Shanghai Port reporter Chen Hua released some views on the participation of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League, which said that the participation of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League is a purely commercial act and has nothing to do with national honor, which is the business of the Football Association and the national team. As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted heated discussions.
Li Xuan, a well-known football media person, said: "I'm laughing to death, is this a public opinion foundation for a certain team to give up the AFC Champions League and only lay the foundation for public opinion in the domestic league?" And Li Xuan, for example, Chen Xuyuan, the chairman of the last Football Association, once said: If the Chinese Super League team does not participate in the AFC Champions League, it will damage the national image, because the epidemic will affect the national image if they do not participate? So according to Chen Xuyuan, if you participate in the competition, the results are not good, or you give up, it will definitely affect the image of the country. And everybody knows. Chen Hua has published articles praising some of Chen's policies on more than one occasion.
There is also a "violation of laws and regulations" for the AFC Champions League game, whether the club's jersey embroidered with the national flag is "illegal and illegal". Media person Han Bing social media said: "When Evergrande participated in the Club World Cup, it embroidered the national flag on the jersey, which was an act after asking the competent authorities for permission, and reports of this incident were all over the place. In the 2019 AFC Champions League, do Japanese and South Korean teams have national flags in their jerseys? I'm too lazy to post it in Europe and the United States! ”
In fact, there is another point that everyone ignores when discussing, that is, the quality of the Super League club's participation in the AFC Champions League determines the number of places for the Chinese Super League to participate in the AFC Champions League.
In the first game of the AFC Champions League at Shanghai Port, the starters were on 6 foreign aid + 1 naturalization, which is the most among the Chinese Super League teams, the midfielder and the front line are all foreign aid, the only one dedicated to raising foreign aid for the AFC Champions League, so there is no reason to give up, and there is no reason to play badly, and the current AFC Champions League Classic is 8 rounds, and now it is only 1 round, for Shanghai Port, there is no need to worry, entering the top 8 is actually a piece of cake, SIPG attaches more importance to winning the league championship first.