At 11:30 p.m. local time on August 24, China's U18 men's soccer training team met a local team of fellow champions in Wakayama during the first round of the 31st China-Japan-Korea Youth Games soccer match in Wakayama, Japan. Due to the local weather, the match was forced to be terminated before halftime. With a goal from Huang Kaijun, the Chinese U18 team temporarily drew 1-1 with their opponents.
Commissioned by the General Administration of Sport, the CFA decided to form a 2005 age group U18 national team for the 31st China-Japan-Korea Youth Games soccer tournament held in Wakayama, Japan last month. Considering the fact that the 2006 age group Chinese U17 team just finished the U17 Asian Cup in June this year, the CFA finally decided that the coaching staff of the former U17 national soccer team would take the lead in forming this U18 national soccer team. The player lineup consists of the original U17 national soccer players (2006 age group) and 2005 age group U18 age group players. However, the original U17 national soccer team coach, Jan, needed to be early.
The U18 national soccer team concentrated at Beijing Sport University on July 24 and then prepared for about a month. During this period, they played four warm-up matches (two warm-up matches against Langfang Glory City) against Beijing Guoan U21 team, new Chinese Championship team Langfang Glory City, and Shandong Taishan U19 team. A record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss was achieved.
On the morning of August 23rd, Beijing time, the U18 national football training team left Beijing and flew to the city of Osaka, Japan, and then took a bus to the city of Wakayama, which is about 80 kilometers away from Osaka. In other words, there was less than 24 hours for the whole team to adapt to the local training and match environment. According to the schedule, the Chinese U18 training team played the first round of this tournament against a local age-appropriate championship team in Wakayama. Unfortunately, due to thunderstorms, the match had to be ended until half time. At that time, the two teams were temporarily tied at 1-1. According to the plan of the Chinese U18 training team, the yellow training team of the Korean training team will also conduct the team.
