Tomorrow, the football competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics will kick off. Well-known football commentator Huang Jianxiang said on social media, “This is a tradition at the Olympics: because the schedule has a total of six rounds, and the final must be completed before the closing ceremony, so it can only be kicked off before the opening ceremony, the same goes for both men and women’s football.”
Huang Jianxiang wrote, this time China’s women’s football team has failed to enter the Olympics again after 2012 in London, and it will be even more difficult in the future. Japan and Australia have made it to the Olympic women’s football competition. While China’s men’s football team has not broken through since 2008 in Beijing Olympics as the host.
In addition, Huang Jianxiang believes that Japan, Iraq and Uzbekistan will represent Asia in the Olympics. Japan may create some surprises. South Korea, for the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, failed to enter the Olympic men’s football competition, which is also the end of a record.
Huang Jianxiang recalled, “I have commented on the Olympic football games many times, experiencing the glory of the women’s football team’s runner-up in 1996 and witnessing the bleakness of the 0-8 defeat to Germany in 2004. I’ve witnessed Nigeria defeat Brazil, Argentina win gold, Cameroon defeat Spain led by Xavi under Eto’o’s leadership to win gold, and Tevez beat Paraguay in the noon sunshine in Athens…”
Finally, Huang Jianxiang concluded, “The men’s football competition at the Olympics should be changed to beach soccer or futsal, which is my appeal and suggestion for many years. We’ve just watched a European Cup where the players are exhausted, can the next Olympic football be a bit more intense and exciting?”
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