Although Chinese football is in the cold winter, our national teams at all levels are busy with training and competitions. The Chinese Olympic team flew to Croatia to participate in a series of warm-up matches, according to the arrangement, the Olympic boys will have 27 warm-up matches, but unluckily, in the first warm-up match, they lost, 0-2 to Dubvara against the 6th ranked team in the Croatian First Division, in this match, Chinese player Jia Boyan played for Dubrava.
The U20 national youth team has just finished its Asian Cup appearance, and the team has stopped in the top 8 and did not qualify for the World Youth Championship. Next, the Olympic team debuted, and they departed for Croatia for a long training camp and competition. The first match is scheduled for Wednesday against Croatian First Division side Dubwala.
The two teams are actually familiar with each other, because in 2022, the Olympic team played Du Bovara and we lost 2-0. Unexpectedly, after several months, the national Olympic team was still inferior to others, losing to the opponent, and the score was still 0-2. Jia Boyan played for Dubrava in this game, and this overseas player played well with his fellow countrymen.
In this way, the Olympic team's trip to Croatia suffered a black start and failed to usher in the first victory, and many fans believe that the strength of the Olympic team is still too average, even if it is a long-term training, the effect is still average. However, consider hiring a foreign coach as the team's head coach.
Many fans believe that the national Olympic team can hire Antonio as the head coach, who has just finished working with the national youth team, and after leading the team to the U20 Asian Cup, Antonio's contract with the football association expired, and he himself admitted in an interview that the two sides have not renewed their contracts for the time being.
According to Ma Dexing, Antonio still has the opportunity to renew his contract with the team, because the Football Association is considering retaining the U20 national team, in fact, it is also a good choice to let Antonio run the national Olympic team. At present, the coach of the national Olympic team is Cheng Yaodong, although this local coach is very familiar with this group of players, but if the foreign coach is the team manager, it is more conducive to the growth of this group of seedlings.
At present, our senior national football team is training in Guangzhou, originally according to the plan of the Football Association, will warm up with Guangzhou City and Shenzhen team, however, at present, both clubs may not be able to stay in the Chinese Super League and clean up the problem of arrears, so the match has been cancelled, which greatly reduces the quality of preparation of the national football team. It has to be said that the arrangements of the Football Association are still not considered, resulting in the national football team having no warm-up object.