On January 1, Beijing time, on the last day before the Arrival of the New Year, Chen Shuyuan, head of the Chinese Football Association, finally apologized and formally assumed responsibility for the bad performance of the national football team, and many fans joked on social media: Is this apology too late?
The author still remembers the bold words made by Chen Shuyuan when he took office in the third year, he clearly said that he hoped to make a big leap in Chinese football during his term of office, the men's and women's football teams should become the first-class teams in Asia, and the Chinese Super League should become the best league in Asia. As a result, these three goals have not only not been achieved, but have also been presented, compared with the amazing retreat three years ago, it can be said that the Chinese Football Association has undoubtedly made a huge and serious mistake.
Let's start with women's soccer. At the Tokyo Olympics, Jia Xiuquan led the team to set the most humiliating record in history of 2:8, in fact, on the issue of the election controversy of the Olympic Games, Chen Shuyuan could have come forward to stop it, because he was the leader of the supervision and selection team, but he did not exercise his power at all, chose to trust Jia Xiuquan unconditionally, and finally encountered Jia Xiuquan's punching and betrayal. Jia Xiuquan's contract expired on September 1, and on October 10, the Chinese Football Association officially released the announcement of the coach selection, which means that from this day on, Jia Xiuquan's coaching has officially become a thing of the past and will not continue to coach on behalf of the Chinese women's football team, but then for 83 days, Chen Shuyuan has not apologized until the last day of the end of the year.
The same is true for the national football team, Li Tie officially announced the end of the class after the Chinese men's football team lifted the quarantine on December 3, only 29 days have passed. Before that, we did not see Chen Shuyuan publicly apologize on any official occasion, in fact, this time it was only at the internal debriefing meeting of the Football Association to the General Administration of Sports, Chen Shuyuan made an apology, and he now not only owes an account to the General Administration of Sports, but also owes the fans of the whole country and the people of the whole country a sincere explanation.
The impact of Chen Shuyuan's defeat on Chinese football will be very huge, very far-reaching, because he is the first professional person selected by chinese football in the past 30 years of history. The General Administration of Sport originally wanted to achieve formal decentralization here, but it did not think that the use of so-called professionals in exchange for such an unprofessional result, then will there be further decentralization in the future? This step is really difficult to say, and Chinese football may take a long, long detour.