A few days ago, China's U20 men's soccer team returned to China from Uzbekistan after their trip to the Asian Youth Championship. Because the Chinese team performed well in the Asian Youth Championship and suppressed the previous champion Saudi Arabia to reach the quarter-finals. As a result, the Chinese team's performance and record was recognized by most fans and media. Some fans went to the airport in the middle of the night to pick up the plane and pulled out a banner welcoming the U20 national youth back to China, which is a powerful banner in China.
However, the fact that only four fans, including three female fans, showed up to pick up the players was an embarrassment to the outside world. The three female fans are likely to be the young players' family members or girlfriends, while the only male fan may be the individual young players' good brothers. Fans flirted with the fact that three women and one man came to the airport in the middle of the night to pick up the plane, creating the worst scale in the history of the national football team's pickup, which fully proves that Chinese soccer has fallen into the doldrums.
The national soccer team's performance and record in its heyday, especially in the top ten games of 2001, kept the national team's popularity high. Every time the national soccer team came back from a top ten away game, the fans who came to pick them up were packed and the players were called heroes. Unfortunately, such highlights are hard to come by anytime soon in the future for the national soccer team.
Because the national football team's record in the competition is getting worse and worse, the last Top 12 away game could not even beat Vietnam and was defeated 3-1 by the opponent. The national soccer team's loss to Vietnam has put the Chinese men's soccer team in a complete slump, and its popularity and attention naturally dropped significantly. Fortunately, China's U20 men's soccer team brought hope and vitality to their fans at the Asian Youth Championships, where the team was assigned to the Group of Death, alongside Japan and Saudi Arabia.
In this case, the Chinese team was not afraid at all. On the contrary, China played a very tenacious game in the group stage, losing only 1-2 to Japan in the first match. In the second match, they took control of the lineup by defeating Saudi Arabia with a highlight reel performance of two solo goals from Efirdin. In the end, China made it to the quarterfinals of the Asian Youth Championships, much to the satisfaction of many fans. In the future, the prospect of this Chinese U20 men's football team has been generally favored by the outside world.
