Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, January 25 (reporter Wang Hengzhi) the national football team lost and bid farewell to this Asian Cup with a complete defeat. In this game, the national football team does not fight hard, but it is not as good as losing. This is the normal thing on the football field. To some extent, mistakes are just a kind of amplification that is not as skilled as people. It is difficult for you to explain such mistakes over and over again with experience or lack of effort. However, such games and results once again proved the strength gap between the Chinese team and the top Asian teams, which was really like a gap.
Watching 38-year-old Zheng Zhi hiding his face and crying bitterly after the game, watching 29-year-old Wu Xi’s unwilling and depressed eyes after leaving the game due to injury, watching 23-year-old Liu Yang limped the underground stairs after the game, suddenly it’s hard for you to say the harsh words, because you and I both know that these players have done their best. Our current ceiling really can’t reach the height of Asia’s top teams.
In the five matches of this Asian Cup, the national football team achieved three wins and two losses, scored in the top eight and reversed twice, losing to South Korea and Iran respectively. Such an answer sheet can be said to have passed. We can’t kill too much because we played the second half against Kyrgyzstan and Thailand, nor do we have to fight because we were defeated by South Korea and Iran, this Asian Cup reflects the current positioning of the national football team very accurately: there is a clear gap with the first-class strong teams in Asia, and few have the ability to fight back; Against the second-rate teams in Asia, the outcome depends on some details and mentality.
As Zheng Zhi said, failure is not terrible. Which team has never suffered a painful defeat? The important thing is to stand up from failure and see the future clearly.
Where is the future of the national football team?
Everyone knows that in a sense, this Asian Cup is a curtain call performance for Lippi and this national team. The Italian boss still has a sharp ability to dispatch, but he still cannot bring the current national football to a new height. However, the biggest reality among all the teams participating in the Asian Cup that the average age of the national football team is over 29 years old means that this team has to have a big change.
The pain that should come will come eventually. Not to mention those first-class teams with complete youth training, the Asian second-rate and even third-rate teams next door have completed the alternation between the old and the new, and are really ready for the Olympic Games and the World Cup. Take a look, the Vietnamese team, whose average age is in their early 23 s, has also reached the top eight this time after the U23 Asian Cup last year reached the final; Qatar, Iraq, Uzbekistan and other teams are all new; the top three in the shooter list are the “post-95 S” of yishu’er “…… However, we are still green and yellow, and excellent young talents are hard to find.
Therefore, the future of the national football team can be found in this Asian Cup-on the one hand, we should really give young people opportunities, although our so-called young people are not young compared with competitors at all; what is more important is that on the other hand — carry out youth training in a down-to-earth manner. Without a complete youth training system, even if all the world famous leaders are pulled to form a team, it is also embarrassing.
Youth training, this is an old-fashioned topic that breaks the tongue, but it is also the only way for Chinese football to go to the first-class strong teams in Asia. The last thing I want to say is that there is no shortcut to football. We must be more patient with the youth training and more patient with the future coach. Chinese football needs a long time to be a success, it really doesn’t have to be me to achieve success.