In today's top stories, the Korean media focuses on the upcoming East Asian Cup tournament and takes an in-depth look at our soccer team's preparations.
According to the article, two months ago, China's Football Association made a decisive decision to send the U23 national team to the East Asian Cup in Japan in July, with the initial intention of laying the foundation for the preparation of the Hangzhou Asian Games.
However, with the postponement of the Hangzhou Asian Games, our team faces a series of challenges. The U23 national team will continue its campaign under Jankovic, but the question of whether to call up veterans to join the squad has been widely debated.
Initially, the country planned to recruit players such as Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng and Zhang Yuning to join the U23 team for the East Asian Cup, but the situation has now changed.
The loss of our soccer team in the Qatar World Cup has left us without any A-Level tournaments this year, leaving the East Asian Cup as the only chance to fight for points. If the East Asian Cup fails to perform well, our ranking in FIFA will drop further, which will be extremely unfavorable for the future Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers. Currently, we are ranked 78th in FIFA and 11th in Asia.
