On October 14, the Chinese Football Association announced the U16 national minority list, and 7 Xinjiang players from Shandong Luneng's Arikuti Aishajiang, Mai Wulang Mijiti, Yi Mulan Maimaiti, Shirzati Noor from Hubei Football Association, Abdullah Adili from Changchun Yatai, Mirzati Aili from Guangzhou R&F, and Mulilisi Sadik from Chengdu Football Association entered the list.
In the final stage of the Asian Junior Championship, the men's U16 national team was divided into Group D with Japan, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The other teams are Group A: Bahrain, North Korea, Iran and Qatar, Group B: Tajikistan, Oman, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Group C: South Korea, Australia, India and Uzbekistan.
The final stage of the Asian Junior Championship was originally scheduled to take place in Bahrain from September 16 to October 3, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the AFC postponed the match to November 25 to December 12, still in Bahrain. According to the format, the top four of this Asian Junior Championship will qualify for the 2021 U17 Men's World Cup in Peru. In order to do a good job in preparing for the Asian Junior Championship, the Chinese Football Association organized the sixth training session of the U16 men's football team in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province from October 15 to November 4, 2020.
Antonio, the U16 national Spanish coach, has previously made it clear: "Our goal is to qualify from Asia and play in the World Junior Championship, which is a very ambitious and challenging goal, because China has not participated in the World Junior Championship for many years." ”
Shao Jiayi, the leader of the national junior team and who has had a Bundesliga experience in the Western League, said when talking about the goal of the final stage of the Asian Junior Championship: "There are definitely difficulties and strong opponents, but the most important thing is how our team views this goal, we have only one goal, that is, to enter next year's World Junior Championship. ”
In the training list of the national junior team, Shandong Luneng, as the strongest team in this age group, became the biggest winner, and a total of 9 players were selected. In addition, the Hubei Football Association was selected for 4 people, and Changchun Yatai and Guangzhou Evergrande were selected for 3 people.
The reporter learned from the former coaches of the 7 Selected Xinjiang players that seven players were selected from the Kashgar region (4 people), Ili region (2 people) and Urumqi City (1 person) in Xinjiang a few years ago to train in the youth training echelon of football clubs in Shandong and Guangdong, and then entered the echelons of Shandong Luneng, Hubei Football Association, Changchun Yatai, Guangzhou R&F and Chengdu Football Association for training several times. After getting a large number of playing opportunities, these players have thrived in their respective clubs, and there are currently more than a dozen outstanding young players from Xinjiang occupying the main positions in their respective teams.
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Chinese football has emerged with Xinjiang power
Since the 1980s and 1990s, Xinjiang has successively selected many players such as Naser, Xu Bin and Wang Dun into the national youth team, and the national youth team in that period was also a strong team in Asia. He often reached the final of the Asian Youth Championships and participated in the World Youth Championships. Xinjiang's first professional player and first national Olympic player was Palhati, who played for Dalian Wanda at the time.
The first xinjiang to be selected for the national senior training team was 18-year-old Murehematijan Mozapa in 2009. At that time, he trained in the Shandong Luneng echelon, was appreciated by Su Maozhen, with his excellent performance in the national youth team, at that time, Mu Rehemai Tijiang and Wu Lei, who had not yet participated in the professional league, were selected into the training list of the national team.
In 2010, Murehematijiang began his career on loan at the Chinese Super League team Henan Jianye, and he also became the first professional player in Xinjiang to land in the Chinese Super League at the same time as Baal. In 2010, Murehematijiang and Xinjiang player Baal, who played for Zhejiang Greentown, were selected for the national Olympic team, but the national Olympic team was early in the qualifiers.
On September 8, 2018, the 27-year-old Tianjin Teda team captain Mu Rehemai Tijiang came off the bench in the warm-up match between the Chinese men's football team and Qatar led by Lippi, although it was only more than 20 minutes, but this was a big step for Xinjiang football - MureHemai Tijiang became the first Xinjiang player to represent the national football team.
In August 2019, the big list of the national football team preparing for the top 40 was released, and Abdul Haimiti Abdulgni (Jiangsu Suning), Dilimulati Batur (Chongqing Lifan) and MurehematiTijiang were selected for the big list.
In the 2018 U17 National Junior Fourth Training Roster, a total of 10 Xinjiang players from 6 clubs were selected, but that time the National Junior was more like a sea election, with a total of 61 people in the big list.
In May 2020, the Chinese Football Association announced the latest 33-member training list of the U19 youth national football team, and 6 Xinjiang players were selected, which also set a record for the largest number of Xinjiang players selected for the U19 national youth. In the training team of the U16 National Junior Team, 7 players from Xinjiang were selected.