Qatar defeated Japan 3:1 and won the Asian Cup for the first time. The picture shows the two teams in the game.’
China News Agency, Beijing, February 2 (Xing Yi) in the early morning of the 2nd Beijing time, the Asian Cup of the United Arab Emirates officially ended in 2019, and Qatar, the host country of the 2022 World Cup, became the 9th team in the history of the Asian Cup.
Before the start of this Asian Cup, no one regarded Qatar as the hot spot to win the championship. Qatar ranked tenth with China in the odds of winning the championship before the match. This youth army, whose average age is less than 25 years old, is also considered by many people that it has more momentum but less experience.
However, they handed over the record of winning all seven battles and losing only one goal. They defeated Saudi Arabia by 2:0 in the group match and defeated Iraq and South Korea by 1:0 in the elimination match, later, he won the host UAE at 4:0. In the final, the Japanese team played 70: 8 chaos and won an absolute victory at 3:1. Finally, he created history and won the Asian Cup for the first time.
Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan are the traditional first-class strong teams in Asia. They once represented Asia in the 2018 World Cup of Russia. Iraq was the champion of the 2007 Asian Cup. As the host of this Asian Cup, UAE is equally good, qatar’s road to winning the championship is quite difficult, and the champion is full of color.
In fact, behind the road of winning the Asian Cup in Qatar is more than ten years of investment and efforts.
Qatar has a small territory with a population of only about 2.6 million, and the selection of football and even sports is very limited. Different from individual domestication of track and field events, Qatar obviously has a longer-term vision on football item. Qatar invested US $More than 20 billion in 2004 to build the Asbel Elite Academy of Football, selecting young football training for Asian, African and other regions, and even setting up a branch in Senegal to facilitate African teenagers to accept football enlightenment.
According to the regulations, after reaching the age of 12, these football teenagers can go to the headquarters of Doha to study, and their parents can also come to Doha to settle down, and the Qatar government will solve life problems. After long-term training and inspection, the players can also be naturalized in Qatar and have the opportunity to represent Qatar in various levels of football matches.
Alemoz Ali, who scored nine goals in this Asian Cup and refreshed the single Asian Cup goal record, and was elected as the best striker and player, benefited from the cultivation of this model. Born in 1996, he was a descendant of Sudan. He began to play on behalf of the Qatar national youth team as early as 2013. Ali scored 3 goals in the U19 Asian youth match in 2014 and finally helped Qatar team win the championship, in the 2018 U23 Asian Youth League, he was elected as the best shooter with 6 goals.
In the final, afrev, who was the main penalty for penalty kick and performed equally well, came from Yemen and was also the champion of Qatar’s U19 Asian Youth Championship in 2014. Afrev played wonderful assists many times in this Asian Cup, contributing to the team’s championship. In fact, 7 of the 10 “post-95 s” players in the Qatar array were the core main force of the U19 Asian Youth Championship.
The achievement of the Qatar youth army cannot be achieved without the efforts of coach Sánchez. The Spaniard sánges came to the elite academy of asbair football in 2006 to coach young players. The first batch of students were the “post-95 s” facing the 2022 World Cup “. Then he led the trainees to participate in the U19 Asian youth competition in 2014, U20 world youth competition in 2015 and U23 Asian youth competition in 2018 all the way. He also gained trust while achieving good results.
When Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup at the end of 2010, many people laughed at Qatar’s football level. Now, before the 2022 World Cup “big test”, Qatar has obviously handed over the perfect answer sheet in the Asian Cup “senior high school entrance examination.
Three years later, Qatar, which appeared in the local World Cup with the champion of the new Asia Cup, may be able to get rid of the host’s weak label like Russia, and may be more mature at that time, the more effective Qatar team will bring more surprises. (End)
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