Reporter Cheng Shan reported that on the FIFA match day in June, Messi will come to China to play with the Argentina team that has just won the World Cup, and for fans, it is natural to see the scene of Argentina and China playing each other, but for the Chinese team preparing for the World Cup qualifiers, a more realistic consideration is their own warm-up game exercise needs. At present, Argentina and the national football team will pass by this time, of course, Argentina will most likely come to China to play as planned, but the opponent has other national teams.
The national football team has also played against the world champion before: 20 years ago, the Brazilian team, which had just won the World Cup, came to China, and all the 3R superstars were listed, setting off a lot of samba craze in Guangzhou, and finally the national football team and the new world champion were 0-0; At the end of May 2009, the national football team drew 1-1 with Germany in Shanghai, and the fans rejoiced; However, in 2012, the national football team played away to Brazil, and suffered a 0-8 defeat, which caused an uproar; In October 2013 and October 2014, Brazil came to China twice, and the national football team no longer played against Zambia, the champions of the African Cup of Nations, and Argentina, the old rival of South America.
This time, Argentina, who is also the ST World Champion, visited China after 9 years, and it is reported that the company has been operating as early as around the Spring Festival, and this company has indeed tried to contact the Chinese Football Association to try to promote the national football team to play the World Cup champion in China again after 13 years. At that time, the national football team was in charge of the Chinese Football Association President Chen Jiayuan and the then Minister of State Management Chen Yongliang, both of whom are currently under investigation for "suspected serious violations of discipline and law", and it is impossible to know whether they made a verbal commitment to the national football team to play Argentina, but the Chinese Football Association did not promise in writing to play a warm-up match with Argentina in June.
In addition, at the stage when the national football team determined the opponent of the warm-up match in June, Du Zhaocai, then secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, also paid attention to Argentina's coming to China, but he gave a clear answer that there was no need for the national football team to play warm-up matches with Argentina, and the national football team could prepare at its own pace.
Subsequently, the new management of the Chinese Football Association selected two teams for the national football team Myanmar and Palestine to warm up, which once caused dissatisfaction among fans, believing that the opponent of the national football warm-up game was poor, but in fact, the national football team's warm-up match opponent is closely related to the needs of preparation: the national football team will play in the World Cup Asian Zone Round of 36, the opponent is precisely Myanmar, Palestine similar level of teams, not considered Asian strong teams, but not the national football can be casually pinched soft persimmons.
More importantly, on the FIFA match day in June, the national team has promised not to recruit players of the appropriate age for the Asian Games team, which means that national team players such as Zhu Chenjie will participate with the Asian Games team. In addition, whether the Asian Games team will recruit three over-age players has not yet been finalized, and there is a certain probability that it will choose to recruit, after all, this is the most important warm-up match for the Asian Games team before the Asian Games, and the national football team has a corresponding warm-up match in September. In other words, it will be difficult for the national football team to play with the strongest squad in June.
Based on the above situations, the national football team is a warm-up opponent selected according to its own game tasks, target opponents, and its own situation, and the Argentine team does not have much technical and tactical training value in addition to commercial value and public opinion value. Although there are also voices supporting the national football team against Argentina, there is always a lively scene, but now the opponent, time and place of the national football warm-up match are basically determined, and the possibility of change is almost zero. Even from the perspective of performance, the national football team cannot abandon the promised game and play the unpromised match.
At present, it is reported that the Chinese company that operates the Argentine team to China is still trying to persuade the Chinese Football Association to agree to the national football team and the Argentine team to play through various channels, and even asked the relevant state departments for instructions before, hoping that the relevant departments would directly intervene and promote the matter. But now, the possibility of success in this series of operations is very small, and it is more realistic to finalize the corresponding opponent for Argentina as soon as possible, although the absence of a Chinese team may affect the commercial value, but the influence of Argentina and Messi itself is enough to support the game.
For Chinese fans, it is undoubtedly disappointing that the national football team and the World Cup champion cannot be seen warming up in their home country, but if Argentina finally comes to China and watches Argentina play against a higher level team with a detached mind, it may be more exciting and charming to feel the excitement and charm of the game.