On April 17, 2022, the South Korean media "Jingxiang Sports" made a sharp comment on the Chinese sports world, bluntly saying: Humiliated Chinese men's football team, learn from table tennis! As soon as this article came out, it immediately triggered a heated discussion among many fans, some people continued to be disappointed by the performance of the men's football team, and some people were proud of the achievements of the national table tennis.
As we all know, table tennis is our national ball, but also China's first sports to win the title of world champion, has maintained a long-term prosperity for more than half a century, and has repeatedly won the championship gold medal in all major events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
Relatively speaking, the level of Chinese men's football is far behind, not to mention the World Cup and other championships, it is very difficult to be shortlisted, and many times lost to some teams that are not strong, so that there is such a sentence on the Internet, called "Chinese table tennis can not be played, Chinese (men's) football can not be played."
For the performance of the men's football team, Chinese fans are also looking in the eyes and anxious in their hearts. Just as the so-called love is deep and the responsibility is deep, who does not want their country's football team to achieve good results? But repeated defeats have made many people lose patience, so whether online or in reality, there is a lot of criticism of men's football everywhere, and it can even be said that it has become a social phenomenon.
How to say it, football is the world's largest sport after all, so the influence is naturally extraordinary. As the South Korean media said, China has a population of 1.4 billion, but football is not a crowded sport, the reality is that our men's football performance is indeed very unsatisfactory, and it is normal to be criticized by fans.
In the view of "Jingxiang Sports", the Chinese men's football team does not need to learn from other football powers in the world, but only needs to learn from the Chinese table tennis team that is close at hand, and they even think that "if you learn from the Chinese table tennis team for more than ten years, you may be able to enter the World Cup."
However, it is worth mentioning that Cai Zhenhua, former president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, table tennis world champion athlete and coach, served as the president of the Chinese Football Association for a period of time, so as soon as the Korean media article came out, many people could not help but think of Cai Zhenhua. But unfortunately, Cai Zhenhua did not fundamentally reverse the decline of men's football, and there were also national table tennis coaches to "teach lessons" to the national football team that year, which also had little effect.
Just as the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, table tennis and football are after all two completely different sports, some things may be interchangeable, some things may not be, there are many subjective and objective differences. But we still believe in one thing, that is: compared with national table tennis, men's football should have more room for improvement.