Wang Shuang returned to the women's national team, and Milicic is still investigating individual positions

Reporter Wang Wei reports From March 24 to April 9, the Chinese women's football team will organize the third training camp in 2025 in Chongqing and participate in the Yongchuan International Women's Football Championship. The list of 24 players who participated in the Chinese women's football training camp has changed a lot from the previous list, Wang Shuang returned to the national team, judging from the changes in the list, the head coach of the Chinese women's national football team, Milicic, is still inspecting the players in individual positions.

After the end of the fourth round of the Women's Super League and before the start of the fifth round, the Chinese Football Association organized the 2025 Yongchuan International Women's Football Championship, which will be held in Yongchuan, Chongqing from April 5 to 8, 2025. The participating teams are the Chinese women's football team, Zambia women's football team, Uzbekistan women's football team, and Thailand women's football team. The tournament provided a testing platform for the Chinese women's football team in this training camp. The first match will be played at 3:30 p.m. on April 5, and the Chinese women's football team will face Uzbekistan at the Yongchuan Sports Center Stadium in Chongqing, and Zambia will play Thailand at 7:35 p.m. On April 8, at 3:30 p.m. and 7:35 p.m., there will be the finals of the third and fourth places and the final of the champion and runner-up.

This training camp is the third training camp of the Chinese women's football team in 2025. Judging from the training camp and warm-up in the past year, Milicic has his own ideas about the playing style and formation design of the Chinese women's football team. Next, through the collection of training soldiers, the candidates for the stable squad of the Chinese women's football team are gradually selected.

The most noteworthy of the 24-man roster of the Chinese women's football team in this training camp is the return of Wang Shuang, who is gradually recovering and recovering her physical condition after returning to Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team from Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League at the beginning of this year. Returning to the Chinese women's football team this time, head coach Milicic can observe and understand Wang Shuang's competitive state up close.

Ou Yiyao and Wang Shuang from Jiangsu Wuxi Women's Football Team appeared in the list at the same time, and the two players both belong to the offensive side of the frontcourt. In fact, whether it is Wang Shuang or Ou Yiyao, it has long been known, and at present, another excellent player on the front side Zhang Linyan is still recovering from injury, after Zhang Linyan recovers, plus Zhijie and Sun Fangxin on the front side, the women's national football team led by Milicic will have more players available in the front court.

On this list, Zhu Yu, the goalkeeper from the Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank women's football team, replaced the goalkeeper Peng Shimeng of the women's football team in Guangdong Province, and Zhai Qingwei, Yang Qian, Shen Mengyu, and Yuan Cong, who participated in the Spanish training camp, were not selected for this training camp.

Judging from the new players selected this time, Qiao Ruiqi from Jiangsu and Zeng Yujia from Beijing play at right wing-back, and it is clear that Milicic is still looking for a replacement for full-back Li Mengwen.

The changes in the players of the Chinese women's football team in each period can reflect the thinking of Milicic's inspectors, but from the overall direction, Milicic has his own ideas about the regular framework and main framework of Chinese women's football players. Of course, although some players were not selected for the training list of the Chinese women's football team, it does not mean that there is no chance to be re-selected in the future.

At present, the midfielders Zhang Xin, Yao Wei, Liu Jing, Tang Jiali, Wang Yanwen, etc. have gradually formed a stable combination, and the core players of the back line have gradually formed.

In this year's Women's Super League schedule, there will be a relatively long interval in May and early July, and the fourth training camp in May and the East Asian Cup Women's Football Match in July will continue to inspect the personnel adjustment and preparation of the Chinese women's football team.