By 阿拉爱上海
Live broadcast on August 11 according to Ma Dexing, the Korean Football Association officially notified the Asian Football Association this week, the team will not be sent to participate in the 6th U23 Asian Cup qualifier scheduled for mid-early September and the first stage group match of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games men’s football Asian qualifier, which means that the qualifying situation of the Chinese Olympic team has become more severe.
On late May this year, the AFC grouped the teams that signed up for the first stage of the 6th U23 Asian preliminary match and the Paris Olympic preliminary match. 44 teams were divided into 11 groups, and each group had 4 teams. The North Korean team was listed as the fourth-grade team during the group draw. The result was in the ninth group with the Australian team, the Tajikistan team and the Laos team.
According to the regulations of the Asian Football Association, the first place of each group plus the second place of the four teams with the best results, plus the 16 teams of the host Qatar team will win the final competition in Qatar in next April. Due to the withdrawal of the North Korean team, there will be only three teams left in the ninth team. This means that in addition to the successful promotion of the first place of each group, when comparing the second place of the 11 groups, the second place in the group with four participating teams must exclude the fourth place in the same group.
Take the seventh group where the Chinese team is located as an example. If the Chinese Olympic Games fails to overwhelm the team and can only rank second in the group, when comparing with the second place in other groups, the result of the last place in the same group will be removed. Assuming that the Indian team ranks third and the Maldives team ranks fourth, then the results of the match between the Chinese team and the Maldives team will not be counted, only the results of the match with the Chinese team and the Indian team will be counted, this may not be a good thing for the Chinese Olympic team. In contrast, the overall strength of the Maldives team is relatively weak. The Chinese team could have won the big score battle, but now the result of this game is not counted, the Chinese Olympic team may not have the advantage of winning the game.
In addition, although the matches of each group were held in the last round on September 12, due to the time difference, after the last round of matches between the Chinese team and the Maldives team ended, the matches of other groups may be in progress or not yet started. The opponents can calculate according to the results of the Chinese team’s matches to obtain the desired results, this situation has not appeared in other Chinese youth national character teams before.
It is reported that although the Korean Olympic team withdrew from the Paris Olympic qualifier, it will still send the team to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games men’s football competition that began in late September. The North Korean national team will also be sure to participate in the FIFA World Cup qualification Asian top 36 in November this year.
(Tiger)