Tonight, the Chinese men's football team will challenge the Thai team away in Bangkok, Thailand, and attack the World Cup finals for the 13th time.
When it comes to men's football, it will surely evoke memories for generations of Chinese fans. Since 1957, for 66 years, the Chinese men's football team has been a team that has been defeated and defeated repeatedly, which has made generations of fans crazy, disappointed, sad and crying countless times. Fortunately, the world's miracle coach Milutinovic finally brought this team into the World Cup finals for the first time in 2002, and walked around the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.
This time, the door of the World Cup is wide enough for us to qualify for the World Cup finals. The 2026 World Cup will be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the number of teams participating in the World Cup final has also increased from 32 to 48 for the first time, and Asia has 8.5 places at once.
In the round of 36 of the World Preliminaries, 36 teams were divided into 9 groups, China and South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore were divided into Group C, and each team in the group played a home-and-away single round-robin points match, and the top two points entered the next stage of the round of 18, and the last two in the group will be eliminated directly.
In this group, we have to defeat South Korea and qualify first in the group, with the current strength of the Chinese team, it is basically impossible. Singapore are the weakest team in the group and have the least hope of qualifying. Therefore, the competition for the second place in the group is basically the actual situation in front of the two teams of China and Thailand. The Thai team, many years ago the strength of our was not on the same level, but in recent years, the strength of the Thai team has risen rapidly, coupled with the fact that we are always standing still, the final result is not easy to say, I believe that the 2013 Sino-Thai 1:5 tragedy, fans must still remember it vividly. Therefore, whether you can pass the test this time and reach the top 18 depends on coach Jankovic's ability to deploy troops.