Written by Qin Yun/Captain Q
Argentina, the 2022 Qatar World Cup champion, plans to visit China in June this year with the World Cup winning team led by Messi. At that time, the Chinese men's national team will have the opportunity to play friendly matches with them. If the China-Arab game is realized, it may be an important opportunity for the national football team to start again.
June 12 to 20, 2023 is FIFA match day. During this time, Argentina will come to China for commercial matches, possibly against another South American team, Paraguay. The match between Argentina and Paraguay will most likely be played in Shenzhen. At present, all preparations for this competition are progressing in an orderly manner. Argentina promised to send the main team of World Cup champions led by Messi to China.
After receiving the news that the Argentine team came to China and Paraguay to play a commercial match with the World Cup team, some institutions proposed the idea of taking this opportunity to operate the Chinese men's national team to play a friendly match with the Argentine team, and the venue of the match was selected in Xi'an. It is said that the operator of the tournament has previously communicated with Chen Yongliang, executive deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Football Association and minister of the State Management Department. However, after Chen Yongliang "went in", the operation of the China-Arab event came to a halt.
After the Spring Festival, the operation of the China-Arab competition was mentioned again. However, there are two voices on whether the national football team will face the World Cup champion: the objection is that the current Chinese football is rotten, the national team is even more decaying and decadent after the round of 12, and the match with Argentina is likely to create a "tragedy"; The support opinion is that Chinese football and the national team have become poor, and the national football team's defeat in front of Argentina will not have the influence of the national football team losing to the Vietnamese team in the top 12 competition, but is a learning opportunity. What's more, the attention of fans and the market is on the Argentine team and Messi, and Chinese football and the national football team are foils and receive limited attention. Importantly, Messi and Argentina's trip to China can have an activating effect on the sluggish football market.
The captain believes that the current national team is undefeated, and losing to the World Cup winner is better than losing to Vietnam. Therefore, I hope that the Chinese Football Association and the national men's football team have the courage to take on the "group performance" and accompany the Argentina team and Messi to "walk bravely" in June.