Top 5 Asian Football Teams

[fly2012]

Now there were a lot of Chinese posters here who despise S Korean soccer. A lot of this has to do with the fact that the Chinese team do particularly poorly against south korea. They dont have this when they play against the arabs or japanese, but their media is absolutely unforgiving when they lose to Korea.

I solute your overall knowledge of Asian football. But I don't agree with this. Nowadays Chinese team will have little chance against Japan but can beat South Korea sometimes (3:0 of a recent friendly game). And due to historical reasons, Chinese have much more negative feelings against Japan so I don't think emotion is a big factor. The reason I don't like Korean soccer is that I see no hope in the team from the way they are playing. But Japan is very different, as you mentioned, they play like "Spain" and their game is enjoyable. South Korea won 4th in 2002 world cup but very few people out of Korea believes they deserve it. The fact that they can beat China doesn't mean they are that good.

Austrialia plays ugly as well. Personally I could only enjoy games from following Asian teams: Japan, Saudi Arab, Iran and Turkey (half Asia).

 

[Ottoman-Turk]

brazil - turkey semi final 2002

HD VIDEO

 

[W.11]

brazil - turkey semi final 2002

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turkey football plays for europe not asia

Are we talking football teams or National teams?? On the National teams we used to be very good almost a guarantee in the finales, now we are just a shadow of our former self. On individual football teams Saudi teams are still the ones to bet on in Asian championships.

Now the election for the head of the football federation is under way because the last guy quit due to our team's failure hopefully that will turn things around again.

even the best saudi team was a disgrace to be honest in the world cuos for example germany beat you 8-0 in 2002 korea japan WC

 

[W.11]

to be honest pakistan has immense talent but its so much corruption in PFF, look at asian games, pakistan vs japan, we made two goals against japan and beautiful ones

football is not so much different than hockey, if we can win 4 world cups in hockey, why cant we even qualify for fifa world cups?

Pakistan v Japan (Asian Games Doha 2006) - YouTube

 

[fly2012]

to be honest pakistan has immense talent but its so much corruption in PFF, look at asian games, pakistan vs japan, we made two goals against japan and beautiful ones

football is not so much different than hockey, if we can win 4 world cups in hockey, why cant we even qualify for fifa world cups?

That's very impressive score against Japan. Pakistani team seems to be well organized (defense sucks though). It is not bad at all against this team with star players like 本田圭佑(Keisuke Honda, first player interviewed) playing actively.

 

[opz]

turkey football plays for europe not asia

looooolz , when u have a team for football then back and talk about sport

 

[W.11]

looooolz , when u have a team for football then back and talk about sport

who says we dont have team , we play cricket so we pay less attention to football

 

[opz]

who says we dont have team , we play cricket so we pay less attention to football

ahaaa nice . .

but this thread talk about football not ur game cricket

 

[W.11]

pakistan PFF was trying to nominate some brazilian coach when musharraf was there back in 2005,6, pakistan had lots of developments then, many foreign pakistani european players from sweden, england were encouraged to represent pak football team

there were some incredible results back then esp we drew some qualifier match between pakistan and iraq when iraq had newly become asian champion

but i read a news that we had won the game if the bias coach had not played some safarashi(bribed) played instead of the good and experienced foreign players we had

i guess all have fallen apart since then

In the World Cup qualifiers in 2007, they fell to a heavy defeat by the Asian champions Iraq and after the 7–0 loss, little was expected on them in the second leg. However, the Greenshirts held them to a goalless draw. In 2008,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_national_football_team

 

[Korean]

Iran vs Qatar = 0:0

 

[opz]

pakistan PFF was trying to nominate some brazilian coach when musharraf was there back in 2005,6, pakistan had lots of developments then, many foreign pakistani european players from sweden, england were encouraged to represent pak football team

there were some incredible results back then esp we drew some qualifier match between pakistan and iraq when iraq had newly become asian champion

but i read a news that we had won the game if the bias coach had not played some safarashi(bribed) played instead of the good and experienced foreign players we had

i guess all have fallen apart since then

i don't care about history of pakistan team , in fact i don't care about sports also . .

and believe me, i wish the best for pakistan , and i will glad when i see ur name country play with all teams in the world , but my point is [ do not make fun of anyone, and you can not even do what he does ] ​

 

[W.11]

do not make fun of anyone, and you can not even do what he does

im not replying to you, did you see me quoting you?? this is pakistan forum and it was general reply

im not making fun of saudi arabia, infact read my first post, im just talking about reality, i have no personal grudge towards your nation, saudi arabia has a huge lack of international standards even if they are good in AFC, saudis have barely made goals in world cups and my point has nothing to do with pakistan

 

[anonymousposter]

flyboy, in a lot of korean internet postings i see a lot of koreans get arrogant and make fun of chinese football. this is probably a big reason why a lot of chinese football fans dont like korean football. thats just my opinion. but i really belieive that chinese fans put too much pressuremon their players to perform. a simple google search can find entire lists of jokes that chinese fans make about their own team.

but football takes a long time to develope. it is like planting a fruit tree. Japan planted this tree a long time ago knowing that sacrifice was a neccessary investment for future soccer. Japanese mananger Okada was villified by his countrymen for steadfastly following JFA's goal to turn japanese football like spanish tikki takka football. Japan wasnt ready for it then and Okada took the blame. But we see their work today. The south korean super star jisung park of manchester united is a product of japanese football. he was rejected by korean teams, but japan's kyoto purple sanga gave him a chance. the rest is history. the purple sanga by the way also produced japanese national team superstars like mitsui.

The rise of chinese football parallel the rise of china's economic power since the reign of chairman Deng. But football takes a long time to develope. I think a lot of chinese people look at china's superb performance in the olympics and say, " why are the football players so bad?". a national team is just the tip of the iceberg. the true team includes managers, trainers, youth deveopers, etc. Chona's football infrastructure and football tradition will take time to develope.

But it doesnt help when fans start sending hate mails to their own team members.

i watched that game when china beat korea 3:0. they played beautifully. most korean posters i saw said something like, "now they can get over their complex". this will sound arrogant to you and is probably infuriating. but there is a lot of truth in it too. now chinese team members wont feel so much pressure from the fans.

when i see chinese football, i see korean football few years back. this isnt surprising. Koreans and Chinese are virtually identical in physical make up. culture is very similar as well as diet. many korean managers work in CSL as well as players. I think China's football will inevitably grow and i think that is common sense. But how fast it will grow depends on how much Chinese people will want it.

That being said, i think i can understand why you wouldnt like either korean or chinese football... but i will save that for next posting...

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

Iran played so **** today...maybe they are **** anyway because list matched I watched before the Iran match was Chelsea v bayern munich

 

[Korean]

Iran played so **** today...maybe they are **** anyway because list matched I watched before the Iran match was Chelsea v bayern munich

You should thank Allah that Iran isn't in the Group B. If Iran was in it, then Iran's World Cup dreams are already crushed.