compared with the past. There is only one post-80s player in the national football team, Wang Dalei, and only 8 players over the age of 30, in addition to goalkeeper Wang Dalei and Yan Junling, only Yang Zexiang, Li Lei, Han Pengfei, Li Yuanyi, Wang Shangyuan and Fernando 6 people.

In fact, considering that the U20 Asian Cup task of the 05 national youth national football team cannot recruit too many examination objects, the national football team can be further young in the future.