With the final whistle, on the night of the first day of the Chinese New Year, the national football team lost 1-3 to Vietnam in the away match of the World Preliminary Round of 12, which can be described as a shame in the history of the team while reaching the advance preparation for the 2026 World Cup, which caused a sensation in social networks at home and abroad.
Once upon a time, against Southeast Asian teams like Vietnam, the national football team could win without even sending core players and just rotating the lineup. Between the sharp regression of the national football team and the continuous improvement of the football strength of Vietnam and other countries, there are fewer and fewer opponents that the national football team can still win in the Asian field.
Therefore, when yesterday's loss, the social network once again appeared in the batch of angry national football, incidentally leading the re-reprinting of Fan Zhiyi's classic quotations of the football Bible. After the 1-5 defeat to Thailand that year, Fan Zhiyi, a general of the Fan Dynasty, could not suppress his anger and broke out the football bible in an interview, and there was such a classic quote: Thailand lost vietnam and lost Burma, and then no one lost.
Therefore, after the Sino-Vietnamese football war, the Myanmar men's football team, which was originally lonely and unknown, was so encouraged by many enthusiastic netizens and passively shouldered the progressive vision of his victory over the Chinese men's football team in the future.
So-called, know thyself, know each other, win every battle, through the ages, what level of team is the mysterious Myanmar men's football team? I believe that this topic is also curious for many fans. In this article, you may wish to follow the author's footsteps and take a little understanding.
Although it has been abandoned for a long time, Myanmar football has also developed relatively early in the Asian range, and the results at that time can be called a strong team with quality and tactics. Looking back at the history of the Myanmar team, their most brilliant time was in the 1960s and 1970s, when they were basically a brother in Southeast Asia.
In the 1968 Asian Cup, the Myanmar men's team won the Asian Cup runner-up. In addition, they won the 1966 Asian Games and the 1970 Asian Games twice, reaching the 1972 Munich Olympic Finals and also winning the record. Between 1965 and 1973, Myanmar won the gold medal in southeast Asian games for five consecutive times in Southeast Asia, analogous to Vietnam, which is only stronger than Vietnam, which has won the national football team.
It is precisely because of the more brilliant team history, whether it is the official website of the AFC or FIFA, if you open the introduction of the Myanmar team, you will see the words that mention that they were once a "strong team in Asia", but the glory is no longer there.
After entering the 1970s, Myanmar's football began to fall to the bottom, because of the civil unrest, Burmese people no longer have time to take care of football, the team quickly became Asia's fish belly force after the break, because of lack of preparation problems habitually directly absent from international competitions.
After the middle of the first decade of the new century, Myanmar talents had a little spare time to develop football.
When it re-participated in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers after many years of disobedience, Myanmar and the Chinese men's football team, which had begun to show a downward trend at that time, also met, losing 0-7, 0-4 in the two legs, and the national football team scored in Myanmar like a melon.
Since the re-development of football after the new century, the progress of Myanmar football has been relatively slow or even stagnant, basically maintaining the image of a weak brigade. In terms of the current world rankings, Myanmar ranks 152nd in the world (Asia 29), while the national football team is 75th (8th in Asia).
In this year's World Preliminary Round of 40, Myanmar and Japan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are divided into Group F, and finally two wins and five rich accumulation of 6 points, the goal difference is -25, the bottom of the group, and Mongolia, which has the same point, is -24 after playing the top 40. It can be said that the level of Myanmar is still a proper Asian fish belly force, which is comparable to that of Mongolia. Taking the performance of 10 goals against Japan as a reference, Myanmar football still needs a long period of improvement to try to match the down-and-out national football team.
However, the irony is that the last time the national football team and Myanmar met was in a friendly match in 2018, when the national football team only won 1-0 at the Home Stadium of Nanjing Jiangning Sports Center by wu Lei.com. After the game at that time, football journalist Xiao Liangzhi once wrote such a comment: The national football team won 1-0 against Myanmar... The national football team is still in the dream. Judging from the current situation, the national football team has been dreaming for many years and is still sleeping!