On December 17, 2023, Beijing time, the new national football training team has officially assembled in Shanghai, according to relevant news, the team will officially fly to the United Arab Emirates at 1 pm on the 18th.
According to the arrangement, the national football team needs to train in the UAE for three weeks, and it also includes several warm-up matches to play, including the warm-up match against Oman on December 29, this game is the same as the previous 8 warm-up matches of the national football team, which are all international A-level events, and CCTV5 will also broadcast this matchup live.
After completing a 3-week training camp in the United Arab Emirates, the national football team will officially go to Qatar to participate in the Asian Cup. In fact, it is not difficult for the national football team to achieve the goal of qualifying from the group, the competition system is 24 teams to participate, and then divided into 6 groups, 4 teams in each group, and then a round of single round-robin matchup, and the top two teams in the final group will advance directly, and the remaining four places will be divided into the four best group third.
In addition, the opponents of the national football team in the group stage are Qatar, which is ranked sixth in Asia, Lebanon is ranked 19th in Asia, and Tajikistan, which is ranked 20th in Asia, the chances of qualifying are very good!The opening match of the national football team in this Asian Cup is on January 13, 2024, the opponent is the 20th ranked Tajikistan team in Asia, and it is also the lowest ranked team in this group, if you take 2024, the national football team has been undefeated in the face of the Tajikistan team for 27 years, and the last time it lost to the Tajikistan team was back in the World Preliminary Tournament on May 11, 1997, since then, the national football team has never lost to this team, and I hope that when we meet in January next year, the national football team can continue to maintain an unbeaten record！