June warm-up match, China's national Olympic team 1:2 defeated Uzbekistan's national Olympic team. Pictured is Liu Zhurun (center) breaking through the defense. Photo courtesy of Visual China
On the evening of September 6, the 2001 National Olympic Team under Head Coach Sung Yeo Tung will face the United Arab Emirates at the Barracuda Bay Soccer Stadium in Dalian. This is the first official battle of the Games, impacting on the qualification for the final of the 2024 Paris Olympics. At this stage, the Chinese Olympics will host the UAE (Sept. 6) , India (Sept. 9) and Malaysia (Sept. 12). Under the Paris Olympics men's soccer Asian qualifying system, the 11 teams that finish first in their groups at this stage and the four second-placed teams with the best results qualify for the U23 Asian Cup finals in Qatar next April. The top three teams in the final will then qualify directly for the Paris Olympics, while the fourth-placed team will have to compete in a play-off against the fourth-placed team in the African zone qualifiers for an Olympic ticket.
This means that the real problems facing the Chinese Olympics are not in the first phase of the home tournament this month, but are focused on the Qatar U23 final stage next April. While it is unrealistic to expect this Olympic team to brave Paris, a team of their own with the strength and dynamism of Asia's top eight is always the biggest expectation for most fans.
China's last appearance in the final round of the Olympic Games can be traced back to 2008, when it was the host of the "direct entry to Beijing". Since then, three trips to the Olympics have ended in disastrous qualifying rounds. Now, in the face of the challenge of the Paris Olympic qualifiers, Cheng Yaodong under the Olympic team went through a number of training and training: 2022 the second half of the year and the first half of this year, the Olympic team went to Croatia twice for long-term training, and local teams at all levels of the warm-up matches add up to more than 50 games; in June, shortly after returning to the country, the Olympic team in the base of the Xianghe and the visiting Uzbekistan to complete the two warm-up matches (1:3 and 1:1), followed by two negative rivals), then the Olympic team in the base of the Xianghe and the visiting Uzbekistan. two negative opponents), followed by two flight training sessions organized in July and August to continue the players' technical and tactical abilities from their training in Europe.
In fact, the Chinese players do need long-term training and integration to improve their overall fighting ability. end of August and early September, the Olympic Games in 0.:2 defeat Turkmenistan national Olympic team after timely adjustments, the next game 1:0 win, and finally tasted the sweetness of victory before the official game, the team's confidence is also through this victory to build. More importantly, Cheng Yaodong can finally in the first match with the United Arab Emirates in the ideal starting lineup.
Compared with the leading national Olympic team, China's Asian Games team obviously has a "breakthrough" space - China's men's Asian Games team arrived in Hangzhou on September 2, into the Asian Games before the preparations for the sprint stage. As the Asian Games is not an international event sequence of events, Hangzhou Asian Games should have been held in 2022, this year, most of the Asian Games team in the Asian Games team level is not very important. According to the reporter's understanding, in addition to the defending champion, South Korea's Asian Games will be due to the "intercontinental champion exemption from military service" policy (South Korea's Asian Games men's football team recently announced a list of 22 people, playing in Stuttgart, Zheng Yuying and Paris Saint-Germain sent two men's football team on behalf of the leader Li Kangren).
According to the Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee draw results, China's men's Asian Games group stage with India, Myanmar, Bangladesh in the same group, September 19, September 21, September 24 were held three group matches. According to the schedule, China's Asian Games men's football group matches and senior events arranged in the Huanglong Stadium in prime time, the "right place, right time, right person" logistics will also become China's Asian Games men's football impact on the final of the important factors to protect.
The relatively "difficult" national soccer team began a 10-day training flight in Chengdu this week, with two warm-up matches against Malaysia and Syria on the 9th and 12th. Given that several international players from the Olympics and the Asian Games have been selected, the team's training matches will still be dominated by veterans, and the "big test" for head coach Jankovic and the national team will come in November, when the 36 Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup begin at the end of the year, with the national team playing away to Thailand on November 16th and home to South Korea on November 21st. November 21st home match against South Korea. According to the analysis of the list of warm-up matches in this training, the existing players are not unfamiliar with the 442 formation that Jankovic is most accustomed to. However, as the 36-team tournament progresses and potentially into the 18-team tournament, the depth of the national soccer team's replacements could have a significant impact on the final result. the 18-team tournament produces as many as 8.5 tickets to the World Cup, making it possible for third-tier teams with similar strengths to be rivals for the national soccer team. After all, only the top two teams go straight through to the third place in each group in the Round of 18. , The four teams will also be split into two groups for a single-elimination tournament in the fourth stage. The 11th-ranked national soccer team in Asia still struggles to survive after three rounds of screening - an inevitable result of Jankovic's efforts to replenish the thickness of the national soccer team with players from the Olympics and Asian Games.
September is here, the Olympic Games, the national soccer team and the Asian Games team gathered together for training and competition, which makes the Chinese football world presents a rare and lively "parade" scene, while the Asian Games team and the Olympic team showed almost all the youth abroad above the "treasury reserves! The Asian Games team and the Olympic team showed almost all of the "treasury reserves" above the youth abroad. Tao Qianglong, Liu Zhurun, Mutalifu, Hu Huotao, Liang Shaowen, Aifeldin, Asian Games Dai Weijun, Zhang Wei, Fang Hao, Zhu Chenjie, Jiang Shenglong, Han Jiaqi will become the first choice of the new session of the national football team "blood", and the performance of the three teams on three fronts, which will allow fans to predict the next World Cup and the Olympic Games cycle! Progress of the national team: If the current quality of the league as a measure of indicators, the Chinese men's football team in the short term may not be able to enter the top four in Asia, to fight for the qualification of the world-class competition "qualitative change".
