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These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

On March 23, Beijing time, in just 24 hours, Chinese football suffered heavy losses, the national football team drew 2-2 with Singapore in the round of 36, and the U19 national youth drew 1-1 with Indonesia in a friendly match.

These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

After consecutive draws, the national football team was humiliated

These two games have a lot in common. The opponents are all "underdogs" from Southeast Asia: Singapore is ranked 156th in the world, and Indonesia is slightly higher in the world at 142nd.

We were all forced to draw when we were the first to lead: the national football team was 2-0, and the national youth team was 1-0;

It was all the captain's fatal mistakes: Zhang Linpeng, the captain of the national football team, was responsible for the two goals conceded, and He Yiran, the captain of the national youth team, sent a penalty at the last moment, and so on.

These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

Interestingly, the youth coach is Djurdjevic, and although the coach of the national football team has been changed from Jankovic to Ivankovic, both are from the former Yugoslavia - which is no longer at the forefront of European football and is somewhat outdated, especially in terms of coaching.

These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

Does Chinese football have a future?

This is not the first time that Chinese football has been disgraced on the international stage. The national football team drew Tajikistan and Lebanon in the Asian Cup, not to mention, the national Olympic team was defeated by the Southeast Asian team Malaysia in the warm-up match in December last year, and the Central Asian team Tajikistan did not win in November, such a team, dare to expect them to qualify for the Paris Olympics in the U23 Asian Cup?

Don't forget, the national football team was also forced to draw 1-1 by Malaysia in the warm-up match last year. The men's Asian Games team drew 0-0 with the South Asian team Bangladesh at the Hangzhou Asian Games.

These 4 similarities are too embarrassing, does Chinese football have a future?

The national youth team drew 1-1 with Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia in last year's U20 Asian Cup. The national youth also drew 1-1 with Tajikistan in the U17 Asian Cup last year, and went out of the bottom of the group stage without a win in 3 games, and so on.

This is the cruel reality of Chinese football, not only is the gap with Japan, South Korea and other strong teams getting bigger and bigger, but also constantly being chased and overtaken by the teams behind them, the world ranking will only get lower and lower, is there a future?

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