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On July 3, the newspaper published an article by Mr. Yan Junjun, the 85-year-old founder of the newspaper who has been in the industry for more than 40 years, "Creating a New Era of Chinese Football" (hereinafter referred to as "New Era"). Between the lines, it reflects the deep thinking of this veteran of Chinese football journalism and his ardent expectations for Chinese football, and is an article worth reading carefully.
After discussing the development of world football and the backwardness of Chinese football from a broad perspective, "New Era" cited a large number of examples to discuss various shortcomings in the development of Chinese football from three aspects, including mechanism problems, institutionalization of talent selection, and the professionalism and professional ethics of first-line players. At the end of the article, Mr. Yan Lao suggested that the Football Association relocate to Xiong'an, hoping that Chinese football would "rise" and be safe, stable and far-reaching.
It should be said that this is an article with a sufficiently high and large argument, which identifies the shortcomings of current Chinese football and can also prescribe the right medicine. But after thinking about it repeatedly, I felt that there was a flaw in it. In Xia Bucai, he took the liberty to ask Mr. Yan for advice.
When talking about "the World Cup is not a patent of capitalism" and "doing a good job in football with Chinese characteristics", Mr. Yan put forward the following two views: First, the lack of action in Chinese football is not entirely due to the corruption of the Football Association, and the training mechanism, competition mechanism and talent selection mechanism of Chinese football are insufficient. Second, the professionalism and professional ethics of the athletes engaged in Chinese football "do not meet the standards" (Note: seems inappropriate). And those football powerhouses "have nothing to do with the richer country and the higher integrity of the football association."
To prove his point, Mr. Yan cited Argentina and France, two teams in the Qatar 2022 World Cup final, as examples. said that throughout the game, "I can't see the shadow of the country's wealth, I can't see the resourceful and decisive help of the football associations of the two countries", but the technical cooperation of the 22 stars on the field, specifically the contest between Messi and Mbappe; Finally, there are the saving skills, psychological qualities and luck of the goalkeepers on both sides. The conclusion is that it is the people who decide the outcome of football, the players on the field and the coaches off the field.
In fact, from a large point of view, Mr. Yan's view is not wrong. But when it comes to Chinese football specifically, I think the above two points are debatable. In particular, the statement that "it has nothing to do with the Football Association" is not only contrary to the "talent selection system" mentioned above by Mr. Yan Lao, but also seriously detached from the reality of Chinese football.
In the "talent selection system", Mr. Yan mainly put forward two views, one is that the decision-makers (coaches) of the Football Association (Note: proposed for football) "must be selected among the strong figures in China's strong sports provinces, especially the strong provinces of football", and the second is that football decision-makers (Note: proposed to refer to the president of the Football Association) must be qualified with virtue and ability.
In other words, the "talent" in Mr. Yan's eyes, whether it is a coach or a decision-maker of the Football Association, must have both ability and integrity. But its statement that it "has nothing to do with the Football Association" is clearly contradictory.
On the other hand, just take recent years as an example to talk about the mistake of "nothing to do with the Football Association".
After Chen Jiayuan became the president of the Football Association, he also wanted to do a good job at the beginning. But since the legend of driving Lippi away and helping Li Tie become the head coach of the national team, he has constantly made mistakes. Including the various "care" of the old club repeatedly mentioned by many media and fans, making it "profitable", and has been taken away by the relevant departments for investigation so far.
Among them, because Li Tie's selfishness is extremely heavy and incompetent, in a word, he is known as "no virtue and no talent", resulting in the early exit of the national football team in the round of 12, and the international football team once became a rat crossing the street and everyone shouted and beaten. Even, Li's well-known media people said that players are not willing to enter the national team. In addition to not paying attention to football youth training, Chen Jiayuan's short-term success attempts to promote players to stay in the ocean in the form of "guarantee", in fact, he cannot achieve the kind of benign cooperation with world football powers like the Japanese and Korean football associations, and the result ended in failure; All these "cares", ignoring the principle of fair play, have dampened the enthusiasm of many clubs and investors and destroyed the foundation of the league.
It can be said that from youth football to leagues to national teams, Chen Jiayuan's actions (and of course other football association officials) have brought a devastating blow to Chinese football.
On the contrary, if Chen Jiayuan can adhere to principles, be honest and honest, know people and use talents, and attach importance to youth football according to the law of football development, will the national team be like the round of 12? Will the league be a "chicken feather"? Will there be so many complaints from fans and media? How can it be said that the development of football "is not directly related to the richer country and the higher integrity of the football association"?
As an 85-year-old man, Mr. Yan must have a very deep understanding of the saying that "the train runs fast all depends on the headband". In recent decades, especially in the past 20 years, Chinese football has experienced three major anti-counterfeiting and anti-gambling, and many batches of important members of the Football Association have been imprisoned, etc., doesn't it just show that a good football association team and good decisions are very important for Chinese football?
Isn't Mr. Yan's reference that "China, Japan and South Korea began to reform football almost at the same time, but so far, we are at least twenty or thirty years behind Japan and South Korea", does not indicate that "it is not directly related to the richer country and the higher integrity of the football association"?
As the old saying goes, if the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached. The decision-makers are crooked and can't bring the entire football association; The wind of the Football Association is not right, and it is impossible to drive the entire Chinese football to develop in a benign direction. If the foundation is not strong, how can you build high-rise buildings on the beach? With such a barren land, how can Chinese football be improved and developed?
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