I believe that many Chinese fans remember Fan Zhiyi's famous prophecy, that is, after the national football team accidentally lost to the Thai team 1-5 ten years ago, Fan Zhiyi bitterly criticized the national football team for losing to Vietnam, and then to Myanmar, and then no one lost... Don't even want a face! At that time, even he probably felt that he had just said a few angry words, but he did not expect that this sentence was becoming a reality step by step. Last year, on the first day of the new year, the national football team lost to Vietnam, many people thought it was just an accident, but now it seems that in the future, we will start to get used to being the defeated players of the Vietnamese team.
In the second round of the U20 Asian Cup group stage that just ended this morning, Vietnam beat the strong enemy Australia 1-0 in the first round, and then beat Qatar 2-1 to the top of the group, in this game, Vietnam still used a defensive counterattack tactic, although the opening was pressed by Qatar, but their defense is very layered, a long pass counterattack before half-time, the striker quickly enters the box after receiving the ball A feint dunks the defender to easily play the near corner to score, Qatar equalised on penalties in the second half, but Vietnam headed with a free-kick before the end. Vietnam's results in this tournament are astounding, considering that the other three opponents in this group are Iran, Kangaroos and Qatar, and their national teams all participated in last year's World Cup in Qatar. If the Chinese national youth are assigned to this group, let alone the first place in the group with 6 points in two games, it is estimated that they can get one point on the Iranian kangaroo Qatar to be Amitabha Buddha. Vietnam's U23 national team has won the Asian Cup runner-up before, and looking at the performance of this youth team, it is only a matter of time before their senior national team reaches the World Cup finals.
Look at our own national youth team, the day before yesterday lost 1-2 to the Japanese team, look at the score may feel okay, but as long as the fans who have watched the live broadcast of the game, should feel desperate, not the problem of possession rate 22% to 78% and shooting ratio 4 to 25, but these 20-year-old so-called strongest young football elites can not play at all, the whole game they only defend, can not see an effective counterattack, ten players in the box put a bus and were easily scored two goals, If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese have always been slow to heat up in the first game, the national football team would have lost 5 times and would have been considered the opponent's subordinates. And such an ugly and disgusting game was called a defeat by the football association writers such as Ma Dexing, which is really shameful.
In fact, it is nothing to lose at the low level of the national youth, but some off-field operations of the Chinese Football Association are even more indignant. Some fans who have been following this wave of age groups for a long time have found a problem, that is, this team is not the strongest U20 national team in China, and He Xiaoke, a young player who previously served as the captain of this team, and Liu Shao Ziyang, who was bought by Bayern for 1.5 million euros, as well as Jia Boyan, Zeng Yaozhang, Wang Shijie, Cai Mingmin and other outstanding players who can play in domestic and foreign leagues have not been able to enter the eyes of coach Antonio, and Antonio's own selection of people basically have no league experience. So this time it can be concluded with certainty that China's best players are not in the national team. Thinking about the ugly thing in Chinese football before the price of players entering the national brand, you can only sigh that if the Football Association is still not open and transparent about the selection of national players, China's national teams at all levels will not improve in 10 years.