At dawn on March 30th, Beijing time, China's soccer team with a score of 0-2 against Oman, a defeat at the end of the current World Qualification Asian Zone 12 Finals, and finally ranked fifth in the group. The record was 1 win, 3 draws and 6 losses, which is the lowest result achieved by China's soccer team in the final stage of the World Qualification Tournament since this century. This year, our soccer team joined the naturalized players, Li Tie coaching want to offensive start, once performance bright, but the overall strength is not enough, the final two games all north. After the midway change, Li Xiaopeng took over, despite maintaining the original tactics, but the "good guy" is not infallible, China's soccer team, the road to rise is still long.
I. The halo and phantom of naturalized players
In the 2022 World Qualifier, our team was full of confidence, due to the introduction of naturalized players such as Ackerson, Luo Guofu, Fernando, Jiang Guangtai, Alan, etc., and the major clubs have also suspended the league to fully support our soccer team to compete in the World Qualifier. However, the final result did not bring surprise to the fans.
Objectively speaking, our soccer team coached by Li Tie still has some fighting power, at least to compete with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, and even narrowly beat Vietnam; in the match against Saudi Arabia 2-3 defeat, halfway against Australia and against Oman 1-1 draw. In these three games, naturalized players did play an important role. However, by the time Li Xiaopeng was in charge, Ickerson had contracted a disease, Luo Guofu and Alan were in low form, and the strength of the team was greatly reduced.
How was the overall performance of the naturalized players? Of our team's 9 goals, only one of Luo Guofu's world wave came from a naturalized player, and Alan and Ickerson had no income in the whole World Qualifying Tournament, Ickerson didn't even have an assist, and Alan also had only one assist in the account. That is to say, our soccer team's "four kingpins", a total of 10 games contributed only 1 goal and 1 assist performance. On the defensive end, Jiang Guangtai appeared in 8 games, our team lost 16 goals, an average loss of two goals. The final 4 rounds, but also flight problems, physical problems, and ultimately refused to return to the team to accept the physical fitness test. From the point of view of improving the performance, we use high salary naturalized players can only be described as embarrassing.
Of course, it would be even more unfair to say that naturalized players do nothing to improve our soccer team. Take the match against Oman as an example, without naturalized players, our soccer team was completely restricted by the opponent throughout the match, with only half the number of shots on goal and zero shots on target. In the first round of the match, our soccer team was on a par with their opponents during the presence of Alan and Luo Guofu, and their ability to control the ball on the field made their opponents confused, and it was even difficult to organize an effective counterattack. It was after the substitution of Luo Guofu and Alan that our soccer team quickly fell into a passive situation and was equalized by the opponent. The "Kokufu Spirit" and "Luo Yuefei" came from the first round of the match between the two sides. Although there is a lot of controversy in this kind of expression, it objectively shows the assistance given by the naturalized players led by Luo Guofu to our soccer team on the field and the scene that they tried their best.
Naturalization has done wonders for both Japanese and Qatari soccer, but our soccer teams are in a hurry, and naturalization gives us vanity, but it soon fizzles out again. Highly paid naturalization, for a variety of reasons, is almost destined to become history. Will we see these Brazilian players of my nationality, or any other new naturalized players, in the next World Qualifiers?
II. New lows for the New Century 12
This entry into the twelve-team tournament is the third time in this century that our soccer team has entered the twelve-team tournament or the ten-team tournament.In the twelve-team tournament of the Asian zone of the World Cup in 2018, our soccer team won three wins, three draws and four losses, and gained a total of twelve points.Although the same ranked the fifth in the group, it was only three points and two points away from the second and the third in the group, respectively, and left the suspense to the last round.In the ten-team tournament of the Asian zone of the World Cup in 2002 In the 2002 FIFA World Cup Asia Top Ten, our soccer team won 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and two rounds in advance to determine the line. This year's tournament, our soccer team was declared out of the tournament two rounds ahead of schedule.
This year's World Qualifying Tournament, although our soccer team did not really play at home, but our soccer team 1 win, 3 draws and 1 loss at home still shows the "home field advantage", in the away field our soccer team is five games all north. In the last tournament, our soccer team won 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss at home to get 8 points, including facing South Korea and Iran are undefeated. On the road, it won 1, drew 1 and lost 3, getting 4 points.
In addition, this year's Chinese soccer team lost a total of 19 goals, 9 more than the previous year and 17 more than the 02. Our team scored 9 goals this year, one more than last year, and 4 fewer than 02 with two more games. We have conceded goals in all 10 of our matches this term, whereas last term we had shut out our opponents in 4 matches.
As of now, our soccer team has failed to win in seven consecutive rounds after defeating Vietnam 3-2 the previous year, setting a record of consecutive winless matches in the history of our soccer team's World Qualifiers. In the last World Qualifier, our soccer team avoided the embarrassment of a sixth winless game by defeating South Korea 1-0 in the sixth game after earning two draws and three losses in the first five games.
In the current twelfth round, our soccer team has four zero shots on goal. Vertical comparison, our soccer team in the last session of all matches have shot on target. Horizontal comparison, our soccer team is also the team with the least number of shots on goal in the group, the other five teams in the same group, all the matches have not appeared in a single game zero shots on goal phenomenon.
Of course, compared to the three World Cups in 2006, 2010 and 2014, which didn't even make it to the Asian Top 10 or Top 12, this year's edition of our soccer team is not the lowest in history, even though it has created a new low for the same kind of tournament in this century.
III. Another season of "Li's deadlock"
Lippi resigned in disgrace, Li Tie took over, Li Tie handed in his resignation, Li Xiaopeng was appointed at the risk of ...... changing around, and finally Li Xiaopeng left a "strength is not enough". This year's 12 strong match, our soccer team experienced Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng two skipper, respectively, with the team 6 games and 4 games; Li Tie 6 games 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, 5 points, an average of 0.83 points; Li Xiaopeng 4 games, 1 draw and 3 losses, only 1 point, an average of 0.25 points.
It is worth mentioning that from January 2, 2020 officially served as China's men's football head coach, to December 3 of the previous year to submit his resignation formally dismissed, 700 days, Li Tie released a total of 133 microblogging.2002 China's soccer team out of the line, Li Tie as a player to experience China's men's football the highest moment of glory, nearly 20 years later, Li Tie has become China's soccer team the most chaotic and bizarre moment of the Center figure. Caused by the current situation of our country's soccer team for many complex reasons, but the results are not good, the head coach will naturally be questioned by the outside world, but Li Tie is not willing to "take the blame" to confront the posture of "you die, I live".
This World Preliminary 12, China's soccer team in the first six games only got 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, December 3, 2021, the Football Association agreed to Li Tie's resignation, announced that Li Xiaopeng took over. Since then, Li Xiaopeng has become the first head coach in the history of China's soccer team who has coached China's men's and women's national teams. After Li Xiaopeng took over, the circle of people's comments is Li Xiaopeng high emotional quotient will speak, unlike Li Tie as offending people. Li Xiaopeng when playing football is rarely foul eat cards, he should be regarded as a good person in our country's tradition, people often say that good people have peace in their lives, in fact, the reality is not as expected, after all, life is not as good as nine out of ten things.
Li Xiaopeng took over and brought a luxury coaching team, but things did not go as planned, "Li Taishou" coaching 4 games, our soccer team not only results are bad, the situation is also intolerable to see. Against Japan and Saudi Arabia are half-time 0 shots on goal, by the other side pressed in the half of the pounding, and Oman 0 shots on goal in the whole game. Losing to Vietnam during the Lunar New Year is a shameful battle for our soccer team. The outside world that: no matter from the score or situation, China's soccer team visited Oman this competition, absolutely can be called one of the worst of the twelve strong 10 games. Some media people bluntly said: "kicked chaotic and no content ...... look at a period of time to ask: this game in the end what ideas?" From the process of the game and the situation, as if Li Xiaopeng is not as good as his predecessor.
Li Tie and Li Xiaopeng in our country have a lot of fans, the two private contact is also good, Li Tie led the Wuhan team to fight in the first year of the Chinese Super League, the two staged on the field of the "brother hug a hug" tacit understanding of the picture. Although Li Xiaopeng is the best coach of the two sessions of the Chinese Super League, but a little bit of the name is not real. Li Xiaopeng successively followed Li Tie to Wuhan and our soccer team coaching, not after the first to arrive, more like "Li generation of peach", more accurately: this Li generation of Li freezing.
Of course, it is not reasonable to put all the blame of our soccer team on Li Xiaopeng, after all, our soccer team has too much to summarize and improve, and even too much to be pushed down and rebuilt.
IV. The future of the youth bulge is a cause for concern
Where is the hope? The final match of the World Preliminary Round 12, China's men's soccer team still did not provide fans with a gratifying game. Comparing the dismal report card of our soccer team in the 12-team tournament, what makes people feel sadder is the future of this team that people dare not envision. After the World Cup in Qatar, China's men's soccer team will soon face the subject of the old and the new, and the lack of domestic young soccer talent, but also make China's soccer team this subject is really difficult to solve.
A harsh reality that our soccer team people can't escape is that at the end of this Top 12 tournament journey. Now a large number of players in China's men's soccer team, in the next three years time will certainly because of age and other reasons, gradually fade out of the national team, giving way to newcomers. Now the national team, Zhang Xizhe, Zhang Linpeng, Yu Dabao, Wu Xi such a group of international players in the Chinese Super League gold dollar era of fame, in the next one of the World Qualification Cycle age will be more than 35 years old, even now 30 years old Wu Lei, in the next cycle of the World Qualification Competition, have passed the golden age of the players ...... Coupled with the dismal environment of the domestic soccer world now, they will be very difficult to help China's soccer team in the next World Preliminary League. At that time, the outside world is afraid that even the opportunity to spit on Yu Dabao guys have not.
What is even worse is that "newcomers" such as Dai Weijun, Zhu Chenjie, Zhang Yuning and Gao Junyi, who will surely take up a heavy burden in our soccer team in the future, are now under great pressure to survive in their clubs. Under the situation that the development system of China's soccer team cannot be determined in a short period of time, it has become an urgent task to reshape the value of the domestic league as much as possible, and establish a good growth platform for the expectations of China's soccer team as much as possible!
V. Internal and external training is the right way
Shaanxi writer Jia Pingwa once imaginatively compared it to a soccer field, "A soccer field is the public toilet of a city. Every city should have a soccer field, and when the crowd has a cathartic place, the city will be stabilized."
China's men's soccer has not lacked attention in recent years, despite its poor record. Before the World Preliminary Round 12 finals, China's soccer team outside the stadium but ushered in a war of words - the Chinese Super League player Feng Xiaoting and comedian artist Gong Hanlin PK in the air, as well as the Feng Gong spit soccer words but rushed to the hot search one after another, was jokingly referred to as "Feng Gong battle", and even Feng Gong to participate in the "Feng Gong battle", the Chinese Super League player Feng Xiaoting and comedian artist Gong Hanlin. Even Feng Gong to participate in the "Feng Gong war". As the first international sports, soccer comes with traffic; China's soccer team yin and yang decline continued for many years, men's soccer high pay and low energy is criticized by the outside world for many years, as early as thirty years ago, comedy sketch artists flirting with soccer has become a Spring Festival dinner, in recent years, with China's soccer team's poor performance, trolling men's football has become more of a common meal for the comedians, Li Yi, Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting and other football stars have disliked.
External clamor, China's soccer team people still need to practice hard internal skills. Suitable long-term planning, firm implementation of the program, perfect youth training system, a broad mass base, friendly outside public opinion ...... these are not overnight. The road to the emergence of China's soccer team is still long and requires the joint efforts of many people! (Chen Zhiyong)
