Chinese soccer
multitude of difficulties
"Start" is the most popular greeting after the Spring Festival, but for Chinese soccer, this Spring Festival is not good. February 1, the 33rd AFC General Assembly will be held in Bahrain. Will Chinese soccer be able to continue its current pattern of "soccer diplomacy" and find its own place? It will be announced soon. After the Chinese Football Association delegation returns to China, there should be a preliminary "statement" around the men's national team coaching, after all, the Qatar World Cup has just ended, and the 2026 North American tri-national World Cup qualifying tournament will be held in November this year. What's more, China's men's and women's national teams at all levels are on full offense this year, which is a new situation that Chinese soccer has never encountered before.
In 2023, Chinese soccer is destined to be even harder!
After the Chinese New Year, I'm sure everyone has new hopes for the year ahead, but today's Chinese soccer is not optimistic. Since the official notification of the "Li Tie case" in November last year, the case has not yet been concluded. From the perspective of the overall and future development of Chinese soccer, the case should not be concluded in a hurry, but should be further deepened, not only the music manager, coaches, players, not only the so-called "big fish", but also a thorough investigation of the whole of Chinese soccer "interest chain" of the Various intermediate links, especially the "difference" "middleman", more popular is "unscrupulous broker", should be a comprehensive and thorough investigation, must be severely punished a number of A number of "middlemen" and "brokers" must be severely punished, and the environment of Chinese soccer may improve.
The reason for mentioning "middlemen" is that many "middlemen" escaped disaster in the last "anti-gambling and anti-triad" storm. However, these "middlemen" think that they are safe after the storm. Over the years, they have used "money" to pave the way through various links, forming a unique "chain of interests", which is difficult to describe the harm done to Chinese soccer. After being released from prison, the agents and middlemen who were jailed in the last "anti-gambling and anti-triad" crackdown are now standing behind the scenes, directing and manipulating Chinese soccer. Therefore, if these "black sheep" are not eliminated, it is impossible for Chinese soccer to be reborn!
Of course, these are only peripheral situations, which at most serve to clean up the environment. More importantly, it is feared that the national teams at all levels will regroup, but this is also the most troublesome. One reality is that Chinese soccer has never had a national team at all levels for men and women in previous years have to play on all four sides in the same year, as they will in 2023! However, with the current level of competition in Chinese soccer, it is difficult to make a breakthrough.
In men's soccer, the national team will participate in the second stage of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers 36; 99 age group u24 Asian Games will be at home in September this year to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games men's soccer tournament; 2001 age group, 2001 age group, u22 national Olympic team will be in early September this year to play in the sixth session of the u23 Asian Cup qualifiers and 2024 Paris Olympic Games men's soccer Asian qualifying tournaments The first stage; 2003 age group u March 20 national youth team will be the first to travel to Uzbekistan to participate in the 41st session of the tournament u20 Asian Cup; 2006 age group; u17 national youth team will travel to Thailand in June to participate in the 19th session of the u17 Asian Cup.
Women's football, the national team will participate in the Women's World Cup jointly organized by Australia and New Zealand in July, in September to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games women's football, in October to participate in the Paris Olympic Games in the second phase of the Asian qualifiers, the three competitions performance requirements are clear; the 2004 age group u20 women's youth team will begin to participate in the women's football in March u20 Asian Cup qualifiers u17 women's junior team will also be reorganized to prepare for the women's football u for the Asian Cup The team will also be reorganized to prepare for the Asian Cup for the women's soccer u.
In comparison, the situation of women's soccer may be much better than that of men's soccer. However, with the whole case not yet clear, how will the CFA carry out its next step? Moreover, the CFA itself will be facing a general election. Until the case is clear, I am afraid that the general election of the CFA cannot begin. Under normal circumstances, as the top priority of the CFA, national team building should be prepared and planned early. However, due to the change of government, once the CFA has changed its leadership, according to the practice that every leader has his own ideas and thoughts, it means that it is very likely to start all over again. As a result, previous plans and programs may no longer be applicable. Therefore, this is actually the most embarrassing situation for Chinese soccer at the moment, which of course makes it objectively more difficult for Chinese soccer to enter 2023.
No progress on the soccer coaching job yet
It is understood that the CFA and the management of the national team, which is directly responsible for the construction of the national team, are still taking action in accordance with the established plans and programs despite the current considerable uncertainty. As the youth national teams at all levels are about to face the Asian competitions, they started training a few years ago. Just like in 2003u the 20 national youth teams are currently conducting training in the United Arab Emirates and will move to Croatia on February 2 to continue their preparations. The 2006-age u17 national youth team led by Yang Chen will also refocus its efforts next month by scheduling overseas training for a series of high-level international warm-up matches. The 2001-age u22 national Olympic team led by Cheng Yaodong will also regroup early next month to prepare for their onward trip to Croatia to recruit a local first division team. In fact, despite the earliest action being the most talked about selection of national team coaches, there has been no substance yet.
Around the restructuring of the Chinese men's national football team, rumors of a coaching change have been circulating since last year's World Cup in Qatar, with rumors of one candidate after another, but at least so far, there seems to be no substantial progress in this regard. Therefore, even though New Zealand was the first to break the news of "two warm-up matches with the Chinese team", it has not been officially confirmed by the New Zealand Football Association (NZFA) and the Chinese Football Association (CFA), and one of the very important factors may be that the coach of the national football team is not yet clear.
Theoretically, Li Xiaopeng is still the head coach of the Chinese men's national soccer team, because the official has not announced that Li Xiaopeng has been "dismissed". Therefore, on the one hand, Li Xiaopeng himself is also waiting for news, while also considering the next reorganization of the national football team. On the other hand, the CFA is also in extensive contact, but as the reporter introduced before the Spring Festival, Chinese soccer "no money, no one", compared with other Asian powers have no advantage. Therefore, it is normal that no substantial progress has been made.
Moreover, it has to be said that the selection of the national team has also been affected by the fact that the "Li Tie case" has not yet been concluded. Therefore, under the current circumstances, it is understood that the CFA has prepared several sets of contingency plans, including continuing to let Li temporarily lead the team until a new head coach candidate is found; temporarily let the Asian Games head coach Yang Kovic temporarily in charge of the national team's early work, and at the same time overseeing the Asian Games training until a new coach is found; and so on. In short, everything is uncertain.
However, despite the head coach's uncertainty, the national team and the Asian Games reorganization have been confirmed because of the FIFA-designated window for the national team in March, and the national administration did not want to miss such an opportunity to arrange for the national team to participate in a series of high-level international warm-up matches to fully prepare for the future world qualifiers this year. In addition, the national team has not organized a training session or even participated in an international match since the end of the first 12 World Qualifiers in March last year. Focusing on the future, the national soccer team must schedule warm-up matches in an effort to improve its current FIFA points and ranking.
It is reported that, if there is no accident, early next month, the national team and the national team and u Asian Games will be concentrated. The first thing after the team is concentrated is to first participate in military training, to carry out a comprehensive ideological rectification and education, comprehensively reshape the image of the national team. After the end of the military training, the team will carry out a lot of training, for the national team competition window in March to participate in international competitions to lay a solid foundation. The new season of the Chinese Super League will restart at the earliest after the end of the national team competition window in March. Of course, the rectification and clean-up work of the Chinese Super League and even the professional leagues such as the Chinese A and B will also be carried out in full synchronization.
