The grouping for the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar was as follows, with the first group hosts Qatar, China, Uzbekistan and Kuwait. The second group is Japan, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. The third group is Australia, South Korea, Bahrain and India. The fourth group is Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Fresh and UAE.

China's group is all West Asian teams, these teams are not weak, Uzbekistan and Kuwait are very strong, and the host Qatar is not weak, before the game, naturally many media are not optimistic about the Chinese men's football team.

After all, the current Chinese men's football team is no longer the Chinese men's football team of many years ago, and the current Chinese men's football team has long been reduced to the third-rate in Asia, so it is reasonable for everyone not to be optimistic about them.

However, in China, there are some media who are very optimistic about the national football team, mainly because there is a super-first-class star in the Chinese men's football team, Dongfang Chen is a well-known star in world football today, and his strength is very strong.

Milu, a well-known coach who once led the Chinese men's football team out of Asia to the World Cup, said bluntly in an interview with the official website of the AFC: "The teams that appear in the first group should be China and Qatar. ”

Milou said: "The quality of the host Qatar team is very strong, and they will be the biggest competitors of the Chinese team. Qatar can even go further. ”

Milou also praised his compatriot Tufig Dezic: "Tufig Dezic has done a very good job in Kuwait and it is very good to be able to bring Kuwait to the Asian Cup. However, Kuwait's strength is limited, and it will be difficult for them to qualify from this group, and they are no match for China. ”

Milu naturally will not let Uzbekistan go, he said: "Uzbekistan is also very strong, this will be a strong opponent of the Chinese team, they will create a lot of trouble for the Chinese team." However, I believe that the Chinese team can still beat them and qualify from the group. ”

Milu naturally introduced the Chinese team, he said: "The Chinese team is a combination of old and new, with both experience and vitality. I was most happy to see the names of Du Wei and Qu Bai, who played for me 10 years ago and are rare talents. The Chinese team should seize the opportunity to regain its glory, and it should not be a big problem to qualify from the group."

At this time, the British media also paid attention to this Asian Cup, and the British media "inside·futbol" made a special report for this Asian Cup, and they selected the top ten stars worth paying attention to for this Asian Cup.

Among them, two Chinese players have been selected for this list, these two are Dongfang Chen and Hao Junming.

Dongfang Chen is one of the players in this selection, and was rated by the British media as the most noteworthy star in this Asian Cup, and also the biggest star in this Asian Cup.

British media "inside·futbol" introduced: "Dongfang Chen is the biggest star in this Asian Cup, he is from China, he is the strongest and most famous player in the Chinese team, and he is also one of the few Chinese players who can play in Europe, and now plays for the giant club Arsenal." ”

They added: "Dongfang Chen's quality is very good, he was the top scorer and the best player in the Premier League last season. This season, he is still ranked first in the Premier League's scorer list, and his strength is very strong. ”

And China's Hao Junming is also on the list, he is ranked sixth.

The British media "inside·futbol" introduced: "Among all Chinese players, only a very small number play for foreign clubs, and Hao Junming is one of them, he currently plays for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga. In the Asian Cup in 07, Hao Junming, who was only 19 years old, missed due to injury. Now, as one of only two players in the Chinese national team to stay overseas, Hao Junming has high hopes and is under a lot of pressure as he aims to lead the Chinese team to stand out in the group stage. ”

They also pointed out: "Hao Junming's strength is very good, his foot skills are good, and the speed is not satisfied, although Hao Junming in Germany does not have many opportunities to play, but he is a very strong player, he will definitely assist Dongfang Chen and bring the Chinese team to a better position." ”

The top 10 decibel decibels in the British media's "Inside·Futbol" are China's Dongfang Chen, Japan's Shinji Kagawa, Iran's Shejay, Qatar's Sebastian, Australia's Ogeney Cowardsky, China's Hao Junming, South Korea's Ji Chengyong, Saudi Arabia's Kakhtane, and North Korea. Leung Yong Kee of Xian and Younis of Iraq.

These ten people are the top 10 stars to watch in this Asian Cup. Of course, many Asian media are very unimpressed, they don't think that China can have two people selected for such a list, in their opinion, the only Chinese player who can be selected as the top ten most noteworthy stars in this Asian Cup is Dongfang Chen.

According to the Japanese media, there are more players in their Japanese national team who are worth paying attention to, such as Keisuke Honda, Makoto Hasebe, Shunsuke Nakamura and Hohito Endo in their national team, etc., Hao Junming is not qualified to compare with these Japanese stars at all, and Japanese reporters are not convinced.

In their opinion, South Korea's high-profile stars will be more, for example, in addition to Ji Chengyong, who has been selected, South Korea also has Lee Qinglong, Kim Nam-il, Lee Tianxiu, Lee Dong-guk and other stars worth paying attention to.

Media reporters from other Asian Cup teams are also aggressively promoting the stars of their national teams, and they all believe that Hao Junming should not be among the top ten stars to watch in the Asian Cup.

Now the outside media is very noisy, but Dongfang Chen and the Chinese team did not pay attention to these, and now the Chinese men's football team is in Guangzhou for the last training camp before the trip.

Dongfang Chen came relatively late, he only started training with the players of the Chinese men's football team on the 27th. Dongfang Chen is the latest player, when Dongfang Chen came, a group of Chinese men's football players left the Chinese men's football team's training camp and said goodbye to the Asian Cup.

Because there are now 30 Chinese men's football players training here, and only 23 will eventually be able to go to Qatar, so seven people will leave here.

When Dongfang Chen practiced with the players of the Chinese men's football team, Dongfang Chen didn't even see the players of the Chinese men's football team, because he had already gone a few.

For the arrival of Dongfangchen, the players of the Chinese men's football team welcomed it, and at the same time they were relieved and more confident.

Regardless of whether the players of the Chinese men's football team are willing to admit it, Dongfang Chen is no longer a person of their strength, with the addition of a powerful faction like Dongfang Chen, the strength of the Chinese men's football team will definitely be greatly improved, and it is reasonable for the players of the Chinese men's football team to increase their confidence.

Gao Hongbo waited for Dongfang Chen to come, and he was also relieved in his heart, in his team, Dongfang Chen was very important.

Seeing Dongfang Chen's arrival, he immediately stepped forward, stretched out his right hand to Dongfang Chen, and said, "Welcome back, Dongfang, we need you!" ”

Dongfang Chen immediately said with his right hand: "Thank you!" You're welcome, coach! I am a member of the Chinese men's football team, and I will contribute my efforts to the team. ”

With the addition of Dongfang Chen, the players of the Chinese men's football team have arrived, and now the day of the expedition is getting closer and closer, at this time, the final list of 23 players of the Chinese men's football team has also been determined, the list of 23 people is like this, as follows:

There are three people in the goalkeeper's position, and they are Yang Zhi, Zhen Chen and Guan Zhen.

In the position of the defender, Du Wei, Rong Hao, Li Xuepeng, Zhao Peng, Wang Qiang, Liu Jianye, Zhang Ningpeng and Li Jianbing.

The midfield positions are Hao Junming, Deng Zhuoxiang, Zou Haibin, Yu Hai, Qu Bai, Zhao Xuri, Yang Hao, and Huang Bowen.

The forward positions are Dongfang Chen, Gao Lin, Yang Xu and Dong Fangyan.

This is the 23-member squad of the Chinese men's football team in this Asian Cup, which surprised some people, and the current Asian Footballer, Uzbekistan's midfield core Jebarov was very surprised by this.

Jebarov, who now plays for South Korea's Seoul FC, has just helped Seoul win the South Korean K-League title, and he is surprised by the Chinese team's squad, saying: "Didn't the Chinese defender from South Korea's Suwon Samsung be selected for the Chinese team? Why? Are their coaches crazy? ”

In Jebarov's mouth, the Suwon three-star central defender refers to Li Weifeng, who plays in South Korea, in Jebarov's view, Li Weifeng's strength is very strong, such a player must be selected for the Chinese men's football team, but such players have not entered the Chinese men's football team, which shocked him very much.

And many domestic media reporters can't accept it, they think that Gao Hongbo's selection is too child's play, and they even choose some young players to participate in the Asian Cup, which makes them very dissatisfied.

Some fans even joked: "Our Chinese men's football team is really amazing, and it is a bunker to send the second team to participate in the Asian Cup." Japan and South Korea are not worthy of our full strength, we have higher goals, and our eyes are on the World Cup. ”

Sure enough, at the pre-match meeting of the Chinese men's football team, Cao Jinwei, the vice leader of the Chinese men's football team, said: "The strength of the opponents in the group stage is slightly higher than ours, our goal is not the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup is just a stage for our training, and our main goal is the World Cup." The Asian Cup is a warm-up for the World Cup qualifiers, and we need to take a long-term view, let these young players experience and experience, so that they can accumulate more experience, so that they can go further on the World Cup stage. ”

After hearing Cao Jinwei's words, the Chinese fans suddenly burst into flames, Nima's Chinese men's football team is really awesome, and it actually used the Asian Cup to train soldiers, the Chinese team is simply a local tyrant, even Japan, South Korea and Australia dare not shout such a slogan, the Chinese men's football team is really wonderful.

Nima: Did the Chinese men's football team use the World Series to train in order to prepare for friendly matches? Nima, the Chinese men's football team and the Chinese Football Association are simply too pitiful.

The fans were very dissatisfied with this and strongly expressed their dissatisfaction before the Chinese men's football team went on the trip. Of course, many fans still have a lot of confidence in this Chinese men's football team, because they have players like Dongfang Chen in their team.

And Dongfang Chen was very happy at this time, because he saw his former good buddy Dong Fangyan in the Chinese men's football team, these two were the twin stars of Liancheng Shide back then, both of them had the opportunity to go to the English giant Manchester United, and his buddy's strength was very good.

It is said that his buddy has not been very good recently, and he has begun to mix in the Chinese League, and this time he was able to be selected for the Chinese men's national football team or the reason why Gao Hongbo dared to use people.

The reason given by Gao Hongbo is that there are indeed fewer domestic strikers, so now Dong Fangyan, who is mixed in the Chinese League, has the opportunity to be selected for the Chinese men's football team.

On the 28th, Cao Jinwei, the deputy leader of the Chinese men's football team, sent down the regular uniforms of the players who had been prepared. This time, the Chinese men's football team prepared a bright silver suit instead of the traditional black suit.

After wearing bright silver suits, the image of the players of the Chinese men's football team U has changed a lot in an instant, and they all seem to have changed as if they have changed a person. And Dongfang Chen looks much tougher, this is simply a man among men.