Although the Chinese Super League has yet to officially announce its zone allocation and fixtures, two Shanghai teams have arrived in Dalian to implement quarantine measures after tireless efforts. This has become one of the few encouraging news for the national soccer team in the past three months. Currently, the CFA and the CSL preparatory team are doing their best to push forward the accreditation of the third division. If all goes well, the CFL is expected to restart on May 27th. In addition, the news of the postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou in September also provides the possibility for this season's Chinese Super League "18 teams to complete 34 rounds of matches without crossing the year".
The OCA announced last week that the 19th Asian Games, originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou from Sept. 10 to 25, will be postponed and the new schedule will be announced after all parties have agreed on it. In the previous plan for the league's new season, the league was scheduled to be suspended in September and switched to the AFC Cup due to the need to call on a number of teams of U23 players to prepare for the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Now that the Asian Games have been postponed, the league can go on as normal and the AFC Cup can be scheduled during the league season without taking up a full time slot of several weeks.
However, for the national football team, the postponement of the Asian Games has not brought all good news. Although the national football team does not lack long-term training, but the lack of high-level tournament platform, so that some insiders of the national football team's strength positioning is not as good as the long-term attention to the Asian soccer fans to understand.2019 Asian Cup national football team ranked 6th, and then in the Qatar World Cup Asian 40 (group stage opponents for the Maldives, Guam, the Philippines, Syria) out of the line to enter the 12-team tournament (with Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia Oman, Vietnam in the same group), finally on March 30th 0:2 defeated the Saudi Arabia team, the national football team in the 12 strong match in 10 games only won a Vietnam team, 6 points ranked the bottom two (the group out of the team Saudi Arabia 23 points, Japan 22 points, the play-off team Australia 15 points), the latest phase of the Asian rankings fell to 10th place.
From the overall performance of the 12 strong team, the national football team in the short term to stabilize in the top eight position in Asia is not easy. In the next three years, the men's national football team is facing the mission of the big game, including: the next year's local Asian Cup, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games qualifier, the new cycle of the 2026 U.S., Canada and Mexico World Cup qualifier. Among them, the Paris Olympic Games soccer competition Asian teams only 3 places, U23 national youth competitiveness is not enough to complete the impact of the task, so the national football team with the help of the local Asian Cup to complete the old and new for the "World Cup strategy" is particularly important. The Hangzhou Asian Games was postponed, originally scheduled to participate in the U23 national football team will lose the most exercise value of the actual combat stage.
According to the U23 national football head coach Yankovic's statement, the team previously participated in the Dubai Cup Invitational Tournament in the United Arab Emirates (4:2 victory over Thailand), gave the coaching staff confidence, the players also hope to use a good result beyond the expectations of the Asian Games to complete the "home report performance". Now the Asian Games extension, the U23 national football team only July East Asia Cup Invitational to continue the mission - according to the reporter to understand, the East Asia Cup confirmed that the location of Japan in July 19-27, held in Japan, men's football 4 teams for our team, China's Hong Kong team, the Japanese team, the South Korean team, and then participate in the U23 national football team whether there are overage players to help out, it is Need to match according to the Japanese team, South Korea team participation list.
Compared with the same age rivals, the U23 national football team has lost a number of high-level competition opportunities: next month the U23 Asian Cup tournament will be held in Uzbekistan, the U23 national football team announced last year to give up the qualifying round, which means that our fans can only observe the highest level of Asia's highest level of the U23 competition from the perspective of a bystander, and the final round of the 16 teams, not only including Japan, South Korea, Iran, Australia, Saudi Arabia and other Asian First-grade teams, as well as Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Thailand, Vietnam and other second-grade teams, U23 national football team can not participate in which the loss is self-evident.
Therefore, U23 players in succession lost this year's U23 Asian Cup and the Asian Games stage helicopter national football, or will bring a series of chain reaction: next year's home Asian Cup can not afford to lose, but "to the old for the new" process is not smooth, the national football team only rely on the journey is not enough to achieve the participation goal, not to mention the past experience shows that in the U23 Asian Cup and the Asian Games, usually use the younger age group of U21 players to join the competition. Asian Games, more planning and confidence in the team, usually will enable a younger age group of U21 players to join the competition, in the long run, China's men's national football team wants to "turn over" to become a strong team in Asia again, the initiative does not seem to be fully grasped in their own hands.
