1BSPORTS 1B Sports June 10th According to the Football News, although the final match between the Chinese national football team and Bahrain tonight is the “last battle” of this round of 18, a group of old players will most likely bid farewell to the Chinese national football team after this round of 18. Only Ivan avoided the topic of “last battle”. Although less than a month has passed since the start of the East Asian Cup, no one wants to see him stay until that time.
After losing 0-1 to Indonesia, the national football team has lost the qualification to the 2026 World Cup. As a result, the match between the national football team and Bahrain became the last game of the national football team’s top 18 matches, and it is also the last game of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Although the results of the game are meaningless to this World Cup qualifiers, for the Chinese national football team whose FIFA ranking has fallen to 99 after losing to Indonesia last round, striving for victory is still the goal. Ivankovic said: “From the perspective of the national team, no game is not important. We hope to bid farewell to the World Cup qualifiers by winning the next game and give it to our fans. They give us great support and express strong love.”
Wang Dalei, the captain of the national football team who attended the pre-match press conference with Ivankovic, was deeply touched. For the 36-year-old, this game may even be the end of his national team career in the past 20 years. In fact, it is not just Wang Dalei, but players of the 91/92 and 93/94 age groups will also likely bid farewell to the national team after the top 18 games. Even the 95/96 age groups will not stay too many players – in this World Cup qualifiers, there are no players of the 89 age group outside the goalkeeper, and only Wu Lei and Li Lei in the 91/92 age groups.
So, will this match between the Chinese national football team and Bahrain be Ivankovic’s last game in the Chinese national football team? When the reporter threw this question to Ivan at the press conference, Ivan did not give a positive answer: “We are now preparing for this game with all our might. As for whether it is my last game, we will conduct a comprehensive analysis and summary after the end of this game, and the Football Association will also make a decision.”
As the national football team missed the 2026 World Cup, this game against Bahrain is theoretically his last game, and the national football team will enter the coach selection mode later. However, it is difficult for the national football team to select coaches within one month. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the national football team to welcome a new official coach from the East Asian Cup that began in early July, so a coach must lead the team to participate in the East Asian Cup. Currently, the Chinese Football Association has multiple plans, including finding an acting head coach from the existing national system.
As for the composition of the team, it must beIt is mainly young players, and most likely to be players born in the 2000s, that is, the current national team players of the 99/00 and 01/02 age groups, plus players of the U22 national team (03 age group and later).
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