In the recent World Preliminary Tournament, the national football team, which has a number of planning players, has only achieved a bad record of one win and three losses. Although expected, it still disappointed the majority of fans and felt quite angry. But the national football team is like our own children, even if the results are poor, we will complain at most, and finally we are not willing to stay by the TV set to cheer for the national football team.
The national football team has a poor performance in the world series, but it has a good record in the warm-up competition, once won the world champion France team, and drew the German team, the king of Europe, which made people look at it differently for a while, and was ridiculed by netizens as the "king of the warm-up game". However, it may be due to performance considerations, or it may be that the range of opponents selected is limited, and when the national football team chooses warm-up opponents, it always chooses some unknown small countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and Honduras. Netizens joked that although my geography was not taught by a physical education teacher, it was likely taught by the national football team.
Today, the strange jun will take stock of those countries and regions with super long names to see how many national football teams can play.
Seven words of countries and regions
Papua New Guinea, or Papua New Guinea for short, has a land area of 462,000 square kilometers and a population of about 9 million. Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and bordering Indonesia in Asia to the west, Papua New Guinea is one of the less developed countries in the world and has many primitive tribes.
Flag of Papua New Guinea
The PNG national team, ranked 166th in FIFA, is of medium strength in Oceania, has participated in two World Cup qualifiers, neither has advanced, and has achieved average results in Oceania, but has won two bronze medals at the South Pacific Games. There has never been a chinese team in history, but if the Chinese team plays against this team, it is likely to win easily.
Papua New Guinea men's national football team
Antigua and Barbuda are the rarest two-island countries in the world. It is known worldwide for its many beautiful sandy beaches and colonial cultural heritage. Antigua and Barbuda is located in the Caribbean Sea, with an area of 440 square kilometers and a total population of 104,000, mainly black people.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
The Antigua and Barbuda men's national football team ranks 128th in the world, in the lower middle level in Central and North America, and has never reached the World Cup finals. The domestic professional league consists of ten teams, with individual players currently playing in the European secondary leagues. In history, the Chinese team has never played against the Chinese team, and the Chinese team has obvious advantages in strength and should be able to win the opponent.
Diester Blackstock plays for Championship side Rotherham
Saint Kitts and Nevis, located in the northern part of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean Sea, is an island country composed of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis, with an area of 267 square kilometers and a population of about 57,000.
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis
The national football team of St. Kitts and Nevis has participated in many World Cup qualifiers and Caribbean Nations Cup qualifiers, but they have not reached the final round, and are currently ranked 135th in the world, which is 60 places lower than the national football team.
Emblem of the Football Association of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Eight words of countries and regions
Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome and Principe is an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea with an area of 1,001 square kilometers and a population of 170,000.
Flag of Sao Tome and Principe
The national football team of Sao Tome and Principe, currently a member of FIFA and the African Football Association, has never participated in the final week of any international competition, and has never qualified for the World Cup and the African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Currently ranked 190th in the world, it is among the worst ranks and has never played against a Chinese team. The Chinese team should be able to easily beat the opponent.
Emblem of the Football Association of Sao Tome and Principe
Trinidad and Tobago is an island nation located in the southern Caribbean Sea of Central America, close to the outer seas of Venezuela. The land area is 5,128 square kilometers, and the total population is 1.218 million. The country is relatively modern in the Caribbean, only one strait away from South America. It is said that this is the most difficult country in Chinese to apply for a visa.
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
Finally found a country that has played against the Chinese team, which defeated the opponent 4:2 in Qinhuangdao in 2016.
Match pictures
The Trinidad and Tobago national team is currently ranked 103 internationally, so in terms of rankings, it is only natural that the Chinese team will win against each other.
Trinidad and Tobago football team
The country's player Dwight York played for Manchester United
Dwight York
Kenwini Jones played for Southampton in the Premier League
Kenwini Jones
In addition, there are many players in the country who have played in the European sub-league, and if the main force is played, the national football team may not be able to win the opponent steadily.
St. Helena and Ascension, a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, are British overseas possessions and enjoy a certain degree of autonomy. The island is 1,900 kilometers from the west coast of Africa and 3,400 kilometers from the east coast of South America, like a lonely pearl hanging overseas. The area is 122 square kilometers and has a population of about 7,000.
Flag of the St. Helena region
Small but with its own football league, it began in 1922 and has grown into a mature league with nine teams playing in double round robins. Since 1980, the Second Division has also joined the league system, the cup competition will start around Christmas, and there will be regional tournaments based on the player's place of birth every year. Interestingly, teams going to the tournament have to bring their own sidelines or risk being penalized for two league points.
Pictures of league matches in the area
The region is not currently a member of FIFA, so it has never played against the Chinese team, but it is believed that the Chinese team has no problem winning the opponent, after all, the other side is all business players.
Ten words of countries and regions
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, located in the Caribbean, the country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and its southern Grenadines Archipelago, with a total land area of 389 square kilometers and a population of about 110,000.
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The country competed in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cup qualifiers but failed to qualify. The St. Vincent and Grenadines Domestic League began in 1996 with amateur teams. He has never played against a Chinese team in history, and is currently ranked 167 in the international ranking, properly fish belly, and the Chinese team should not have a problem defeating him. Both Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford are of Saint Vincent descent, though they have not chosen to play for the country.
Jesse Lingard directed Cristiano Ronaldo
Next, finally a football team came, that is, ~ Bosnia and Herzegovina, referred to as Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the Balkan Peninsula, was once a member of the former Yugoslavia. The country has a total area of 51,129 square kilometers and a population of 3.53 million.
Flags of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In recent years, many good players such as Edin Disgo, Zvizdan Mismö, Vedade ibis domain, after losing to Portugal in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers and the 2012 European Nations Cup qualifiers, With the performance of the three, Bosnia has qualified for the 2014 World Cup, which is the country's first participation in the World Cup final week. Although they lost 1:2 and 0:1 to Argentina and Nigeria in the World Cup in Brazil, the last 3:1 victory over The Asian powerhouse Iran showed that its strength was not ordinary. Iran has always existed as a national football sufferer. At present, Bosnia and Herzegovina ranks 55th in the world, compared with the peak of 13 places, it is much lower, but it is still relatively easy to win the national football team.
Bosnia and Herzegovina player Schonic played for Beijing Guoan and currently plays for Henan Jianye.
Schönich
Chinese player Zhang Xuhui currently plays for Polish A.
Zhang Xuhui
Thirteen words of countries and regions
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of course, is the United Kingdom! Located in Western Europe, the United Kingdom is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as a series of affiliated islands. It has a land area of 244,100 square kilometers and a population of 65.58 million.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are currently members of FIFA. Among them, England is the strongest, although known as the European Chinese team, often pulling crotch in the key games of the competition, but it is still a first-class strong team, which has won the 1966 England World Cup championship, the 1968, 1996 European Championship third place and other honors, and unfortunately lost to Italy in the final of the European Championship last year. The Premier League is currently the most influential league in the world and the most commercially valuable. The domestic league is said to be able to be refined to 11 levels, which is really breathtaking.
One of the British representative players, David Beckham
The national football team played against the British team at that time as early as the 1932 Berlin Olympic Games, but the Chinese team led by Li Huitang regretted a 0:2 defeat after a long journey.
The Chinese men's soccer team participated in the Munich Olympics in 1932
England international ranking 4th, if you play against the Chinese team, unless Gao Li is reborn, it is likely to crush the Chinese team.
On the 11th of this month, that is, the day of Singles' Day, the Chinese team will usher in the World Preliminary Tournament opponent Oman, hoping that the national football team will live up to expectations and not add to the blockage of single dogs!
Well, that's it for today. I am a strange and strange gentleman who loves to take stock of all kinds of strange things, see you in the next issue.