January 28, 2019
47/2019 TSG reveals development trends from UAE 2019 The AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 has been a testament to the competition pathway and the development investment made by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in the last few years, according to the early observations by the AFC's Technical Study Group (TSG).
The TSG have observed all 48 matches played so far and have identified, not only the progress made by many of the countries competing, but also the consistency of trends between the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 and the FIFA World Cup played in Russia last year.
Technical observers were quick to recognise early dividends on AFC's investment in development, such as Vietnam's achievement of reaching the quarter-finals with more than half of the squad that had finished as runners-up at the AFC U23 Championship in China only a year ago.
Reinforcing the trend, Qatar striker Almoez Ali, top scorer at that same tournament in 2018 is now leading the scoring charts at this AFC Asian Cup.
Vietnam, along with other contenders such as Thailand, Jordan and Kyrgyz Republic received due credit from the Technical group for demonstrating that they could be competitive at the Continental level.
The TSG were also quick to recognise the trend from the 2018 FIFA World Cup with more than 33 per cent of goals coming from set plays and the fact that, as in Russia, most coaches in the final eight placed an emphasis on keeping formations compact and tactically efficient collective units.
Within weeks of Friday's AFC Asian Cup final in Abu Dhabi, national team coaches and technical directors of all the AFC Member Associations will gather in Kuala Lumpur for a conference to follow-up on coaching trends and some of the main tendencies to emerge from the 51 games played at the final tournament.
And this cascading of information will then extend into the AFC Coach Education Conference to be staged in mid-April 2019. All of which dovetails neatly into the long-term Vision and Mission development programme put into place by AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa as well as the AFC's extra investment in Technical staff for its Member Associations.
The complete findings from the AFC Asian Cup will be published in the Tournament Technical Report, which will be available to all in both printed and online formats.
About the AFC Asian Cup:
The AFC Asian Cup is the pinnacle international team tournament held by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) every four years to determine the champion of Asia. The competition is the second-oldest continental football championship (after the Copa America) and was first held in 1956. The AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019TM expands the number of participating nations from 16 to 24, making it the biggest tournament ever.
The 2019 tournament will be the second time the UAE has hosted the event, after successfully staging the finals in 1996. The Asian Cup UAE 2019 runs from 5 January to 1 February 2019, with 51 matches being played in eight world class stadiums located across four host cities - Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah.
Match schedules and tickets for purchase are available on www.the-AFC.com.
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