On March 17, the Chinese Olympic team will follow the national football big brothers to go to West Asia, and while the national football big brothers compete in the top 12, the national Olympic team will rush to Dubai to participate in the Dubai Cup competition.
As an important youth event under the UAE Football Association, the Dubai Cup is specially designed for U23 players from asian national teams, and its purpose is to test the talent pool of U23 age groups in various countries. You know, like many strong teams in Europe, many 23-year-old players are already the absolute main force of the national team, 23-year-old Mbappe, 21-year-old Haland, 21-year-old Foden, are the top U23 in world football today. For the national football team, the 23-year-old player still does not get a stable playing time in the Chinese Super League, so the Dubai Cup is a good opportunity to test the strength of the team.
In order to improve the quality of the game and connect Asian football with international teams, the UAE Football Association specially invited the U23 team from Croatia to play against 9 Asian teams. It should be known that Crodoua was the runner-up of the last World Cup, and the defeat of France in the final is also a world-strong team, which is a good training opportunity for this group of players in the National Olympic Games. At present, the schedule of the national Olympic team in the group stage has been officially released, and it can be seen that the first match of the Chinese team U23 will play against the host United Arab Emirates, which is an uphill battle, and then it will also play against the old enemy Thailand, which is also a fair dialogue.
Surprisingly, the national Olympic team did not meet vietnam in the group stage as the outside world revealed. Before the big brothers of the national team lost to Vietnam 1-3, which made the senior management of the Football Association headed by Chen Shuyuan extremely humiliated, he was also very much looking forward to the national Olympic team being able to draw Vietnam U23 in the group stage, thus defeating Vietnam at the youth team level, recovering dignity for the big brothers of the national football team, and also boosting the morale of Chinese football, after all, until now, many fans think that losing to Vietnam is only a very small probability event, which is caused by the team's poor performance at that time, and it does not mean that the national football team is really worse than Vietnam.
Unfortunately, the national Olympic team did not meet the Vietnamese team, so it could not help the big brothers of the national team to get revenge. However, for such a result, the Vietnamese media is quite fortunate, perhaps they also feel that winning the national football team in the round of 12 is also a piece of luck, if you play against the Chinese team, I am afraid that there will be no such good luck. Judging from the schedule of Vietnam U23, in the first round they will play against Iraq, and the second round is against the World Cup runner-up Croatia, and the Vietnamese team is also very satisfied to get the opportunity to play with such a top team.
Vietnam U23 previously participated in the Southeast Asian Youth Championship, the team first beat Thailand 1-0, then eliminated Timor-Leste 5-3 in a penalty shootout, and the final was the same score of 1-0 again to beat Thailand, the performance was quite eye-catching. Therefore, this Dubai Cup, their goal is also to reach the final, for the Chinese team U23, although the group stage can not meet Vietnam, but if they can break into the knockout round, then the probability of the two teams meeting is still very large, looking forward to being able to stage a scene of the national Olympic team for the national football big brother revenge Vietnam.