Summary of the Chinese Super League
Made in-house!
The 2021 season of the first New Year's Eve format officially came to an end, and Shandong Taishan regained the championship after a gap of 11 years. In the post-Jinyuan era, Chinese football has been affected by the economy and the epidemic, and it is struggling. 22 rounds, 176 games, 16 teams have their own sweet and sour and bittersweet to tell. This newspaper will begin to summarize the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League from multiple angles.
Affected by the overall social environment, the Chinese Super League opened the "post-Golden Age". The impact of the epidemic has further exacerbated the economic crisis of Chinese football, resulting in the loss of a large number of big-name foreign aid and foreign teachers, which in turn has led to a significant decline in the technical and tactical standards and the quality of the game in the arena. For the sake of epidemic prevention, the Chinese Super League had to be empty, and the schedule was dense, and the players were physically and mentally exhausted, which further aggravated the decline in the quality of the game and even lost its ornamentation. However, Taishan's victory also reflects the essence, Chinese football needs "Made in China", and it is time to reshuffle the cards.
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The "gold content" argument highlights the essence
The author has always had such a view that Chinese football does not live in a "vacuum", but is more dependent on social reality. The whole society, from the government to the ordinary people, what kind of attitude is it to treat football, and what football returns to us is. When we have always hoped that the development of professional football in China will be fully developed under "absolute fairness" and "absolute justice", it is also very unrealistic. Because football is fully involved in capital, the inherent "profit-seeking" nature of capital cannot fail to have an impact and impact on the development of professional football itself. The most fatal point is that Chinese football in the "Golden Yuan Era" has turned the original "popular" sports into a "niche project" that only a few rich people can afford, and the high degree of monopoly and the disorderly expansion of capital once made Chinese football look unlimited, and there seemed to be a breakthrough in short-term achievements, but it did not bring substantial progress and positive impact to Chinese football.
Moreover, because the foundation of professional football in China is directly based on the basis of "enterprises or companies"; in Europe and the United States, professional clubs are first built on the basis of "communities", and then develop and establish companies to participate in professional leagues. These two completely different processes and natures have completely determined the completely different fates of Chinese and foreign clubs. It also determines the completely different ways and methods of professional football and professional league development. Therefore, after the end of the Golden Yuan era, after the parent company or enterprise was affected by the national economic regulation and control policy, the Chinese Super League teams could no longer invest as uncontrolled as in the past, and the contrast between the past and the past was huge, which naturally made people have an unprecedented sense of loss.
It is precisely because of this that when Taishan regains the Chinese Super League championship after 11 years, many people who are accustomed to "making money" with big hands will put forward the so-called "gold content" theory, believing that the championship value of Taishan is not as good as the previous Guangzhou team and harbor team. And this kind of formulation is essentially an inertial continuation of the past Jinyuan era of thought, "building is not as good as buying, buying is not as good as renting" is the best portrayal of the Chinese Super League Jinyuan era, like Shandong to pay attention to the construction of youth echelons, the first team is mainly based on their own training of players, but the outside world is not looked up to, so the so-called gold content will be produced. But in fact, the model of the Taishan team is the original model for the development of Chinese football. Therefore, whether the tide of capital is ebbing or not, Taishan is always stable.
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The decline in athletics was due to the decline in the quality of foreign aid
From another point of view, "relying on foreign aid in the Chinese Super League" is a major feature that has been formed after Chinese football has entered the professionalization, which runs through different historical periods of the development of Chinese professional leagues. In the "Golden Age", many world-class big-name foreign aides have come to China to pan for gold under the temptation of money, which has greatly improved the technical and tactical level and quality of the league. However, this level and quality improvement is brought about by the improvement of the level and quality of foreign aid, and is not the basis for the survival of professional teams, that is, the improvement of the technical and tactical level and quality of local players. Even more often, due to the technical and tactical level and quality of local players, it gives people the feeling of "Wang Xiao'er's New Year".
Therefore, when these big-name foreign aides left, the quality and ornamentation of the entire league dropped significantly. As a result, many people are sighing: the past 2021 season of the Chinese Super League "can't see" or "can't watch", the reason is that the quality of foreign aid from each team has shown a significant decline. Just like Beijing Guoan had the overall strength to compete with the Guangzhou team led by the "Violent Bird" in the past when Augusto, Vieira, Jin Weiya, Bakambu and other four foreign aides started, but now there is only one foreign aid striker left in Silva, even if it is not the same as Bakambu in the same position, not to mention the other three absolute core level foreign aides. So, why did Guoan compete with the winning team? The number of internationals in the 2021 season of the National Security Team has not decreased compared with the 2020 season.
The contrast between Guoan's 2021 season and the 2020 season proves that the fundamental reason for the decline in the technical and tactical standards and quality of the just-concluded Chinese Super League is still the change of foreign aid. However, at the current realistic level of Chinese football, if you want to change the team, the quick effect in the short term is to burn money to introduce big-name foreign aid. Burning money is not a long-term solution, and it is not sustainable, so when the club's parent company encounters economic difficulties, it will make Chinese football a chicken feather today.
Of course, it has to be said that the epidemic has further exacerbated the crisis in the Chinese Super League. Because of the strict implementation of the country's epidemic prevention policy, when many domestic industries have been affected and impacted to varying degrees, the impact and impact of the Chinese Super League is probably not worth mentioning at all, which is determined by the reality that Chinese football has a low status in all fields and industries of the whole society, especially compared with education, employment, medical insurance and other issues related to people's livelihood. Therefore, such strange situations as "empty field" and "tournament system" are not the wishes of Chinese football management departments and managers, but are determined by the reality of Chinese society. Therefore, it is of no practical significance to compare it with neighboring South Korea and Japan, and even European and American professional football.
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The path of football development is always curved
In the face of Chinese football in the "post-Golden Age", more people are disappointed and pessimistic, but as far as Chinese footballers are concerned, the successful completion of the Chinese Super League in the past season is to some extent "self-help" and in the context of overcoming many unfavorable factors. A korean veteran like Zhang Wailong gave an emotional speech on the spot after the relegation of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, which has fully explained that under the current environment and situation, it is not easy for football people, and it reflects the "unwillingness" of Chinese football people. This "unwillingness" is precisely where the hope of Chinese football lies.
When we summarize and look back at the Chinese Super League in the past year, we must see that the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League is only a "fragment" in the entire history of the development of Chinese professional football, or just a "small water droplet". The development and progress of anything is always wave-type. "Between two points, the straight line is the shortest." This is just a principle of physics, in life experience, social development process and even specific to Chinese football, the shortest distance is often a curve rather than a straight line.
Therefore, when the 2021 season of the Chinese Super League is generally considered to be in an unprecedented trough, we should see that the professional development of Chinese football has experienced similar scenes many times in the past in less than 30 years, such as the 2001 top ten qualifiers, the Chinese professional league began to fall into a trough, especially in 2004, the "G7 incident" broke out in the first year of the Chinese Super League. During that period, the outside world also thought that Chinese football was going to be "finished" and "not saved". Today, after Chinese football has ended the "Golden Yuan Era", the reality is quite similar to the scene of that year. In the current objective environment, China's professional leagues have always been supported by real estate, and real estate companies have fallen into a state of recession due to the influence of national policies, which is bound to affect clubs. And the epidemic has further exacerbated the current slump in Chinese football. However, after all, it has not yet reached the step of "the sky falling", as long as football still exists in China, it is impossible to completely die.
To some extent, the large amount of capital involvement and various conflicts of interests have made Chinese football simply become a "tool" and a "vanity fair" for many private enterprises and private bosses to seek rent. Today, after the "capital tide" has receded, it is not necessarily a rare historical opportunity for the development of Chinese football, but an opportunity to return Chinese football to the essence of football and return to society. Just like Tarzan regained the championship after 11 years, in the end, his own manufacturing is still king.
As in other fields in China, especially in the scientific and technological community, the situation of "card neck" continues to occur, and only by making unremitting efforts to improve oneself, creating its own "Made in China", and taking the domestic and international double cycle road can we break through the siege and gain a firm foothold in the world. In fact, Chinese football is the same, only by cultivating its own excellent players can we really gain a foothold in Asian football first. Qatar, which will host the World Cup this year, has set a good example for us in this regard, in the past so many years relying on "burning money + naturalization", has not been able to occupy a place in Asian football, it is a group of elite players cultivated by the Qatar Elite Academy itself, so that qatar team dominates Asia and wins the Asian Cup championship.
Chinese football needs "Made in China", and "Made in China" starts with professional leagues first. It's time for the Chinese Super League to fully reshuffle!