2024-02-19 17:00 United Daily News reporter Zeng Siru/Report in real time
The Chinese team will face the 2025 Asian Cup qualifiers on the 22nd, but last week there was a dilemma of less than half of the training team, which made the captain “Little Flying Man” Liu Zheng helpless to post. At today’s Chengjun press conference, he admitted that he was “somewhat” disappointed with the training situation. “Disappointed”, the game against the New Zealand team “has gone beyond the scope of worry”, and it is not certain whether he will be called up again in the next stage.
Although the 33-year-old Liu Zheng is not the eldest of the 13 players in the first stage of the Asian Cup qualifying round of the Chinese team, he has played almost all international competitions in recent years. He is the most complete player in the Chinese team. His post last week was like a shock bomb. He was in a very calm mood.
“I’m telling the truth. Players have often mentioned it. These issues have been around for a long time.” Liu Zheng, who has been traveling abroad since 2016, emphasized that the issue he wanted to reflect had nothing to do with prior communication between the players and the coaching staff, but the hope that the Basketball Association would reconcile. Other basketball leagues have better measures to allow all players of the Chinese team to take time to prepare for the game, instead of just playing for the home team yesterday and immediately going to train with the Chinese team as soon as they finish.
The Chinese team started training on the 5th, but it encountered the Lunar New Year holiday in the middle. It took annual leave less than a week after the training started. It took the holiday on the 14th to continue training. However, it encountered the PLG and T1 league schedules on the weekend, and there was less time for all members to arrive, leaving Liu Zheng Admit disappointment.
“I came here full of enthusiasm, but there is no common feeling.” Liu Zheng said frankly that the only teammates this time were Wang Haoji, who was on the Taiwan Beer team, and Xie Yaxuan, who was a teammate of the Hangzhou Asian Games last year. The other 10 people had never played together before and were not familiar with each other at all. In less than 3 days, we can only get to know each other first, but we are still a little tired about the situation of the Chinese team.
Liu Zheng pointed out that before the Asian Games in Hangzhou last year, the Chinese team had been training all summer, and they were getting better and better with each other. He originally wanted to say that it could last for a few years, but now only he and Xie Yaxuan were from last year’s team. It seemed like everything was in vain. “I don’t want us to The effort you put in every year is gone the next year and you have to start all over again.”
The second phase of the Asian Cup qualifying tournament will be held in November this year. Will this situation affect the subsequent recruitment willingness? Liu Zheng did not give a clear answer, “We will talk about it later, November is the next season of the (CBA).” He also emphasized that he has been striving for the Chinese team status since he was young, and it is actually not easy until now, and he will not give up. I also cherish the opportunity to represent the Chinese team, but I hope that the upper management can have a complete plan so that everyone can prepare well for the Chinese team.
Liu Zheng is the most senior player of the Chinese team. Reporter Hou Yongquan/Photography Liu Zheng is the most senior player of the Chinese team. Reporter Hou Yongquan/Photography Liu Zheng is the most senior player of the Chinese team.Reporter Hou Yongquan/Photography
Zhang Chengzhong, deputy secretary-general of the Basketball Association, said today that as early as October last year, he had issued a message to communicate with the T1 League and PLG, hoping that the professional basketball schedule would avoid international games as much as possible. Players from New Zealand, the opponent on the 22nd, arrived in Taiwan yesterday and came from 5 places around the world. Going to war shows that all countries will encounter similar problems.
basketball
Further reading
2024-02-19 09:00:52
#Asia #Cup #Basketball #TournamentConfessed #disappointed #Chinese #team #Liu #Zheng #talks #giving #callup
