According to the arrangement, the national football team set off from Shanghai to Tokyo on the 23rd to prepare for the top 12 match against the Japanese team, but the game has not yet started, and many naturalized players had accidents during the return process, which forced the Chinese Football Association to continuously conduct crisis public relations.
The important game is imminent, but the interests of the players are not balanced. This is really worth scratching the head of the new national football coach Li Xiaopeng. Exxon posted on social media that he was positive for the new crown.
This time the national football team played Japan and Vietnam as a guest. The Chinese Football Association originally planned to call up four naturalized players, Exxon, Fernando, Alan and Luo Guofu. Among them, Exxon was the first to withdraw from the competition list.
On January 21, he announced on social media that he was infected with the new crown – this is a force majeure, but many netizens believe that it is special in itself to let Exxon return to Brazil instead of participating in domestic training.
“Thank you for your concern. I did get infected with the new crown virus after Christmas. It’s a pity that I can’t go to Japan to play with the national team this time.” Exxon revealed, “Now I am also actively training and adjusting my state. , I look forward to returning to the national team as soon as possible and wearing the national team jersey again. Thank the fans for their concern and support for me!” After sleeping at the airport, Fernando withdrew from the national team game.
The following morning on the 24th was originally the day when the other three players arrived in Tokyo. But before 10 o’clock, the official Weibo of the national football team released a message saying:
“Alan and Luo Guofu have successfully arrived at Tokyo Narita Airport on a KLM flight and will join the national team after obtaining the normal nucleic acid test results.”
“However, during Fernando’s transfer in Amsterdam, he learned that his family members had health problems, so he applied to the team to return to Brazil. After research and approval by the national team coaching staff, Fernando has taken the plane to return to Brazil and will miss this World Cup preliminaries. “Fernando’s positioning is already in Brazil.
Later, “Little Motorcycle” Fernando also wrote on his personal social media-“I would like to thank the Football Association for their understanding and for letting me leave. When I was at Amsterdam Airport, my family had health problems. I wish the team in 2022. Thank you all again for winning these two games in the World Cup qualifiers in 2019.”
It is worth noting that the positioning of this dynamic is the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
It is also normal for family members to have health problems. Guo Tianyu was not selected for this expedition, and the national football official gave the same reason. Before the national football team set off to play Australia and Oman in West Asia last November, many local players who were not selected also asked for leave due to family reasons, which has become the most official reason why players were not selected for the national team.
But since naturalization, Fernando has not yet played for the national football team——According to the official documentary of the national football team, during the top 40 game, he pulled a muscle in training before the game against Guam and withdrew from the team. After that, it was reported that Fernando was dissatisfied with the coaching staff…
After losing the election this time, some senior media people wrote such a paragraph on social media, “Small motorcycles are no longer the ones that were willing to come to China for $300,000 in 2015, and they are not in every way.” The national football team said that the fee Nando was absent for family reasons.
When people are on the road, can they be bombarded?
Compared with the reasons for Exxon and Fernando’s withdrawal that are at least superficially acceptable, Luo Guofu’s bombardment of the Football Association through social media on the way back to the team is shocking.
In the early morning of the 23rd, Luo Guofu posted on the social platform, “Our flight to Japan was changed to tomorrow, which made us wait at the airport for more than 8 hours. Now we have to wait for 14 hours, and there is no hotel or other place to rest. For you. Congrats on our organizational skills, you don’t respect us at all.” At the same time, he posted a few photos of sleeping seats in the airport lobby.
Due to the epidemic, cancellation of international flights is a common occurrence. If Luo Guofu complained that “people are on the road” because of this, it is understandable, but it is too much to criticize the Chinese Football Association for not respecting him. After all, flight cancellations are beyond the control of the Chinese Football Association.
Luo Guofu’s bombardment caused a big discussion on social media, and the Chinese Football Association had to “fire out” immediately-through an interview with Xinhua News Agency, the relevant person in charge of the national football immediately explained: Luo Guofu bombarded the Football Association.
“The connecting flight KL861 from Amsterdam to Japan was temporarily cancelled due to operational reasons. The Chinese Football Association urgently contacted the Dutch Immigration Bureau, KLM and aviation service companies to seek solutions. However, due to passport visa reasons and restrictions on national epidemic prevention policies, 3 Players cannot travel to other countries in the EU to transit.”
In addition, because the hotels in Amsterdam Airport are already fully booked, the Netherlands has canceled the transit visa for epidemic prevention reasons, which also prevents Luo Guofu and others from going out of the airport to rest at the hotels in Amsterdam, so the three naturalized players can only wait at the airport. Lounge rest.
“The coaching staff and working team of the national team have been in close communication with the players through video connections and other means, seeking various solutions, and expressing their understanding and regret for the players’ emotional fluctuations due to the flight cancellation.”
In the end, the Chinese Football Association booked the fastest flight from Amsterdam to Japan on the 23rd for the three people. Luo Guofu posted pictures and slept at the airport by himself.
Li Xiaopeng’s “High Emotional Intelligence”
Of course, Luo Guofu could have avoided encountering such people on his journey. The above-mentioned naturalized players chose to return to Brazil for vacation, and then rendezvous with the team in Japan.
After the top 12 match in November last year, after the team finished the isolation, the local players participated in the remaining matches of the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup, while the naturalized players did not participate in the competition. They returned to Brazil and entered the vacation mode one after another.
To a certain extent, naturalized players have enjoyed vacation privileges compared to local internationals, but now they are bombarding managers for flight cancellations caused by force majeure on the road.Wu Lei and another naturalized player Jiang Guangtai have joined the team.
In this regard, senior media person Ma Dexing commented, “If they are both Chinese and international players, what kind of situation would it be if it happened to a local player? I believe that they would have been drowned and sprayed to death in saliva long ago. .”
“Now that I am a naturalized player, everything that happened seems to be the complete fault of the Chinese Football Association. Why does this not allow the local international to have other ideas. As for the entire team, how can we do a good job in team building?”
In order to prevent such disputes from continuing to expand, the Chinese Football Association took the initiative to clarify. On the afternoon of the 24th, head coach Li Xiaopeng once again tried to minimize the disturbance of naturalized players returning to the team through an interview.
Li Xiaopeng, who has always been praised for his high emotional intelligence, said:“Their wishes are good. Traveling all the way to Japan, there is no doubt that it will help the team’s confidence and cohesion. There were some small twists and turns in the middle, but the end result was good.”
After all, what happened in the past few days will ultimately play a role in the combat effectiveness of the national football team. Time will tell everything.Return to Sohu, see more