It's not that different from Hwang Ui-jo's injury, it's a muscle related strain/pain that's not severe so he should be fine with the next few days or so. Seriously though, the Qatar WC schedule is by far and only worst to ever have been made, hell they shouldn't have been allowed to be hosting period.
You bet? Lol it's not even an opinion but a fact that China can't and won't qualify for the WC outside of the possibility of being the host. The only time they've ever qualified for the WC through WCQs was back in 2002, but only given that both Korea and Japan were co-host, otherwise they would've never had the opportunity to feature at the world stages. Other than that, they've never featured at the WC since and or prior. Their men's national team has been in a piss poor state for a many years, and this is coming from a country with a lot of money. Obviously their FA have been constantly trying to throw money at their problem(s) to no avail, but again throwing money at your problem(s) won't solve anything, it's no rocket science.
Well yeah, but it's what I've stated above, it doesn't matter and it doesn't make a difference even if they've made the 48 team expansion. A team like Vietnam has a much higher percentage chance of qualifying for next edition's WC than China will ever have, in fact Malaysia and Indonesia have better hopes as well. Their men's national team is in a far critical state than they'd like to imagine, and if I remember correctly, Lippi said something like China's men's national team is far beyond from being repaired/improved, and this was after resigning for the second time due to difficulties in helping the team. Ironically, their women's team have proven to be much stronger (In before the "Oh, but it's the women's team" argument). Our situation with our fa and what not is bad, but I'd never give that up for what China has been in for decades, having a lot of money doesn't solve squat and surely hiring top managers won't solve squat either when your team and players are crap to begin with.
They're still pouring money into their youth system but it's not doing much. They even had Cannavaro along with other foreign managers give their lip service on how it was going to prosper lol. Hiddink also tried to help their u21 team because their goal at that time was to qualify for the 2020 Olympics as such, but was sacked due to poor performances. It's a heaping hot mess.
Well obviously yes, things like this take time, unfortunately for them it's not a matter of "taking time" (At least not any more). As of now, there's roughly 30+ Chinese players abroad and majority are in the lower divisions with maybe one third in the first and second. After the early 2000s they've failed to produce talents that managed to make way in Europe, like when they had players like Fan Zhiyi, Shao Jiayi, Sun Jihai, Yang Chen, Dong Fangzhou etc. those of which whom at least had some light in playing time. Wu Lei is probably the 1% that managed to make way to Europe within the last few years before returning home due to lack of playing time. IIRC, 장지현 해설위원 stated during the eaff e-1 football championship that China was in a drought and that aside from Li Lei, their entire A-team is domestic. They're in a crisis that they have little to no control of, and they are scrambling to do everything they can to shed some light with their football with hopes of at least making a WC and Olympic appearances respectively. Lots of foreign managers made way only due to the money, but that didn't change much aside from perhaps trying to popularize the CSL. I'm not saying it's wrong for them to keep their hopes up, but it's far too hard for them to dig themselves out of the deep hole they've ended up in. Apologies for going off on a tangent in this thread, should get back on topic.
To be honest they where good players. Cant forget Li Tie also that against all odds became a starter in Everton.
It's hard to forget a group of individuals whom imo were a part of perhaps one of the best team they've had during that era, let alone notoriously known whenever we faced them (You should know why). Obviously I'm not going to know everything in football, but it's good to remember and know these things even if it means it's a team that you do not necessarily like nor support, and whenever you forget, it's good to go back and refreshen your memory, which is why it's called knowledge for a reason.
Yeah, Li Tie was among them too, and he nearly got us during last WC edition's qualifiers as a manager as well. Lee Weifeng is another name that comes to mind, albeit not having prospered in Europe, domestically he was one of the few good veterans they had. As I've stated above, they were imo the golden generation of that time, and they were a pretty good handful of individuals that managed to shed light in Europe as well (Specifically the EPL). I mean, not to take away from Gao Hongbo's young team from 2010 (I'm more referring to their talent and the 0-3 Loss at the eaff e-1football championship in Japan), but you can clearly see that it's night and day when it comes to how many of them made it to Europe during that time as opposed to afterwards till now.