On January 15, in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 2022 China Football Association Cup final, Shandong Taishan team to 2022 China Football Association Cup final, ∶ 1 victory over Zhejiang team, won the championship. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Bo / photo
With Shandong Taishan winning Zhejiang for the third consecutive time in the 89th minute of the FA Cup final, largely making up for their failure to win the Chinese Super League title, the 2022 Chinese soccer season came to a full conclusion on the evening of January 15, 2023. Although there were not many goals, the technical and tactical level of the FA Cup final is relatively exciting to finally end the past season: the core of both sides of the foreign aiders in the attacking end of the subtle assists, while the same outstanding local players to assume the responsibility of the "finisher", which is the Chinese Super League, "both foreign and local". This is also the ideal way for the Chinese Super League to "balance the local and the foreign".
In fact, compared with the suspenseful enough final, 2022 work summary and 2023 work plan is the "ballast" of Chinese soccer. In other words, whether fans can see a new spirit of Chinese soccer in 2023 depends to a large extent on the top design: in this new year, China's soccer national team unprecedented full attack. Since the "professional reform" in 1994, there has not been a year in the past 30 years when all the national teams will face the test of competition like this year.
In November 2023, the national soccer team will participate in the second stage of the Asian qualifying tournament for the U.S.-Canada-Mexico FIFA World Cup, the 36-team tournament (skipping the first stage of the 40-team tournament). The team needs to win the warm-up matches on international match days in March and June to increase the points in order to "not lose" in the 36-team tournament and enter the final 18; currently, the national women's soccer team training in Haikou has three tasks: the World Cup and the Asian Games, and the Olympic qualifying tournament. Water Qingxia and the players need to endure the "devil schedule". 2023 Australia New Zealand Women's World Cup held on July 20, the goal is to "enter the top eight" of the Chinese women's football team three group matches are in South Australia. July 22, the first match with Denmark The first match against Denmark on July 22 will maximize the "qualification decision battle". With the Hangzhou Asian Games postponed a year to the last week of September and the first week of October, the women have at least a month to recover from World Cup fatigue, but even more difficult is the fact that the 2024 Paris Olympics qualifiers are held in the last week of October. Asian teams have only two tickets. At that time, the Chinese women's soccer team will be with the North Korean women's soccer team, Japanese women's soccer team, Australian women's soccer team, South Korean women's soccer team in a "fight to the death"; Hangzhou Asian Games also "applies" to the u24 national soccer team (99 age group, the Asian Games team), the team is currently led by Yankovic, the participation goal is also "to enter the top eight". The goal of the competition is also "to enter the top eight". According to the reporter's understanding, although different from the last Jakarta Asian Games, the team has a lot of individual ability outstanding players (such as Zhang Yuning, Wei Shihao, He Chao, Yao Junsheng, Deng Hanwen, Liu Yang, Chen Binbin), but the team's overall quality of training is not bad, coupled with three of the "strongest super-age", is expected to realize the "small breakthrough". "small breakthrough"; than the Asian Games two years younger than the u22 Olympic team will be in early September this year (may also advance to mid-August) to participate in the first stage of the Olympic qualifiers. The team's head coach, Cheng Yaodong, wants to lead the "weakest Olympic team in history" to advance. Fans will not be optimistic. The fact that they can reach the final stage of the Qatar u23 Asian Cup in January 2024 (the top three teams qualify for the Olympics in Paris) will be "good enough".
In addition uMarch 20, the national youth will go to Uzbekistan to participate in the u20 Asian Cup to compete for a place in the World Youth Championship, uMay 17, the national young to fight for Thailand u17 Asian Cup to compete for a ticket to the World Youth Championship, the national youth women's football team and the national youth women's football team also have the corresponding qualifiers to be played. 2023, Chinese soccer alone look at the calendar will be able to feel the immense pressure.
However, no matter how difficult the game, can not be regarded as the core task of Chinese soccer: as the State General Administration of Sports Deputy Director, Party Secretary of the CFA Du Zhaocai, CFA Chairman Chen Xuyuan 15 in the Executive Committee, "continue to promote the healthy development of the professional league," "strengthen the youth football work," "strengthen the construction of the Association itself," "strengthen the industry atmosphere governance" is the real "lifeblood" of Chinese football. Soccer work", "strengthen the construction of the Association itself", "strengthen the industry atmosphere governance" is the real "life" of Chinese soccer.
On August 22, 2019, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) held the first meeting of the 11th General Assembly at its Xianghe base, electing members of the CFA's new executive committee, vice-chairman and chairman. Three and a half years later, at least in the 2022 season, in addition to the Chinese women's football team at the beginning of the year in the Asian Cup final reversal of the victory, the South Korean women's football team to win the Asian Championship, the other national teams have performed poorly - the most saddening to the fans is to have a number of naturalized players of the national soccer team to participate in the 12 strong tournaments, but time and time again lost, and even left the 2022 February 1, 0 away game ∶ 2 lost to Vietnam in advance of the three rounds of unbearable record (Vietnam 12 strong 10 games the only victory), November 26, 2022, Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection website announced that the national football team's former head coach Li Tie suspected of serious violations of the law to accept the supervision and investigation involving the league interests to pass on the mood of the fans from disappointment turned to anger, looking forward to more "sinners "Serve the law.
This is "strengthen the soccer association's own construction" and "strengthen the industry atmosphere management" due measures. According to press reports, the new season of the Chinese Football Association will not relax the league access system, delinquent teams can not appear in the professional league, the Chinese Super League, China's first division league to do a good job of "reducing the number of teams" support program, the top design is also in the pipeline to "avoid risks ". After years of turmoil, especially the past three closed seasons, the theme of Chinese soccer in 2023 is still "self-cultivation".
