Uzbekistan National Olympic Games finalizes the list of 25 people to visit China 9 U20 national youth players were selected
China's 2001 U22 Olympic team has returned to China for a short rest after training in Croatia, and from tomorrow (8th), the team will re-gather at the Xianghe National Football Training Base to begin preparations for the two warm-up matches against the Uzbek Olympic team on June 15 and 19. According to information from the Uzbek side, the team's head coach Kapadze has drawn up a list of 25 people to visit China, it is worth noting that 8 of the Uzbek U20 national youth team that just reached the round of 16 at the Argentina U20 World Youth Championship were promoted to the national Olympic team and came to China with the team.
List of 25 members of the Uzbek U23 Olympic team to visit China in June
U20 youth player No. 14 Faizulayev has been called up to the national team.
The Uzbek Olympic team was originally scheduled to come to China in June to Chengdu to participate in the Panda Cup, but after the Panda Cup could not be hosted for some reason, the Uzbek Olympic team was still willing to continue to come to China to play two warm-up matches with the Chinese team, on the one hand, this time is the FIFA designated national team competition window in June, the national Olympic team can recruit more players of appropriate age. Although the Uzbek Olympic team participates in the Uzbek domestic Super League, the players are basically 2001/2002 age group players, only a few players are players born in 2003 or 2004, and because they operate in strict accordance with club rules, daily personnel changes are not possible, so only with the help of the national team competition window, domestic or overseas players of appropriate age can be called into the team for running-in. As in March this year, some players who played in the Russian Premier League or First Division teams were recalled, as in the case of Morocco in March, and some players were recruited from other clubs in the country.
On the other hand, since this year, in addition to participating in the first stage of the Paris Olympic qualifiers, it will also travel to Hangzhou in late September to participate in the men's football tournament of the Asian Games, and the Uzbek Olympics have given the Uzbek football team the task of regaining the gold medal at the Asian Games. With the two competitions in close proximity and domestic league playback, Capazé hopes to use June, the last window before the Olympics, to bring in more other players for a comprehensive scouting to cope with the intensive events ahead.
Of course, more importantly, Uzbekistan's 2003 U20 national youth team won the U20 Asian Cup in March this year, and immediately began preparations for the Argentina U20 World Youth Championship, although the team failed to reach the quarter-finals, reproducing the previous performance in the U20 World Youth Championship, but it is also the only team in Asia other than South Korea to qualify from the group, and the opponent Israel who lost in the 1/8 final is now also reaching the final four. Moreover, the overall performance of the Uzbek U20 national youth team is quite outstanding, and there are many outstanding players.
The Uzbek U20 national youth team reached the last 16 of the World Youth Championships in Argentina.
In this situation, the head coach of the Uzbek Olympic team, Kapadze, decided to recruit a number of U20 national youth players to the national Olympic team. According to the original plan, Kapadze was ready to recruit more than half of the Uzbek U20 youth team members into the team, but the outstanding No. 2 central defender Abdukodil Khasanov and No. 14 Absbek Faizulayev were selected by the national team and directly entered the national team to prepare for the upcoming first Central Asian National Cup on home soil, so Kapadze could only call up 9 former U20 national youth team members. Of the nine, defender Gavahir Utamurodov participated in the U20 Asian Cup in March but did not participate in the Argentina U20 World Youth Championship in May, while the other eight were all players who played in both the U20 Asian Cup and the U20 World Youth Championship, including one main goalkeeper, four defenders, two midfielders and one striker.
In contrast, the Olympic players are those who participate in the domestic league, and Kapadze is very familiar with their situation and does not need to be examined further. Therefore, in the Uzbek Olympic team that came to China this time, only 10 people played for FC Olympic Club, that is, they have been participating in the Ukrainian Super League with the Olympic team, and some players were also drawn from other domestic club teams, and finally formed a 25-man roster. Of the 25, 14 were with the team for the Morocco Four Nations in March.
According to the plan, the latest Uzbek Olympic team began to gather in Tashkent yesterday (6th). On June 11, the Uzbek Olympic team will play a warm-up match with the visiting Kyrgyz U22 Olympic team. Then, the Uzbek Olympic team will depart for Beijing and check into the Xianghe base to warm up with the Chinese Olympic team.