Approaching the Lunar New Year, the Chinese Football Association announced a new training list for the Olympic Preliminary Round, and Liu Ruofan, Zhu Chenjie, Hu Jinghang, Lin Liangming, Shan Huanhuan and many players were all selected. According to the arrangement of FIFA and AFC, the group stage of the sixth U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, which will start in September this year, will also be the first stage of the Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympic Men's Football Championship, when the AFC will be divided according to the results of the 5th U23 Asian Cup in 2022 and draw lots.
In the fifth U23 Asian Cup, Saudi Arabia defeated Uzbekistan to win the championship for the first time, and China's national Olympic Games became a spectator, because the team did not even play the qualifiers, which was also related to the decision of the upper management.
According to reporter Ma Dexing, in the second half of last year, Jankovic's 99-year-old team signed up for the competition, and the Chinese Football Association was ready to arrange a team to compete in Tajikistan by charter flight, but the Football Association reported this plan to a higher management department but was rejected, so it finally chose to abandon the game, and now even the Football Association can not save the Chinese National Olympic Games, because the abandonment was punished by the AFC.
The AFC divided the group stage of the 6th U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers according to the ranking of the teams of the previous tournament, so the teams that did not participate were reduced to the last bracket, including Afghanistan (last withdrawal), Brunei (last withdrawal), North Korea (last withdrawal), Pakistan, Guam, Macau (China, and Northern Mariana).
Now that the Chinese men's football team at all levels no longer dominates in Asia, and constantly refreshes the lower limit, the bracket has been the same level as Bhutan, Guam, Brunei, Northern Mariana and Pakistan, no wonder fans are becoming more and more disappointed.
In previous sessions, China's Olympic Games in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers were the first gear, with the 5th active abandonment, now the 6th is reduced to the last team, then can not escape the draw to the strong team, the group of death surfaced in advance, such as Saudi Arabia or Japan in the first gear, Iran or Tajikistan in the second gear, Oman in the third gear, and the Philippines in the fourth gear, so that the Chinese National Olympic Games will definitely have no hope.
According to statistics, China's National Olympic Games previously participated in the final round of the U23 Asian Cup in 4 years, all of which were out of the group stage, achieving 1 win and 11 losses, and never rushed into the Olympic final round through this event, and this time the probability is still a supporting role.