On July 3, Ma Dexing, a famous Chinese soccer media personality, said in his own article that the United States, one of the organizers of the 2025 World Cup, is very eager to invite the Chinese men's soccer team to play the last friendly match to train their own team. Moreover, the conditions offered by the US team sound good. Not only would they commit to the cost of the match, but they would also provide additional travel expenses, which is really "interesting". Considering today's US-China relations, it's also a good opportunity to ease up.
However, the CFA directly rejected the invitation from the United States, thinking that it was really "too tiring" to go to the United States to play (original text: flying to the United States, the time difference of more than 10 hours, almost black and white; and immediately after returning to the country to participate in club matches is too tiring). This caused the majority of fans to wonder, so give up such a good opportunity to exercise? It is always said that there are no masters, so why didn't this person go for an active invitation?
It is important to realize that the United States is not "on purpose". They have also invited Uzbekistan and Oman, who may be invited to fly to the United States. The main purpose of the US is to compete with the Asian teams and keep the heat on the teams so they can move on to their next assignments. Don't Uzbekistan and Oman have local leagues? Don't El Salvador and Peru get tired of flying to Asia and playing Japan and South Korea? Do they not have national players in the league? It's just inexplicable.
There have been criticisms before that it is pointless for the National Football League to have centralized training and that it should be done away with. This is correct, this is real hard and useless work. The opportunity to play against the US simply cannot be used as an excuse. At the top 16 level of the World Cup, the strength of the U.S. team is basically the same as "dispensing with" the group stage and playing directly in the "knockout stage". The value and content of this game can be imagined. The only way we can really focus on it is to expose the problems and deficiencies in the game. Unfortunately, I don't want a good chance.
