Entering March, closer and closer to the resumption of the round of 12, the Chinese men's football team will once again go to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to play, along with the U23 men's national football team to participate in the "Dubai Cup" international football championship, and the Football Association has officially announced a new U23 list. In addition, the Chinese team has 2 opponents, namely the United Arab Emirates team and the Vietnamese team, and it is expected that CCTV will arrange live broadcasting at the time of the session.
The Dubai Cup Football Tournament is an international invitational tournament for the U23 age group, hosted by the UAE Football Association, which hosted the inaugural tournament in 2017, with the Chinese team finally finishing runners-up and Thailand winning the championship. The tournament has since been postponed and now the UAE Football Association will host a second edition, having previously identified 8 teams, now increasing to 10 teams, with Thailand and Japan joining in later, with Thailand aiming to defend their title.
In addition to the host UAE U23, there are Also China U23, Vietnam U23, Iraq U23, Uzbekistan U23, Saudi U23, Qatar U23, European team Croatia U23, and recently added two more teams, Thailand U23 and Japan U23, the tournament will be held from March 20 to 28.
Among these 10 teams, in addition to Croatia U23, which is a European team, China's U23 is more embarrassing, and it is the only team among the other 9 teams that has not won the U23 Asian Cup final round, which is also related to the early withdrawal from the qualifiers.
The last time the Chinese U23 men's football team went abroad to compete was the U23 Asian Cup in early 2020, and the final group stage was three consecutive defeats and the bottom out, and then did not participate for two consecutive years, including withdrawal from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers. He is now invited to participate in the Dubai Cup Football Championship in preparation for the men's football match at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September this year.
With the participation of Vietnam and the fact that the two national teams have just met in the Round of 12, the U23 age group has once again played each other in the attention of fans of both teams.
In the just-concluded Southeast Asian U23 Championship, the Vietnamese team won a wave of 4 consecutive victories to win the championship, the team is mainly based on U21 age group players, and finally defeated Thailand U23 to win the championship, showing strong strength.
Now China's U23 will compete with Vietnam's U23, which is a great opportunity to avenge the loss of the national football team's top 12 matches, and Chen Shuyuan and other football association leaders also hope to receive such good news. If they beat Vietnam, the Chinese team can also rank higher, and the team won the runner-up in the last Dubai Cup.