On August 20, according to Ma Dexing, a senior reporter for the “Sports Weekly”, the U19 Chinese National Youth Team, born in 2005, will also use the national team competition window period to gather in Xianghe on September 2, and will play two warm-up matches against the visiting Iraqi U19 National Youth Team on September 6 and 9. Therefore, all the players recruited by Antonio for the new U21 national team are born in 2003 and 2004, with no “skippers.” And after the U20 Asian Cup in February next year, Antonio’s U21 national team will not temporarily recruit players born on or after January 1, 2005.
It is precisely under the circumstances that the Chinese League A and B are not suspended, and the U19 National Youth Team is also training, that it is not surprising that many players who have not appeared in the Chinese Super League can be included in the U21 national team roster. According to statistics, 19 of the 25 players on the list are from the Chinese Super League first team, but 6 of them have a “0” appearance record in this season so far. Shanghai SIPG striker Liu Xiaolong has only 1 substitute appearance, with only 10 minutes of playing time; while Liu Yu Jie from Shanghai Shenhua also has only 1 substitute appearance, with only 9 minutes of playing time; midfielder Wei Zhiwei from Meizhou Hakka only had 2 appearances recently.
Ma Dexing wrote: “Overall, players of this age group still have relatively few appearances in professional leagues, especially compared to their South Korean and Japanese counterparts. Especially after the Chinese Super League cancelled the U23 policy in the past two years, the playing time of players like Hu Hetao and Mu Talip, who precisely because of the U23 policy, emerged in the Chinese Super League and eventually became members of the U20 National Youth Team and even became regulars, has formed a stark contrast. Now, after the abolition of the U23 policy, the playing time of these two players has declined dramatically. Of course, Mu Talip has been injured this year. Under such circumstances, what kind of performance will these players who lack the opportunity to practice in the league show in the upcoming Changsha Four Nations Tournament?”
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