This year, China's soccer world beacons, men's soccer team of all age groups national teams go hand in hand. the U20 national team has just experienced the Asian Cup journey, but unfortunately with the World Youth Championships passed by. The U17 national team will be fighting for a place in the World Youth Cup. The 2006 National Junior Team, coached by 49-year-old young talent Yang Chen, is training hard in Spain, aiming to reach at least the quarter-finals of the U17 Asian Cup, and fans are full of expectations.
The U17 national soccer team has been practicing in Spain for several weeks and recently won a warm-up match. According to soccer blogger "Leicester City's Little Foxes", the team played against Algeciras U19 team and won 3-1, ending their undefeated streak. In the game, Mei Shuaijun scored three times, and Yang Mingrui scored with a long-distance shot.
The U17 national soccer team had suffered two consecutive defeats in just three days, with the opponents being Garth's ladder teams. After a short break, Coach Yang Chen quickly adjusted his tactics and led his team to an exciting win.
According to statistics, the U17 national football team has participated in 15 warm-up matches during the training in the UAE and Spain. At first, the team lacked a number of main players and lost three consecutive matches. However, in the following matches, the team gradually found its form and realized eight consecutive undefeated matches, including a 1-1 draw with Abu Dhabi Peninsula U18 ladder team, a 4-1 victory over Gulf U19 ladder team, a 2-2 draw with Dubai City International U23 ladder team, a 3-0 victory over Folsom Spain U19 ladder team, a 3-1 victory over Marbella U19A team, a 1-0 victory over Granada U19AB Mixed team, and a 1 -0 win over Granada U19s, a 1-1 draw with Málaga U19s, and now a 3-1 victory.
It is worth mentioning that the average age of the opponents of the warm-up matches selected by Coach Yang Chen is higher than that of the U17 national football team, aiming at letting the players adapt to higher intensity matches and accumulate experience and confidence. Through more than a dozen warm-up matches, the players have gradually adapted to the confrontation with older players and no longer lag behind.
Recently, the anti-corruption and anti-triad storm in domestic soccer has continued to heat up, with Du Zhao, the party secretary of the Football Association, being investigated. Nevertheless, the training and preparation of the Chinese men's soccer team has not been affected. As a young coach, Yang Chen ruled the army rigorously, asking the players to cut inch hairstyles en masse, maintaining a full mental state and image, and fully preparing for the U17 Asian Cup.
According to the grouping, the U17 national football team's group opponents include Tajikistan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, with both opportunities and challenges. With the U20 national football team's successful comeback, fans are also optimistic that the U17 national football team will replicate this feat and punch their ticket to the World Youth Championships.
According to statistics, the last time our men's soccer team participated in the World Junior Championships was in 2005, and since then it has been absent continuously. This time, it is hoped that the U17 national soccer team can break the 18-year wait and return to the World Junior Championships.
