On December 20, Beijing time, the Swiss Super League club Grasshoppers officially announced the signing of Li Lei, a Chinese national team international and defender of Beijing Guoan Club, thus Becoming the third domestic player to stay in the country after Espanyol Wu Lei and Bayern Munich Liu Shaoyang. Considering that this is the second domestic player to officially start his career in the West within a week, at the same time, there are more international footballers and naturalized players who will successively go to the Europa League to play with the Football Association's plan to stay in the West in the near future, and many domestic fans are calling for the dawn. But in fact, the Football Association opened a large-scale plan to stay in the West, on the one hand, officially announced the end of the golden age of the Chinese Super League, on the other hand, it also represents that the first attempt to introduce naturalized players basically failed, and the sky of Chinese football is not only not bright, but will go to a darker, colder winter.
After the World Cup generation, domestic players will stay in the form of the ocean, or will repeat the same mistakes
Among the international players who represented the Chinese national team in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, many players are European players, including Sun Jihai of Manchester City, Yang Chen of Frankfurt, Fan Zhiyi of Dundee United, etc., and after the World Cup, Li Tie and Li Weifeng also joined Everton with the east wind of the World Cup, and Li Tie even once established a foothold in Everton. And this group of talents, that is, the last batch of players in the memory of Chinese fans who can truly stand in Europe. After them, with the rise of the Chinese Super League because of the popularity of Jinyuan football, there were once many players who went abroad to pursue their dreams of traveling in Europe, such as Arthur Junmin, Zhang Xizhe, and the younger Zhang Yuning, Wei Shihao, Lin Liangming, etc., but no matter what their performance at that time, they eventually ended up in the same place, ending in failure and helplessly returning to the Chinese Super League.
To this day, when domestic fans summarize the reasons for the failure of these players, they will say that if they go to teams outside the five major leagues, or weaker teams that are not strong in the team, they may have a different ending. However, even leaving aside Zhang Xizhe, who had few opportunities in Wolfsburg, and Arthur Junmin, who did not play well in Schalke 04, Zhang Yuning's career in Yangyang experienced Wittes, Werder Bremen and The Hague Club, these teams are not strong, does he get more opportunities? Wei Shihao is now the leader of young players in China, but his end in teams such as Boa Vista in the Portuguese Premier League and Ferenc Ferens in the Portuguese League was also not good. When your level of competition is not enough, even if you join only the European small nations league, it is also difficult for you to have opportunities, although Li Lei joined only the Swiss Super League, but he is already 29 years old, a 29-year-old defender player, how many opportunities can you expect him to get, how much progress? After Li Lei, there are a large number of players over the age of 25 whose careers have basically been fixed, as well as naturalized players over the age of 30, waiting for the opportunity to stay in the Ocean, so that the formality of staying in the West is just to make them repeat the mistakes of Arthur Junmin, Zhang Xizhe and their past failures. As for Liu Shaoziyang, who joined Bayern Munich, in the evergreen position of goalkeeper, how much hope does he have to take over Neuer, or become the main goalkeeper of the five major league teams? I just hope it's not a dream.
The Football Association's heavy money to send the international footballer abroad is a manifestation of the loss of confidence in the declining Chinese Super League
Once upon a time, the Chinese Super League was determined to become the world's sixth league, at that time, the Chinese Super League, relying on evergrande to take the lead in the golden dollar football whirlwind, the teams have spent a lot of money, for this league to bring Conca, Paulinho, Oscar, Hulk, Augusto and other top foreign aid, once let the fans seem to really see the sixth league. And domestic players because of the sky-high wages, have also given up the dream of staying in the ocean, back to the domestic gold panning, which is the highest peak of the Chinese Super League, but also the lowest valley of the national football team. What happened later everyone knows, with a wave of the epidemic sweeping the world in 2020, the real estate bubble came ahead of schedule, relying on the support of real estate bosses to support the Chinese Super League also fell together, coupled with the Football Association launched a series of neutral names, salary restriction orders and a series of attempts to be in place, the Chinese Super League collapsed, followed by a series of youth schools and institutions.
The Chinese Super League collapsed, and the Chinese football industry fell into the abyss with all the practitioners, but the Chinese Football Association, which aims to achieve good results in the World Cup qualifiers, the Asian Cup and the Olympic Games, seems to be full of concern. They don't care how many AFC Champions League places the Chinese Super League has lost, how many Chinese Super League teams will be disbanded next season, and they don't care about the life problems faced by the bottom players and related practitioners, the only thing they care about is that the national football team can achieve good results in the national team competition, so as to provide them with the results they can get. Nowadays, spending a lot of money to negotiate with major European teams on the stay of domestic players in the West is a direct reflection of the fact that the Football Association has lost confidence in the Chinese Super League, and it is foreseeable that after the members of the national team have stayed in the Country, the Chinese Super League will become more and more difficult to continue. Whether such an inverted approach is beneficial or harmful, I believe that fans will see it in their eyes.
The plan to stay in the Ocean was launched, and the top twelve was doomed to fail, and at the same time, the failure was also announced by the vigorous naturalization plan
At a time when the Football Association launched a vigorous naturalization plan, domestic public opinion was almost unanimously opposed, and footballers expressed their disapproval of the prospects of naturalized players, even if There were already successful cases in Japan and South Korea. Now that the top twelve matches are not over, the national football team has only the theoretical possibility left, the initial external public opinion for the naturalization plan of the decline, turned out to be a reality one by one, the Football Association wants to rely on imitating the successful experience of Japan and South Korea to obtain short-term success, did not think, and finally imitated a four unlike. There was no progress in the round of twelve, the naturalized players were terminated, and the league suffered irreversible damage along with it.
Now the Football Association has once again launched a new so-called foreign stay plan, which is the same as the naturalization plan, which is to abandon the long-term future of Chinese football to serve the success of the national football team in the short term and the achievements of the leadership team in the short term. First make a good assumption, if the domestic players, including all the naturalized players, have achieved the same leaps and bounds as Wu Lei through this time of staying in the Yang, the level of national football has also been improved, can achieve good results in the next 2023 local Asian Cup, in the 2024 Olympic Games to achieve qualification, can be in the case of domestic leagues and youth training in the case of chicken feathers, the next World Cup, Asian Cup and Olympic Games, who should the national football team rely on to get a breakthrough? Therefore, there is no need to wait a few years before making a judgment, and the failure of the international football team's plan to stay in the Ocean this time can be concluded almost now.
conclusion
Over the years, Chinese football has always focused on short-term results and neglected the more important training of youth talents. The Football Association has learned all the ready-made experiences of Japan and South Korea that can succeed in international competitions, and wants to complete the goal of the national football team entering the World Cup, entering the Olympic Games and winning the Asian Cup in one battle, however, the most successful youth training career done by Japan and South Korea, they do not learn at all, because this cause is more expensive than the introduction of naturalized players and the plan to stay in foreign countries, it is a move by the predecessors to plant trees and the coolness of the people, no one wants to do it, and no one wants to do it. When we look at the development of young players in Japan and South Korea today, Japan's vigorous national high school competition held every year has sent a batch of talents to the national team, and at present, which international footballer or football player in Chinese football is from the campus? Although South Korea does not have a world-famous student event, but when their youth training has cultivated a group of young people who can stand firm in Europe, should Chinese football also reflect on the shortcomings of its own youth training? The plan to stay in the West is not a bad thing, but before sending players abroad, we can't ignore our own leagues, this is the end of the line, the international football team can play in Europe is also not a bad thing, but instead of superficially sending a large number of older players abroad, it is better to care about the real future of Chinese football!