On February 5, Beijing time, only 9 days before the opening of the Southeast Asia U23 Championship, all teams are actively preparing, including the strong Myanmar U23 team.
In last year's U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, Myanmar lost to Vietnam and regrettably left. This time, they were here for revenge. Their grouping is quite good, with neither a host nor a strong opponent in the group, and the chances of reaching the knockout rounds are high.
Four years ago, I reported on Myanmar's number one star, Aung Thu. At the time he played for Thai Premier League side Tro Police. However, that season, the team suffered relegation. But Ontu, with his excellent skills, allowed him to stay and join the super team Buriram.
Antu has said before: The dream of young Players in Myanmar is to be able to play and play in the Thai Super League.
The domestic media said that Myanmar is all amateur players, which is a very wrong statement. Myanmar has professional football, but the level of professionalism is not high.
Myanmar has reached the final round of the World Youth Championships. Ontu was one of those players, but most of his teammates stayed in the domestic league. This has also led to a lot of players, has been lost to the public. However, Young people in Myanmar are proud to play abroad. This is also the reason why their personal abilities are growing very rapidly.
In the past 3 years, the Myanmar League has developed quite rapidly. Yangon United and Hanoi are tied for first place in the group in the 2020 Asian Association Cup, and if it is not for the cancellation of the subsequent matches, they are likely to push their opponents to advance.
Myanmar's U23 team, on the other hand, played the Vietnamese U23 in last year's qualifiers. Park's side, although winning 1-0, was besieged by Myanmar in the last 10 minutes. The referee made a number of mistakes, which led to Myanmar's eventual failure to equalize.
Many people like to say that the Vietnamese team is very young. In fact, the Myanmar team is also very young. The number one star, Antu, is 96 years old, younger than Wei Shihao, only 6 months older than Zhang Yuning.
The main goalkeeper In the World Cup, Naissantath and defender Ye Mintu, are both in '98, and Win Ang is a player in '99. In the whole team, there are no post-80s players.
In addition to the players in the 95 and 97 age groups, the players in the 99 age group in Myanmar are not bad.
After the U23 Southeast Asia Cup grouping, Myanmar will be paired with Malaysia, Indonesia and Laos. Thailand and Vietnam, which reached the final round of the U23 Asian Cup, are not in this group. Also, the host Cambodia team, in Group A.
In this group, Malaysia's U23 is the strongest, and they beat Thailand in the U23 Asian Cup. Indonesia lost to Australia's U23 and Laos finished last in the group.
The Vietnamese team defeated the national football team with a certain degree of serendipity. Vietnam only has two age groups, 95 and 97, and other age groups are more mediocre.
But Myanmar is completely different, first of all, their own leagues have not been cancelled arbitrarily like Vietnam. Secondly, the Thai Super League is more important to Myanmar players than its own league. As long as the Thai Super League can be in full swing, groups of Myanmar players will redouble their efforts in order to make a lot of money.
Myanmar football has a glorious history, they have won the Asian Games twice, reached the Olympic Games, and defeated Sudan in the Olympic Games to score 2 points (at that time, the victory was only 2 points).
Fan Zhiyi named Myanmar that year, perhaps by chance. But today, Myanmar football is running in a more stable direction than Vietnam. In the future, the threat to the national football team, Myanmar may be above the Vietnamese team.
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