National Football Year-end Inventory: The ranking has risen without competition throughout the year, and all six major plans have failed

The plan made by the Football Association three years ago is too idealistic. With the strength of the national football team, it is too difficult to get what you want.

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Yangcheng Evening News reporter Hao Haoyu

FIFA recently announced the last 2020 rankings. The Chinese team’s ranking has not changed from the previous period. It is still ranked ninth in Asia and 75th in the world.

Earlier this year, Li Tie took over Lippi’s coach and became the new coach of the National Football Team. Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the national football team did not play a formal game in 2020, but the final ranking rose by one.

This year is the final year of the three-year plan drawn up by the Chinese Football Association in 2017, but the national teams at all levels have failed to achieve their final goals.

No war for a year, ranking rises instead of falling

Although the national football team did not play any official games in 2020, it still created the highest year-end ranking in three years. In the previous two years, the national football’s year-end ranking was 76th, and this year the national football ranked 75th.

Affected by the epidemic, the National Football Association’s original World Cup qualifiers for the top 40 matches in March and June of this year have been postponed, and they have not played warm-up matches with other national teams. FIFA points are also fixed at 1,326 points.

Bolivia, who was previously ranked 75th, played in the World Preliminary South American Division, losing to Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador one after another, and the ranking also dropped to 79th. The national football team did not play a game, but the ranking rose by one place, quite a dramatic effect.

The FIFA ranking is a hard indicator to measure the level of a national team, but it is not an absolute standard. The Chinese team won a good sign in the top 40 and is the highest ranked team in the same group of FIFA. Enemy Syria.

Syria’s international ranking has been lower than that of the national football for a long time, but it has not suffered a lot on the field. The Philippines ranks 50 places lower than the national football team, but it still got a tie with the national football team. The only consolation is that if you successfully break into the top 12 games, a high ranking may help the national football team win the seeded team.

Three-year plan, all expected to fail

In 2017, the Chinese Football Association drafted the “2020 Action Plan” and formulated six goals for national teams at all levels in 2020. With the national football’s year-end ranking fixed in 75th place, all six goals have failed.

According to the plan, the Chinese men’s adult team will enter the Asian Cup semi-finals and be ranked in the top 70 in the world by the end of 2020; the National Olympic team will reach the top eight in the U23 Asian Championships and get tickets for the Tokyo Olympics; The National Youth Team will advance to the semi-finals of the Asian Youth Championship and qualify for the World Youth Championship; the National Youth Team will qualify for the top four of the Asian Youth Championship to qualify for the U17 World Cup.

In the 2019 Asian Cup, Lippi’s national football team was eliminated by Iran in the quarter-finals. Subsequently, the performance of the national football team in the world preliminaries was also unsatisfactory, and the ranking fell out of the top 70 in the world.

In the 2018 U23 Asian Championships, the Chinese team, who played as the host, only achieved a record of 1 win and 2 losses in the group stage and missed the qualification.

In the Olympic preliminaries at the beginning of this year, the National Olympic team was out of all three games. The performance of the youth team was even worse. The U19 team led by Cheng Yaodong lost to Tajikistan and Saudi Arabia in the group stage of the Asian Youth League, and was out of the group stage; the 02-year-old National Youth team even even the main match of the Asian Youth Championship. Did not score.

Looking back now, the plan made by the Football Association three years ago is too idealistic. Although it is necessary to aim for a higher position when setting the goal, it is too difficult to complete the plan with the current strength of the national football team. Football is not a sport that can be greatly improved in a short period of time. The Football Association’s impracticality three years ago eventually caused itself to fall into the embarrassment of “KPI hanging to zero.

Looking to the future, the road ahead is still confused

The impact of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the main goal of the national football team, and it is also the prerequisite for the football association to make most of the plans. At present, the national football team ranks second in the top 40 of the world preliminaries. There is still hope of qualifying, but there is no room for loss. According to the schedule, the national football team will play again in March next year. Only by winning all the remaining matches can the hope of promotion be completely in their own hands.

With the promulgation of the league salary limit and the club’s neutral name policy, the Chinese Super League will also be affected. Has the player’s enthusiasm been hit by the pay cut? After the big-name foreign players leave, will the appreciation of the league decline? After the name change, will investors with impaired interests reduce their investment in the team? These are all foreseeable problems, and changes in the league will also affect the performance of the national team.

After the introduction of several naturalized players, the performance did not improve significantly, and the national football team focused on the stronger Teixeira. If after the introduction of Teixeira, the national football team is still unable to break into the World Cup, the football association’s plan may have to be overturned again.

To improve the national team’s performance in a short period of time, it seems that there is only a way to attract national players on a large scale, but this does not show that it is not a long-term solution.

The three-year period is too short. If the Football Association sets its goal longer, concentrates on building grassroots leagues and roots in youth training, aiming at the future of 10 or 30 years, the prospects of Chinese football may be better.

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