The Chinese men's national soccer team led by Yankovic will participate in an international friendly match in a week's time. On the other hand, the Chinese men's U17 soccer team led by local coach Yang Chen traveled to Thailand and is about to participate in the U17 Asian Cup finals in an effort to qualify for the 2023 World Youth Championship.
A few months ago, Yang Chen led the men's soccer team to the United Arab Emirates and Spain for overseas training, seven warm-up matches each, a total of 14 matches with six wins, three draws and five losses, five losses including the first three, related to many major absences, and then how much the team won.
It is worth mentioning that the average age of the opponents of the warm-up matches arranged by the coaching staff for the U17 national football team are older than us. Yang Chen's aim was to let the players adapt to higher intensity matches and accumulate experience and confidence. From the records of the warm-up matches, the young players have adapted to the confrontation with the older players without falling behind, which makes Yang Chen satisfied.
After returning to China, the team went into a state of rest, initially planned to go to Japan to train, and then flew directly to Thailand, and finally changed the plan on the spot, arrived in Thailand two weeks ahead of schedule on June 3, and also adapted to the local playing environment, because Bangkok daytime temperatures as high as 35 degrees, humidity is also very high, many players had felt uncomfortable, and is now gradually getting better.
Having not played for almost a month, the coaching staff was concerned about the players' form, so they contacted other local teams for warm-up matches and eventually found the Qatar U17 men's soccer team.
In the starting lineup for this game, coach Yang Chen fielded his starters from last year's U17 Asian Cup qualifier. The opening time was only 2 minutes. Wang Yudong scored the first goal for the Chinese men's soccer team. Soon after, the opponents scored two goals in a row to complete the comeback. Near the end of the first half, Fast Jiwen broke through and helped the Chinese men's soccer team equalize the score 2-2.
In the second half, the Chinese men's soccer team made massive adjustments, replacing all 10 players except the goalkeeper. Liu Chengyu's goal eventually helped the team beat Qatar 3-2.
As the main striker of the U17 national soccer team, known as "domestic Ronaldo" Wang Yudong is in good shape, scored 7 goals in 10 games in overseas training, as long as he scores, the team can remain undefeated, and will become the next Chinese men's soccer team to participate in the U17 Asian Cup most need to rely on the scorer, coupled with the other players of the help to enter the World Cup or hope.
According to the schedule, the Chinese men's soccer team's first match is against last year's runners-up Tajikistan, before taking on Australia and Saudi Arabia in what is considered a group of death that will test the leadership of head coach Yang Chen.
