On October 25, Beijing time, Chinese football is now encountering a more severe crisis, not only the adult team, but also in the youth team sequence, it is now encountering great trouble, after the 22-year-old national team has decided to withdraw from the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers.
In the latest report, Ma Dexing, a well-known reporter of Sports Weekly, expressed his views on this, he revealed that in fact, the group of athletes who were born around 1999 have not participated in any official intercontinental competition since they participated in the final stage of the 19-year-old Asian Youth Championship in November 2018. That is to say, for three years, they have not participated in important competitions, and they have not participated in any official competitions with pressure in these three years, so how can they withstand everyone's test in important competitions? In particular, the Hangzhou Asian Games, which will be held next, will definitely have clear requirements for the team's results, so the team can't even play the official game, how can it ensure the results?
Not only that, but the teams participating in the 23-year-old Asian Cup qualifiers this time, including Japan and South Korea, are based on players born in 1999, adding young athletes born around 2001, which is better prepared for the next Olympic Games. For the Chinese team, the blow caused is not only the 99-year-old team members, there is no official competition to kick, and even the athletes in the 01 age group, that is, the athletes who participated in the Paris Olympic Games, have lost the opportunity to exercise the team very well, so it affects the development prospects of the Chinese team and two groups of athletes.
And looking further back, shouldn't these two groups of athletes be the players that the Chinese team can focus on in the three World Cups in the next 12 years? As a result, they now have no official games to play at such a young age, which is really a worse blow to Chinese football. For Li Tie, whose contract period ends in 2026, it is likely that he will still have no one available for the next World Cup qualifier.
At present, this team in China is led by Jankovic, like Shan Huanhuan, Wu Shaocong, Jiang Shenglong, Tao Qianglong, who have performed well in the league, and the result is that they missed a major tournament, which is indeed a pity, earlier this month, the Chinese Football Association has officially sent a letter to the AFC, saying that it will withdraw from the 23-year-old Asian Cup qualifiers. The qualifiers will be held in Tajikistan in late October, and the reasons given by the Chinese team for the withdrawal are the epidemic and the difficulty of returning to China.