Recently, the national teams at all levels have been very active, and the U23 National Olympic Games and U16U15 national youth teams have been playing. The national Olympic team participated in the Paris Olympic Games qualifiers and the Qatar U23 Asian Cup, and was eliminated in the group stage with 1 win and 2 losses, but the quality of the three games was still relatively high, and they were trained from Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates. Of course, after the completion of the Olympic preliminaries, this National Olympic Games also ended its historical mission, and these players can enter the national team if they can play, and if they can't play, they basically have no chance, and they may not even be able to play in the Chinese Super League.
The U15 national youth in the 09 age group is training in Osaka, Japan, because the domestic youth training in the 90 and 10 age groups is almost the strongest, so the record of training in Japan is also relatively good, and they basically won the local youth training institutions and school teams with a big score. The U16 youth in the 08 age group participated in the higher-quality Romanian Four Nations Invitational Tournament, and the opponents were Romania, Denmark and Poland's U16 national youth. The national youth lost 0-4 to the host Romania in the first game, although the score gap was large, but the actual strength gap was not so big, but our mentality went wrong and caused the collapse in the second half.
The second match was against a stronger Denmark Under-16s, who had beaten back-to-back teams in the same age group as Spain and Japan, and were also top performers in Europe. In this game, the national youth performed quite well, scoring 1 goal at the beginning of the first half, and then scoring another goal at the beginning of the second half, the national youth led 2-0, and the tactics of grabbing the start in the second half were very successful. In the 51st minute, the national youth led Denmark U16 3-0 in another city, and then the Danish team scored two goals in a row to chase the score to 2-3. After being chased back two more goals, the pressure on the national youth increased, but fortunately, the team scored a penalty to 4-2 Denmark and extended the lead again.
However, in the case of winning the game immediately, there was a lack of experience and psychological quality collapsed, and in stoppage time the opponent chased two goals in a row, and finally drew 4-4, and the national youth was unfortunately tied by Denmark U16. The result of the 4-4 draw with Denmark is acceptable, but of course the focus of this game is not the result, but let our players enjoy the game and gain ability, experience and mental growth by playing against high-level opponents, which is the biggest meaning of this game. Of course, this result is also good, and the fact that we can draw with the strong European teams shows that the level of our national youth is still relatively high.
08 national youth is not the strongest, 09, 10 national youth level should be higher, but how this group of young players can maintain such an advantageous state is the most important. Don't have a situation where the national junior team is very strong, but when it comes to the senior team, it can't be done. I sincerely hope that Chinese football will usher in the rise of this group of young players, and after they grow into the main force of the national team in 10 years, we will not only be able to enter the World Cup, but also return to the second-rate level in Asia.