China's men's football team is currently at the lowest point in history, especially the experience of losing the top 12 matches, so that the outside world has to re-examine the strength positioning of Chinese men's football. Recently, according to the Vietnamese media baoquocte quoted japanese media as saying that the future status of the Chinese men's football team in Asia will likely be surpassed by Vietnam and other teams, because at the current development speed, the Chinese men's football team has lagged far behind the former Southeast Asian weak brigade.
Baoquocte said: "The Japanese media believe that the development prospects of football in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand are better than those of the Chinese men's football team, because the Chinese men's football team has always relied heavily on foreign aid for development." It's been a full two decades since the Chinese team's only World Cup tournament in 2002, and we still don't know when they will next reach the World Cup. At present, the prospects of Chinese football are very bleak, and in the league, they rely on foreign aid to play football in the vast majority of cases. ”
"The reason why the Chinese men's football team cannot take off is that it relies too much on foreign players and ignores its own youth training, and in this regard they are far behind Vietnam, Thailand and other teams. This is a failure of the Chinese Super League, and so far they have still not been able to find a suitable development path to develop good players. Although the 2026 World Cup will increase the number of participants, judging from the current development trend of the Chinese men's football team, even increasing the number of places does not necessarily mean that they can return to the World Cup, because they cannot guarantee that they will be more competitive than some teams in West Asia, even Vietnam and Thailand, where football is developing well. The media said.
"If you look for potential opponents in Asia for Japan in the future, it could be Vietnam or Thailand, but not China. If Chinese football continues to rely on foreign aid in the future, it will never be able to become a strong team. The media concluded.
In fact, from the perspective of the national football team's performance in the round of 12, compared with a team like Vietnam, there is indeed no more advantage to speak of. The only hope at the moment is that the national football team can use the next World Cup cycle to cultivate more and better young talents, but this will certainly be a difficult task.