The Choosing Chinese Football is out of contest for a position in World Cup 2026 After disappearing this Thursday of 1-0 in Indonesia. The result left the Asian giant in the final position of Group C, with six points after nine games. In the absence of a match to finish this stage, the Chinese team has no math options to reach one of the first four areas of the group, a minimum required to move forward with the next round of the qualified process.
At the group stage, China accumulated only six points in eight games, with a painful defeat, 7-0, against Japan. In addition, the lace has been given by Indonesia, whose choice has won China for 30 years, emphasizing the team’s poor performance in recent times.
Removal is a new setback for Chinese football, which has not been managed to return to a final stage of the World Cup since its only participation in 2002, the occasion that does not have to deal with the strongest options in the region, South Korea and Japan, as it is the contestants and automatically classified.
At this time, removal is more offensive, as the 2026 World Cup, held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, has expanded 48 options: “At higher expectations, greater failure,” said analyst Sha Yuansen, of the local newspaper ‘The Paper’.
Experts have indicated a series of problems within the team, from coach decisions, Croatian Branko Ivanković, to the lack of a solid structure in the player’s training system. The coach, who criticized for his choice of players and his approach to the main matches, failed to improve the performance of a team that, according to some, did not have enough resources to compete around the world.
Lack of a stable infrastructure, an appropriate youth training system and a quality professional league limited the development of players who are capable of competing at the highest level, Sha, who said that the successful example of Uzbekistan, sorted this week for the World Cup, “showed” the Chinese group.
Phartanzgo on social networks
On the Weibo Social Network, which is equivalent to X, which is located in China, the label ‘selection is not in the 2026 World Cup’ this Friday that has accumulated 130 million visualizations and thousands of publications, few of them support members of the national team.
“That selection is throwing a closure, we’re not wasting more resources,” one Weibo commentator asked, while another showed his surprise for mixing: “The news will be qualified for them.” “You need to change the players, the coaching staff and the whole system,” recommends a user who has failed by the performance of the selection, predicting that “the same thing will happen” in the classification stage for the 2030 World Cup.
Systematic problems
This qualified phase has been disputed in a context of many Chinese football corruption scandals, which has been more discredited. Recent scandals, such as the 20 -year prison sentence of the former local selection and legend Li t Broves or many judges and officials of the China Football Association (CFA) wrapped in corruption cases, have further damaged the system’s confidence. These cases have reduced public interest in the local league, while fans are diligently following European competitions.
Source: La Verdad
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