Data map: On November 14, 2019, in the World Preliminary Top 40 in Asia, the national football team lost 1:2 to Syria. The opponent scored the first goal in the game. After that, Wu Lei took a volley shot to equalize the score, and Zhang Linpeng accidentally got an own goal. The national football team fell behind again.

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　　Chinanews Client Beijing, October 8th (Bian Liqun) National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are coming as scheduled, and the Chinese ushered in the "extended version" of the Golden Week. For the Chinese Men's National Team, it was a rallying sound. horn.

A few days later, they will gather again to impact the World Cup in Qatar.

"You can hide from the first day of the first day but not the 15th." For the national football team at this time, these words are "appropriate". 

　　If the world preliminaries had not been postponed due to the epidemic, this evening would have been their match day, and the national football team will face the Maldives under the leadership of coach Li Tie.

Not surprisingly, the national football team should be able to draw a successful conclusion to the fans' National Day holiday on this day.

　　In fact, the second round of the match against the Maldives should have been held in March this year, because the epidemic was pushed to October, and it was announced not long ago to next year.

Now that the times have changed, it has brought back memories of Chinese football's impact on the World Cup in Qatar in the past year, and once again came to my heart and mixed feelings.

　　In September last year, Lippi of the "second entry" led the national football team to compete in the world preliminaries. The first opponent was the Maldives.

At that time, the national football team defeated their opponents with 5 goals away, and they won a good start at the starting point of a new World Cup impact. The outside world also expects the national football team to rush into the top 12 games under the leadership of Lippi.

　　However, in the national football team, things always seem to be counterproductive.

After a 7-goal victory over Guam in the second round, the national football situation took a turn for the worse, drew with the Philippines and lost to Syria.

Lippi of the "Second Entering Palace" walked away, and the media reporters looked at each other in the news room.

In the late autumn night, Chinese football suddenly became a feather.

Data map: On January 5th, Li Tie, the new head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team, attended the inauguration meeting.

Photo by Li Peiyun, China News Service

　　However, the Football Association did not "worry" in the selection of coaches. After nearly two months of deliberation, Li Tie, who passed the East Asian Cup assessment, officially became the national football coach at the beginning of the year.

　　At that time, Li Tie hadn't thought that before he could show off his skills, a sudden epidemic would break all plans.

He was in danger of fighting the fire, but he has been unable to lead the team to appear in the official competition.

Even looking at the first year of coaching the national football team, it just passed...

　　After Li Tie took office, he was not idle. In addition to leading his team to conduct a training camp overseas, after the domestic epidemic situation improved, he organized a training camp in mid-May.

After the start of the Chinese Super League, Li Tie was even more "flashing", shuttled between the stands of Suzhou and Dalian, in order to inspect the players.

The latest national football training list.

Image source: Official Weibo of the Chinese Football Team

　　No, in the latest national football training list announced at the end of September, there have been several new faces who performed well in the first stage of the Super League.

For example, Tong Lei and Guo Tianyu are rare Chinese football "back waves" that make people shine.

Taking advantage of the lack of competition, Li Tie summoned them into this short training camp for a closer inspection.

　　In a sense, the postponement of the World Preliminaries is a good thing for Chinese football.

Li Tie, who took office in a hurry, can further adjust the national football lineup and transmit his technical and tactical ideas to the players.

　　At the same time, it also gave Chinese football a chance to breathe.

From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Chinese football suffered a third-line rout. The national football team defeated Syria in the world preliminaries. The Olympic team suffered a three-game losing streak + 0 goals in the Olympic preliminaries group stage. , Cambodia and Yemen are under pressure and missed the Asian Youth Championship for the first time in 26 years. There was a terrible situation in which the National Football, National Olympics and National Youth Leagues lost at the same time within a week.

　　According to the normal schedule, the national football team will play against the Maldives at home in March this year and Guam away, and in June against the Philippines and Syria at home.

If Li Tie's national team fails to make it to the top 12 matches as expected, it will undoubtedly be another painful blow to Chinese football, which has not recovered from consecutive losses, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

　　Even more favorable is that with the adoption of the new rules for naturalized players by FIFA in mid-September, the national football team has further expanded the selection of naturalized players. For example, Jiang Guangtai, a naturalized player of Chinese blood, has now represented the national football team. The conditions for playing will be a great supplement to the team's defense.

　　In this training camp, Li Tie has already summoned Jiang Guangtai into the list, and Fernando, who had already been naturalized before, was also newly selected into the national football team.

There are currently 4 naturalized players in the National Football League, and the two naturalized players Luo Guofu and Alan have not been recruited this time.

Data map: Jiang Guangtai (left) will greatly strengthen the defense of the national football team.

　　Compared with Lippi's national football team in the first half of the top 40 games, today's national football team has a lot more choices in available players. As far as the newly recruited Jiang Guangtai and Fernando are concerned, they are both real and instant fighting power. , With them, at least added some chips to advance to the top 12.

　　I have looked forward to the second half of the game many times before. Simply put, it is to seize the advantage of having 3 home courts in 4 games. Under the premise of winning the Maldives and Guam, remain unbeaten against the Philippines and against the hopeless Syria. Time to fight for victory, so that the initiative to advance to the top 12 can be in his own hands.

　　Objectively speaking, the addition of naturalized players has indeed increased the strength of the national football team.

But everything has two sides. After using the trump card of naturalization, the outside world's expectations and requirements for the national football team will only increase, and will not decrease.

At least from the perspective of the people who eat melons, when the national football loses, there is another angry direction.

　　For Li Tie, the pressure is only increasing.

In the context of the global epidemic, the national football team is facing the difficulty of warming up and has been unable to hone the lineup.

It is still unknown how successful the national football team under Li Tie has.

　　On March 25 next year, the national football team will face the Maldives, thus starting the second half of the World Preliminary 40 finals.

If you qualify successfully, there will be a more cruel round of 12.

Maybe it can still breathe now, but whether it is a blessing or a curse, Chinese football will eventually have to face one day.

I hope this time the end is blessing, just like 20 years ago.

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