The Under-23 Asian Cup has seen two big upsets so far, both of which were created by Indonesia's U23s, who beat Australia in the group stage and eliminated South Korea in the quarter-finals. However, this is not the improvement of the Indonesian U23 team, the entire Indonesian football scene is improving rapidly, and the secret of their ability to achieve a lot of improvement in a short period of time is in the naturalization policy.
There is no doubt that the naturalization of Indonesian football has been quite successful, and there are many textbook cases of naturalization, and their naturalized players are not only superior to the large number but also of very high quality, which is also incomparable to Chinese football, which is also undergoing naturalization. The naturalization of Chinese football failed to allow the national football team to enter the World Cup, failed to let the national football team qualify for the group in the Asian Cup, and failed to let the U23 Asian Cup qualify. Indonesia's naturalization allowed the national team to advance to the round of 16 of the Asian Cup, and defeated Vietnam in the world preliminaries, allowing Indonesia U23 to advance to the top 4 of the Olympic preliminaries. There has been a huge difference in terms of role, and Chinese football should really learn from the success of Indonesian football.
Naturalization in Indonesian football is all-encompassing, not just at the national team level, but for all age groups. The U17 national youth and U20 national youth have participated in the World Youth Championships and the World Youth Championships respectively, which is unthinkable for Chinese football today. The national team advanced to the round of 16 in its first Asian Cup, and the national Olympic team advanced to the top 4 of the U23 Asian Cup. This allowed the young Indonesian team to gain enough experience in the tournament on the premise of their own naturalization and strengthening, which allowed Indonesian football to grow more rapidly.
The Indonesian Olympic team actually shares a group of players with the national team, and the national Olympic team has 7 players who participated in the Asian Cup, and the average age of the Indonesian national team is relatively young, which shows that the future development of Indonesian football will be better. Naturalization in Indonesia is also easier than ours, and there are not as many restrictions as us in many aspects, and there are more naturalizations by blood, so you don't need to work in Indonesia to be naturalized. On the other hand, we do not meet many conditions, which also increases the difficulty of naturalization, which also leads to our naturalization but does not play a good role.
Naturalization is indeed a good way to quickly improve performance, Qatar has won two consecutive Asian Cup championships, there are not many pure local players in the team, and indeed the naturalization policy can play a greater role in countries such as Qatar and Indonesia. For us, naturalization can only be a patch for Chinese football, and it cannot make a fundamental change. We do have to take it one step at a time, but like Indonesia, if there are good blood players, we must try our best to fight for naturalization.