This year, Chinese men's soccer teams at all levels of the national team at the same time. the U20 national team has already played the Asian Cup and decided to miss the World Youth Championship. Next, the national team will participate in the Asian Cup group draw, and the U17 national team will play in the Asian Cup and compete for the ticket to the World Youth Championship. Currently, this 2006 national team, coached by the young 49-year-old coach Yang Chen, is training and preparing for the U17 World Cup in Spain, and needs to reach at least the semifinals of the U17 Asian Cup. Fans can look forward to that.
The U17s have been training in Spain for over a week now, with the most recent warm-up matches having been completed. According to the blogger "Leicester City's Little Foxes", the U17 national soccer team played against the local Algeciras U19 team. In the end, Yang Chen led his team to a 3-1 victory, ending a two-game losing streak. Mei Shuaijun made his third consecutive breakthrough in this match, with Yang Mingrui's long-distance shot being the highlight of the match.
In the past two matches, the U17 national soccer team lost consecutively in just three days against Garth's ladder. After a short adjustment, coach Yang Chen immediately led his team to a beautiful win.
According to statistics, the U17 national football team played a total of 15 warm-up matches during their training in the UAE and Spain, initially missing a number of main players lost three consecutive matches, and then went into eight consecutive undefeated matches, including a 1-1 draw with the Abu Dhabi Peninsula U18 ladder team, a 4-1 victory over Gulf U19 ladder team, a 2-2 draw with the Dubai City International U23 ladder team, a 3-0 victory over Forsyth Spain U19 ladder team, a 3-0 1 win over Marbella U19A, 1-0 win over Granada U19AB mixed team, 1-0 win over Granada U19 ladder, 1-1 draw with Málaga U19 ladder plus now 3-1
It should be emphasized that the average age of the opponents of the warm-up matches arranged by Coach Yang Chen is older than that of the U17 national football team, with the aim of allowing the players to adapt to higher intensity matches and accumulate experience and confidence. Now, through more than a dozen warm-up matches, the players can adapt to the confrontation with older players without falling behind.
Recently, the anti-corruption and anti-triad storm in domestic soccer continued as Du Zhao, the party secretary of the Football Association, was investigated. Now, the training and preparation of this Chinese men's soccer team has not been affected. As a young coach, Yang Chen trains carefully and manages strictly, asking his players to collectively cut their hair into inch hairstyles to maintain a full mental state and outlook and focus on preparing for the U17 Asian Cup.
According to the grouping, the U17 national football team's group opponents include Tajikistan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, with both opportunities and challenges. With the successful comeback of the U20s, fans also believe that the U17s are hopeful of completing the replication and then punching their ticket to the U17 World Cup.
According to statistics, the Chinese men's soccer team last participated in the World Junior Championships in 2005, and has been absent continuously since then, hoping to do it this time and end the wait of 18 consecutive years.
