On April 20, Beijing time, it was reported that the Chinese U15 national youth who had recently trained in Japan passed on another good news, defeating the Japanese U16 5-2 and winning three consecutive victories. What is more terrifying is that the national youth hit 20 goals in three games, before that, the national youth defeated the U15 echelon of Japan's Osaka RIP ACE SC 9-0, and also abused the Japanese Xingguo High School A team 6-1.
However, the performance of the Under-15s was in stark contrast to the Under-23 Olympic Games. In the U23 Asian Cup, the first two games of the National Olympic Games lost to the Japanese team and the South Korean team 0-1 and 0-2 respectively, and they have been out of the tournament ahead of schedule and missed the knockout round, and the National Olympic Games have also missed the Olympic Games for 4 consecutive years. The exit is not terrible, the most speechless thing is the 0 goals in the two games, which reminds people of the dismal performance of the national football team in the Asian Cup with 0 goals. This is enough to show that the national echelon, including the National Olympic Games and the national football team, has too average scoring ability. Even, Japan did not win against 10 people in the National Olympics.
In the first game of the U23 Asian Cup, the Japanese players were sent off in red, and the national Olympic team had an 11-10 advantage for most of the time, but even then they did not take advantage of the opportunity and missed many good opportunities to score. National Olympic coach Cheng Yaodong was also questioned, and whether he would leave class after the Asian Cup was also a big suspense.
The U15 national youth team was almost crushed by the Japanese team in the same period, but the national Olympic team and the national football team faced Asian strong teams such as Japan and South Korea, and they had no power to fight back. In fact, our players are no less talented than those in Japan and South Korea, and they even work harder, training and preparing for longer periods of time, but it is difficult to achieve qualified results. The environment and philosophy of Chinese football need to change, but this is not an overnight thing, if we want to catch up with the Japanese team and the South Korean team, even if the opponent is standing still, we may need 10 years to grow before we can have the confidence to compete with the opponent.
After the end of the anti-corruption campaign in football, in fact, Chinese football is developing in the right direction, and Song Kai, chairman of the Football Association, has also led Chinese football into a new stage, which has changed a lot compared to the Football Association during the Chen Xuyuan period. Take the selection of the national football team as an example, when Chen Xuyuan is in charge of the Football Association and Li Tie is the coach of the national team, they will designate who can enter the national team, and then make profits from it. And now that the Football Association has let foreign coach Ivankovic decide on the squad, he can let him choose the players he thinks are suitable to play in the national team.
Fernando and Exxon and other international players have returned to the national football team, which is enough to show that Ivan will not reject naturalization, and will reuse it as long as he has the ability, which is a hundred times stronger than Li Tie. Fernando also lived up to the coach's trust, scoring a penalty in the national football team's home win over Singapore, which directly changed the trend of the game. Moreover, although Wei Shihao has a flamboyant personality, Ivan also let him enter the national team, and Wei Shihao also scored goals in the game.
Regardless of whether the national football team can reach the round of 18, it needs to be clearly understood that Chinese football wants to return to the top in Asia, there is still a long way to go, in the round of 36 of the world preliminaries, the national football team lost 0-3 at home to South Korea, hoping to find face in the two world preliminaries in June, in addition to defeating Thailand, but also in the face of the South Korean team.