People's Foot Talk: In addition to changing the coach, the national football team should also sum up experience and learn lessons

Source: People's Daily Original manuscript

The Chinese Football Association issued an announcement on the afternoon of the 3rd, agreeing to Li Tie's request to resign as the head coach of the national football team and hiring Li Xiaopeng as the head coach of the new national football team. At this point, the recent hustle and bustle of the national football team to replace the head coach has finally settled.

Li Tie has been the head coach of the national football team since January 2020, which lasted less than two years. From the spirit at the beginning of his succession, to the momentum of leading the team in the top 40 competition, to the recent poor performance of the national football team in the round of 12, and finally left with a mark, like a roller coaster. Chinese football is also in the ups and downs, as if back to the original point.

Previously, someone had made a video comparing the mental state of Li Tie commanding the national football team against Japan in the second round of the 12 round and against Australia in the 6th round. In just two months, Li Tie went from having a high morale and full of spirit to a haggard face and a lost focus. It is understood that during the training period of more than 100 days, Li Tie lost a total of 10 kilograms, you can imagine what kind of suffering he has experienced, and it also reflects Li Tie's hard work and spirit from a certain side.

But competitive sports still depend on the results to speak. In the 6 round of 12 matches that have ended so far, the national football team has only achieved a record of 1 win, 2 draws, 3 losses and 5 points, ranking fifth in its group, the hope of qualifying is extremely weak, and Li Tie's on-site command and dispatch has also frequently triggered heated discussions. Under pressure, Li Tie made some highly controversial remarks at the press conference, which was criticized by fans as "throwing the pot".

With the departure of Li Tie, merits and demerits are not commented on. Now Li Xiaopeng took over, the burden on his shoulders is not easy at all, the first thing to face is the remaining 4 games of the national football team in the top 12 matches, even if the hope of promotion is slim, what kind of state the whole team will come up with, whether it can get a more decent result, this is the majority of fans are most concerned about, but also Li Xiaopeng urgently need to solve the problem.

The replacement of the head coach of the national football team has once again placed this role in the field of public opinion to examine and amplify. Since the national football team first reached the World Cup finals in 2002, in less than 20 years, it has hired 10 head coaches, with an average of one every two years. Li Tie was once pinned high hopes on the candidate who was most likely to lead the national football team out of the trough, but unfortunately, in the end, it backfired and could not escape the fate of the frequent reincarnation of the national football coach, which was regrettable.

Ten thousand tall buildings rise from the ground, brick by brick and tile are rooted. The development of football is a systematic project, and the results of the national team are only the final fruits of the pyramid tip. In the past 20 years, the overall level of Chinese football has not only not improved, but also regressed, in addition to some problems in the basic youth training, league system and other problems that are difficult to return, but also have a lot to do with the choice of development path and direction.

In the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" released in 2015, it was emphasized that the development of Chinese football should focus on the long term and combine the foundation, continue to work hard, and work hard for a long time. This is not an empty phrase, as a catch-up in the field of football, this concept proposes the concept of exchanging time for space, and the positioning is very precise. But in order to pick the "rose of time", you must walk on the right track, otherwise the direction is not right, and the efforts are in vain.

This change of coach has become a new starting point for the national football team to start again, but it should not be a reincarnation of continuous trial and error, repeatedly pushing down and restarting. Only by constantly summing up the past failure experience and being good at learning lessons can Chinese football not be confused on the way forward.