In the 2022 World Preliminary Tournament, the Chinese men's football team went through all kinds of hardships to reach the top 12 stage, thus having the opportunity to play with Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia and other Asian teams. At the beginning, people felt full of hope that we used the naturalization policy this time, and Axon, Luo Guofu, Jiang Guangtai, Alain, Li Ke and others were given the opportunity to fight for the country. Originally, according to everyone's good wishes, the national football team with the support of naturalized players should be able to break the wrist with Japan and Saudi Arabia even if it could not directly qualify as the previous 2, so as to fight for the play-off opportunity.
But the ideal is too beautiful, the reality is too cruel. In the round of 12, after the coaching of Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng as two managers, the Chinese men's football team finally fell on the way to the World Cup, and even Li Taishou staged an embarrassing picture of losing to Vietnam and being hanged by Japan with the national football team. At the same time, incidents such as "Wu Xi dodging the ball" and "Sea Cucumber Gate" have appeared one after another. In terms of the actual situation of this round of 12, the Chinese men's football team can be described as a lonely game. If in previous years, no one could have imagined that the national football team would lose to a weak team like Vietnam. But now there is news that even a fish belly like Cambodia is shouting that it will defeat the national football team in 5 years.
On May 19, 2022, according to the news of the Japanese media led by the domestic media person "Hai NeiXing Sports", former Japan international and current Cambodia coach Honda Keiyu said in an interview that Cambodia will rise in the next 10 years, during which it will strive to defeat the Chinese team within 5 years. It is understood that Honda Guiyou coached the Cambodian national team in September 2018, and he did not receive a salary for 2 years, but also took Cambodia to some victories, and later he received some symbolic salary.
Keiyuki Honda said he would bring the high level of Japanese football to Cambodia, while also believing that the team could rise. At the same time, Keisuke Honda also gave an example to cheer Cambodia up. He said Japan overtook China in the 1990s and Vietnam also won china in 2022, giving Cambodia a chance to rise. He believes Cambodia will rise in 10 years and strive to defeat China within 5 years. It can be seen that Honda Guiyou is full of confidence and dares to take the Chinese team to open the knife, which is really ambitious.
So what kind of team is Cambodia? At present, Cambodia ranks 170th in the world, more than 90 times lower than the national football team. During the Round of 40, Cambodia was in the same group with Iran, Iraq, Bahrain and other teams, and as a result, only 1 point was scored in 8 games, only 2 goals were scored, 44 goals were conceded, ranking at the bottom of the group, and conceding more goals than the other 4 teams in the same group combined. Not long ago, in the 2023 Asian Cup qualifying play-offs, Cambodia only won Guam 1:0 and 2:1 respectively. Therefore, Cambodia is not a strong team in any way.
In recent years, the national football team has performed poorly, but it will not lose to Cambodia. In the 2022 World Preliminary Tournament, the national football team can easily win 7 goals against Guam. In addition, after Li Tie found the naturalized player instruction manual, he only lost to Saudi Arabia 2:3, and at the same time drew 1:1 with Australia and 0:1 with Japan. At present, naturalized players such as Axon can still play for 1 to 2 years, and we still have young strikers such as Zhang Yuning and Guo Tianyu, and it should not be a problem to abuse Cambodia with them. In this way, Honda Keiyo's dream of winning over China in 5 years is a bit too good. I wonder if everyone thinks that the national football team will lose to Cambodia in 5 years?