4-0 to 6-1! The eel hangs the Asian fish belly, undefeated in 49 years, and the first battle in the Year of the Dragon tests the new eel
The 2024 Asian Cup came to an end, and as the opening event of the Year of the Dragon, the Chinese men's football team performed unsatisfactory in the Asian Cup, and was finally eliminated from the group without winning a game with 0 goals, setting the worst record in the Asian Cup in recent years. In the latest FIFA world rankings, the Chinese men's football team ranked further down, ranking 88th, and only ranked 13th in Asia, a new low in the past eight years.
After the end of the Asian Cup, the next focus of the national football team will be the round of 36 of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, due to the expansion of the 2026 World Cup. Therefore, the Asian division is divided into 8.5 promotion places, after the original expansion, the hope of the Chinese men's football team to break out of Asia has increased greatly, but the national football team is trapped in long-term internal corruption, black whistles, match-fixing and other negative effects, the strength of the national football team continues to decline, and it has been reduced to the end of the second rate in Asia, in the Asian Cup, the national football team even Tajikistan and Lebanon, which are ranked outside the top 100 in the world, can not win, and there is a long way to go to impact the World Cup finals.
In the Asian Cup, the biggest problem of the Chinese men's football team is attack, Wu Lei is getting older and older, and it is difficult to attack the city for the national football team. The center forward Zhang Yuning is difficult to support, the midfielder Wu Xi is about to retire from the epidemic, and the Chinese men's football team lacks a top midfield organizer, so in the Asian Cup, the Chinese men's football team has not scored a goal in three games, and it is the team that has not scored a goal with India among the 24 participating teams.
After the defeat in the Asian Cup, coach Jankovic became the scapegoat, and the countdown to the end of class entered the countdown, in order to impact the 2026 World Cup finals, the Chinese men's football team will start a new round of gambling and bet on the coach. The Chinese Football Association has started the process of changing the coach, and there is only more than 1 month left before the next World Preliminary Match of the Chinese men's football team.
On the issue of coach selection, Gao Hongbo, who took over the national team coach twice halfway, once again entered the eyes of fans, compared with the foreign coach with a high annual salary, the annual salary of the local coach is relatively cheaper, Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng's annual salary is 8 million yuan, in the context of the current domestic and foreign difficulties of the Chinese Football Association, Gao Hongbo is a more suitable coach, because Gao Hongbo has coached the national football team twice, and has served in the Chinese Football Association for a long time, is the most familiar with the head coach of Chinese football, with its re-hiring of foreign coaches, it is better to take charge of Gao Hongbo again to help the Chinese men's football team make a smooth transition, qualify from the round of 36, and advance to the final round of 18。
The next first match of the Chinese men's football team will be away to Singapore on March 21. Since the two teams met in the World Preliminary Tournament in 1975, the Chinese men's football team has been unbeaten against this Asian team for 49 years, including 4-0, 6-1 victories. Since the Thai team in the same group is the main competitor of the Chinese men's football team to qualify from the group, the Chinese men's football team must get as many clean sheets as possible.