Last year's Asian Youth Championship, the men's soccer team was very shameful.
Yesterday's draw ceremony for the Youth Olympic Games, a topic that attracted China reporters was: As the host, why didn't China men's soccer team participate?
The objective reason is that the Youth Olympic Games limited the scale of football matches. There are six teams in six continents, and each national and regional Olympic Committee can only send one team to participate in the football match. Host China also needs to choose between men's soccer and women's soccer. As a result of these years, the performance of China women's football team is stable, while the performance of China men's football team has been poor, and the performance of men's football team at a young age is not ideal. Against this background, China chose the women's football team to participate in this Youth Olympic Games as early as last year.
In fact, it seems a wise choice for China to participate in the Youth Olympic Games. Because the young China men's soccer team was in a group with Qatar, Timor-Leste and Thailand at the Asian Youth Games held in Nanjing last year, China men lost to the unknown Timor-Leste 0:/kloc-0, and then lost to Thailand 2:4, which made the children of 1999 become the focus of the media. South Korea's men's soccer team won the Asian Youth Games and entered the Youth Olympic Games.
The results of women's football are good, and there are many players in Jiangsu.
Although the performance of women's football in China has been declining in recent years, overall, the performance of young women's football in China is relatively stable. Why did you choose women's football? Li Feiyu, deputy director of the Women's Football Department of China Football Association, explained: "Women's football plays a very important role in our football program, and everyone is looking forward to it. We hope to take this opportunity to give priority to the development of women's football, especially women's youth sports. Take the Youth Olympic Games as a platform to promote the development of women's youth training. According to the rules, this team is all players born between 1999 65438+ 10/and 65438+February 3 1. For this competition, our team has been established and built for two and a half years. At present, this team is training in Shandong and preparing for three months. "
According to reports, at the Youth Olympic Games football stadium in August, Nanjing fans will enjoy the elegance of Jiangsu women's football players at home. Li Feiyu said: "The final list of 18 people will not be announced until July. According to the current preliminary list, Jiangsu should have 7-8 players to participate in the women's football competition of the Youth Olympic Games. Because Jiangsu has done a lot of work in youth training in recent years, it has made great progress. "
Hope to adopt!