For a long time, the Asian event finals circle has been the highest level event that national teams of all levels can touch. Previously, we couldn't get into the final stages of the Asian Youth Championship, the Asian Youth Championship and even the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian region for a while. In the recently concluded qualifiers of the U17 Asian Youth Championship and the U20 Asian Youth Championship, the national youth team led by Yang Chen and Antonio have also returned to the finals of the Asian event in this age group after many years, which is back on track.
days ago, the group draw ceremony of the 2023 U20 Asian Cup was held at the host Uzbekistan . In the end, the National Youth League as the third team was in the same group as Japan, Saudi and Kyrgyzstan . As the third team, the National Youth League is very passive in the group draw, and this time the draw was also drawn by the second draw, and the opponents with relatively strong ranks were drawn. It is very difficult for the National Youth League to qualify in the group. Of course, this is also more in line with the current ranking of the Chinese national football team in Asia. The 11th place in Asia is at the bottom among the top 16, and it is not realistic to qualify.
This Asian Youth Championship final stage, the top 4 teams will go directly to the World Youth Championship. For this world-class competition of this age group, our team has not participated in this world-class competition for a long time, so don’t look too far. It would be great to play the U20 Asian Youth Championship well. In the qualifiers of this Asian Youth Championship, the national youth team faced Myanmar, Maldives , Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia respectively. They still won easily when facing the first two opponents, but they lost two consecutive games against Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia. Fortunately, Uzbek, as the host team of the main competition, did not include the results, so we won the second place in the group with 2 wins and 1 loss, and advanced to the main competition as the second in the group with the best results. The national youth team is very eager to take revenge in the main game Saudi team
U20 Asian Cup will start on March 1, 2023, and last for 18 days. The first two national youth teams will face Japanese team and Saudi Arabia respectively. It is a pity that the Chinese youth team lost 0-1 to the Saudi national youth team in the qualifiers. However, there were three overseas players who did not participate in the qualifiers, namely He Xiaoke , Jia Boyan and Liu Shaoziyang. In the qualifiers, only Eiffelding, Abdu Rousuli, Jia Feifan and other players supported the store, so the overseas players will be recalled in the main competition, and we will have more opportunities.
This group of national youth players will successively appear on the stage of Chinese Super League in the next five years. Now Eiffelding has become the main striker of Guangzhou team . They are also the main candidates for the future national football team, including the U17 National Young Master led by Wang Yudong. These young players are the hopes of the future national football team. In this U20 Asian Cup, the national youth team will strive for the goal of qualifying in the group, at least win against Kyrgyzstan, and fight against the Japanese team and Saudi team.