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What modern football and modern marriage have in common is that when it works well, it looks like a perfectly coordinated whole, and when it goes wrong, it is a chicken feather.
This is nothing new, modernity is characterized by fragments, everything is grand and far-reaching leads to greatness, and the overall worship marked by power and trademarks crushes everything. The individual is crushed from birth to crushed, but from birth to death, he desperately wants to make himself a perfect part of the whole. The great Hungarian writer Kostorani said in his classic Kornell, the god of the night, "Stars and garbage are our destiny". What kind of joy and sorrow magic is contained in the words! Lucky knows that he will eventually face the moment when fate trembles, and the unfortunate person is like a splash of cosmic fragments to get unexpected comfort at the moment when the black hole engulfs.
This is the eternal question that modern life poses to the individual. Is it to do your part to manage a whole that does not change the fragile nature, or to fly with the wind in the flying debris? The proposition of the football world is the same, which one is more resistant to construct and dismantle? Coaches who regard technique and tactics as the perfect ideal often fall into the vortex of arbitrariness, the biggest risk or the inevitable end is a flash in the pan, after a momentary success, facing a lifetime of scattered debris that can not be picked up. But who can really fly beautifully with the wind?
Football in the 21st century continues to give people a sense of fragmentation. For most of the game, the two teams are squeezing each other like two airtight plates, and most of the time it is not worth remembering back and forth. When a certain side is suddenly found to have a loophole, the way to score is often extra simple and rough, and the defender's defense line is ugly and scattered. The unforgettable 1-on-1 breakthroughs and defenses of the past era, the tenacious battle of wits between individuals and individuals, are no longer common in today's football, and the balls lost are not because they have been passed, but because of missing people, losing positions, and failing to create offsides.
People like to project all the expectations of romance and happiness on celebrity marriages, and each combination is comparable to a fairy tale, but their ending is far less than that of the young boys and girls who steal the forbidden fruit in "Three Words and Two Beats". In ancient stories, men and women are the two protagonists of love dramas, and their common enemy is a social system that falls like a fishing net. In today's celebrity marriage narrative, men and women are like two chariots each wearing social and legal armor, marriage is the moment when the armor is wrapped in a dress and wedding dress, and whether the script of divorce is rich depends on how many colorful pieces of armor the chariot can drop in the collision.
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When the name Li Lianglei suddenly appeared in the public eye, many people even had to turn to the Internet dictionary to find the correct pronunciation of the word "Liang". However, her instantaneous increase in public awareness goes far beyond the pronunciation of Chinese characters. If you want to find a person of the year in the Chinese-speaking world in 2021, I think it is Li Lianglei, who is not a great person, but a surprising and joyful woman.
Li Lianglei's language and logic are like the works of Chinese female artist Sarah Shi, suddenly pulling you into the perspective mirror of the fragmented era. Her marriage story is not fundamentally different from other people's stories, and has long been scattered into an irreparable piece of broken glass under the influence of many factors, but when she has to tell the scene of the accident in public, she has long since withdrawn from the broken glass and discussed the dilemmas contained in modern marriage as "a modern woman" that many people may encounter, and her "I" has a magical sense of substitution. It is no wonder that there are urban white-collar workers who do not sleep in the middle of the night waiting for the "Hammer of LeiShen" to update Weibo, from the first long article, Li Lianglei has decided the reader's taste as an author, and the expectation of gossip jumps to the personal issue of gender and marriage, her marriage has become fragmented, but she has united many fragments in the world, many potential fragments.
Just like those games in football that have lost their meaning, the audience does not have much expectation, but suddenly an unknown talented player has emerged, he demolished the entire technical and tactical system of his own side and the other side with his personal performance, he brought the audience a wonderful game, and also triggered thinking, wouldn't it be better to play football like this? Can a meaningless match be kicked to artistic heights? If football loses the expression of individuality, the content that was previously fixed is actually just out of fear, conservatism, and mediocre design and decoration?
If the thinking caused by one person or one thing is easily detached from the topic field of its own, so that you can also be inspired or inspired in other fields, such people and things have risen to the height of philosophy. There is no doubt that Li Lianglei is enough to cause at least one simple football problem: if the Chinese men's football team can play football as clearly and concisely as she wrote, single-handedly poke at the point, know oneself and know the other without dragging the mud, win the opponent and the audience at the same time in the overall situation, and worry about what rushed out of Asia, the World Cup top 8 all went in early, right?
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Jonathan Liu, a Chinese correspondent for The Guardian, is a young colleague I have paid much attention to in the past two years. He is an excellent sports journalist who has just won the 2021 Federation of British Sports Journalists ' Journalist of the Year' honour. In his short 10-year career in sports reporting, he has spanned many projects and dared to face serious issues such as racism and journalistic ethics, and has won wide respect and recognition. I'm curious about where his annual summary of world sport 2021 is focused, and from his long article "2021 is the year when the silent majority of the world of football finally makes a sound", published in the second edition of the Observer newspaper Sports, I was surprised to find that his focus is also on the world in fragments.
In Jonathan Liu's view, the short-lived experience of the European Premier League may be the most debatable thing to discuss in 2021, the most turbulent and angry year, after the announcement of the European Premier League plan, the press, players, coaches, the vast majority of clubs and the vast majority of fans have achieved unprecedented unity and harmony, fans not only expressed anger, but also put "what is a club and who does it belong to?" "This fundamental question, which has almost been crushed by the business era, has been revived, and the (British) fans who have been under-expressed on this issue in the past have finally spoken their voices and immediately achieved good social results.
Jonathan Liu's in-depth analysis of the fragmented world is striking. He pointed out that in most people's philosophy, the football system is a pyramid, with big leagues suppressing small leagues and big clubs suppressing small clubs. In fact, as economist Paul Mason put it: "Football is not so much a pyramid as it is a 'class struggle.'" On one side are fans and players, and on the other side is a huge team of investors, broadcasters, financial institutions and high-tech companies. One side has most of the passion, talent, and human emotions, while the other has almost everything else. For modern capitalism, football is essentially a product that can be sold, generated, nurtured, and spread. Anything that deviates from that basic goal — the welfare of the players, the emotions of the fans, the classic tee time at 3 p.m. — has to be suppressed. ”
I think this view is the best expression of the fragmented world. Not only football, in the face of any kind of system, including the consumer and producer relationship between Apple users and Apple, the user is also a fragment, for example, Apple's mobile phone does not come with a charger, and the difficulty of a single consumer taking them to court is always comparable to ascending to the sky. But how many fragments of power and power can easily unite themselves?
However, if I had to choose the winner of the 2021 Golden Fragment Award, I would still choose Li Lianglei. I saw the natural outburst of anger in the protests of British fans, but I saw not only anger in Li Lianglei's online articles, but also artistic wisdom and sense of proportion, but also a hint of dark playfulness, which is the fragrance of personality, and its outpouring is not limited by events and goals themselves, such a style is very similar to one of my favorite players in the past decade or so , Iniesta.
Author: Wang Qinbo
This article was originally published in the 831st issue of Football Weekly
Released: 30.12.2021
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