In the 1980s, the Chinese men's football team is still the top level in Asia, in the 1982 World Preliminary Tournament, the Chinese team was almost half a foot into the World Cup, but unfortunately, at that time, the entire Asia-Pacific region only had 2 qualifying places, due to the release of water by the Saudi team, the Chinese team finally had to play a play-off match with the New Zealand team, the game was a single-game elimination system, and finally the Chinese team was 1-2 inferior, and did not qualify for the 1982 World Cup.
Frankly speaking, that national football team was definitely the top level in Asia, and it was also incomparable to the subsequent national teams, but the team also had a big problem, the physical confrontation was not good, and it was very intimidating that New Zealand's physical flow team, you know, not only lost to the opponent in the play-offs. The group stage against New Zealand was 0-0 at home and 0-1 away.
Chinese football, which has suffered physical losses, began to pay attention to the body, and even at the end of the eighties, it broke the bizarre rule of counting two goals with a header.
In the 1990s, the rise of professional leagues has cultivated a number of outstanding players, Fan Zhiyi, Li Bing, Zhang Enhua, Su Maozhen, Li Weifeng, Xie Hui, all of them are physically strong and have excellent heads, and the Chinese team at that time was called "Asian head team", this title was also ridiculed by fans for a long time, and they felt that their physical strength and technology were rough.
However, the aura of the league faded, the ground was full of garbage, and after 2004, Chinese football fell into the most downtrodden decade, and suddenly found that our players not only regressed in their foot technology, but also did not head the ball, even if Zhang Linpeng, a strong defender, the head ability is also very average.
This time the top 12 matches, Li Tie brought a group of so-called technical flow players, such as Zhang Xizhe, Yin Hongbo, Jin Jingdao, etc., the back is also Chi Zhongguo, Wu Xi and other technical types, and finally found that they could not help but play, in fact, can not say that Zhang Xizhe and other people do not work hard, it is indeed not strong, their so-called technology is worse than the opponent, before at least there was a little physical advantage, and now the body is gone.
When the former head coach Perrin was in office, because he did not recruit Zhang Xizhe and Huang Bowen and others, he was scolded by the fans enough, and Perrin's highest light was the 2015 Asian Cup, when the national football backline was Zhang Chengdong, Zhang Linpeng, Ren Hang and Mei Fang, yes, they were the strongest people in The country, and the final result was also a three-game victory in the group stage.
On the whole, due to the racial factor, Japanese football has developed to the limit, and there are many Japanese blows, but in fact, if you compare the number and quality of Japanese and Mexican foreign players, as well as the results of the two teams in the World Cup, you will find that Mexico is already the limit of Japan, Mexico is known as little Brazil, and Japan can only be called little Mexico.
The apex of Asian football, it is true that there is no way to compare with the strong teams in Europe and the United States, but at least at the Asian level, China actually has advantages, but we have taken too many detours, if you want to ask Chinese football to take the body flow like Fan Zhiyi, or the technical flow like Zhang Xizhe?
In the short term, I will definitely choose a body stream like Fan Zhiyi, because without physical dependence, Japan is the limit, of course, if only the body is not enough, but physical fitness is a necessary and not sufficient condition for playing football, it must be there.