On the evening of April 17, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) announced that it will play a friendly match against the Chinese men's football team on June 20th. According to relevant media reports, the Myanmar men are likely to be the players for another warm-up match for the national soccer team in June.
Palestine is ranked 93rd in the world and 15th in the AFC, a significant rate of improvement. It is worth noting that China and Palestine have met five times in international A-level matches. The last two were warm-up matches in which both teams played to a draw. The last meeting between the two sides took place on November 19, 2018. At that time, the Chinese team led by Lippi was warming up at their home ground in Haikou in preparation for the 2019 Asian Cup. As a result, when they were leading by a goal, they ended up being held to a 1-1 draw.
In late March, in two international A-level warm-up matches between the national soccer team and the New Zealand men's soccer team, the national soccer team first drew 0-0 with the New Zealand men's soccer team, and then lost 1-2 against the New Zealand men's soccer team, which resulted in the national soccer team continuing to lose points. Currently, the national soccer team has dropped to 81st in the world in the FIFA rankings and remains 11th in Asia. If you can't win any more international A matches in June, your technical points could drop even further, or even be overtaken by Jordan.
It is reported that when the national football team arranges warm-up opponents in June, the first consideration is to get as many technical points as possible. In addition, the current overall state of the national football team in general, hope that through the warm-up matches with non-powerful teams in Asia, to help the team as soon as possible to obtain the confidence to win.
According to the calendar released by FIFA, the second cycle of international matches this year is scheduled from June 12th to June 20th. The Chinese Super League (CSL) schedule also allows 19 days for international match days (the 12th round of the CSL will end on June 9th and the 13th round will start on June 28th).
In addition to the arrangement of warm-up matches for the national soccer team, the 1999 national soccer team for the Asian Games will also arrange warm-up matches in June, according to reporter Ma Dexing. Currently, they plan to invite the South Korean Asian Games team to China for two warm-up matches.
Compared with the national soccer team, the Asian Games have the Asian Games competition task this year, so when the two national teams are concentrated, the personnel will give priority to meet the Asian Games. For example, Zhu Chenjie, Wu Shaochong and other players of age, it is likely that will not appear in the lineup of the national soccer team. At the same time, because the Asian Games allows men's soccer to recruit three players, the overage players circled by the Asian Games will likely not be selected for the national soccer team, so that the overage players and the Asian Games staff can grind through the international warm-up matches.
According to reports, China's Asian Games and South Korea's Asian Games warm-up plan is still in contact and implementation, but the choice of warming up with South Korea's Asian Games does not attach importance to the results of the game, but rather, it is hoped that through the warm-up to determine the positioning of the national soccer team of the current Asian Games.
