The final of the 100th Japan High School Soccer Championship was played today at the Tokyo National Stadium, with Aomori Yamada winning the championship with a 4-0 victory over Otsu. According to official statistics, a total of 42,747 spectators came to the National Stadium to watch the game. This news has been reported by major sports media in China, and has become a sports hot search list and a headline hot list. Why is a small high school soccer tournament in Japan so closely watched by the domestic media and fans?
It is very sad to see that many fans and domestic professional players are very sad to see here, because we have not been treated like this in the FA Cup finals that we just concluded, which is a relatively top game in China. But what do we see? Do you see the future? Have you seen a rookie? Have you seen our football culture and football atmosphere?
In comparison, can we say that the Japan High School Championship is still a small competition? Their opening ceremony has already triggered a lot of traffic, and today's final has attracted more people's attention, wonderful clips, video playback on each platform is easy to find. The front-page headlines were also the final of the 100th Japan High School Soccer Tournament that ended today, with Aomori Yamada beating Otsu 4-0 to win the year's championship.
What information is this indirectly telling the fans? Or is it indirectly punching someone in the face? What a striking number, let's take a look at it together, "100th" and "42747", what does this mean? This is the 100th edition of the Japan High School Championships, and the number of fans watching the scene reached 42,747. Is it too shocking, how can such a football atmosphere not create excellent football talents?
Compared with his neighbors, Mao Mao really doesn't want to say anything more? What is the difference between us, we have more high school students in one province than all the high school students in the island country, but how many people can we choose from the high school students who can play football? A high school football game, can have such a scene, such an atmosphere, such a degree of participation, formality and attention, the level of football is not high to be strange, not to enter the World Cup is strange.
We see not who won the championship, but seeing that other people have such enthusiasm and perseverance for football, 100 classes, what concept? Don't ask about returns, don't focus on utilitarianism, focus on participation, and focus on support. The biggest problem with our football is that the people who play don't get long-term support, and the people who watch don't look at the process and meaning, but only ask about winning or losing. If football and watching football are always just concerned about who wins football, then why is it endless? Is it really not worth losing? How to forge the soul of the nation? Where does the spirit come from?
It's really ironic, think about the scene when EDG won the championship some time ago, we are also brushing the screen, although we are extremely happy at the same time as winning over South Korea, but now think about what our children are doing? Are you playing a game? Or are you playing soccer? Or are you in a tutoring class? I sincerely hope that our students can go out of the classroom, go under the sun, feel our football, feel the sports, this is the real health of a student. It is also a state that our domestic football development should have, a virtuous circle, scientific layout, endless life, why worry that we can't enter the World Cup.