Naturally, if our country
soccer national team
The situation would be different if the strategy were adjusted and the national team were sent out to play. However, once the national team members are taken out, the league will have to be suspended to make way for them, and the "14+7" quarantine rule will have to be observed when they return home after the competition, so I am afraid that the suspension will not be short-lived.
Overall, the postponement of the Hangzhou Asian Games did not have a significant impact on the domestic league, and what really took a hit was actually the country's
the national team
和
Nationals.
②The impact on the national team should not be underestimated
The postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou has had an impact on our
soccer national team
The negative impact and influence caused is more on the side of the national teams, including the men's national soccer team, the 99 age group
National Team as well as the 01 age group U21 National Youth Team. Due to the postponement of the Asian Games, it is likely that these three national teams will not be able to participate in international matches during the year and global exchanges will be forced to be interrupted. This will have an impact on our men's national team's preparations for the 2023 Asian Cup,
The participation of the national team in the postponed Asian Games as well as the participation of the 01-age national youth team in the men's Olympic qualifiers for the following year's Paris Olympics is extremely unfavorable, and may even have a significant negative impact.
A, 99 age group
the national team
From the 99 age group only
The impact may be relatively minor in terms of the national team. In the case of the postponement of the Hangzhou Asian Games, if the tournament is scheduled to be played in the following year, the 99-age players will still meet the age requirement for the men's soccer tournament in the following year's Asian Games, which is the same reasoning as the 97-age players who will still be participating in the men's soccer tournament after the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics from 2020 to 2021. Therefore, the current 99 age group players will still be of age for the postponed Asian Games men's soccer tournament. However, after the postponement, it is crucial for the growth of these players to be able to get more opportunities to play in the domestic league without the exercise of the world tournament, especially if they lose the following year's league "
No one can guarantee whether the protection of the "policy" will get the same chance to play before the Asian Games.
Of course, if there is still an opportunity for a world tournament, it would be the East Asian Cup in Japan this July. But will the CFA continue its previous strategy of continuing to send
The national team's appearance at the Asian Games is difficult to predict at this point. If the Hangzhou Asian Games are postponed to the first half of the next year, sending the
The national team is relatively more likely to play. If it is postponed to the second half of the year, then the tournament will be played after the Asian Cup in June or July 2023, and the national team will need to prepare for the Asian Cup as well. So, whether to send the national team to the East Asian Cup tournament or continue to send the
I'm afraid there's no clarity on the national team outing just yet.
B. The national team will face difficulties
The postponement of the Hangzhou Asian Games is actually the most difficult for our men's national soccer team. This not only involves Li Xiaopeng coaching staff how to deal with the problem, but also personnel issues.
As we all know, just concluded the 12 strong match, our men's national football team exposed the biggest problem is that the players do not have enough youth, the average age of the whole team is big. This is not to say that the national team does not want to use young players, but young players "can not top up"! In the past two to three years, affected by the epidemic, including
Including the national team, more down the youth national team have not participated in intercontinental competitions, equivalent to not experienced any formal competition test. Under such circumstances, which coach would dare to easily use these "raw eggs"? Especially in the public opinion environment of Chinese soccer at that time, if a new person emerges, of course, will be praised; once the new person's performance is poor, it is easy to get involved in a variety of unwarranted suspicion, accused of "nepotism", "close relationship with businessmen", "tempted by certain interests" and so on.
Under normal circumstances, if the Hangzhou Asian Games can be carried out normally, and this group of 99 age group
If the performance of the players can still be recognized, then some of the players enter the national team after the test of the Asian Games, and then go all out to prepare for the 2023 Asian Cup, the outside world will also be much less controversial. After all, in terms of the normal blood change of the national team, the use of 99 age group players into the national team, also belongs to the normal, in line with the routine practice.
Now with the postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the national team's next "renewal" how to select players, I am afraid that will become the focus of the outside world, especially in the 99-age group of players do not have any intercontinental tournament experience in the context.
And, in the meantime, there is also the problem that if the Asian Games are postponed to the first half of the following year, that is, before the Asian Cup, then the national team will have to prepare for the Asian Cup, on the one hand.
The national team has to prepare for the Asian Games, both units need to be sustained, how to coordinate the personnel issues? In particular, most of the current 99 age group players have not yet been selected for the national team experience, compared to the Asian Cup is obviously more important, and immediately after the Asian Cup will be transferred to the preparation for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
If the Asian Games is postponed to the second half of the following year, the Asian Games will be held on the doorstep on the one hand, but the 2026 World Cup qualifiers will also unfold in the second half of 2023 without any surprises, that is, there is a conflict between the Asian Games and the schedule of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. By then, how will the two forces be coordinated?
C. Paris Olympic team takes a hit
In considering the national team as well as the 99 age group
As these two national teams face the shock of the postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, we must not forget the other, more important, U21 national youth team in the 2001 age group! This team is the age group for the 2024 Paris Olympics men's soccer tournament, which took place in Uzbekistan in June of this year in the fifth edition.
After the Asian Cup, the 01-age team will next year participate in the sixth edition of the
Asian Cup Qualifier Stage 1 Group Stage to kick off Paris Olympics onslaught
According to the AFC's schedule, it is no surprise that the sixth edition of the
The first phase of the Asian Cup qualifying group stage will begin in the second half of 2023, after the Asian Cup tournament, and could be scheduled for September or October, before the final phase of the tournament is played in January 2024 for a place at the Paris Olympics.
A noteworthy development is that both the Fifth International Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Uzbekistan in June of this year
In the Asian Cup, or the Asian Games men's soccer tournament scheduled to be held in Hangzhou in September, more than half of the football associations of Asian countries and regions are sending 2001-age teams to play, or teams consisting mainly of 2001-age players and absorbing individual 99-age players. In other words, national and regional football associations are already preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympics men's football tournament.
In contrast, our 2001 age group team will not participate in the league this year after two years of participation in the China B League, and the players are all "loose". So, when the sixth
When the Asian Cup qualifiers begin, how will our 01 age group teams compete with their Asian counterparts? And, like the 01 age group, except for individual players who jumped into the 99 age group
With the exception of national team players such as Tao Qianglong, Liu Zhuyun, Abdul Meat Suli, goalkeeper Huang Zihao, and even Halik, who was unable to travel with the team to West Asia, most of the players haven't been involved in even a single world match for more than three years, not to mention training for matches in the domestic Chinese Super League. How strong can a team made up of such a group of players be in terms of fighting power or competitiveness in the world?
Chinese soccer is struggling under the epidemic, and it is not that Chinese soccer people do not work hard and do not want to change. However, under the objective situation, the power of the soccer people was meager, and they were unable to change the status quo at all, especially in the absence of world exchanges. Perhaps the most feasible and pragmatic move would be to rebuild their own league system behind closed doors.
