The fiasco of the AFC Champions League has once again caused many negative effects, although we all know that sending a youth army to participate is a forced decision, but for the dazzling score, the psychology is still very uncomfortable, and even some people call for the next game not to kick, take the initiative to quit it.
According to the "Football News", in fact, before the start of this AFC Champions League, there were really 3 Chinese Super League teams that proposed to withdraw from the game, but in the end, only the two teams of Yatai and Haigang were really determined to quit. It is reported that at that time, these three teams were all proposed to the Chinese Football Association to withdraw from the competition due to environmental problems. However, the sponsors of the AFC Champions League do not want to give up the Chinese market, and through pressure from all sides, they ask the Chinese Super League teams to continue to participate. In this case, in the end, two teams chose to withdraw from the competition, and Guangzhou and Taishan sent youth troops to continue to compete.
However, after two rounds of group matches, the influence of the AFC Champions League on the Chinese market has almost fallen to the bottom, and the commercial value as a sponsor has become zero. For these young people who participate in the competition, there is no competition to play in the country, and to participate in the competition abroad will create a tragedy, and they should not be scolded, because they are all victims, and if they want to scold, they will scold those who have created such a big environment!
The Chinese Super League team is in a dilemma for the AFC Champions League, and at the level of the national brand game, we are much happier, saying that we will retreat. On April 19, Beijing time, the East Asian Football Federation announced that Japan will take the place of China to host the 2022 East Asian Cup. Originally, according to the system of rotating, China will host this year, but due to well-known reasons, we voluntarily gave up the right to host the event and replaced it with Japan.
For this East Asian Cup, the attitude of various countries is different, Japan will send the U21 national youth team to play, while the Chinese side will only send the U23 national Olympic team to train for the Asian Games in September, as for the South Korean side, it may send the national second team, with the domestic league as the team of quasi-internationals to participate, preparing for the World Cup at the end of the year. The last team to participate will be Hong Kong, China.
To be honest, no matter who the opponent of the game is, our goal should also be to refuse to be at the bottom, the current strength of the national Olympic team is probably the same as the third-rate level among its Asian peers, no matter who we play, it is difficult for us to be sure of winning, and Chinese football has a long way to go.
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