With the end of the group stage of the Asian Cup, the knockout rounds of the round of 16 have all been determined, including South Korea, Japan, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and many favorites to win the championship, as well as Syria and Palestine who have advanced to the knockout stage for the first time. However, our national team has already been eliminated early and the final ranking has been determined in advance, ranking 18th, just above the bottom six teams in the group.
In the history of the Asian Cup, the national football team won 2 runners-up and 2 third places, which is definitely worthy of a strong team, but in recent years, its strength has declined significantly, from the second rate in Asia to the third rate in Asia.
As a result, in the face of Tajikistan and Lebanon, which are ranked 100 outside the world in the same group, they also played a 0-0 draw, in addition to a relatively stable defense, the offense is completely at the level of a fish belly, and then against the defending champion Qatar also did not score a goal, and finally won 2 draws and 1 loss in the final 3 group games, and only accumulated 2 points to lock the third place in the group.
With Syria's victory over India, the national football team was officially announced, and now the whole team has returned to China and the team is disbanded on the spot.
Now that the group stage is over, the national football team is ranked 18th, only higher than Lebanon, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, India, and Kyrgyzstan, which are the bottom teams in each group. In other words, the national football team became the third group with the worst results in the six groups, and it also refreshed the team's lowest ranking in the history of the Asian Cup.
Domestic fans are still accustomed to the poor performance of the national football team, but they didn't expect to continue to refresh the lower limit, and they couldn't even enter the knockout round of the Asian Cup.
The national football team can still get a $200,000 participation bonus from the AFC, which is a guaranteed bonus for each team, only the team that advances to the semifinals will have a $1 million bonus, and the final team can get a maximum of $5 million.
The participation bonus is only 200,000, and the number of applicants for a team is 26 in total, not to mention the bonus of the coaching staff, but the bonus that each player can get is less than 10,000, which is too little.