The first match of the 2026 World Cup Asian final qualifying round, held on the 5th, between Japan and China ended with a result of 7-0. Goals from Endo Wataru and Mitoma Kaoru gave Japan the lead in the first half, and in the second half Minamino Takumi scored two more, while Ito Junya, Maeda Daizen and Kubo Takefusa all found the net. After the match, Brazilian forward Muriqui, who once played for Guangzhou Evergrande, a powerhouse in China, updated his social media account with the following reflections: “I just saw the news that the Chinese national soccer team lost 0-7 to the Japanese national team. This result was quite a shock, showing that China still has a long way to go before it becomes a soccer powerhouse. Simply relying on naturalized foreign players will not solve the problem; efforts need to be made within each club’s youth teams. I cannot understand why a country with a population of 1.5 billion cannot produce 30 good players for its national team. What on earth could the problem be?” Muriki is known for having played for FC Tokyo in 2016. He is a talented attacker who showed overwhelming strength at Guangzhou Evergrande in the AFC Champions League and reached the top of Asia in 2013. As one of the greatest talents during China’s most exciting football era, he cannot help but feel frustrated by the lack of progress being made by the national team.
>>1 I guess it can’t be helped, since I’m not used to playing ball games. It’s the same in Africa, where people can’t throw a baseball or catch a fly ball, and they can’t toss a volleyball or dribble a basketball. It can’t be helped, since I don’t have the chance to be involved when I’m young.
>>1 In China, children have grown up to be selfish due to the long-standing one-child policy, and are therefore unable to play as a team (cooperation). Cooperation is important in soccer.
>>1 Some people say that team sports aren’t for them, but volleyball used to be strong. Just because it’s a special team sport doesn’t mean it’s bad. Even table tennis is not weak because it’s a two-person team.
>>14 Potential popularity is No.1 Well, with the national team like this, there’s no way to get excited Basketball is more popular, but The excitement when they decided to participate in the Japan-Korea World Cup was so great that it was like nothing compared to the basket shots.
She’s too stubborn and can’t communicate. Chinese girls don’t seem to be that bad at team sports like synchronized swimming or volleyball, so there seems to be a problem with her personality.
Uruguay is damn strong despite its small population, and Yugoslavia is divided into many small countries but each country is pretty strong. I guess it’s all about training and the environment.
Is this worse than, for example, in high school baseball, Tokyo’s Waseda Jitsugyo High School, which has a population of over 14 million, losing to Shimane’s Taisha High School, which has a population of only 680,000?
90% of soccer is decided in elementary school, but teaching elementary school kids isn’t fun and doesn’t make you any money, so it all depends on how much thought is put into the future and how passionate the coaches are.
If you think about it, Japan has more than any single European country. Well, if China or Japan get stronger, Europe will change the rules, so they’ll never be able to win.
They don’t have the thought process to reflect on things and reconsider when things aren’t going well. They’ve been educated to blame others, scream, and kick like monkeys, so they’re nuisance tourists. It’s the same reason as Chinese people who hit deer and break cherry blossom branches. It’s the price of the Chinese Communist Party’s false teachings. They can’t admit that they’re incompetent.
They say China’s population is 1.3 billion, but if you really look into it, it’s actually about 1 billion. Someone said they inflate the numbers to make the country look bigger.
Even if they were to make up just the representatives from Kanagawa, which has a population of about 9 million, they would easily be stronger than China.
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