After missing the 2022 World Cup, the entire national football team has returned to Haikou for centralized isolation, and the opening of the World Cup in the second half of the year has become a spectator. Compared with the national football team for 20 consecutive years as spectators, South Korea and Japan have played the World Cup for 20 consecutive years, and they are the same East Asian team, and the difference is too big.
After the national enough to miss the World Cup, there is still a chance to warm up with the world's strongest teams, such as France, Portugal, Spain and other teams, because these European and American teams are in the same group as Japan or South Korea, hoping to familiarize themselves with the playing style and style of Japan and South Korea in advance by playing warm-up matches with the national football team, and then have this opportunity in half a year, just wait for the Football Association to arrange it quickly.
Recently, according to the Beijing Youth Daily, because the Qatar World Cup will be held at the end of the year, it is difficult for the national football team to arrange high-quality warm-up matches in June and September, which is related to the fact that the Chinese Super League may have to play 34 rounds of leagues.
Of course, a month before the opening of the Qatar World Cup, that is, in October, there is also an international match day, which is exactly the time point to warm up with the European and American teams participating in the World Cup, and also to prepare for the Asian Cup next year.
According to the World Cup grouping, Japan is in the same group as the winners of Spain, Germany, Costa Rica/New Zealand, and South Korea is in the same group as Portugal, Uruguay and Ghana. Compared with the overall strength, the national football team is naturally very different from Japan and South Korea, because the same East Asian team has some similarities and can be used as the object of warm-up for european and American teams.
World Cup Group H is a group with a story, there are many things to see, Portugal and Uruguay are the top 2 favorites to qualify, of course, South Korea does not want to be out early.
If Portugal and Uruguay do not take the initiative to invite, then the Chinese Football Association can issue an invitation to let the national football team and the two teams in October to warm up the game, the national football team can see itself as a simulated South Korean object, in order to attract the interest of portugal and Uruguay two intercontinental champions, especially with C Luo, domestic fans will also be very much looking forward to.
According to statistics, the national football team has played warm-up matches with Portugal and Uruguay in history, and on the eve of the 2002 World Cup, the national football team played a friendly match with Portugal at home in Macao, and finally the national football team lost 0-2. In addition, after the 2010 World Cup, the national football team warmed up with Uruguay in Wuhan, and finally the national football team lost 0-4.
The national football team does not have to worry about whether it will suffer a fiasco, mainly because it can play against the world's strongest teams and prepare for next year's Asian Cup.