The Asian Cup was eliminated in advance, and even failed to pass the group stage, and there were no results in 3 games. If we continue to be so laissez-faire and can't come up with a better way to control it, Chinese football will sooner or later be overtaken by many Asian fish belly and become a weak country with the same standard football as India.
However, just when all Chinese fans are frustrated with the prospects of Chinese football, the Chinese Football Association has launched an exciting move. On February 5, Beijing time, the Chinese Football Association officially issued the "Notice on Organizing and Carrying out the Registration of the U17 Group and College Age U19 Group of the Third China Youth Football League".
The circular stipulates that foreign youth players who hold a permanent residence ID card or passport of a foreigner of the People's Republic of China and a valid Chinese visa and study in the Mainland, or have completed registration with local member associations and the Chinese Football Association, can represent the corresponding teams in the competition, and there is no quota limit.
In other words, since then, the China Youth Football League has relaxed the restrictions on foreign youth football talents, and can participate in youth leagues of all ages like local youth, becoming a very important part of the Chinese Football League.
This move by the Chinese Football Association has undoubtedly brought two of the most obvious benefits to Chinese football at the darkest moment. First of all, the relaxation of restrictions on foreign players can bring a huge catfish effect to the Chinese Youth League, so that local youth management practitioners and local football teenagers of all ages are forced to jump out of their comfort zone and feel the most urgent existential crisis, and also force them to dare not get by as before, go with the flow, and ruin their youth. In this way, under the huge catfish effect, the Chinese Youth League is bound to be more professional, more vigorous and competitive.
Secondly, it is also the most intuitive and important benefit, that is, with the influx of a large number of capable foreign players, it will provide more naturalization resources for the future Chinese national team. The naturalized international players of the future will not only be outstanding, but also younger and younger. And once more and more young naturalized international players become the backbone of the Chinese men's football team, then the level of the Chinese men's football team will inevitably rise and rise to a gratifying height. In that case, the future Chinese men's football team will not only not be overtaken by those Asian fish belly teams, but will "see the mountains at a glance" and gradually return to the ranks of Asia's first-class teams.
This move of the Chinese Football Association is very wise and has been supported by the majority of Chinese fans. The outside world generally believes that its emergence will inevitably bring Chinese football into a new era, and it is an era worth looking forward to. We'll see how it works.