This year, the Chinese men's football team at all levels of the national team attacked at the same time, the U20 national football team has played the Asian Cup, determined to miss the World Youth Championship, then the national team participated in the Asian Cup group draw, and the U17 national football team participated in the Asian Cup to compete for the World Junior Championship ticket. At present, the 2006 national junior team is coached by 49-year-old young coach Yang Chen, who is training in Spain to prepare for the U17 World Cup, and at least need to break into the final four of the U17 Asian Cup, fans can fully look forward to it.
The Under-17 team has been training in Spain for more than a week, with the latest warm-up match over. According to the blogger "Leicester City's Little Fox", the U17 national football team competed with the local Algeciras U19 echelon, and finally Yang Chen led the team to a 3-1 victory over the opponent, ending a two-game losing streak.
In the last two games, the U17 national football team lost in a row in just 3 days, the opponents were all the echelons of Cadiz, and after a short adjustment, coach Yang Chen immediately led the team to win a beautiful victory.
According to statistics, the U17 national football team played a total of 15 warm-up matches during the training period in the United Arab Emirates and Spain, initially losing 3 consecutive games without a number of main players, and then entered an unbeaten run of 8 consecutive games, including a 1-1 draw against Abu Dhabi Peninsula U18, a 4-1 victory over Gulf U19, a 2-2 draw with Dubai City International U23, a 3-0 victory over Folson Espanyol U19, a 3-1 victory over Marbella U19A, a 1-0 defeat against Granada U19AB mixed team, With a narrow 1-0 win over Granada Under-19 and a 1-1 draw with Malaga Under-19 and now a 3-1 overthrow of Algeciras U19, the last 11 warm-up matches have resulted in 5 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats, with an unbeaten run of over 80%.
It should be emphasized that coach Yang Chen arranged warm-up games against opponents with an average age older than the U17 national football team, in order to allow players to adapt to higher intensity matches and accumulate experience and confidence. Now, through more than a dozen warm-up games, the players are able to adapt to playing against older players and not fall behind.
Recently, the anti-corruption and anti-gang storm in domestic football continues, and Du Zhaocai, secretary of the party committee of the football association, has been investigated, and now it seems that it has not affected the training and preparation of this Chinese men's football team. As a young head coach, Yang Chen carefully adjusted, strictly managed, required the players to be collectively cut into inches of hairstyles, maintain a full state and appearance, and focus on preparing for the U17 Asian Cup.
According to the group, the group opponents of the U17 national football team include Tajikistan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, opportunities and challenges coexist, with the successful counterattack of the U20 national team, fans also believe that the U17 national football team has the hope of completing the replication and attacking the U17 World Cup ticket.
According to statistics, the last time the Chinese men's football team participated in the World Junior Championship was in 2005, and since then it has been absent continuously, hoping to do it this time and end the 18-year wait.