Neither adapt to the plateau nor arrange the warm-up games. The failure of the country is due to the mispreparation【WEIRUSHUI】

If the preparation is more reasonable, the national team may be able to play better results in this Under-17 Asian Cup. In the early morning of April 10, Beijing time, the final round of the U17 Asian Cup between the Chinese team and the Thai team was carried out to 70 minutes, and the physical fitness of the national junior team players was still abundant, which was in sharp contrast to the physical exhaustion of a large number of players in the first two group matches. This phenomenon is quite unusual. According to common sense, this battle is the third high-intensity game that the junior team participated in in six days, and the physical condition of the players should gradually decline, but why the actual situation is the opposite? The answer is that after nearly two weeks of training and competition, Chinese players have finally adapted to the plateau environment of Saidi Taif at an altitude of 1700 meters, and can give full play to their due level.

Not surprisingly, the all-dominant national team won the battle of honor 2-0, ending the journey of Asia with 1-2 losses. At the final whistle, the faces of the young players finally showed a long-lost smile, but this has been unable to change the reality of the national team. Sadly, this outcome may have been avoided. High altitude combat but no high altitude preparation

After losing to the Saudi Arabia team in the first battle, the junior team's center back Alinizar Roheman said that he had not adapted to the plateau game, he said: "On the one hand, the ball was lost earlier, and everyone was a little lost." On the other hand, the plateau environment did make a difference, and after 70 minutes we couldn't run." Many international players, including Ali Nizar, expressed similar sentiments after that game, never feeling so tired after 60 minutes of a game.

After watching China's opening match, the coach of the next opponent Uzbekistan, Ismoilov, asserted that China will still suffer from altitude sickness in the second match. "The Chinese team will be tired after 60 minutes, I took that into account and encouraged the players to put more pressure on their opponents and be more aggressive." After beating the Chinese national team 2-1, Ismoilov said happily, "Beating the Chinese team was what I had to do, and I am very happy to achieve my goal." Uzbekistan's winning goal came in the 86th minute, when many of the Chinese players were in a state of complete inability to run, and there were even a scene of players trying to catch up with the defense while straining their cramp calves. Plateau warfare is no stranger to Chinese football. From the 12-minute run at the Haigeng training base in Kunming (about 1,800 meters above sea level) during the First A period, to the Yukun in Yunnan Province, which has a plateau home court in Yuxi (about 1,700 meters above sea level), most of China's professional athletes have experienced plateau competition and training. In the process of preparing for the Asian Cup, the team authorities have reminded the coach Kenichi Uemura whether it is necessary to carry out targeted preparations on the plateau, but the latter's response is that "1700 meters above sea level will not have an impact." This also has the arrangement that the national team did not arrive in Taif until March 27, and the first two games of the group on April 4 and 6 were the most intense time for the players to have altitude sickness.

The lack of warm-up match arrangement affects running-in

In addition to the lack of preparation for highland operations, another important reason why the national team failed to play at the level it should in the U17 Asian Cup is the serious lack of high-quality warm-up matches during the preparation period. It is reported that the competent authorities of the national teams at all levels of the Chinese men's and women's football teams are not unified, and the men's football team is managed by the National management Department except the U17 national youth team, and all the teams of the women's football team are managed by the women's Department. This is the first time responsible for the management of the youth team in the network, resources and experience lack, resulting in the team in the preparation period can not get enough warm-up opportunities. Since the end of the U17 Asian Cup qualifiers in October last year, the national youth team has organized three training sessions, and only played warm-up games with some low-level teams. After the sprint preparation began on March 6 this year, the national team also arranged only one high-quality warm-up match - against Indonesia in Dubai. Can't find a match? The answer is no. It is reported that a number of high-level teams have proposed the idea of warming up with the national team, including the UAE, Iran, Australia and the same age group teams, but in the end, they have not been realized. This is related to Kamimura Kenichi's belief that there should not be too many warm-up games before the war, and it is also related to the youth's failure to help the team find high-level opponents in the first few training sessions.

Buniamin Abdusalam, who scored the final goal and provided an assist, could not hide his disappointment after the game. "We are fully capable of qualifying for the group (World Cup). It was the first time we played this kind of game and everyone was a bit nervous and not at full strength." Buniamin admitted, "We did not show the tacit understanding on the pitch before, which became the worst part of our Under-17 Asian Cup." Another player, Liu Jiale, also mentioned the lack of warm-up games, saying: "After the New Year, the intensity of the games we played was not as high, and maybe that had an impact to some extent." The mistakes made by the National Youth team in participating in the U17 Asian Cup should be firmly remembered. It clearly has a group of outstanding players with characteristics and enough time to prepare for the war, but it failed to build a more effective team in the end. At the same time as the 2008 national team is about to disband, the 2009 national team coached by Japanese coach Fujima Min is about to open the 2026 U17 Asian Cup journey, hoping that the failure of the predecessors will become the best lesson, so that the younger generation will take less detente and step on the world stage faster.