The Chinese men's soccer team is back on the road after a coaching change and soccer's fight against corruption. On the national team match day not too long ago, China beat Myanmar and Palestine, rarely winning back-to-back matches. This winning streak brought the most immediate change to the Chinese men's soccer team, which is another rise in the international rankings!
Fans who follow Chinese soccer probably know that the Chinese men's soccer team hit a new bottom last year as they failed the World Cup once again. In an attempt to quell the anger of their fans, the national soccer team has completely disappeared since the Top 12 tournament. In the past six months, the Chinese men's soccer team has not gathered to prepare for the game, and Li Xiaopeng, the nominal coach of the national soccer team, has directly "lost contact". This situation is very rare in the world soccer world.
In addition to the fiasco of the national soccer team, at the end of last year, the Chinese soccer world also set off a storm of anti-corruption and anti-triad. As this storm continues to ferment, the top management of the CFA is almost a pot, which also makes the image of the national football team in China completely reduced to "street rat". However, at the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the new World Cup and Asian Cup will start. In order to achieve good results and win back the hearts of the fans, the Chinese men's soccer team had to regroup and start preparing in advance. Under the new coach Jankovic, the Chinese team once again cleared the previous slump on the national team match day not long ago, beating Myanmar 4-0 and 2 respectively.
The two victories also allowed the national soccer team to continue to rise in the rankings. In the latest national team rankings released by FIFA, China managed to overtake Guinea and Honduras, temporarily jumping to 79th place. This is the first time in the past two years that the national soccer team's ranking has broken through the 80th mark, but there is still a big gap from the 57th place, the best ranking of the national soccer team in the past ten years. In Asia, the national soccer team is still ranked 11th. If China can continue its winning streak on national team match days in September, beating some of the stronger teams in the world rankings, then we have a chance to overtake Uzbekistan in front of us and jump to Asia in the first year.
In terms of the overall rankings, New World Champions Argentina remain in first place, with France and Brazil in second and third respectively. The biggest change in this list is that England overtook Belgium to move up to fourth in the world. In addition, Croatia managed to overtake the Netherlands to become sixth in the world.
