In this year's Asian Cup battle, 24 strong teams gathered together, the average age of the players set at 25.4 years old, while the Chinese team is 29.2 years old to lead the way, exceeding the overall average age of nearly 4 years. In the 26-player list, there are 12 players over 30 years old, which can be called the most senior lineup in history.
Looking back at China's warm-up matches, a 1-2 loss allowed Hong Kong to laugh off the victory, a battle that has stirred up internet debate. Many analysts predicted that the possibility of the national football team winning the championship is very slim. Some mainland media outlets even said that "the old and the weak coexist", implying that the players are old and weak, leading to public concern about the future of the national team.
Counting the list of the national football team, as many as 12 players over thirty years old, including Yan Junling, Wang Dalei, Liu Tingzai, Li Lei, Zhang Linpeng, Wang Shangyuan, Xie Pengfei, Wu Xi, Liu Binbin, Wang Qiuming, Wu Lei, Tan Long and so on.
In terms of player price, the average price of players in this Asian Cup is 1.347 million euros, and only Wu Lei's 1.5 million euros of the Chinese team exceeds the average. The team's value totaled 11.33 million euros, far less than Japan's 317 million euros.
It is worth mentioning that the national football team has elected five captains, respectively, Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng, Wu Lei, Jiang Guangtai and Yan Junling. A netizen teased the national football team "shallow water more than eight, each do big brother", this statement, can not help but let a person dumbfounded.
