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On December 22, the Chinese Super League ended the 18th round of the competition, Shandong Taishan 2-1 reverse victory over Changchun Yatai, in the case of Guangzhou and Shanghai Harbor exchanged white rolls, Shandong's lead in the standings reached 10 points, as long as they can defeat Hebei in the next round, they will regain the Vulcan Cup after 11 years!
In the past 11 years, Evergrande, SIPG and the disbanded Suning three southern teams have divided 11 league titles, and now, Shandong is about to regain this significant league title, but how much attention the Chinese Super League still has, I am afraid that everyone has a number in mind. With the end of the "Golden Yuan Era", the Top IP of Chinese Football in the Chinese Super League has lost its former attractiveness, and the reason for the Chinese Super League to lose its attractiveness and attention is not only the departure of hot money...
The attention of the Chinese Super League has fallen to the historical freezing point, on the one hand, the existential crisis encountered by clubs, and the departure of big-name coaches and foreign aides. Another more important reason is that the Chinese Super League for two consecutive seasons is fragmented and can only be finished. Taking this season as an example, in the case of the start of the game on April 20, the Chinese Super League played only four rounds of the week and entered the first interval on May 9, 67 days later, on July 15, the league resumed, and entered the rhythm of a three-day match until the end of the first stage of the game on August 15. In the following 119 days and nearly 4 months of off-season, many clubs encountered existential crises and could not concentrate on training, but fortunately, the league restarted in December, and there was no team strike. After the re-opening of the Chinese Super League on December 12, to complete 4 rounds of league competition in just 11 days, the intensity of the game has exceeded the limit, such a league science? Is it reasonable?
For this year's fragmented Chinese Super League, Huang Shenghua, chairman of Guangzhou City Football Club, once expressed his views clearly: "This year, our most stable league is the Chinese League A, all 34 rounds are full, the promotion quota, the relegation quota, all aspects are a very complete format, so that everyone knows what to do this year at the beginning of the year, which directly guarantees the confidence of various investors, planning and prospects for the future." Everything comes from a stable world of football development, not that this year is the year of the World Cup qualifiers, all the focus is there, everything else is irrelevant. "In the Chinese Super League, which investors have no confidence, it is normal to lose the attention of sponsors and fans.
Ma Dexing, deputy editor-in-chief of Sports Weekly, attributed the reason to being restricted by strict epidemic prevention policies: when our opponents can return to China to open the league and maintain their status immediately after the round of 12, this does not have realistic conditions for our epidemic prevention, national team and league. After the national football team returned to Shanghai from the United Arab Emirates on November 18, the players were quarantined until December 12 before they could restart the Chinese Super League.
Since June, due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the Maldives team, it has not been able to successfully reach China to compete in the World Preliminary Round of 40, and the Chinese men's football team has been forced to move to the United Arab Emirates. Since then, the Chinese men's football team has also lost its home stadium for the Top 12 in November, and due to these unexpected circumstances, the Chinese team's going abroad to play means a closed isolation after returning home, and the Chinese Super League schedule has been further compressed. It is undeniable that in 2021, which is full of surprises, the overall performance of the Chinese men's football team is not satisfactory, which also makes the procrastinating Chinese Super League look less worthwhile. Especially when the attention and expectations of the outside world for the national football team are reduced, the Chinese Super League will only be further neglected. What is even more desperate is that all this happens this year is likely to be staged next year, and where the Chinese Super League will go is already a difficult problem that must be faced.
At present, there are still 12 days to go before the end of the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League, if the FA Cup final and the Super League play-off are counted as the planned tasks for 2021, the 2022 year of Chinese football will start from the men's football team from January 27 to March 29. According to the current "14+7" isolation policy, even if the impact of the AFC Champions League preliminaries is not considered, it is extremely difficult for the Chinese Super League to arrange matches between the two international match days, and after the away match with Oman on March 29, the Chinese Super League will not open until the end of April at the earliest, which is later than the start of this year.
After that, the AFC Champions League will start on April 14, referring to this year's situation, if the Chinese Super League teams send non-first-team teams to participate, it will not affect the progress of the Chinese Super League; if the Football Association feels that it cannot be so humiliating as this year, asking the teams to send first-team teams to play, optimistic estimates, the Chinese Super League can start on Children's Day, and the subsequent AFC Champions League knockouts will also face the problem of isolation after returning home. In addition, according to the arrangement of the East Asian Football Union, the East Asian Football Championship will be held in China from July 19 to 27, and the Chinese men's and women's football teams will participate. In September, China's 99 age team will participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games, and it is reasonable to say that the Chinese Super League will not stop, but Guo Tianyu, Tao Qianglong, Han Jiaqi and other players will be absent from the Chinese Super League.
At present, the root cause of the fragmentation and integrity of the Chinese Super League is even inferior to that of the Chinese League A, one is that the national football team frequently goes abroad to play, and the other is to implement strict epidemic prevention regulations after returning home, and the time available for the Chinese Super League to play is squeezed out, not to mention that the national football coaching team may also engage in large training... So is the above problem that the Chinese Super League can solve through its own efforts? Obviously not! Therefore, since the conditions are there and the date has been delineated, it is better to ask the decision-making department to simply clarify the mission of the national team as the core, clearly prepare for the 2023 Asian Cup as the core, and boldly move the Chinese Super League. However, before making a decision, please re-examine the value and status of the Chinese professional football league, is it the cornerstone of the national team, or the stubborn stone that can be kicked away?