2-1, 4-1! The Chinese team broke out, rushed 10 points in the world preliminaries to advance to advance, and won the 17th draw in Asia
In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, the Chinese men's football team hit the World Cup finals for the first time, and was able to be in the same group as the five-star Brazil, Turkey and Costa Rica.
For the 2026 World Cup, FIFA has expanded its roster from 32 teams to 48 teams, giving the Asian region 8.5 qualifying places. However, due to the fact that in recent years, Chinese football has experienced two large-scale crackdowns on counterfeiting and blackmail, which has greatly damaged the vitality of Chinese football, the complete collapse of the youth training system, the talent gap in Chinese football, and the miserable performance of national teams at all levels, and the Chinese men's football team has become a laughing stock in Asia.
In the round of 36 in the Asian region of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese men's football team and South Korea, Thailand and Singapore were in the same group, originally in this group, the Chinese men's football team could not compete with the South Korean team, but it was expected by fans to beat Thailand and Singapore to advance, but it backfired, after four rounds of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team did not open the gap with the Thai team behind them, but let the Thai team see the hope of counterattack.
The Chinese men's football team in the first round of the World Preliminaries, away challenge the Thai team, the Thai team took the lead in scoring a goal, in the team's life and death, Wu Lei stood up in time to equalize for the national football team, Wang Shangyuan completed the reversal, and finally the national football team narrowly defeated the Thai team 2-1 away, taking the lead. Although the national football team was humiliated by the South Korean team 3-0 in the second round, in the match with Singapore, the national football team won 1 win and 1 draw, and got 7 points after 4 rounds.
The Thai team did not give up on itself because it was behind the Chinese team, but played energetically in the away game with the South Korean team, and finally snatched 1 point from the South Korean team, which made the standings of Group C change drastically, the national football team ranked second in the group with 7 points, and the Thai team ranked 3rd after the national football team with a difference of 3 points, and the Thai team saw the hope of surpassing the national football team to advance to the round of 18.
Originally, the national football team's plan was to snatch 6 points from Singapore, but as a result, Singapore drew with the Chinese men's football team at home and successfully snatched the first point of this World Preliminary Tournament from the national football team, and this draw also put the Chinese men's football team in danger of being eliminated. On June 6, in the 5th round of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese men's football team will sit at home against the Thai team.
If the Chinese men's football team wins at home against Thailand, then the points will reach 10 points, 6 points ahead of the Thai team, and the national football team will advance to the round of 18 one round in advance. But the goal of the Thai team is very clear, in the away game against the Chinese men's football team to grab points, a draw will occupy the initiative to advance to the group, according to the rules, in the case of the same point, the Thai team to grab points from the national football team, and then win Singapore in the final round, so as to beat the Chinese men's football team with a goal difference advantage.
It can be said that the Chinese men's football team has not only not improved in recent years, but has also regressed, with the aging of Wu Xi, Zhang Xizhe, Zhang Linpeng, Zheng Zhi's generation of players, Wu Lei's age has increased, and there is no successor to Chinese football. In the past, the Chinese men's football team had to compete with Iran, Japan and South Korea in Asian football, but now it has been reduced to Thailand, Singapore and the like, which is embarrassing.