The 2022 East Asian Championship will kick off at 18:20 GMT on July 19 with the opening match of the Men's Football vs.
Organized by the East Asian Football Confederation (EAFC), it has been held every two years since the inaugural edition in 2003, with women's football being included in the second edition in 2005.
From 2003 to 2019 eight men's soccer tournaments were played, won five times, twice, and Japan only once. In the seven women's soccer tournaments from 2005 to 2019, North Korea won four times, Japan twice, and South Korea once and never. North Korea, a four-time champion in women's soccer, did not send a team to the tournament this time around, and certainly not in men's soccer.
On the men's side, South Korea is taking this year's East Asian Cup very seriously, with head coach Paulo Bento stating early on that he wants to send a full-strength team to compete in the tournament in order to scout numerous non-European players beforehand.
Of course, the all-starters mentioned here are certainly not the all-starters of the draft, but in addition to the all-starters playing in the mainstream European leagues. Even if the local league players are mainly, the strength of the war should not be underestimated, not long ago a, South Korea's K League All-Stars, can play with all the main players in the top of the powerhouse 3:6, the strength can be seen.
On the Japanese side, the players are also all from the Japanese local league, with 10 of them making their debut for the Japanese national team, including Ryo Miyagi, who has played for the English Premier League giants. Their overall strength and practicing intentions should be similar to South Korea.
The national football team, but some "cope" meaning. Without access to the 2022 World Cup, the East Asian Cup naturally has no starting point for practice and preparation. But this is still an international A-level tournament, the FIFA ranking has fallen out of Asia's top 10 for the national football team, if you can get a good result, can also increase some points. After the first stage has entered the break, but the national football team still only send U23 national team to participate in the original plan to call five "overage", but all in the Chinese Super League collective injury.
In order to fully prepare for the East Asian Cup, the Korean Football Association (KFA) even made a compromise to Paulo Bento by revising the K1 League schedule to make way for the East Asian Cup. According to the Korean media, with China sending their U23 national team to the tournament, there is little point in preparing for the Korean East Asian Cup to scout domestic players.
Japan and South Korea's goal is naturally to compete for the title. Some domestic media revealed that the East Asian Cup Chinese men's soccer team does not have performance indicators, the minimum goal should be to beat Hong Kong, China.
As the new women's football championship winners, the Chinese women's football team naturally shortlisted for 2023, the East Asia Cup can naturally practice and prepare for the war. Chinese women's football East Asia Cup 26 people list, but also to the women's football Asian Cup championship class base. Chinese women's soccer players also clearly shouted out the goal of winning the championship.
Women's soccer international Li Ying: "Die hard to the end, we want to win it all."
Women's national team head coach Shui Qingxia: "This East Asian Cup has no clear results think, mainly for next year's Women's World Cup to investigate the players and rehearsal lineup."
Shanghai media: China's women's soccer team's overall strength lags behind Japan and South Korea, a fact that has never changed.
East Asia Cup Chinese men's football schedule: July 20, 18:00 against South Korea; July 24, 18:20 against Japan; July 27, 15:30 against Hong Kong, China.
East Asia Cup Chinese women's football schedule: July 20, 14:30 against Chinese Taipei women's football; July 23, 18:00 against; July 26, 18:20 against.
