On March 30, Beijing time, Muscat Stadium, Oman, the Chinese men's football team in the world cup Asian qualifiers in the final round of the round of 12, 0-2 defeat oman, completed the world preliminary tournament journey that lasted nearly 3 years, and 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses only accumulated 6 points, which is also the worst record achieved by the national football team in the final stage of the world preliminary tournament this century.
20 years ago, the national football team reached the World Cup finals for the first time in history, when we all thought that entering the World Cup was only the starting point of the Chinese men's football team, but who could have imagined that it was the peak of the Chinese men's football team. In the next 20 years, the national football team's 5 times to compete in the World Preliminary Round were all folded, one four years after another, one waiting after another, and the Chinese men's football team became more and more struggling in the seemingly infinite "dead cycle".
After the battle between China and Argentina, li Xiaopeng, the coach of the national football team, once again stressed that the reason for the loss of the national football team was "not enough strength", but at the same time, he hoped that the international footballers could calm their minds, "Everyone has done their best in the past two years, and everyone who plays is a warrior." Hopefully, they can face the win-loss situation correctly and throw themselves into the upcoming league. In fact, at this time, the international footballers do not particularly need Li Xiaopeng's comfort, in contrast, the international footballers should comfort their own head coach - after the game, Li Xiaopeng stood lonely on the sidelines for a long time, and everyone will have a feeling of sadness and guilt when they see it.
From meeting the team for the first time to leading the team to play the final round of the Round of 12, Li Xiaopeng fought side by side with this team for 77 days. From the perspective of team performance, after Li Xiaopeng succeeded Li Tie into the national football team, he led the team to play 4 round of 12 matches, losing to Japan, losing to Vietnam, drawing Saudi Arabia, losing Oman, 1 draw and 3 losses, scoring 2 goals and losing 8 goals. It is worth mentioning that since Li Xiaopeng took over li tie's national football team, the Football Association has not held a new press conference for him, nor has it been clear to the outside world how long his term as head coach will be.
To be fair, in terms of the overall strength of the national football team at present, the responsibility of the team to impact the World Cup failure should not be completely borne by Li Xiaopeng, not to mention that in the more than two months he has led the team, he has faced more problems than his predecessor Li Tie, in addition to continuing to go abroad to fight, but also facing many practical problems such as the status of naturalized players and the renewal of the team. However, the fact that two of the best local coaches "relayed" the team to lead the team to the round of 12 and finally exited in such an embarrassing way seems to indicate that the local coaching strategy vigorously promoted by the Football Association has not worked.
In fact, looking back at the 5 impact world cup journeys of the national football team in the past 20 years, fans can clearly feel that the biggest pain of the Chinese men's football team is not the pain, but the inability to find the "antidote". In 2002, Milu gongcheng retired, tasted the sweetness of foreign teachers, and hired the Dutchman Ali Han to lead the team to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. However, the national football team led by the old man did not even pass the first level due to the miscalculation of the goal difference, and finally went out early in the group stage of the World Preliminary Round. At that time, the national football "Asian third-rate theory" had already sounded;
In 2008, the national football team ushered in the absurd and funny "double head coach system", Dujkovic and Vladeau two former coaches each had half a day - Duy was in charge of the national Olympic Team, Andrador was in charge of the national team, but As the head coach, Duy had the right to interfere in the training and competition of the national team, and even personnel selection and other related matters. This absurd approach has exacerbated the slippery slope of the national football team. The Chinese team still returned home in the group stage of the World Preliminary Round in Asia. Only 6 points in 6 games were at the bottom of the group, and it also set a record for the worst performance in the group stage of the World Preliminary Round of the National Football Team.
In 2011, the Chinese men's football team began its journey to impact the World Cup in its depression. At the beginning of the golden dollar football era, the former Spanish national team coach Camacho national football team took office. However, the world-class coach Camacho did not bring the expected success to the national football team, and even missed the top ten rounds in advance. A year later, after a 1-5 defeat to the Thai youth team in the national warm-up match. Camacho left the class, and the national football team also sat in the position of "third-rate in Asia".
In the last World Preliminary Tournament, the world famous coach Lippi almost took over halfway to turn the tide, but the national football team failed to enter the World Cup after all. In this World Preliminary Round, Lippi was full of ambition to depict a gorgeous Roadmap for the National Football Team to qualify for the World Cup, but who could have imagined that the national football team then experienced the "Silver Fox" resignation twice, Cannavaro's internship failed to turn positive, Li Tie's high-profile class and fire class and many other farces. With the impact of the World Cup strength, now the Asian ranking of the national football team has been surpassed by Oman to the tenth position in Asia, which has also become the best yardstick to measure the "third-rate theory" of the national football team.
It seems that the story of the national football team impacting the World Cup is different every time, but in fact, the Chinese men's football team has no new story, only a remake of the old story, just changing the soup and not changing the medicine. The "death hole" of The Chinese men's football team is clear to everyone, as early as 7 years ago, the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" has been introduced, whether it is rooted in youth training or the league, it is a cliché, but many key issues in football reform have not been solved so far. Judging from the history of the national football team in the World Cup in the past 20 years, the Chinese men's football team seems to have been repeating a more terrible thing than losing, that is, not reflecting on itself, not summarizing history, so that in the end, everyone seems to be able to explain this very materialistic result with the very idealistic statement of "destiny".
After the defeat of the national football world preliminary round, former Guoan player Deng Lejun sighed on social media, "How can the performance of the men's national team be so different in the A era and the Chinese Super League era? In the A era, the Asian Games runner-up, the Asian Cup runner-up, the World Cup finals; the Chinese Super League era, 5 times the Impact World Cup lost, and the field played more and more ugly..."
Yes, the reality of the Chinese men's football team will make you have this kind of emotional interweaving that is like another world. 20 years of time is by no means a flash, countless heroes you sing I on the stage, generations of people to explore tomorrow, but in the end, the Chinese men's football team is a vicissitudes. Wang Xiaobo's "Times Trilogy" is composed of three novels, "Golden Age", "Silver Age" and "Bronze Age", if the first World Cup trip of the national football team in 2002 is regarded as the "golden age" of Chinese men's football, then in the past 20 years, China's men's football team has gone all the way down, and now it seems to have entered the "black iron age".
The good news is that the next World Cup - the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, the participating teams will be expanded to 48 teams, and the Asian region will receive 8.5 places, but for the national football team that has been squeezed out of the "admission line", this quota is not logical. What's more, world football is changing very fast, and our young people are already a lot behind. When the Chinese men's football team enters the bitter winter, can they save the fate of the Chinese men's football team that is not prominent in all aspects?
There's a saying that goes like this – how far you think, how far you can go. At this time, the Chinese men's football team instead of rushing to calculate how to qualify for the next World Cup, it is better to spend more time reflecting, really sorting out the current situation, finding the crux of the problem, and clarifying the direction for future development. Failure is not terrible, the terrible thing is that "how big the ideal is, how big the mistake is", so many years, the Chinese men's football team has been struggling in the cycle of "tossing - failing - tossing and turning", and now the fragile Chinese men's football team really can no longer afford another four years of tossing.