Written by Qin Yun/Captain Q
The bear child who was beaten fat, and then saw the other party hand another candy. The question arises: does this sugar want or not?
The Chinese Football Association faced such a problem a few months ago. Now we know: the Chinese Football Association was beaten fat, and then rejected the later candy.
——The Chinese Football Association, which is shaking in the midst of the anti-corruption sweeping "frenzy", chose to avoid the battle in the face of the opportunity of Argentina, the champion of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and Messi's visit to China. Chinese football has given up the chance to compete with World Cup winners and watch Messi play against other foreign teams, most likely Australia.
Ball king Messi
Regarding whether to play with the Argentine team, the Chinese Football Association and the national team have changed their attitudes. From the end of last year to before the Spring Festival, the tournament organizer communicated with the Chinese Football Association, and contacted Chen Yongliang, then executive deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Football Association and minister of the State Management Department. It is said that the host company received a verbal reply from Chen Yongliang and planned to arrange a match between the national team and Argentina in Xi'an. But with Chen Yongliang and Liu Yi officially announced that they were under investigation on January 19, the plan was shelved.
In February, because the tournament organizer was about to sign a contract with the Argentine Football Association on the Argentine team's visit to China, it urgently contacted the Chinese Football Association, hoping to get support to arrange matches between the national team and the Argentine team. There were also discussions within the Chinese Football Association, but at the end of March, Du Zhaocai vetoed the proposal of the national team to face Argentina on the eve of his "accident". Immediately afterwards, the national team announced its warm-up plan for June, and will play warm-up matches with Myanmar and Palestine during the FIFA matchday, and there is no possibility of playing Argentina.
The Chinese Football Association has made the national football team not even have the courage to show the sword
The match against Argentina was originally an opportunity for Chinese football to reverse its image and revive the market. Chinese football and the national team are currently in a trough of the trough. For the national team, being able to stand on the same field is very symbolic. Such a competition, the result is not important, but the symbolism is significant.
In the China-Argentina match, the focus is on Argentina and Messi, and the national team is just an almost transparent foil. The result of this game, there is no meaning. For example, the match between the national team in Guangzhou and the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup champion Brazil in January 2003 was to promote the market and announce that Hahn set sail for the national team of the new head coach, and the 0-0 result was not taken seriously.
The business cadres within the Chinese Football Association hope that the national team and the Argentine team will play. They also worked it, but the final decision was not within the influence of these people. Even the government's diplomatic agencies have expressed the hope that the China-Arab game can become a reality and achieve the good story of "football diplomacy".
Unfortunately, the football decision-makers did not understand either business or politics, but only held the idea that nothing is wrong, and the national football team was beaten in front of the Argentine team and could not explain the concern, and finally gave up the candy sent to the door. Of course, there may be event organizers who have just entered the football market, and the powerful people in the football circle will not get any benefits from it, and there are too few decent gentlemen who actively do good things for them.
For football to develop, the Football Association should take the lead
Giving up the opportunity to play against Argentina makes it difficult for us to see the future of Chinese football. Because such decision-makers cannot lead Chinese football out of the predicament, they have no vision and no pattern. Even if some of them have the business ability and professional vision, they can't change the big picture, because they are just decorations.