In this season's AFC Champions League matches, the two teams in the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan, have suffered "Waterloo", and the youth teams of the two Chinese Super League giants have played a total of 12 games, lost 11 games, drawn 1 game, conceded 48 goals, and scored only 2 goals. In the end, both teams finished at the bottom of the group and missed the knockout rounds of this season's AFC Champions League.
In the AFC Champions League, the poor results of the two teams have caused headaches for the Chinese Football Association, because the 18-21-year-old players will be the future core of the national football team, and the youth team of Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan is the best among the players in this age group. However, the best players in our 18-21 age group still can't play well in the AFC Champions League. Not to mention the victory over the Japanese and Korean teams, what is even more sad is that they also lost to the Malaysian team by a big score.
According to the latest news from Football Daily, the Youth Department of the Chinese Football Association has begun to take action and put forward an achievable development plan. If the plan can be implemented, there will be a "qualitative leap" in Chinese youth football.
It is reported that the plan of the Youth Department of the Football Association is to hold a youth league between China, Japan and South Korea. After the end of their respective youth leagues, they will appoint their respective winning teams to participate in the China-Japan-Korea League, and the football associations of the three countries will take turns to hold the competition, and the quota can be 2+1+1, 4+2+2+2, 3+2+2+1, etc.
In other words, the relevant departments of the Chinese Football Association have begun to pay more attention to Chinese youth football. Whether it is not the youth army of the two top Teams in the Chinese Super League that lost 48 goals in this AFC Champions League to stimulate the leadership of the Football Association, or the Football Association wants to change the problem of insufficient reserve strength of Chinese football through practical actions. As long as the event can be implemented, it will definitely have a "benign effect" on the development of Chinese youth football.
Although many fans will feel that the Football Association directly invites japanese and Korean teams of the same age to participate, the gap between the strengths of the two sides is very large, and the game may become a one-sided game. However, I think that the FA should invite strong teams to communicate, and the more incompetent they are, the more they should play against strong teams, and find their own shortcomings in the battles between the two sides. Otherwise, the youth army of these top teams in the Chinese Super League will always be able to kill in the domestic league, cannot reasonably position their height, and still lose consecutively when it comes to foreign wars.
Of course, the Football Association has another option, that is, to promote the AFC to gradually improve the Youth AFC Champions League, so that it can send the youth army of the Chinese Super League teams to participate in the exercise. At that time, not only with players of the same age in Japan and South Korea, but also with teams in Southeast Asia and West Asia, from a young age to find gaps, not to be the bottom of the well frog. As long as one of the two plans is implemented, it is good for Chinese youth football.