Hohhot Four-National Tournament, Investigating China s U16 Asia Competitiveness, Game 4 of the Year vs. Saudi Arabia

In April 2025, China U16 (National Youth Team 09) conducted a one-month European training session, and participated in the "Dream Chasing Bundesliga Season 2" event, the French Montague Cup and the Dutch Triangle Tournament.

During the entire training process, China U16 played a total of 8 warm-up matches, defeating two Bundesliga U16 teams, Cameroon U16 and France's Vandai U17, drew with France U16 and Wales U16, and lost to Mexico U16 and Netherlands U16.

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Through the high-intensity warm-up match arrangement, China's U16 has obtained a good opportunity to exercise. Head coach Toshihiro Yukishima has also gained a deeper understanding of the players' personal characteristics, and the players are further familiar with the team's tactical style, and their tacit understanding has also been greatly improved.

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The competitiveness of China's U16 in Asia is to be held at the end of the year, so the warm-up match of this Chinese U16 is relatively intensive, so that the players can have more experience in the competition.

In this Hohhot International Football Championship, except for the Chinese U16 participating, the other three teams are from Asia, namely Australia U16, Saudi U16 and Vietnam U16. The purpose is actually very clear, that is, to examine the competitiveness of this U16 national youth team in Asia through direct warm-up with Asian teams.

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The three Asian teams mentioned above are different. The teams have different characteristics and basically represent several mainstream styles in Asia. If China's U16 can achieve good results in the game, it can prove that the team will have certain competitiveness in the U17 Asian Cup in the future.

If China's U16 fails to achieve ideal results, the team still has time to adjust its players and tactical play. After all, there are about 5 months left before the U17 Asian Cup qualifiers.

Hohhot International Football Championship, the material comes from the Internet, national teams at all levels face Saudi Arabia for the fourth time this year. In February-April this year, the Chinese U20 men's football team, the Chinese men's football national team, and the Chinese U17 men's football team played against the Saudi team respectively.

In the quarter-finals of the U20 Asian Cup, China U20 lost 0-1 to Saudi U20; in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, the Chinese national team lost 0-1 to Saudi national team; in the U17 Asian Cup, China U17 lost 1-2 to Saudi U17.

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The final result was that we lost to our opponents in three games. Although there was only one goal in part of the gap in each game, it still reflects the gap in the overall football level between the two countries in the period.

This match will also be the fourth match between the two national teams at all levels this year. If China's U16 can defeat Saudi U16, it will also end the previous three consecutive losses.