Recently, the topic of national football has become the focus of heated discussion in the media. The rationality of Li Xiaopeng's training list and the future of naturalized players are all of great concern to fans. As the head of the Chinese Football Association, Chen Shuyuan's measures have largely determined the future development path of Chinese football, so at 9 o'clock in the morning of January 9, the Chinese Football Association held the 11th General Assembly in Chengdu, and Chen Shuyuan personally delivered an important speech at the scene.
At the meeting, Chen Shuyuan made a detailed plan and elaboration on the development of Chinese football in 2022. He said that he has also been deeply reflecting on the current situation of the national football team, and wants to find the fundamental problems that plague Chinese football to achieve a substantial leap as soon as possible, so Chairman Chen pointed out at the meeting site that it is necessary to further implement the balanced development of the Chinese Super League, put an end to the concept of jin Yuanhua and interest-oriented football, build the professional league into a foundation sport with tenacious vitality of Chinese football, and increase efforts in cultivating young people.
At this meeting, the Chinese Football Association also announced the financial expenditure of the past two years to the outside world. It can be seen that in 2019, the total expenditure of the Football Association for the whole year was 860 million, while the total revenue was 820 million, which means that the Football Association had a loss of 40 million yuan in 2019. In 2020, the total expenditure of the Football Association for the whole year was 470 million, the total revenue was 460 million, and the loss situation was obviously better than that in 2019, but in two years, it burned 1.31 billion yuan and lost 50 million, and I can't help but wonder what the Football Association is doing and where the money is spent.
However, some fans pointed out that Chen Shuyuan was not ashamed to say where the roots of Chinese football were, and wouldn't he feel blushing? Since Chen Shuyuan took office, his neutral name policy, salary restriction policy, and later naturalized player policy have all ended in practical failure. Nowadays, the attractiveness and attention of the Chinese Super League have dropped sharply, but the strength of the national football team is still in place, and even the Vietnamese, Oman and other teams that were not looked at by the national football team in the past have the courage to wrench the wrist with the national football team, does this prove Chen Shuyuan's own decision-making mistakes?
The fans' remarks did come to the point, but some people believe that it is also unfair to attribute all the fault to Chen Shuyuan, and Guangzhou Evergrande should also be responsible. Because the Guangzhou team is the first team to really implement the Golden Dollar Storm and the naturalization policy, and from the later results, the Guangzhou team has indeed set a wrong example for other teams, especially the naturalization policy that the Football Association is proud of, and now no one is seen, the "Brazilian Gang" can be described as no news after returning to China, there is no intention of playing for the country again, and the Guangzhou team still has to pay them tens of millions of euros in annual salaries.
But in any case, Chen Shuyuan can realize that there are huge problems in Chinese football and is willing to take the initiative to solve them, which is also self-aware. The next 4 world preliminary matches of the national football team will determine what the development path of Chinese football in the future is, if the miracle of qualifying can be completed under the leadership of Li Xiaopeng, then the Chinese people will still have high expectations for the sport of football, once the gray slip out of the game in advance, the fans may be completely dead, then Chinese football and even the entire youth training industry will face a cold winter.