Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 10 (Reporter Bian Liqun) The 2022 Football Association Cup has not yet ended, but the 2023 season of Chinese football has already begun.
2022 is a big year for world football, but Chinese football has experienced a small year-the Chinese men's football team not only lost hope of entering the World Cup early, but also lost to Vietnam on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Audio".
Fortunately, the Chinese Women's Football Asian Cup reached the top, which reserved a little glory for Chinese football in 2022.
In the brand-new 2023, the U17 Chinese men's football team has taken the lead in starting the first training session. The U19 team has just finished the New Year's Eve training session, and the national football coach selection is also in progress.
World preliminaries, Asian Cup, Women's World Cup, Asian Games... Chinese football has a full schedule in the new year, but at the same time it will also face many challenges.
Where will the restarted Chinese football go?
Data map: In the Qatar World Cup qualifiers in the Asian top 12 match, the national football team lost 0:2 away to Japan.
Image source: ICphoto
The Chinese men's football team urgently needs to be restarted
From the end of the top 12 World Preliminary Tournament at the end of March last year to now, the Chinese men's national team has been on hold for the past 9 months-no training camps, no friendly matches, and there is no way to say whether the coach will leave or stay.
However, in view of the lack of World Cup missions and the influence of objective factors, such an abnormal state is also normal.
But now that the world preliminaries and the Asian Cup are getting closer, the reconstruction of the Chinese men's national team is imminent.
It is reported that the selection of coaches for the national football team is in progress.
In view of the fact that there are only more than 2 months left until the international competition day at the end of March, there is not much time left for coach selection. This is the first problem that needs to be resolved before starting again.
For the new coach, the task of taking over the national football team is not small.
In the last World Cup cycle, among the veteran national football teams, only two young players, Zhang Yuning and Zhu Chenjie, really played the main role. Players such as Wei Shihao, Micro Motion, Deng Hanwen, Gao Tianyi and other players were mostly in rotation.
In the new cycle, these "post-95" players must take the lead.
In addition, the Guozihao echelons who have been affected by objective factors in recent years will also set sail again.
The U24 national football team will play in the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the U20 and U17 national football teams will play in the Asian Cup of their respective age groups. They will compete with players of the same age group in the intercontinental arena to further catch up with the gap.
Data map: The Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup for the 9th time.
Can the Women's World Cup surprise?
Unlike the restarted Chinese men's football team, the Chinese women's football team, which started a new cycle last year, aims to continue to climb this year.
The women's football girls will play in the women's football World Cup every four years as the Asian champions.
The Chinese women's football team, which fell into the "death group", will face the European Cup champion England and the European powerhouse Danish women's football team in the group stage. The remaining opponent will be in the World Preliminary Play-off Group B in mid-February. Senegal, Haiti The winner with Chile will catch the last train of the World Cup.
Objectively speaking, although they won the Asian Cup, looking at the development speed of the world women's football, the challenges that the Chinese women's football will face in the World Cup will be unprecedented.
Fortunately, the "overseas team" composed of Wang Shuang, Tang Jiali, Shen Mengyu, Zhang Linyan, Li Mengwen, Yang Lina and other players gave the Chinese women's football team a chance to keep up with the trend and accumulate experience and play in the high-paced and high-confrontation foreign leagues. The strength of tough battles.
The opening ceremony of the 2022 Super League season.
Image source: IC photo
Can the professional league get back on track?
In addition to the national team at the top of the "pyramid", whether the professional league can get back on track in 2023 is also crucial.
According to a reporter from Chinanews.com, the Chinese Super League and Women’s Super League, including China League One and China League Two, will return to the normal home and away game system in the new season. Item preparation.
For the restart of Chinese football, this will also be a great opportunity.
After all, a major support of the national team lies in the league. The quality of the league will directly affect the state and growth rate of the national team players.
In addition, when the league returns to the home and away system, its unique geographical attributes allow more people to get in touch with and feel football at close range.
Although Chinese football is in a low period, after the initial return to home and away games in the 2022 season, Dalian, Wuhan, Chengdu... There are still hope in the home games of tens of thousands of fans.
Data map: Shanghai Shenhua in the Super League.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
Of course, before the start of the new season, it is also crucial for the club to pay off wage arrears.
Shanghai Shenhua, Wuhan Changjiang and Hebei teams were penalized in the 2022 season due to wage arrears.
Recently, it was also reported that several Chinese Super League teams were temporarily banned from signing by FIFA due to wage arrears disputes.
These seemingly "commonplace" things have become a major shackle in the current development of professional leagues.
In addition to the Chinese Super League, the living conditions of the clubs in the Chinese Premier League and Chinese Second League are generally worrying.
While Chinese football is set sail again, this difficulty must be overcome.
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