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We still haven't seen a Chinese team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Maybe we're used to this scenario, but let's not forget that 20 years ago, Chinese soccer had its own bright moments - on October 7, 2001, China beat their rivals 1-0 in the top ten of the world's preliminaries to reach the World Cup finals for the first and only time in its history.
In the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, China's big Brazilian team.
Perhaps, some people will ask why the national soccer team could reach the World Cup finals 20 years ago, but now they can only play the role of soy sauce. The answer is also obvious: firstly, the level of Chinese soccer has not substantially improved, and secondly, the right time and place facilitated the history made by the national soccer team.
Let's start with strength.
When the Chinese men's soccer team entered the World Cup, each position of the main position can basically be regarded as a Chinese soccer "celebrity". Fan Zhiyi, Li Tie, Li Xiaopeng, Zhao Junzhe, Yu Genwei, Ma Mingyu, Wu Chengen, and other players can be considered capable players. After all, in the era when Chinese soccer has not been professionalized for too long, these predecessors have maintained the attitude of "unity of purpose".
Zhao Junzhe regretted hitting the post with a kick against Brazil.
However, the strength of Chinese soccer has not improved with the times, but the feeling is very intuitive. The Chinese men's soccer team had to "fight hard" against Iran, Japan and other top Asian teams in the late 1990s and early 2000s; the first decade of the 21st century was spent tussling with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan, Syria and others; and with a 1-5 loss to Thailand's youth team in 2013, the Chinese men's soccer team will be playing the likes of Oman and Vietnam as well. teams such as Oman and Vietnam. Thus, the national soccer team's presence at the World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan had a lot to do with strength.
On February 1, 2022, the Chinese men's soccer team lost 1-3 to Vietnam.
In addition, the time and place
Unlike the Qatar World Cup, which gave Asia 4.5 spots to qualify, when Asia only had 3.5 spots, the competition was actually more intense. Some may argue that South Korea and Japan will not waste the participation quota because they are the host countries. Actually, this argument is one-sided.
In fact, South Korea and Japan were the only hosts at the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. In other words, while both teams had direct access to the World Cup, the two teams took up one of the qualification slots, meaning that only 2.5 Asian teams could compete fairly at the time.
However, the absence of Japan and South Korea meant that China had two fewer direct competitors; and with the top 10 signings, the Chinese men's soccer team managed to qualify.
In the first 40 matches, the Chinese men's soccer team was divided into a group with Cambodia, Indonesia and Maldives. In the group stage, the Chinese men's soccer team won 6 out of 6 matches to advance to the first place in the group.
The top 10 were split into two groups, with the winners of each group advancing directly. China is in a group with the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Oman, without the "difficult" opponents of Iran and Saudi Arabia.
At that time, the strength of the powerful and Japan and South Korea do not participate in the strength of "Timeless", 0 strong did not draw to Iran and Saudi Arabia "geographical advantage", which makes the "people and" 10 strong 8 matches, the Chinese team Finally achieved 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 negative record, the sixth round of the group stage victory over Oman two rounds ahead of the line.
Yu Genwei's breakaway goal helped the Chinese men's soccer team make history.
