By 2023, China's U20 national soccer team and U17 national soccer team both completed the Asian Cup. The national youth team showed excellent performance in the Asian Cup, with players such as Mutalifu, Hu Huotao, Li Hao, and Efirdin breaking the opposing team's goal in consecutive matches against Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea, and managed to advance to the last eight of the tournament. The overall performance was highly praised as they lost 1-2 to Japan, 2-0 to Saudi Arabia and 1-1 to Kyrgyzstan in the group stage, and lost 1-3 to South Korea in the quarter-finals. The National Junior Team did not perform well, as they were eliminated from the tournament after being highly tipped to win, drawing 1-1 against Tajikistan, losing 3-5 against Australia, and losing 0-3 to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia.
After the two major Asian Cup tournaments, the National Youth Team and the National Youth Team saw a huge change. Most of the national youth players were drafted into the Olympics (U22 national soccer team), the national youth team lost 3-5, 0-3 to the Asian Cup knockout and world youth tournaments, causing huge changes, the team had no tournament assignments, a bunch of major levels, into the national youth, the original national youth coach Antonio left, the national youth coaching was completely reorganized, and if Yang Chen develops properly, he will be upgraded with the team, the Coaching National Youth, but there are variables.
Beijing, July 25th, the National Youth Generals have been reorganized and new training rosters have been announced. These national youth teams are the U18 national soccer teams, and many of the U17 national soccer teams have been selected as key players. Yang Chen missed the coaching due to a serious family illness, and Shao Jiayi has temporarily replaced Yang Chen as the head of the new national youth coaching team. According to the blogger "Leicester City Fox", the new U18 national football training list of 30 people, the details of the selection has come out.
Wang Yudong and National Junior Twins Jiwen were both upgraded to National Youth. Wang Yudong, Huang Zishun, Peng Xiao, Li Xinxiang, Li Ming, Liu Tiecheng, Quick Jiwen, Zhang Junjie, Fan Shuangjie, Liu Chengyu, Wang Yifan, Wen Zhuxin, Wu Qipeng, Yang Mingrui, He Yiran, Zhong Wen, Hu Jiajin, Li Mingjie, Cui Hong, Wei Shouwei, Luan Yi, Sun Kangbo, Huang Kaijun, Wei Ziqin, Xie Gongbo, Zhao Danduan, Yanxiang, Fu Zhenhao, He Kanghua, Mei Shuajun.
The list was completed by July 24, the training program has been released, the evening of July 24, training until August 22, the purpose of the training is to prepare for the 31st China-Japan-Korea Youth Games (the tournament is scheduled for the end of August, arranged in Wakayama, Japan), the U18 national soccer list is not the final list, the coaching team selects the young international players through training. The head of the coaching team is Shao Jiayi, and the other members of the coaching team are Ma Quan, Wu Mingkun, Chen Tao, Yang Jun and Zhang Jie.
According to a report by Beijing Youth Daily, a well-known domestic media outlet, the news disclosed about the new national youth selection program shows that the original plan was to have the U17 national football coaching team promoted to the national youth coaching team. However, as head coach Yang Chen was unable to continue coaching the team due to his sick father needing care, it was decided that Shao Jiayi would take over the team, and Chen Tao and others would be added to the coaching staff. Currently, the Chinese national youth team is undergoing intensive training at the Beijing Sport University to prepare for the tournament.
