On January 5, Beijing time, IFFHS (International Federation of Football History and Statistics) selected the strongest U20 team in Asia.
As a result, a total of 3 members of the Japanese team were selected, and the South Korean team and the Uzbekistan team each had 2 players in the finalist. The other finalists were from Iran, Australia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, including almost all of Asia's strongest teams.
The national football team, Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Oman, Lebanon and Iraq, which reached the top 12, were not qualified. This also shows that the gap between Asian football teams and other teams is widening.
IFFHS's U20 Best Team:
Forwards: Jeong Wan-bin (South Korea), Sayad-Manesh (Iran), Mohammed-Malan (Saudi Arabia)
Midfielders: Lee Gang-jin (Korea), Daiki Matsuoka (Japan), Kenei Kubo (Japan)
Naruse (Japan), Yordoshev (Uzbekistan), Jabil (Qatar), Akilina (Australia)
Goalkeeper: Nematov (Uzbekta/Nassaf)
Among them, Li Gangren and Jiu Jianying are the best in the same age group. Zheng Xiangbin made 28 appearances for Suwon Samsung this season, scoring 6 goals. Naruse made 25 appearances for Nagoya Whale Hachi, Andagi Matsuoka made 25 appearances for Tosu Sandyam, and The Korean and Japanese players were basically the main players of their respective teams.
Iranian striker Sayad Manesh, who has moved to Fenerbahce, has made 22 appearances for Ukrainian Premier League side Solja this season, scoring nine goals and assisting four times. It is not too far from entering the main position of the main european league.
In the national football team, there is currently no U20 player. Liu Ruovan, Duan Liu Yu, Jiang Shenglong, Guo Tianyu and Zhu Chenjie, other young players who may enter the national football team, are all over 20 years old.
In the just-concluded Chinese Super League, we are still happy for the performance of a number of young players. However, compared with the young players of South Korea and Japan, the Chinese Super League is a bit behind.
The teams represented by these selected players are South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, which are close to reaching the final round of the World Cup. Japan and Australia will compete for the last direct qualifying spot, and they are also the few teams that can compete against the fifth place in South America.
Some teams that boast of good youth training, such as Vietnam, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, have not been selected. Syria has been unable to qualify from the group at Asian level for many years since the 93rd generation. Indonesia, Thailand, India and other teams that have not even entered the top 12 are not on the list.
Although no U20 players have been selected, and there are no U20 players in the national football team, a number of young players with good strength have emerged in this season's Chinese Super League.
Among them, Henan Songshan Longmen and Dalian people have the largest number of U20 players and occupy the main position.
Han Dong, PerlManjiang, Wang Haoran and Liu Jiahui have all played as main players in the league, and Tao Qianglong and Zhao Jianbo have also played in some matches. And these players are not passively dispatched by the team.
In addition, Wuhan's Chen Yuhao, Guangzhou's Ling Jie, Tan Kaiyuan, Haigang's Liu Zhurun, Abraham and others have basically become the main force of the team, Jinmen Tiger's Yang Zihao, Shi Yan, Cangzhou Lion's Zhang Xiangshuo, Beijing Guoan's Liang Shaowen, Guangzhou City's Wen Yongjun also played a lot of time, and also contributed goals in leagues or cups.
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