On February 21, Beijing time, in the U23 Southeast Asian Championship held yesterday, East Timor defeated the host Cambodia team 1-0. In this way, the team successfully reached the top 4 of this competition with a record of 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
After the game, Cambodian fans shouted: Our U23 has no hope at all.
In last year's U23 Asian Cup, Timor-Leste defeated the Philippines in the group stage to draw with Singapore, only to lose to south Korea's U23 team, showing good strength. Like the Vietnamese team, Cambodia also used a large number of players in the 01 age group.
In the future, the 99-year-old national football team may encounter these Southeast Asian teams in the Asian Games, but none of them is easy to deal with. This East Timorese team has beaten the Chinese team in the 99 age group 1-0.
When the U23 players in the Chinese Super League began to rest, the U23 players in Southeast Asia began to play in the new season. The best of them competed in the U23 Southeast Asia Championship.
There was a dark horse in this year's race, and that was the East Timorese team. Timor-Leste has a small population of just over 1.3 million, but there are many people who love football. When they first joined the AFC, they were ranked last, and now they are also ranked at the bottom of the rankings for many years. However, their youth team has improved rapidly.
In the first 2 games of the group stage, they drew with the Philippine U23 and defeated the Brunei U23 team.
In the final game of the group, East Timor defeated the host Cambodia 1-0, leaving Cambodia coach Keiyou Honda with a loss of face.
After the game, East Timor coach Bruno Maher lamented: "It's not easy, we have been preparing for this competition for 2 years. This time, the East Timorese team finally reached the top 4.
Cambodia, which lost the match, is expected to finish second in the group with the best results. However, if the Vietnamese team in Group C and the Thai team shake hands and make peace, the Cambodian U23 will be eliminated.
Disappointed host fans shouted: you are too incompetent, the team has little hope.
The rise of the East Timor U23 team is not a day's thing. At last year's U23 Asian Cup, they beat the Philippines 1-0 and drew 2-2 with Singapore. However, due to the fiasco to the South Korean team, he failed to qualify from the group.
In 2013, the East Timorese team defeated the Chinese national youth of the same age group 1-0. Liu Ruovan, Xu Haoyang, Yang Yilin are all members of the 99 National Youth League, Guo Tianyu, Zhu Chenjie and others are also the key players of the national football team at the Asian Games.
In addition, the 94-year-old East Timorese team has drawn with the national football team of the same age, and it is also the home of the national football team. Zhejiang's Sun Zheng'ao and Shenzhen's Zheng Dalun are both players of the 94 national youth team. And in that game, the national youth was actually not as good as the opponent in terms of data.
Timor-Leste won 4 wins and 1 draw in the group stage of the 2009 Asian Junior Championship, but their 22 goals difference were less than the 29 goals difference of the national youth, and they were unfortunately out.
Due to the lack of qualifiers, the U23 national football team did not have the opportunity to participate in this year's U23 Asian Cup. Next, their match is only the Hangzhou Asian Games. U23 teams from Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam all reached the final round of the U23 Asian Cup.
At present, the U23 teams in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia are all very strong. Myanmar U23 once besieged the vietnamese U23 team gate in the game, losing only 1 goal to the opponent. They and the Laos U23 team, which broke the news to beat Malaysia's U23, have a certain strength.
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