"Where did Korea's overwhelming performance go?"→"Lazy and sloppy." China's self-proclaimed golden generation is dissatisfied with the defeat against Saudi Arabia + Explosion of criticism!..."As serious as the adult national team."

"Where did Korea's overwhelming performance go?"→"Lazy and sloppy." China's self-proclaimed golden generation is dissatisfied with the defeat against Saudi Arabia + Explosion of criticism!..."As serious as the adult national team."

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Criticism is growing as China's U-17 (under 17) national soccer team collapsed from the first game.

China's Sohu Dotcom reported on the 5th (Korea time) that "a famous commentator criticized after the defeat of the Chinese U-17 team."

China's U-17 national team lost 1-2 to Saudi Arabia in the first Group A match of the 2025 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-17 Asian Cup at Kingpad Sports City Stadium in Taip, Saudi Arabia on the 4th.

The Asian Cup is a competition to determine which countries will participate in the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which is scheduled to be held in Qatar in November, and eight of the 16 countries that participated in the group qualifying round will advance to the World Cup. China was included in Group A along with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Thailand.

China entered the game with high expectations, but it was not enough to overcome Saudi Arabia. China slid in the 11th minute of the first half when Ihesan Ilamu was handling the ball, offering a decisive opportunity to its opponent Abdulhadi Matari. Matari took the lead by finishing the shot accurately into the Chinese goal. Saudi Arabia widened the gap with an additional goal from Osama al-Dagmah in the first half.

Throughout the second half, China was dragged around by Saudi Arabia and rarely produced a threatening attack. Wei Xiangxin scored a comeback goal in the second half, but the game had already turned on Saudi Arabia.

China had no match with Korea last year. China's U-17 national team showed better-than-expected performance by holding a 2-2 draw with Korea during the U-17 Asian Cup qualifying match last year. The team also had high expectations that the team will become a golden generation. Coach Kenichi Uemura, who is leading the U-17 team, also praised China's youth development several times, expressing expectations that the number of players active in the national team by age group will grow further.

However, the team lost the match, frustratingly, and received a flurry of criticism. Sohu said, "Famous commentator Huang Jianxiang's remarks after the match were all factual." "The team that dominated Korea in the group league in just a few months after the same coach, the same player, and the same team has now become a team that kicked the ball without any rules, opportunities, or rules. We have come back to the Chinese adult national team that we have been familiar with for decades."

"We have to abandon the lineup now. The situation is worse than that of the senior national team. They lack cooperation, skills, poor passes, and lack of passion. They look lazy and sloppy. They look like the senior national team, which has no hope at all."

China, 토토사이트 which has been criticized a lot, will recover its honor in the second Group A match against Uzbekistan on the 7th. If it loses to Uzbekistan, it will be virtually impossible to advance to the U-17 World Cup, so China will have to put everything into it.