Before the match between the Chinese team and the Jordanian team, Xinhua News Agency reviewed the history of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup with the entire page.

The fact that this media with a strong official flavor has paid so much attention to Chinese football is unprecedented, and in the eyes of many people, it is a signal that the whole country has begun to pay attention to football.

"This is the tenth time that the Chinese team has participated in the Asian Cup. In the previous nine tournaments, the national football team won the runner-up twice, the third place twice, the fourth place twice, the quarterfinals once, and the group stage once.

For the national football team, which rarely has the opportunity to appear in the World Cup, a history of participating in the Asian Cup almost encompasses most of the laughter and tears, glory and humiliation of Chinese men's football on the international stage.

In 1976, when the Chinese team participated in the Asian Cup for the first time, only six teams participated in the final stage. Although the Chinese team rarely appears on the international stage, it actually has a group of powerful players such as Rong Zhixing, Chen Xirong, Chi Shangbin and Qi Wusheng, and under the leadership of Nian Weisi, they drew with Malaysia and lost to Kuwait in the group stage, and entered the semi-finals with the second place in the group. In the semi-finals, O:2 lost to the host Iranian team, and in the third and fourth finals, it defeated the Iraqi team 1:O to win the third place, which was also a victory for the Chinese team in the Asian Cup.

In the 198o Asian Cup in Kuwait, the final stage was expanded to ten teams, divided into two groups, and the top two teams in each group advanced to the semi-finals. Under the leadership of Su Yongshun, the Chinese team won 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses ranked fourth in the group, missed the semifinals, and finally ranked seventh.

In the 1984 Asian Cup in Singapore, the Chinese team created the best record in the history of the runner-up under the leadership of Zeng Xuelin. At that time, the Chinese team had a number of players with distinctive characteristics and outstanding strength, such as Zuo Shusheng, Zhao Dayu, Gu Guangming, Jia Xiuquan and Shen Xiangfu. In the group stage, in addition to losing to Iran in the first game O:2, they swept Singapore, India and the United Arab Emirates 2:O, 3:O and 5:O to enter the semi-finals as the group leader. In the semifinals, Li Huayun went to the meeting alone in the second half of overtime and defeated the Kuwait team 1:o. It's a pity that they lost to the Saudi team in the final two days later o:2 and fell one step away from the championship.

In 1985, it was the team with the runner-up members of the Asian Cup as the main force that attacked the World Cup for the third time, and lost to the Hong Kong team at home in the case of a draw to qualify for the second stage of the competition, resulting in the "5?19 incident".

In the 1988 Qatar Asian Cup, the Chinese team underwent a major change, under the leadership of Gao Fengwen, the group stage qualified with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and the semifinals suffered a 1:2 defeat in overtime by the South Korean team, which also fell into the root of "Koreanphobia". The Chinese team lost to Iran on penalties in the third- and fourth-place finals, and finally finished fourth.

In the 1992 Asian Cup in Japan, the Chinese team was led by Ren foreign coach Schlapner, and boldly used newcomers such as Ou Chuliang, Fan Zhiyi, Peng Weiguo and Hao Haidong, and won the second place in the group and entered the semifinals with an undefeated record. In the semi-finals, the Chinese team and the Japanese team played a heart-wrenching game.

Just opened only 3o seconds, Xie Yuxin received Hao Haidong's pass after breaking through on the left side to grab the point to score, which is also the fastest goal of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup; the Chinese team's lead maintained the entire first half, but in the second half, the Japanese team scored two goals in a row, although Li Xiao equalized the score for the national football team, but the Japanese team Yamasashi before the end of the game a stunner made the national football team 2:3 hate.

1992 was the first year of the professionalization of Japanese football, and it was also this year that became a watershed for Chinese and Japanese football. Although Chinese football also went professional two years later, the Chinese team and the Japanese team have followed very different trends. Since 1998, the Japanese team has reached the World Cup finals for four consecutive years, but the Chinese team has only been lucky enough to enter the World Cup in 2oo2.

In 1996, the UAE Asian Cup was expanded to 12 teams. Qi Wusheng, who played for the Chinese team in the Asian Cup 20 years ago, took the helm of the national football team, and the Chinese team defeated the Syrian team in the group stage, lost to the Uzbekistan team and the Japanese team, and stumbled into the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, facing the eventual champion Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team scored two goals in the opening 16 minutes by Zhang Enhua and Peng Weiguo, but then was scored four goals by the Saudi team, although Zhang Enhua pulled back a goal before the end of the game, but the score of 3:4 still let the Chinese team fall outside the semi-finals.

History always inadvertently pressed the replay button - in the 1997 French World Cup Qualifiers Top 10 match, also under the leadership of Qi Wusheng, the national football team with the so-called "golden generation" players sat at the Dalian Golden State Stadium, facing the Iranian team, Fan Zhiyi and Li Ming took a 2:o lead in the first half, but then were scored four goals in a row and lost to the opponent 2:4. The morale of the national football team was frustrated and finally failed to qualify. It is precisely because of these two famous reversals that Qi Wusheng has become the target of the fans' crusade. However, is there only one person who has the merits and demerits of Chinese football?

In the 2ooo Asian Cup in Lebanon, the magical coach Milou led the team to the quarterfinals with an undefeated record in the group stage. In the quarterfinals, the Chinese team defeated the Qatar team 3:1 to advance to the semifinals. Facing the Japanese team in the semifinals, the Chinese team lost 2:3, and the third and fourth place finals lost to the South Korean team o:1 and finally ranked fourth.

The significance of this Asian Cup lies in the fact that Milu has reached the goal of the assessment and can continue to coach the Chinese team in the South Korea-Japan World Cup qualifiers a year later, and the national football team is under the leadership of this magical coach to reach the World Cup.

In 2oo4, the Asian Cup finals were expanded to 16 teams. China has also become the host of the Asian Cup, and the national football team playing at home has enjoyed the right time and place, drawing 2:2 with Bahrain, beating Indonesia 5:o, and Qatar 1:o, and qualifying first in the group with 2 wins and 1 draw. In the quarterfinals, the Chinese team defeated the Iraqi team 3:o with the goals of Hao Haidong and Zheng Zhi. Facing the Iranian team in the semifinals, the regular time and extra time were tied at 1:1, relying on Liu Yunfei's miraculous save, the Chinese team defeated the opponent 4:3 in the penalty shootout to advance to the final.

In the decisive battle against Japan, Takashi Fukusai scored first, and Li Ming then equalized for China. However, in the 7o minute, Japan took a corner kick, Koji Nakata scored the ball with his hand, but the referee blew the penalty for the goal to be valid. After that, the Chinese team launched a furious attack, but was helplessly stolen by the Japanese team Keiji Tamada, and finally hated 1:3, which was also the closest the Chinese team came to the Asian championship.

In the 2oo7 Asian Cup, Zhu Guanghu was at the helm of the coach, and the Chinese team ushered in the lowest ebb of the Asian Cup, with 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss in the group stage. In the group game, they defeated Malaysia 5:1, and in the second game, they were equalized by Iran 2:2 in the good situation of leading by two goals, and in the third game, they faced Uzbekistan in the third game, and once again walked to the crossroads of the crossroads to qualify for the draw.

The Chinese team led by Zhu Guanghu failed to even qualify for the group stage...... This is the first time in 27 years that the Chinese team has played.

Because the group stage did not qualify, the Chinese team's ranking in the overall list of the historical record of the Asian Cup has also dropped sharply from third to fifth.

Originally, they were second only to Iran and South Korea, but now they are overtaken by Saudi Arabia and Japan.

Japan is ranked ahead of the Chinese team because of goal difference......"

At the end of this article by Xinhua News Agency, it was mentioned that during the Asian Cup in Lebanon in 2ooo, the then head coach of the Chinese team, Milutinovic, led the Chinese team to achieve a good result in the fourth place in the Asian Cup, and more importantly, Milu's national team used the time of the Asian Cup to achieve the effect of running in the lineup and training, and the Chinese team then got better and better in the qualifiers for the 2oo2 South Korea-Japan World Cup, and finally entered the South Korea-Japan World Cup.

In this article, I also made an outlook, compared with the Chinese team ten years ago, maybe the general strength of the players is not as good, but this Chinese team is younger, and more importantly, this team is led by such a star as Yang Fan, does this mean that this Chinese team can carry more hopes? !

"It will be what we are most looking forward to using this Asian Cup to achieve excellent results, but also to achieve the effect of integrating the team and training the troops, and laying a good foundation for the upcoming 2o14 World Cup in Brazil Asian qualifiers...... In the 2o14 World Cup in Brazil, the Chinese team should not be absent again, and should not be absent again, Chinese fans are looking forward to the World Cup, and the World Cup should not be missing Yang Fan, a top star......"

On the afternoon of January 21, local time in Qatar, the first match of the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup, the match between the Chinese team and the Jordanian team, will be played at the Hari Stadium in Doha, Qatar.

The stands at Harry Stadium were packed. Due to Jordan's relative proximity to Qatar, there were a lot of Jordanian fans in this game, and they almost wanted to turn Harry Stadium into the home stadium of the Jordanian team.

The reporters present were all given the Chinese team's squad, which included all the members of the bench. They went to see the list first, and when they saw Yang Fan's name on it, the Chinese reporters were relieved, because on the morning of this day, there was also a gossip that Yang Fan had recovered from his old injury, and now they were relieved to see Yang Fan on the list.

When the Chinese team was warming up, everyone's eyes were always on Yang Fan, especially the Jordanian reporters, how they hoped that Yang Fan was really injured and couldn't play.

"It seems that it is indeed a false alarm, and Yang Fan has no problem. The Chinese journalist said happily.

"I don't see anything. A Jordanian reporter shook his head, "Alas, to be honest, the boys are doing very well, if the Chinese team does not have Yang Fan, we are not afraid of them at all, and it will be very difficult to say now......"

Jordanian football has made great progress over the years, and the players of the Chinese team feel that they have always had a very good record with Jordan and do not pay much attention to Jordan, but interestingly, Jordanians also look down on the Chinese team a little, they think that the current strength of the Chinese team has long been much worse than before, and Jordan has the possibility of winning the game with the Chinese team.

In the eyes of many Asian teams, the Chinese team has always been a "pseudo-strong team". In fact, in recent years, every time the qualifiers and Asian Cup group draws, such as Bahrain, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria, were drawn to a group of the Chinese team, the Chinese side felt that their luck was quite good, and at that time, Bahrain also felt that the signing was good, and they have no fear of China at all. If it weren't for Yang Fan's return to the national team a year ago, the strength of the Chinese team would have immediately improved by a notch, and the deterrent power of the Chinese team in Asia would have been even lower.

The Jordanian team arrived at the stadium first, and they warmed up five minutes before the Chinese team, so they ended the warm-up first.

After returning to the locker room after the warm-up, Jordan coach Adnan analyzed the game for the players, and he took the Chinese team to talk about the whole day off before, saying that the Chinese team despised the Jordanian team, saying that the Chinese team was arrogant, and used this to stimulate the morale of the Jordanian players.

Adnan's words did have an effect, which made the Jordanian players very hot.

As the biggest dark horse in this Asian Cup, the Jordanian team has been tested for a long time by the players who came out of the group of death, especially the draw against the defending champion Japan, which makes the Jordanian players very proud and they are also very confident in themselves.

The Jordanian team is not afraid of the Chinese team, which relied on the draw to 'luck' into the World Cup in 2oo2, the performance of these years is in everyone's eyes, and the first half of the Chinese team and Qatar, Jordanian players are also very familiar, if it were not for Yang Fan, after the Chinese team lost that game, it would be difficult to qualify from the group.

Therefore, hearing the contempt of the Chinese team itself, the Jordanian players were more angry and vowed to let this opponent taste their own strength in the game.

Adnan was pleased with the effect of his words.

"We must pay special attention to Yang Fan, I don't need to say more about the power of this person, as long as Yang Fan is prevented, China has no teeth! Other people are not to be afraid, they are not necessarily inferior to you." ”

Adnan's pre-war mobilization was very thoughtful, he emphasized Yang Fan's awesomeness, asked the whole team to pay attention to Yang Fan, and deliberately said that Jordanian players are not worse than Chinese players. This boosted the confidence of the Jordanian players, but also made them particularly wary of the most dangerous man in the Chinese team.

"At the beginning of the game, you have to attack. Adnan said as he looked at his players. The Chinese team didn't expect us to attack, so we tried to catch them off guard.

'If the tee shot is in our hands, we will retreat after a round of attack. Lure them out. If the tee shot is in their hands. That's just right, let them attack. We defend and counterattack, beware of Yang Fan's individual ability!" Adnan said, the Jordanian team's defense is doing well, if the Chinese team kicks off first and attacks first, Jordan is not scared.

On the other side, the head coach of the Chinese team, Gao Hongbo, made the final arrangements in the locker room.

"The first 15 minutes of the game were our chance! We tried to put pressure on the Jordan team as soon as we started, you know the characteristics of this team, they defended very well, and the best thing to do for a team like this is to score goals, to score as soon as possible, the sooner you score, the better! ”

Gao Hongbo set a strategy for the whole team, which is to strive for early goals. This is indeed the most straightforward way to deal with a team that is good at defending. However, it is easier said than done, and it depends on the performance of the players on the pitch to complete the tactical intent.

Gao Hongbo looked at the players, he thought about it for a while, and decided to add fire to these players in the end.

"I've heard some things before, I don't know if you've heard of them. Gao Hongbo suddenly said, "There is a saying that there is such an opinion among our Asian opponents that the Chinese team is a good opponent and they are looking forward to meeting us in the tournament." What does this mean, who knows?" he asked the crowd.