The 2024 U23 Asian Cup and Olympic Preliminary Round will officially start on April 16, and the U23 national football team (national Olympic team) has been divided into the "Group of Death", the first game will face the Japanese Olympic team, then challenge the South Korean Olympic team, and face the United Arab Emirates Olympic team in the final round. In order to prepare for this competition, coach Cheng Yaodong led the team to Siala to practice and clash with strong teams such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Uzbekistan. Unexpectedly, the U23 national football team won 3 consecutive victories after 2 consecutive defeats, which is a bit of a feeling of getting better.
At 1:30 a.m. on April 8, Beijing time, the national Olympic team ushered in the fifth game of this training, and the opponent was the Jordanian national Olympic team. In the 21st minute of the game, Eiffelding quickly advanced on the left side and sent an inverted triangle pass, and Liu Junxian followed up with a volley high. In the 75th minute, Eiffelding threatened again, he broke through with the ball on the left side and crossed, Liu Zhurun grabbed the point and shot was blocked by the Jordan team. In the 77th minute, the Jordanian team quickly counterattacked to form a single knife, and the opponent pushed the goalkeeper Li Hao to the empty goal, but fortunately, Hu Hetao cleared the siege in time to resolve the danger. In the 88th minute, Zhu Yue was put down in the penalty area, the referee awarded a penalty, and Tao Qianglong, the number one star of the National Olympic team, personally took the penalty and hit it, and the National Olympic team defeated the Jordanian Olympic team 1-0 to win three consecutive victories.
As we all know, Tao Qianglong, who wears the No. 7 jersey, is the number one star of the national Olympic team, and as early as 2016, he was frequently selected for national teams at all levels. In the 2019 season, Tao Qianglong won the domestic Golden Boy Award. In the Asian Youth Championship qualifiers that year, Tao Qianglong scored 5 goals alone, including 1 goal against the South Korean team.
On October 11, 2018, Tao Qianglong was selected as one of the world's top 60 rising stars by the famous British media "The Guardian", and the list includes a number of world-class stars, including Real Madrid's popular goalscorer Rodrygo, South Korean star Lee Gang-in, Japanese star Kenei Kubo, and former Manchester United star Greenwood.
Against the Thai team in June, Wu Lei, the top scorer of the national football team in excellent form, was suspended, and Tao Qianglong, who is similar to Wu Lei in style and characteristics, may be Ivankovic's biggest discovery. In the case of Alan and Exxon and other naturalized strikers in poor condition, Tao Qianglong may be the best successor to Wu Lei.
In this Siala training, the first two games of the national Olympic team were not good, and they lost 0-1 and 0-2 to the Saudi Arabian national Olympic team, which seems to make people see no hope. Unexpectedly, on April 3, the national Olympic team defeated the Qatar national Olympic team 2-0 in the third training match. Then in the fourth game, they defeated the Malaysian Olympic team 2-1 with a brace from Eiffelding. In this game, the national Olympic team defeated the Jordan team 1-0 and won 3 consecutive victories. In the next game, the national Olympic team will play against the Uzbekistan national Olympic team, and it is expected that the national Olympic team will continue to win.
Of course, in this U23 Asian Cup, the prospects of the national Olympic team are still not optimistic, facing the Japanese team and the South Korean team, the national Olympic team can score 1 goal and get 1 point in this competition. In addition, the top three in the U23 Asian Cup can qualify for the Paris Olympics, and the national Olympic team has little chance of qualifying. (Xiong Yixuan)