Diplomatic game of 2019 Chinese football: it is difficult to expand 48 teams ahead of the 2022 World Cup


Guangzhou daily all-media reporter Zhang Yi

After the fall of the 2019 UAE Asian Cup, Asian football has entered a new round of World Cup preparation cycle. Since the host of the 2022 World Cup is Qatar, the competition in Asia of this World Cup will probably be the most intense in history. For the Chinese Football Association, in order to achieve the goal of entering the final table World Cup in 2022, in addition to the scientific reconstruction of the national football team after the Asian Cup and the multi-pronged cultivation of the national football team, it is also necessary to conduct a “diplomatic” layout and game in Asian football.

2022 it is difficult to expand 48 teams in advance in the world cup

the national football team needs to protect asia’s top 8 to become the seed of the top 40

fifa recently announced the latest national team ranking, the Chinese team rose from 76th to 72th in the original total ranking. However, on the Asian list, it did not rise but fell. The national football team slipped from the 7th place in Asia to the 8th place in Asia. This result is obviously because the Asian competitors of the national football team have made progress too fast. Iran, Japan, South Korea and Australia are still the top four in Asia, but Qatar, who won the Asian Cup, jumped to the fifth place in Asia. In addition, the host team of this Asian Cup also surpassed the 7th national football team, so the national football team slipped to the 8th.

After the Asian Cup, the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifier will be put on the agenda. According to the original plan, 32 teams participated in the 2022 World Cup final table, but it has been reported since last year that FIFA president Fantino intends to implement the plan of expanding the 2026 World Cup to 48 teams in advance. FIFA’s statement is to communicate with Qatar organizing committee and finally confirm it around March this year.

In fact, because Fantino did this, he just wanted to be re-elected in this year’s FIFA presidential election. Judging from the latest situation, vantino has become the only candidate after the deadline for the election of FIFA president, which also means that there is no suspense about his successful re-election in June this year. After this “political problem” is solved, Infantino may not advocate the expansion of the top 48 in advance of the 2022 World Cup. After all, Qatar cannot unilaterally host a World Cup with 48 teams, and their relations with neighboring countries have been tense in recent years. During the Asian Cup in January, Infantino visited the UAE to watch the match, during which he had communicated with the Asian Football League and Qatar on this issue.

As a result, it is highly likely that the Asian qualifier of the 2022 World Cup will continue to design the rules of the game according to the scale of the top 32. According to the previous competition rules of the Asian Football Association, the group draw FIFA World Cup qualification in 2022 is closely related to the ranking of the FIFA national team. The competition in the top 40 stage will start from September this year, when the 40 teams will be divided into 8 groups, and the second place with the best results in each group will be promoted to the top 12 stage. The group draw for the top 40 matches must be based on the latest world ranking before September. The national football team will definitely become the seed team as long as it maintains the top 8 in Asia, thus avoiding 7 new and old strong teams, the theoretical opportunity to advance to the top 12 will naturally increase. Of course, judging from the progress and talent reserve of each team in this Asian Cup, even if the national football team becomes the top 40 seed team, there is still no capital to underestimate the enemy.

Du zhaocai singled zheng mengkui in April this year

china does not rule out giving up the right to host the 2023 asian cup

in addition to ensuring that the hard power remains in the top 8 in asia after the reconstruction of the national football team, the Chinese Football Association will strive for the right to speak in the Asian Football Association this year. The Asian Football Association is scheduled to re-elect the executive committee of the Asian Football Association at the 29th Asian Football Association congress in Kuala Lumpur on April 6 this year, including the president of the Asian Football Association, five vice-presidents, six members of the FIFA Council and 14 other members of the Executive Committee of the Asian Football Association will serve from 2019 to 2023.

The current five vice-chairmen of the Asian Football Association represent West Asia, East Asia, South Asia, ASEAN and Central Asia respectively, among which the vice-chairman of the East Asia region is Zheng Mengkui, president of the Korean Football Association. At present, according to the nomination confirmed by the Asian Football Association, there are 4 people who participated in the Election of Vice President of East Asia in April this year, including Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, the current vice chairman Zheng Mengkui and two candidates from Guam and Mongolia. In addition, the Asian Football Association also announced that nine representatives including Du Zhaocai would run for six FIFA Asian regional directors.

Before, Zhang Jian, the executive vice chairman and secretary general of the Chinese Football Association, was elected as the Asian director of FIFA, and his term of office ended this year. Although Zhang Jian’s becoming a FIFA official is a rare highlight of Chinese football diplomacy, he has not brought too many positive changes to Chinese football in the past two years. In fact, the position of vice president of the Asian Football Association is more practical for Chinese football to enhance its “soft power. Especially in September this year, it will enter the top 40 cycle of the 2022 World Cup. Therefore, if Du Zhaocai can run for the vice president of East Asia successfully in the first half of the year, then the impact journey of Chinese football may remove more human obstacles.

Since Cai Zhenhua faded out of the football Circle, Du Zhaocai has been playing the role of the new leader of the Chinese Football Association. He led a series of reforms of the Chinese professional football league and youth training. Du Zhaocai ran for the vice chairman of the Asian Football Association this time. Although he said that it could not be compared with Zhang Jilong’s position of holding the first vice chairman of the Asian Football Association, under the background of the weakness of Chinese football nowadays, chinese football really needs a Chinese who can go deep into the core leadership of the Asian Football Association. If du zhaicai succeeds in the election, he will become the first Chinese deputy ministerial official to serve as the management of the Asian Football Association.

There is no doubt that Du Zhaocai’s biggest opponent at present is Zheng Mengkui. During the Asian Cup, Du Zhaocai had already gone to the UAE to communicate with the leaders of the Asian Football Association and the heads of football associations in major countries. His support would not be less than Zheng Mengkui.

In addition, the Asian Football Association has still not decided the host country of the 2023 Asian Cup. According to the previous bidding procedures, only China and South Korea are left, which is expected to be announced in May this year. Judging from the experience of hardware and hosting large-scale events, China will have a high probability of defeating South Korea. However, South Korea has never hosted the Asian Cup since 1960, and has hosted the U-20 World Youth Championship in 2017. It has the urgent need and ability to host the Asian Cup. Judging from the overall game strategy, the Chinese Football Association does not rule out giving up the “2023 Asian Cup”.

Shanghai welcomes the wonderful sports events of “red may”

Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, May 1st issue: Shanghai welcomes the wonderful sports event of “red may” and keeps watching a lot

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Di, Guo Jingdan, Xu DONGWON

bid farewell to the rainy and uncertain at the end of April, on the May Day labor day, Shanghai finally welcomed the warm sunshine. With the good weather, Shanghai has also ushered in the annual “Red May”-international events, including the IAAF Diamond League, the universal equestrian championship, and the ring Chongming Island cycling race, which are overwhelming. What are the highlights of these events this year?

On the third day of the May Day holiday, the 2019 Shanghai global equestrian championship will open at the racecourse on the south side of China Art Museum. The equestrian championship, which was introduced into China in 2014, is the highest five-star steeplechase challenge of the International Equestrian Federation. The competition will last until 5 days.

On May 9-11, the beautiful Chongming district of Shanghai will welcome the annual International Self-League Women’s Road World Tour China (Chongming) station event. There are 23 stations in the world tour of women’s road in 2019, including 8 stations in China (Chongming) and the United States. The huanchong race is not only the 10th stop of this year’s Tour, but also the first battle of the 8-stop multi-day race, which will test the continuous combat capability of the drivers.

One week after the Huan Chong match, the IAAF Diamond League Shanghai station will start at the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai. As the second stop of the Diamond League this season, the events in Shanghai are various.

Xie Wenjun, a local player in Shanghai and a famous 110-meter hurdle, has performed well this season. In the recent Asian track and field championships, Xie Wenjun won the championship with a score of 13 seconds 21, breaking the record of 13 seconds 22 that senior brother Liu Xiang ran in 2011.

The rapid development of Chinese track and field in recent years has made the Diamond League Shanghai station have more “China expectations”: Su Bingtian won the 100-meter championship in Shanghai station in 2017 to create history, will Su Bingtian “ride out of the Dust” when he comes to Shanghai this time “? She is a well-deserved “Queen” in the field of women’s shot. Apart from winning gold in Shanghai this year, does she still want to challenge her personal best results? The javelin celebrity Lv Hui is in the same state. In this year’s Asian Championship, she won the first gold for the Chinese team with a score of 65 meters 83, and broke the record of the tournament. As the champion of women’s javelin at Shanghai station in 2015 and 2018, the Lv Hui meeting, who is now the world’s No. 1 women’s javelin, is it also the combination sets meal of “winning gold + brushing records?

In addition to the above events, other events in shencheng are also worthy of attention. The Archery World Cup Shanghai station will start in the middle of May; The Asian Champions League will usher in the final of the group match. Shanghai, currently the second largest in the group, will be able to break through the group?

In Shanghai in May, sports is a high-frequency word; In Shanghai in May, sports is a charming business card.

“Rocket” O’Sullivan is the biggest loser in the history of the world championship.

The 43-year-old O’Sullivan has won five championships this season. The 23-year-old Cahill is the first player in history to qualify as an amateur. He doesn’t even have a world ranking.

Xinhua News Agency, Sheffield, April 23 (Reporter Prince Jiang) the World Snooker Championship broke the biggest cold door in history on the 23rd. The number one player “rocket” O’Sullivan lost to amateur Cahill at 8:10, it was eliminated in the first round.

The 43-year-old O’Sullivan has won five championships this season, and last month he regained the world’s first throne after losing nine years. The 23-year-old Cahill is the first player in history to qualify as an amateur. He doesn’t even have a world ranking.

Although it was the biggest hit to win the championship before the match, O’Sullivan obviously did not enter the state. He fell 4:5 after the first stage of the previous day. The game continued on that day. He made many low-level mistakes and soon fell behind 5:8. After that, O’Sullivan, who looked dignified, seemed to find some hand feeling. He scored 104 points and 89 points in a row, struggling to chase the score to 8:8.

O’Sullivan could have taken the lead in the 17th inning, but he made a mistake when facing the ball powder, which was not too difficult. Cahill then took a clean shot and got the match point at 9:8. In the next round, Cahill resisted the pressure and hit a single shot with 53 points to lock the victory.

Cahill said after the game that he was actually very nervous: “I almost couldn’t stand. The 11th game was the most difficult one. At that time, I resisted the pressure and scored 70 points, leading by 6:5, but then I suddenly found that in fact, he was under more pressure than me. Of course he didn’t want to lose to me. I have always believed that as long as I play my best, I can beat anyone.”

O’Sullivan claimed before the game that he was the greatest snooker player in history, which was equivalent to “Macy” in snooker. He seemed very casual in this game, with an average hitting time of only 15 seconds per stroke.

He said, “I feel terrible, as if I have been sleepwalking. In fact, I have been feeling bad for the past few weeks and haven’t slept well for several nights.”

In 1993, 17-year-old O’Sullivan took part in the world championship for the first time. This year was his 27th consecutive year, of which only four were out in the first round, and the last time was in 2003. In 2001, he won the championship for the first time at the age of 25, and then won the championship four times in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2013.

“The strongest team on the surface” Guozhen visited Yan’an Revolutionary sites

Xinhua News Agency, XI’AN, May 9 (reporter Cao Jianjie, Yao Youming) on the 9th, Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, led 35 representatives of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, male and female players and coaches of the Chinese table tennis national team to visit Yan’an city, Shaanxi province, carry out the red education activity of “The motherland is in my heart. In Yan’an, “the strongest team on the surface” visited Pagoda Mountain, Bayi nursing home and other places one after another, and had interaction and communication with teachers and students of Yan’an University.

“In fact, when I first returned to the table tennis association, I wanted to have such an activity. Why is this time node found? It happened that the team members just came back from the World Table Tennis Championships. The team won five gold medals and returned with fame. It also received many praises, flowers and applause. We came to Yan’an, hoping to carry out patriotism education through a travel to rebirth, let the team members feel and learn the fine revolutionary tradition of the older generation, and bring good tradition into life, training and competition fields, it is closely combined with the preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games to further enhance the team’s combat effectiveness and cohesion.” Liu Guoliang said.

The Chinese table tennis team won five gold medals in the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, which ended not long ago. Five project champions including Liu Shiwen, Malong and Xu Xin all came to Yan’an this time. On the morning of the 9th, representatives of the party members of the national security team reviewed the pledge to join the party in the face of party flag on the Pagoda Mountain. Later, Liu Guoliang and his party visited Bayi nursing home. At present, there are 8 old Red Army recuperating in Bayi nursing home, 195 old and demobilized soldiers on the eighth road. Liang Kexing, a veteran who participated in the revolution in 1943, was 92 years old. He introduced his fighting experience in the liberation war to the national team members emotionally.

Fan Zhendong, a member of the Chinese table tennis team, said: “When these old people were about our age, they carried steel guns to the battlefield and risked bullets to protect their country. It is with their sacrifice and sacrifice for justice that the Chinese revolution has won great victories again and again, and we will have a better life today. I want to bring the patriotism that I understand and feel this time to the daily training and competition, and always put the motherland and the people in my heart.”

On the afternoon of the 9th, Guozhen came to Yan’an University. Under the gaze of hundreds of Yanda table tennis enthusiasts, Ma Long and Fan Zhendong played an exhibition match in the men’s singles “three successive championships” of the World Table Tennis Championships, ding Ning, the world champion, and Liu Shiwen, the champion of the women’s singles in the New World Table Tennis Championships, also showed some daily training subjects of the national championship. Since then, Wang Manji, the women’s double champion of the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest, and others also played four 6-point competitions with teachers and students of Yanda University. The exquisite skills of the national fans won the applause of the audience.

Liu Guoliang introduced that after the trip to Yan’an, the team will start a two-week training after returning to Beijing. Later, the team will send a full team to participate in the China Table Tennis Open and the Japan Open, young players will be dispatched to participate in the Hong Kong Open for the purpose of training the team.

“The three races are a multi-level layout and an overall training exercise. It is a little more than a year before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Each country (or region) they are running into their own lineup and building their own strategies. This is the beginning of fighting with wisdom and courage.” Liu Guoliang said, “we will make some adjustments to the lineup at any time according to the results of the World Table Tennis Championships and the team competition dynamics. We hope that we can play our ideal lineup through these three competitions.”

Sun Run Beijing station

IAAFRun24:1 Sun Run is a public welfare running activity jointly organized by IAAF and 24 important Member organizations around the world. The running distance is 1 mile, about 1.609 kilometers.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 2 (reporter Xia Zilin, Wang Yong) the second IAAFRun24:1 Sun Run (Beijing railway station) started at Panda Square of the National Olympic Sports Center on the morning of the 2nd. Zou Zhenxian, the image ambassador of “Sun Run”, the famous Chinese triple jump general, and Wang Liping, the champion of Sydney Olympic Games, jointly fired shots for the event.

IAAFRun24:1 Sun Run is a public welfare running activity jointly organized by IAAF and 24 important Member organizations around the world. The running distance is 1 mile, about 1.609 kilometers. The theme of the activity is to promote running and fitness, aiming at enabling more people to participate in more fitness activities through running to achieve the goal of health. This “Sun Run” also shows the charm of running in the form of global webcast.

In the activity of that day, nearly 1,000 runners, including mass runners, Capital Media running groups and Chinese Academy of Sciences running groups, stepped onto the runway, including young runners under 16 years old, there are also 60-year-old runners. All runners finished the race successfully.

It is reported that this event was initiated by IAAF, supported by China Tian Union National Olympic Sports Center, and jointly operated by Beijing Olympic economic Technology Development Company and Beijing control Sports Technology Co., Ltd.

Investigation on the practice of “Sunshine Sports” on campus in Zhongning county of Ningxia

Xinhua News Agency Yinchuan, April 3 (reporter Zhao Qian, Ma Lijuan) a primary school has formed more than 250 teams? How do sports matches “Blossom” with academic performance “? As a small county located in the northwest, Zhongning county, Zhongwei city, Ningxia, has continuously promoted the activity of “Sunshine Sports entering the campus” in recent years by strengthening the strength of campus sports teachers and establishing the reward and punishment assessment mechanism for sports work, in order to promote the all-round development of students’ intellectual development and moral education.

Sports is good, learning is declining

As soon as the big break arrived every afternoon, the playground of No. 9 Primary School in Zhongning County immediately became noisy, especially basketball, football, table tennis and other ball sports venues, which were crowded by the small players. Last year, the “little horse” basketball team of this school won the runner-up of two groups in the Northwest Division of the National Small Basketball League.

“Little horse” is not unique in basketball in primary and secondary schools in the county. It is understood that in the 2018 National Small Basketball League Ningxia division finals, the Zhongning County team won four individual champions; Among the 8 teams promoted to the northwest region in Ningxia, Zhongning County accounted for 7, and won the runner-up of four groups.

According to Yin Jiancheng, deputy director of education and sports bureau of Zhongning county, in recent years, the education and sports department of Zhongning County has vigorously promoted the development of Sunshine sports in schools by carrying out basketball, football and roller skating into the campus, all schools have formed a good atmosphere of “one hour of exercise every day.

On the wall of the playground of the ninth primary school, the slogan “reading does not forget sports, sports do not forget reading” is very conspicuous. President Liu Xingxing told the reporter that the school has formed more than 250 basketball, football and table tennis teams. Practice has proved that learning and exercise can be both correct.

Yin Jiancheng said that through the annual assessment and evaluation, it can be found that the teaching quality of schools with good sports has declined. The ninth primary school not only won many awards in sports competitions, but also ranked first for 19 consecutive times in the county’s teaching quality inspection.

Campus Sports also promoted the moral education work in schools. The students of Qukou nine-year school located in the suburb of Zhongning County are basically from poor mountainous areas. Luo Qinxue, the vice president, told the reporter that combining with the tradition of playing basketball for the people in mountainous areas of Ningxia, the school promoted basketball as a key ball game, which not only enhanced students’ physical fitness, but also provided a platform for them to show their strengths, gradually the teachers found that the students became sunny.

Strengthen faculty sports into Assessment

The reason why the activity of “Sunshine Sports entering the campus” in Zhongning county was carried out well cannot be separated from the efforts of the county education department and the school in strengthening teachers and strict assessment.

— “School teachers + Sports Association” to improve the level of physical education teaching. According to the introduction of the education and sports bureau of Zhongning county, on the basis of providing sufficient full-time PE teachers for the school, the Education and Sports Department also implements the three-level training system of PE, and selects the backbone teachers of PE to participate in relevant training held by autonomous regions and cities, and hire experts from inside and outside the district to train physical education teachers in the county regularly. In addition, Zhongning County also sent professional coaches of sports associations to the school to cooperate with physical education teachers to train students through the form of government purchasing services.

— Establish a reward and punishment assessment mechanism for sports work. Wen Mingyu, director of the education and sports bureau, said that when formulating the detailed rules for the year-end teaching assessment, the Education and Sports Bureau included the school sports work into the assessment scope, and conducted a supervision and assessment once a year. Through the way of replacing the assessment with awards, mobilize the enthusiasm of the school.

— Improve the competition system and introduce large-scale brand competitions. Physical education teachers interviewed believe that although primary and secondary school sports mainly focus on cultivating interest, standardized and normalized competitions can further stimulate students’ sports enthusiasm and potential. At present, Zhongning County has established a class ball league system for primary and secondary schools. The county holds a table tennis and roller skating championships for primary and secondary schools every year, and holds track and field games for primary and secondary schools in spring and autumn.

It is understood that Zhongning County has introduced large-scale domestic and foreign sports events such as the National Youth Men’s Basketball Championship and China (Zhongning) International roller skating open in the form of government-led and enterprise participation since 2014, and invite sports stars to the campus to interact with students to promote school sports with social sports.

The concept still needs to be changed and the hardware still needs to be improved.

Wen Mingqi believes that there is still a gap in understanding of the overall development of children in the current society, especially in poor areas, poor academic performance may even become the reason for students to drop out of school. Therefore, governments at all levels, especially education authorities, should take the initiative to take responsibility, truly implement quality education to urban and rural schools, and instill the concept of “Happy Learning and healthy growth” into parents and students, guide the whole society to attach importance to the all-round development of children.

Some physical education teachers interviewed said that the sports infrastructure of primary and secondary schools in Zhongning County still needs to be improved. At present, there is no indoor gymnasium in primary schools in the county. Due to the cold weather in winter, some projects can only be interrupted. In addition, although the school is vigorously promoting roller skating into the campus in recent years, only one school has laid roller skating lanes outside the playground.

In this regard, Liu Mingxing and other principals hope that the government can further plus-sized investment in campus sports infrastructure, including improving the construction level of some sports facilities, building indoor sports venues, laying roller skating tracks, etc.

Teachers such as professional sports coaches also need to be strengthened. Yin Jiancheng said that although Zhongning County has supplemented some teachers through sports associations, there is still a large gap in professional sports coaches in the western region where talents are weak. He suggested strengthening the support of sports talents in the West and allowing more high-level coaches or athletes to teach in western schools.