Recently, China's national soccer team has determined the lineup of opponents for the international warm-up match in June, in which the team will play against Palestine, which is ranked 15th in Asia, at home. In the face of this opponent, the national football team also dare not underestimate, because the Palestinian team also has not bad strength, the two teams in the Asian Cup group stage may be head-to-head, so this warm-up match is quite valuable.
It is worth mentioning that the national football team chose to warm up with Palestine, which actually means that the Chinese Football Association abandoned the plan to participate in the Central Asia Cup. This year's Central Asia Cup attracted a lot of attention, in addition to Central Asian teams such as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran and Russia have also been invited to participate in the competition, and intends to issue a "wild card" to Thailand and China. Initially, fans expect the national football team can play with Iran and Russia, but the media revealed that the Association has no intention of accepting the invitation to the Central Asia Cup.
Interestingly, the Russian soccer community recently frequent to the national football "good", people from all walks of life hope that the national football team can warm up with the Russian team, which is beneficial to both sides. However, Russia's enthusiasm has been met with the National Football Association's "indifference", the Association has never responded to Russia's warm-up proposal; according to sources, the national football team this year, there is no plan to warm-up with the Russian team.
Observing the recent situation of the national football team, it is not difficult to understand why the Football Association is cautious about the match with Russia. The strength of the national soccer team is far from Russia, and the biggest worry is to suffer a fiasco and trigger a series of chain reactions. In fact, a few years ago, the national football team had bravely warmed up with the world's strongest teams.In 2017, the national football team played with Serbia and Colombia; in the 2018 China Cup, the national football team invited the Czech Republic and Wales.
However, against these strong teams, the national football team suffered repeated defeats, especially the 6-0 defeat of Wales at the 2018 China Cup, which infuriated the relevant "leaders" who were watching the match. Since then, then national football coach Lippi's position has been restricted and many of his powers have been withdrawn, while a series of puzzling proposals for the U25 training team and the national training team have begun a period of confusion.
Since then, the national football team fell into a serious phobia of strong teams, the Football Association did not dare to invite opponents whose strength far exceeded that of the national football team, and instead chose teams such as Myanmar, India and the Philippines for warm-ups, in an attempt to reshape the confidence of the national football team. This year, the FA arranged New Zealand and Palestine as warm-up opponents, a continuation of the previous strategy, it is expected that they are still reluctant to play against the Russian team.
