After playing the East Asia Cup, the national football team did not have more competition tasks in a short time, and the national team coach Lippi also returned to Italy last week to start the vacation mode. Although China did not take part in the competition during the period from 65438+February 2 1 to 65438+20081October last year, and there was no record of international A-level competitions in the same period four years ago, there was no need to deduct points at that time. However, according to the weighted average calculation of different points in each year in the last four years, the ranking points of China national team increased by 6 points compared with last year's 65438+February, and the points returned to 50.
However, in the Asian rankings, the China national team still lags behind Iranian, Australian, Japanese, Korean and Saudi teams, ranking sixth in Asia. At present, the latest score of Saudi Arabia, which ranks fifth in Asia, is 522, which is 18 more than that of China. Since the draw ceremony for the 20 19 Asian Cup will be held on April 27th this year, it is not surprising that the host team UAE and FIFA's top five Asian teams are listed as seed teams, but AFC has not announced which month will be the benchmark.
According to the announcement time of FIFA rankings, March will be announced on March 15 and April will be announced on April 12. If the ranking in April is used as the grading standard, then China will have the opportunity to grab points with the help of the China Cup held in late March, return to the top five in Asia and get the seed qualification. If the ranking before April is used as the scoring standard, it can basically be determined that the national football team can only participate in the lottery ceremony as a second-class team.
It is worth mentioning that the draw ceremony for the 20 15 Asian Cup was held on March 26th, 20 14. The grading at that time was based on the ranking in March of that year (announced on March 3rd, 20 14). Therefore, if the AFC still follows this rule, there is still hope for the national football team to participate in the lottery as a seed team.