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Although the U20 national soccer team stopped at the quarterfinals of this year's U20 Asian Cup, many excellent players emerged from the players' excellent teamwork and tenacious fighting spirit. Players including Efirdin, Bayhramu, Mutalipu, Hu Huotao, Li Hao and Xu Bin are all excellent. They should go to train with the higher level national team. They should even go to the national team to train and adapt to the rhythm of the game in advance. Chinese soccer should speed up the process of rejuvenating its squad.
Let's take a look at the level of the men's national team under Jankevich and the U24 national football team. In the national team lineup, the youngest player is a 97-year-old player. This includes Lin Liangming, Wei Zhen and Chen Pu. Wei Shihao and other 95-year-old players are considered to be younger players in today's national football training lineup. It can be said that this national soccer team is too old to speed up the process of rejuvenating the lineup. Some players born in 1989, such as Zhang Linmiao and Wu Xi, should retire. At least places should be made for younger players.
But now the national team is facing great difficulties. That is to say, if young players are replaced by younger players, their performance is bound to be greatly reduced. For example, Tan Long and other overage players were arranged to help the U23 national football team in the 2022 East Asian Cup, and we lost 0-3 to the Korean national team. At that time, South Korea hadn't scheduled all their starters. We just beat Hong Kong, China 1-0. This shows that our young team needs more quality matches to experience.
The U20 national football team went overseas to train before preparing for the Asian Qualifiers and the U20 Asian Cup, and made good tactical gains and improved in many matches. At the national team level, there are no international tournaments after the Preliminary 12. How can you achieve good results without experience? Therefore, both the national team and the U24 national soccer team should go overseas to train as much as possible and get more matches to practice tactical formations.
In fact, players such as Efirdin and Byhramu are already in the U22 national Olympic team squad led by Cheng Yaodong, but it is far from enough. Some U20 men's soccer players should join the U24 national soccer squad for experience. Because in order to achieve good results in Hangzhou Asian Games, this U24 national football team not only chose the strongest lineup of the right age, but also added three veterans of the national team to strive for good results. In other words, the average age of these U24 national football players is too big, so they should replace some young players accordingly in the Asian Games.
It is important to know that many Asian national teams have arranged younger echelons, such as the U22 men's soccer team, to experience the Asian Games so as to achieve better preparation for the Olympic preliminaries. And we need to arrange the strongest squad that meets the rules of the Asian Games to fight for good results and encourage the development of domestic soccer. As a matter of fact, arranging the U24 national soccer team to participate in the Asian Games itself is too old and not too weak. With the help of three veterans, the average age is too big to be a national team at all. We could have switched some other players. For example, let players such as Efirdin, Hu Huotao, and Bayhramu join the U24 national soccer team for over-age training.
Do you think U20 national football players such as Efirdin and Byhramu should be in the U22 national Olympic team? Or into the U24 national soccer team for the Asian Games? Or directly into the national team? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
