After the ups and downs of the Asian Games journey, China's men's soccer team was decimated by South Korea in the knockout rounds, while China's women's soccer team and Shandong Taishan were defeated by Japan's strongest team in the semifinals and the group stage of the AFC Champions League, China's soccer world is struggling.
In September's warm-up matches, the national soccer team first drew with Malaysia, followed by a defeat against Syria, a series of losses that put pressure on Jankovic and cast a shadow over the prospects for the World Qualification Tournament.
The men's Asian Games team broke the curse in the knockout stage, but continued its five-game Asian Games losing streak against South Korea with a 0-2 loss in the final eight matches against them.
The national Olympic team drew 0-0 with the United Arab Emirates in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, and although they faced a qualification crisis for a while after defeating India, eventually advancing to the second place in the group, Cheng Yaodong's team was still criticized by outsiders.
The journeys of the National Youth, National Junior and U17 Asian Cups have been equally bleak, with the former losing to South Korea in the last eight and the latter losing back-to-back group stage matches.
For the first time in the history of the Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's soccer team stopped at the group stage. In the Asian Games, the women's soccer team had easily won three games in a row, but against the Japanese women's soccer team, which is based on the national youth team, they fell behind 0-1 in the first half, and despite the fight in the second half, they finally lost 3-4.
In the group stage of the Asian Champions League, Shandong Taishan suffered a home defeat against Yokohama Marinos, with Hirata Mizunuma scoring the only goal of the match. Cressan hit the goalpost twice, causing Shandong Taishan to lose a good opportunity. Xiao Blush reporter in the game exclaimed: "Tonight's Asian Games women's soccer and Asian Champions League men's soccer matches, the technical gap between Chinese and Japanese soccer is revealed, the feeling of watching the game is really not good!"
Currently, Chinese soccer is mired in the quagmire, whether it is the national team, the national Olympic team or clubs, men's or women's football, have suffered a total collapse in the seven major tournaments.
