The Indian Football Association "puts out big moves"! To imitate Indonesia to form the second team in the UK, it is even more difficult for the national football team to enter the World Cup

In the top 18 matches in the Asian qualifiers in the World Cup, the performance of Indonesia undoubtedly surprised many fans. As the sixth team, they burst out of the Chinese team and Bahrain team, successfully entered the top four of the group, and got a ticket to the playoffs. The reason why Indonesian men's football team can jump from "Asian fish bottom" to a strong contender for the World Cup qualification in a short period of time depends on two words - "naturalization"!

In 2022, the Indonesian Football Association discovered this shortcut to quickly improve the strength of its national team. Therefore, under the active operation of Football Association Chairman Tohir, in the following three years, more than a dozen foreign players changed their nationalities and transformed into Indonesians, and qualified to represent the Indonesian team.

Relying on the help of these "foreign aids", the Indonesian team not only entered the knockout round in the Asian Cup held in early 2024 without any prior experience, but also successfully broke through from the top 40 of the World Cup and entered the top 18. In the top 18, the Indonesian team's performance was also remarkable. They defeated Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and China at home, tied the Australian team, and finally won a playoff spot with the fourth place in the group, continuing to retain the hope of advancing to the World Cup.

The Indonesian team's successful cases have also made many teams ready to move. As the world's largest populous country, the strength of the Indian men's football team is also unavailable. In order to make its national team rise rapidly, the Indian Football Association is also considering taking the path of naturalization.

In an interview with the media not long ago, the chairman of the Indian Football Association, Jobe, publicly stated that they have contacted 33 players who play overseas and have Indian blood ties, some of whom have obtained the ID cards of Indian overseas citizens. Before this, only players holding Indian passports were selected for the Indian national team, and these overseas citizens were not listed here, but the Indian Football Association is currently working to revise this regulation to include all of these players in the national team.

You should know that India was a British colony in its early years, and it had a large number of Indian players in all levels of the British leagues. If the Indian Football Association really makes up its mind to naturalize, then India can collect a large number of high-level players in a very short time to form the "British Second Team"!

This is undoubtedly a big blow to the Chinese men's football team. With the emergence of "naturalization sports" among Southeast Asian teams, our opponents have become more and more. Now South Asian countries are also starting to engage in naturalization. In the future, more and more teams that the Chinese team cannot defeat will only become. If we want to return to the World Cup, we may only hope for miracles!