After the results of the 2024 men's Asian Cup draw came out, many fans praised the Chinese team for drawing a lot, but fans who have been following the Chinese men's football team for a long time must know that the Chinese men's football team is notoriously greater for its hopes and disappointments, and vice versa. Historically, there have been many accidents in which the Chinese men's football team overturned due to the draw of the continental competition.
The worst signing was the 5.19 World Qualifiers in Mexico in 1985
In the first round of the World Preliminary Round of the Chinese team and Hong Kong team were divided into a group, before the game everyone felt that this was a "signing", and in the final round of home games to draw to qualify, the national football team lost 1:2 to Hong Kong, China in Beijing Gongti, missed the opportunity to enter the World Cup, after the game, 80,000 fans at the scene of Gongti refused to leave because of anger, a large number of fans began to besiege the two teams, and along the street to sabotage the anger activity lasted for a week.
In the end, the police had to be asked to arrest the relevant troublesome fans, and the head coach Zeng Xuelin also resigned and left the class because of this incident, which attracted widespread attention throughout the country and even the world that year, and was the worst accident caused by losing in the history of Chinese football.
The most funny signing - the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea China team group
At that time, the Chinese team automatically qualified because Japan and South Korea hosted the World Cup, thus avoiding direct competition with Japan and South Korea and finally successfully qualified for the World Cup.
At that time, China was in a group with Brazil, Costa Rica and Turkey, Brazil was not in good shape at that time, it was the last team in South America to qualify, Turkey was the second time in 48 years to qualify for the World Cup, Costa Rica was an unknown South American weak team in the eyes of fans.
Before the game, all kinds of football experts are generally optimistic that the Chinese team can qualify, and even listed the slogan of the Chinese team drawing Brazil, defeating Turkey and Costa Rica, and as a result, the national football team left the World Cup humiliatingly in three games without a win, a point, and a goal without scoring a total of 9 goals to leave the World Cup, and then look at the World Cup Brazil team won the championship, Turkey won third, you can see how ridiculous the score prediction of football experts at that time was.
The stupidest one was the 2006 World Cup qualifiers
In the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team was again divided into a group with Hong Kong, and before the match, the Chinese team and Kuwait had the same points, and finally relied on who scored more goals from the two sides to enter the Asian Cup, China because of the miscalculation of football association officials, although it defeated Hong Kong 7-0, but still less than Kuwait 1 goal, finally missed the Asian Cup for the first time in history, becoming an accident that made fans widely criticized and joked.
The most helpless was the men's soccer group at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
In 2008, the world-renowned Beijing Olympic Games were held in Beijing, and the Chinese men's football team qualified for the Olympic Games for the second time in history, although the Chinese team was the host, but the strength was really not good, plus the team that qualified for the Olympic Games was very strong, and finally China and Brazil, Belgium, and New Zealand were grouped.
In the end, the Chinese team lost 0:2 to Belgium, 0:3 to Brazil, and drew 1:1 with New Zealand, although it did not win, but the Chinese men's football team finally achieved the goal of scoring 1 goal and 1 point in the World Series.
It is worth mentioning that Dong Fangzhuo, a Manchester United rookie at the time, scored the only goal in the match between the Chinese team and New Zealand at that time, although he did not qualify, it can be regarded as creating a new history of the Chinese men's team.