As we all know, in the end, our national football team is on the cusp of public opinion. One reason is that they lost 3-1 away to Vietnam on the night of the first day of the Chinese New Year during the Spring Festival holiday, adding to the blockage for the people of the whole country. The second is that later, our Chinese women's football team, in the absence of strength, with strong willpower, reversed in 3 consecutive games and won the Asian Cup. Under this strong contrast, our Chinese men's football team has naturally become the target of public criticism.
However, although the Chinese men's football team and our sonorous roses lose one by one and win one by one, the situation is still relatively similar. In the Asian context, although we still have some advantages in physical confrontation and height, there is a gap with other Asian teams in terms of football philosophy and cognition, technical and tactical understanding and execution, which we can see from the national football team's loss to Vietnam, and we can also see from the women's football team against Japan and South Korea, although our women's football girls have won the game with strong willpower, but this gap has emerged and is still increasing. Looking at the women's football team's 0-5 score against Brazil at the Olympic Games and 2-8 against the Netherlands, it can be seen that the gap is huge.
Therefore, the current Chinese football must shake off its steps and move forward to keep up with the pace of the world. The most direct way is to improve our league level and let our players play enough high-quality games every season. However, the improvement of the level of the league is not something that can be achieved overnight, and even takes a long time to operate, and it is still more difficult to see the current situation of our Chinese Super League and women's Super League.
Previously, our Chinese Super League has also tried the "please come in" method, that is, to spend a huge amount of money to invite world-class big-name foreign aid and foreign teaching teams, thinking that this can lead to the improvement of the level of Chinese players. However, in the end, the reality is to punch in the face, because of the pressure of achievements, almost all of the foreign teachers choose to compromise, and finally basically evolved into a big-name foreign teacher to create a team with big-name foreign aid as the core combat strength. Although the chinese super league teams have a good performance in the AFC Champions League, it is only because of the high level of foreign aid, and the ability of local players has become worse after being completely marginalized. After almost a decade, our generations of young players have become accustomed to playing stress-free health football, because for them, passing the ball to foreign aid and assisting foreign aid is enough. So when we got to the national team, we saw that our players couldn't play high-confrontation and fast-paced games at all, and if they barely did it, their physical strength might run out before halftime. That is what we saw in the round of 12, the national football team could not keep up with the opponent's physical fitness and rhythm, and even the Vietnamese team was faster than our rhythm.
So now "please come in" Since the effect is not good, "going out" is the most realistic hope at present. In the past, we did not have the conditions to go out, mainly because the domestic league made more money and the competitive pressure was small. It is conceivable that at the peak of the Golden Yuan era, small players who did not enter the first team could get millions of annual salaries, who would go to Europe to start from the bench? Money is enough to put dreams off. And now that the gold dollar model has collapsed, clubs have tightened their funds, player incomes have declined, and going out has become a reality. And as soon as we go out, we know where the real gap is.
A typical example is the 30-year-old international Li Lei, who recently joined the Swiss Premier League Grasshoppers. You must know that Li Lei is now the strongest left-back in the Chinese Super League. His characteristics are very clear to everyone, that is, he has a strong running ability, he can run more than 10,000 meters in each game of the Chinese Super League, and even run more than 15,000 at the peak. This number can definitely be counted as Iron Man in the national football lineup. And it is precisely because he can run, so the attack and defense can see his figure, in the position of the national football team, no one can surpass him.
So at that time, Li Lei chose to stay in the ocean, everyone was still more optimistic, one of the five major leagues he went to was not the five major leagues, but the Swiss Super League, the requirements for ability were not so high. Second, everyone thinks that in the Chinese Super League, you can run more than 10,000 meters, this physical ability, this running ability, playing in Europe should be able to keep up with the rhythm very quickly. But is this really the case? After playing two games for Grasshoppers, Li Lei saw a huge gap, and this gap was much bigger than we thought.
Recently, Li Lei talked about his feelings about his two games in an interview, he said: "In the warm-up match, the first game against the Swiss First team, at first the rhythm can be adapted, but after playing half-time, it is more difficult, and the second game with the Swiss Super League team, I feel that I am completely following the rhythm of the opponent's game. Everything is fresh here, a change of environment and feels like a lad. Before, I was a veteran member of the team, and now I am a fresh force here, and I want to change my position. "It can be seen that the rhythm of the Swiss Super League is completely higher than several levels in the Chinese Super League. In the Chinese Super League, you can run 10,000 meters, but in the Swiss Super League, you can still not keep up with the rhythm, you can imagine how much Chinese football is lagging behind.
So why is there such a big gap? Li Lei also gave his own interpretation, that is, training. Li Lei said: "The intensity of the confrontation in training is very large, and it is very tight, and during the preparation period, the team will arrange two or three training sessions a day. Our coach is the German training mode, the requirements for training, the requirements for me are to attack and defend quickly, and to move forward. Come back when defending, be able to press up when attacking, including when defending, put pressure on the opponent's full-backs. "In fact, it can be seen how big the gap between us and European football from training to playing has become. Our fans can actually recall that in recent years, our AFC Champions League matches, you will find that the Chinese Super League teams are playing more and more difficult to play the AFC Champions League, the main reason is the rhythm. Our pace is really slow, the previous glory is carried by the ability of foreign aid, as the level of foreign aid declines, we really can't hold back.
So now it seems that whether it is our men's football or women's football, going out is the most direct way to improve the level. And we players don't have to just see the five major leagues, go to the second, third and fourth level leagues in Europe, you can play the game, know how the world's football is playing, adapt to this rhythm, your progress is the progress of Chinese football. What do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area! #Li Lei##Li Lei Liuyang debut ##National Football ##中国女足 #