In the popular TV series "Love Apartment", there was a scene where the extremely bored Lu Ziqiao stole the neighbor's TV signal in the middle of the night to watch the Chinese men's football team against the Cambodian women's football team. At first glance, it may sound like an ordinary statement, but when you think about it again, the point of laughter suddenly strikes you. How can the men's football team play against the women's football team? Zi Qiao is still working hard to cheer for the national football team ... Haha, maybe in the eyes of the screenwriter, the national football team is probably on the same level as the Cambodian women's football team.
Back to reality and think about it rationally, although the national football team is really bad, even the Thai national youth team can experience the pleasure of causing tragedy on our heads, but it is more than enough to fight against Cambodia, even if they send men. Just looking at the figure, they are one size smaller than the Chinese players.
But who would have thought that Lu Ziqiao's words would actually come true. . .
In the first round of the U23 Asian Cup qualifying group match that just ended last night, the U23 national football team shook hands with Cambodia U23 0:0. In fact, being tied by the so-called underdog is not a big deal for Chinese football. For example, in last year's World Cup qualifying match , the national football team was tied twice by the Hong Kong team of China. However, if you look closely at this game, the crisis behind it is very scary! ! !
(Picture) The national football team often has unremarkable performances in international competitions
Generally speaking, representing the national team in international competitions, especially when participating in competitions with an elimination system, often means that the players will be burdened with 1.3 billion people. The pressure is very heavy. We can see that the performance of the national football team in official matches is often far inferior to friendly matches without the pressure of promotion; players who performed well in the club, such as Wu Lei , suddenly did not know how to play when they reached the national team. To a large extent, these situations are caused by stress.
However, for the Olympic team players participating in this game, this pressure to advance does not exist. Since the main match of this U23 Asian Cup will be held in our country, the National Olympic team has automatically obtained a place to participate in the main match. The qualifying matches are more about torturing the belly and building confidence. Unfortunately, not even Cambodia can win, and no pressure seems to be of any use.
(Picture) In the 20th minute, Cambodia's attack almost resulted in a goal
(Picture) Cambodia's free kick hit the post
Furthermore, whether it was against Hong Kong or later Syria, although the national football team did not win, it still They always said we were tied. Let’s take a look at Cambodia’s performance in this game. It’s hard to say who
tied with whom.
(Picture) The Football Association’s U23 policy stipulates that each team must have one U23 player starting
In the past few years, it can be said that the performance of the Olympic team has not been very good. People often blame it on the fact that young players, whether overseas or at home, do not get stable opportunities to play in clubs. This view is also recognized by the Football Association to a certain extent. Following this idea, coupled with the Football Association's strange thinking, they launched the highly controversial U23 league system at the beginning of this year. Regardless of the pros and cons of this policy, from the perspective of U23 players, this policy has given today's National Olympic players a lot of opportunities to play in the league in Chinese Super League , which has benefited these players a lot. However, even with the support of this policy, the Olympic players still performed like they always did.
no longer had the pressure to advance. They met a bad team and accumulated game experience, but their level was on the same level as Cambodia. Olympic team, what do you want from us?
