The 23-member squad of the Dragon Country team for the Asian Cup this time, compared with the previous 23-person squad for the World Cup, has not changed much, and the average age is still not small.

Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting, Zeng Cheng, Li Xuepeng, Zhao Xuri, Hao Junmin and other veteran players over 30 years old are still the most trusted by Lippi in the current Dragon Country team.

However, the Mesozoic forces led by Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe, with their successful landing in Europe, have also begun to be able to provoke the pillars of this Dragon Country team!

Although the 95 generation led by Deng Hanwen, Liu Yiming, He Chao, Wei Shihao, etc., their performance in the previous Asian Games was disappointing, leaving fans with the impression that they could not bear the responsibility.

However, the younger and lighter 97 generation has emerged Shen Feng, Hu Jingheng and others, and Zhang Yuning has also gained relatively stable playing time in Europe this season, performing well, and this time he was also called up to the team, although he did not enter the final 23-person squad, but the future can still be expected.

Longguo fans firmly believe that with the rapid growth of this group of young players of the same age group as Shen Feng, the renewal of the Longguo team will be successfully completed, and in the next ten years, or even longer, dominate Asia and truly become a world powerhouse.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, 2018, which was full of harvest for Dragon Country Football, passed like this, and 2019, which was full of expectations, came as scheduled.

All the members of the Dragon Nation team, including players, coaching staff, reserve team members (unselected players), and other staff, a total of more than 60 people, spent this New Year's Eve in the United Arab Emirates, thousands of miles away from their homeland.

With the deepening of the reform of the Dragon Football Association, the concept of "professional people in charge of professional affairs" has been well implemented in the Dragon Football Association, headed by Su Maozhen, the meritorious players of the 2002 golden generation of Dragon Football have entered the leadership of the Dragon Football Association to provide more professional logistics support for the national teams at all levels headed by the Dragon Football Association.

In addition, the Dragon Football Association has also hired a number of European professional football professionals to serve as technical advisers for national teams at all levels to escort the development of Dragon Country football.

All in all, Dragon Country Football is now on the right path of development, and it is getting smoother and smoother.

After the time officially enters 2019, the whole of Asia will also enter the Asian Cup time!

As the highest football competition in Asia, this Asian Cup has received great attention from the countries to which the participating teams belong.

Led by the National Television Sports Channel, a number of media outlets sent a professional reporting team to the front line of the UAE to comprehensively report on this Asian Cup.

As the official partner of the AFC, the National Television Sports Channel will broadcast all the more than 50 matches of the Asian Cup live - the matches in the group stage with conflicting game schedules will be arranged separately on the sports channel and the sports event channel, allowing fans to choose the number of games to watch.

Youdou Video once again purchased the exclusive webcast copyright of the Asian Cup from the National TV Sports Channel, and will broadcast all the matches of this Asian Cup simultaneously.

National TV Sports Channel and Youdou Video, the ace programs "Giant Feast" and "This is the World Wave" in the previous World Cup, will also be launched during the Asian Cup, so that fans can get more diversified event information.

With the common expectation of fans across Asia, the time finally came to January 5, 2019.

At 7:30 p.m. local time in the United Arab Emirates on January 5, 2019, the opening ceremony of the 17th Asian Cup opened on time at the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The UAE attaches great importance to this Asian Cup, although the opening ceremony has never been the focus of football events, but the UAE royal family, which is not bad for money, still spares no expense to create an audio-visual feast for fans all over Asia and even the world.

In order to show the importance and support for this tournament, the royal family and government leaders of West Asia, who are separated by the United Arab Emirates, and more than 20 heads of state from other Asian regions attended the opening ceremony of this Asian Cup.

After the opening ceremony, the opening match of this Asian Cup was played between the host UAE team and the Bahrain team.

Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are located in the Arabian Peninsula, is a strip of water friends, the football development level of the two countries is not far apart, the strength of the UAE team and the Bahrain team is half a pound to eight taels, the two teams in this opening match, evenly matched, each other offensive and defensive, the process of the game and technical content, although far less than the previous World Cup opener Russia and the Dragon team of the game exciting, but also in line with the level of these two teams.

In the end, the UAE team defeated the Bahrain team 3:2 by virtue of the home advantage and won the opening of this tournament.

Group C, where the Dragons are located, the first match of the first round of the group stage, is scheduled for the third match day of the tournament, that is, on January 7, at 3 p.m. local time in the United Arab Emirates, and 7 p.m. in the capital city of the Dragons.

The Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, a complex stadium with only 12,000 spectator seats, was snapped up by crazy Dragon fans in just a few hours after the AFC opened the sales window for this Asian Cup!

If it weren't for the fact that the AFC compulsorily reserved hundreds of tickets for Kyrgyzstan fans, the tickets for this game would most likely be filled by Dragon Country fans!

With the vigorous development of the domestic economy of the Dragon Country, the luxury tour of West Asia based on Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, has gradually become an important destination for the people of the Dragon Country to travel abroad, and now the Asian Cup is held here, the Dragon Country fans come over, you can watch the football and travel without mistake, the Dragon Country in January is shrouded in severe cold, but the temperature in the United Arab Emirates is suitable for sightseeing, it is a good time to travel here, therefore, during the Asian Cup, the Dragon Country tourists, Dragon Country fans, once again become an important force to boost the local tourism industry in the United Arab Emirates.

After the experience of the World Cup, the current Dragon Nation team has been reborn from a year ago!

Although there are not many changes in the personnel of the main lineup, everyone's spirit has changed completely differently from a year ago!

In the World Cup, in the face of those traditional international football powerhouses in Europe and South America, the Dragon team must maintain a humble posture and take the initiative to put itself in the position of the weak.

In the current Asian Cup, the Dragon Nation team can already hold its chest up and stand out from the crowd!