On December 12, after a long four-month offseason, the 2021 chinese Super League finally ushered in the second phase of restart. This is the coldest winter of the Chinese professional football league, even if it is the winter when the anti-gambling anti-black storm swept through Chinese football more than a decade ago, it is not so often that all Chinese footballers tremble and tremble. In the cold wind, Chinese football may have reached another important juncture, where to go? This core question is also best for us to think about in this coldest winter.
Despite the lack of wages, 16 teams eventually arrived at the match, and the Chinese Super League ended decently. I believe that at this time, most of the Chinese Super League players have a consensus, at this time there is no other way but to report to the group to heat up; everyone is also clear that at this moment, they have no weight to compete with the boss, only by gritting their teeth to live, it is possible to wait until the hope of continuing to survive in the future. Champions, AFC Champions League, play-offs, relegation, expansion, the performance of internationals and potential internationals, which should have become the core topic of the league in the next three weeks, should not stir up too many waves, and how to live in the future is what we need to think about seriously.
The managers of Chinese football have been lucky to be able to survive this cold winter smoothly in such a situation, but it is only a buffer, if they cannot fundamentally solve the problem of the league, spring and warm flowers are out of reach. It is said that the Football Association has made every effort to promote the mixed reform of Chinese Super League clubs, so that the club has a relatively stable foundation. However, is the mixed shareholding model of government + state-owned enterprises + private enterprises really the salvation of Chinese football?
Not to mention that the Football Association cannot substantively promote the reform of club shares in various places, because this is completely beyond its power, and regardless of the many details in the actual operation, it is said that whether the local governments are so enthusiastic about adding firewood to Chinese football and raising salaries, in fact, there was an answer 30 years ago, and it is still the same. There is a saying that since professional football has been engaged in 30 years, Chinese football is getting worse and worse, so why not re-try the professional system?
For this seemingly very reasonable argument, we must get to the root of the matter - first, the professional system can not revitalize football; second, the deterioration of Chinese football is not the fault of professional football and professional leagues, on the contrary, the fundamental reason for the decline of Chinese football is that although we wear the cloak of professional football and professional leagues, we have never seriously engaged in professional football and professional leagues, and the popular football and performance football in the past 30 years is still power football and performance football.
If we can't fundamentally reverse the attitude towards the professional league, treat it with a professional attitude, let the people in charge manage it, and still use it as a tool for the achievements of the national football team, then all the rescue measures now, that is, temporary headaches and pains, can at most make the current managers smoothly transition, and can not make Chinese football long-term peace and stability.
China's professional football league has awakened the enthusiasm of a large number of fans, but it has not really retained them, and it has also aroused the enthusiasm of capital, but it has not changed them from disorder to rationality through rules, and managers have done nothing except to charge unclear reinforcement adjustment fees. China's professional leagues, which have two huge advantages that can lead to success - a huge number of fans (consumers) and a sufficient amount of capital (investors), have become the three no-no products that everyone spurns under the loss of system and management. The league is a top priority in Chinese football. Without the thriving top building, the youth training tower has no final guidance and direction, how can it continue to grow bigger and stronger?
At the end of 2021, Chinese football suffered the coldest winter, and the freezing three feet is not a day's cold, in the past 30 years, the reform of Chinese professional football has not been able to continue to move forward, but in stagnation or even retrogression, there is today's dangerous situation. Local tinkering, I am afraid that it is impossible to truly reverse the trend of Chinese football's decadence, the more fierce the force in the wrong direction, the faster it will fall into the abyss, until all disasters are over.
The Chinese Super League restarted in the bitter winter, and Chinese football is far from stopping its decline.
Perhaps, what Chinese football needs is another red mountain pass.
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