Recently, the performance of Chinese men's and women's football is relatively contrasting, the men's football team in the World Preliminary Round has been defeated, but also fell to the point of losing to the Vietnamese team, can be described as falling into the lowest valley in the past decade, and has lost the hope of the World Cup, since 2002, every time is a beautiful preparation, tossing and turning is a disgraced failure; on the other hand, although the strength of women's football in Asia in recent years has declined, especially has lost its competitiveness in the Olympic Games, but the spirit of "sonorous roses" has been maintained.
In the recent Women's Football Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team has been marching all the way, and it is tenaciously circling with the Japanese team in the semi-finals to the end, relying on the slight advantage of penalties to advance, as we all know, the strength of the women's football team is not as good as the Japanese team, but the fighting spirit is far better than the opponent, this spirit of not accepting defeat makes the opponent shudder, until exhausted. Some fans also said that the men's football team should learn from the women's football team, but in fact, even if the men's football team has a tenacious fighting spirit, due to the huge gap in strength with the Japanese team, it is difficult to win in the short term.
However, the voice has not fallen, according to the Japanese informed media revealed that the Japanese Football Association has decided to send the U21 national team to play in the East Asian Cup, this group of age-appropriate players are ready to represent Japan in the 2024 Olympic Games, so it is more valued by the Japanese Football Association, this time sent to participate in the East Asian Cup, but also hope to exercise more of this group of children. Of course, this also gives the national football team the opportunity to win, after all, the U21 players have limited game experience, the ability is also in the promotion stage, worse than the national football players in the golden age, if the two teams are divided in a half zone, then the national football team will also wait for the opportunity to take revenge, and the last time the national football team defeated the Japanese team in the official game was in 1988, this time it is expected to break the 24-year shame record.
According to the schedule, the East Asian Cup will be held in China from July 19 to 27 this year, which is different from the usual end-of-year event and is also to make way for the Qatar World Cup to be held at the end of the year. Of course, in the face of a group of young players, the national football team is also under pressure, in case even the Japanese U21 players at home can not play, it is indeed impossible to say. There are also fans who have ideas, in order to avoid embarrassment, the national football team can also send U21 players to participate, so it is not too humiliating to lose, and what kind of strategy to take to play, but also need the national football team to give an answer.