The Chinese men's soccer team has been eliminated from the World Preliminary Tournament and confirmed that it will not qualify for the 2022 World Cup, and the Football Association has begun to set its sights on the Asian Games on its doorstep. In September 2022, the Asian Games kicked off in Hangzhou, and the U23 national football team confirmed to participate as the host. According to the report from the well-known media "Beijing Youth Daily", the U23 national football team has been guaranteed by the world preliminary standard, and the Chinese Super League will also make way for the Asian Games of the U23 national football team, and confirm the participation of the U23 national football team in the East Asian Cup before the Asian Games, which has been officially confirmed.
According to the schedule, the U23 national football team will welcome the first opponent of the East Asian Cup, South Korea, at 19:00 Beijing time on July 20, the second opponent Hong Kong at 18:20 on the 23rd, and the last opponent Japan at 18:20 on the 27th. For the next event, U23 national football coach Jankovic remains confident, he has long confirmed the goal of attacking the top of Asia, hoping to lead the Chinese male enough to win the gold medal as the host of the Asian Games.
Jankovic's self-confidence stems from self-discipline from top to bottom, first of all, he himself maintains his own super high requirements, maintains a 10-kilometer run every day, and his diet is also very professional, this self-discipline such as C Ronaldo's state has also been implemented to the U23 national football team, he stressed in an interview that the player's body fat rate should not be higher than 10%, otherwise it will not be enabled, and the body fat rate standard before the Asian Games is lower, directly pressed to 9%. In addition, Yankovic is different from other foreign coaches, he spent three years integrating into China, deeply understanding Chinese culture, and understanding Chinese players.
In terms of lineup system, Jankovic also has enough confidence. "Beijing Youth Daily" reporter Xiao Hao revealed that the U23 national football team is strong, the national football 2 captains Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng and the main center Zhang Yuning chi aid, the three will join the U23 national football team as overage players to compete in the Asian Games, as soon as April 20 to join the U23 national football training camp. Zhang Yuning, Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng can just cover the central axis of the U23 national football team, which is expected to provide support for the U23 national football team in the lineup system and improve the stability of the whole team.
In addition to the 3 main forces of the national football team, the national champion team has also confirmed the return, the main lineup of the active U23 national football team has won the Panda Cup championship in 2018, the champion team includes Guo Tianyu, Liu Ruovan, Tao Qianglong, Jiang Shenglong, Zhu Chenjie, Xu Yue, Sun Qinhan and others, many of whom have returned to the U23 national football team to participate in the Dubai Cup competition at the end of March, and Yankovich has also appropriately supplemented potential stocks such as Fang Hao and Wu Shaocong. According to the principle of the strongest team to go to the Asian Games, Guo Tianyu who stayed in the ocean and Zhu Chenjie, who has grown into the main force of the national football team, plus Dai Weijun, who returned from the sea, will return to the U23 national football team, at that time, the lineup of the U23 national football team will become quite ideal, hoping to play a good result.