Recently in Asian football, the negative news of Chinese teams continues, in addition to the two Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League have suffered fiasco in succession, at the level of national team competitions, we have also given up the right to host the East Asian Cup, and now even 5-a-side Asian competitions, we also give up.
According to the AFC, the Chinese team has withdrawn from this year's indoor futsal Asian Cup East Asia Qualifiers, and next, the remaining East Asian teams Japan, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Hong Kong and Mongolia, five teams will play a single round robin tournament, and the top three will advance to the final round. Under the influence of the epidemic, similar situations have become commonplace, including the withdrawal of the national Olympic team from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, while Yatai and Haigang have successively withdrawn from this season's AFC Champions League. Today, futsal tournaments with less attention are not immune.
In fact, this year, at the level of the national team, there is only one important task, that is, the Asian Games in September, as the host, the coach of the national Olympic team Jankovic even set his sights on the impact medal, and has now selected three international players Zhang Yuning, Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng to join the team as overage players.
However, I believe that the fans are very clear, even with these 3 people in the squad, the national Olympic team wants to get a medal is difficult to ascend to the sky, in the previous Dubai Cup, facing the UAE, which is not the top strength, we lost 4 goals in two legs, not to mention facing first-class teams such as Japan, South Korea or Iran.
Just like the AFC Champions League matches, in fact, we can't blame the players or coaches, taking the national Olympic team as an example, in the past two years of preparation, we have only participated in one international event in the Dubai Cup, played 3 games with foreign teams, even if we can play 3 East Asian Cup games in the next July, only 6 international warm-up matches, ask what kind of state we can play. Chinese football is a chicken feather!
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