China's Olympic football team head coach Ratomir Dujkovic has
updated a 26-player roster for an upcoming training camp in Europe.
Former captain Feng Xiaoting was not enrolled.
Dong Fangzhuo, who plays for the England Premier League
champions Manchester United, was not admitted either. Both men were
entered on the five-man substitute list.
Dujkovic said the 26 players will be the backbone of the squad
participating in the Beijing Olympic Games, and his major work in
coming months will focus on the composition of the starting
line-up.
Four players who took part in the team's three warm-up matches,
two against the US Olympic team and one against the youth string of
German Bundesliga side Cottbus, were dismissed for poor
performance.
Shandong Luneng's promising attacker Cui Peng was also denied
entry for an earlier drunk driving offense.
(CRI December 24, 2007)