A total of 24 teams participate in the 2023 Asian Cup finals, including 3 Central Asian teams (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan), one South Asian team (India), one team from Oceania (Australia), The remaining are West Asian and East Asian teams.
11 West Asian teams participating in the tournament include Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, UAE, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Regarding teams from East Asia, there are 8 teams present in the 2023 Asian Cup (including the group of Southeast Asian teams), including Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Not only is there a large number in terms of quality, except for Australia, all the teams capable of competing for the Asian championship are from the East and West regions. That’s why the race at the Asian Cup is almost a battle between East Asia and West Asia.
Results: West Asia wins big at Asian Cup 2023. After Jordan defeated South Korea in the semi-finals of the tournament This year, the competition for the championship is only an internal matter of West Asian teams (Jordan and Qatar).
Looking back at the history of football</ a> Asia West Asia is also the region that has prevailed over East Asia in the history of the Asian Cup.
Throughout the 18 times the tournament has been held, including this year’s tournament, West Asian teams have won until now. 11 times East Asia won 6 times. The other time the championship belonged to Australia, which is a team from Oceania.
In terms of the number of teams that have won the championship, West Asia is also much more than East Asia. West Asian teams that have won the Asian Cup include Iran (1968, 1972 and 1976), Kuwait (1980), Saudi Arabia (1984, 1988 and 1996), Iraq (2007) and Qatar (2019). If Jordan wins the 2023 Asian Cup, they will be the next team in West Asia to win the Asian championship.
The other team that has won the Asian championship is Israel (1964). Because of factors related to history and politics, Israel was forced to move to live with the Federation European football (UEFA) many decades ago. But geographically, Israel still belongs to West Asia.
If you include Israel, West Asian football once had 6 teams that won the Asian Cup. If Jordan is crowned in this year’s tournament, this number will increase to 7 teams.
Meanwhile, East Asia only has 2 teams that have won the Asian Cup, including South Korea (1956 1960) and Japan (1956 1960) and Japan (1956-1960). 1992 2000 2004 2011). However, South Korea has not returned to the continental football championship for 64 years because it has lagged significantly behind Asia’s top level in terms of technique.
So in essence it is clearer. Over the past half century, the football scene in East Asia has been almost the only one competing for the Asian Cup championship with West Asian teams.
This reflects the comparison with football in East Asia. West Asian football is more uniform and more competitive. In terms of quality, that is, in terms of physical fitness and football playing skills, West Asian players are better than players in East Asia.
The advantage of East Asian teams compared to West Asian teams is the tactical discipline and ability to organize the squad.
However, the team is very strong in this aspect. This has an additional physical element: Korea overuses the physical and strength element and forgets about developing technique, or their technical development is not commensurate with promoting the physical element.</p >
Korea’s playing style is sometimes methodical to the point of being mechanical, leading to low variability and not enough to surprise. That makes Korea always lack the conditions to become a true champion in Asia for the past 64 years.
That’s why only Japan is the only team in Eastern Asia. Asia makes West Asian teams shy when facing them. It’s a pity that Japan’s performance is down right at the time of the 2023 Asian Cup.
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