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The group draw for the men's soccer team in the first phase of the Asian zone for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games qualifiers will be held on May 25th. The much-anticipated Chinese men's soccer team is currently undergoing intense and organized training in Croatia. And have been playing warm-up matches against a number of Croatian First Division teams to improve tactical drills. Although our Olympics will be in the draw as the fourth team. But the FA has arranged home field advantage for our Sung Yodong Army. This meant that we could only split some of the first and second teams into the same group.
Long periods of overseas training have made this Olympic team an Asian powerhouse. And the lineup includes many U20 men's soccer players. Regardless of which team we are grouped with in the Olympic preliminaries, we are expected to top the group and advance.
First, let's take a look at the grading of national soccer teams. The first team includes UAE, Turkmenistan, Japan, Australia and Iraq. This is not difficult for the Chinese men's soccer team. Because our U22 national soccer team has been training overseas for a long time. It's better than playing B-League at home before. And the lineup is not the strongest lineup of all age groups. In addition to the outstanding performances of players such as Tao Qianglong and Zhu Qiwen, many U20 men's soccer players such as Baihe Lamu, Mutalipu and Hu Hu Huotao stayed in the lineup at the U20 Asian Cup.
In addition to the players who have trained with the U22 national soccer team so far, there are also many excellent study abroad players, such as Jia Boyan, Jia Boyan, Croatian First Division, Liu Shao Ziyang, excellent study abroad goalkeeper. There are also excellent study abroad goalkeeper Li Hao and so on. It can be said that this group of young players have a lot of excellent players. There is a lot of talent to choose Cheng Yaodong coaching staff. In addition, both the study abroad players and the collective Cheng Yaodong army that trained abroad have all won high-quality matches abroad. This will also bring more pressure on other Asian teams to play.
Japan and Australia are obviously the strongest of the first teams but the strongest opponents. That doesn't mean we will lose to our opponents. Like the Japanese men's soccer team, they tend not to schedule the strongest lineups of their age for intercontinental matches. Instead, they often arrange some substitute lineups or younger lineups to participate in tournaments. Some of their best players often study abroad rather than return home to represent the team just because they are playing in an intercontinental tournament. The Australian men's soccer team is just physical. We've scored Australian men's flat matches in U20 Asian Cup qualifiers before. And in the national upper class squad.
Not to mention we'll likely avoid Japan and Australia and are expected to be in the same group as Turkmenistan, Iraq or UAE. As for the second team, it includes weak teams like India, Myanmar and Cambodia. Even Iran, the strongest team in Asia, we might beat them completely. Keep in mind that in the last Olympics, there was only a one-goal difference between the Chinese men's soccer team and the team that won that cup. And that was even when star player Zhang Yuning was sent off with an injury.
What's more, among the young echelons in Asia, the power gap between them is not that big. As long as our U22 national football team can play on the field at the proper technical and tactical level, no matter who we are in the same group with, we have a great hope of promotion. In the eyes of other Asian powerhouses, we are already enemies.
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