0-2, the score is the gap between the national football team and the Japanese team, and it is also the gap between Chinese football and Japanese football. 24 years and 13 games against the Japanese team did not win, the last century the national football team and the Japanese team still have each other's wins and losses, into the new millennium, the national football team was suddenly thrown away by the opponent. With the official landing of the Chinese Football Association's plan to retain players in the West, how long does it take for Chinese football to make up for the gap between the two sides? If all goes well and down-to-earth, two generations of players may be used, and if plans and policies change overnight, the gap will be further widened.
From the equal division of autumn colors, to the 24 years of japan invincible
China and Japan recorded confrontations began in 1975, when the national football team defeated Japan 2-1 in the Asian Cup qualifiers that year, and in the 70s and 80s of the last century, the national football team won three consecutive victories against the Japanese team, even including the 1980 World Preliminary Tournament. In the 1987 Olympic Preliminary Round, the Chinese and Japanese teams won one game each, which began the prelude to a 10-year period of equal division.
But this tie has come to an abrupt end since the 1998 Danas Cup (the predecessor of the East Asian Cup). The 2004 Asian Cup final was the last time the national football team had the ability, and it also let the outside world see the hope of overturning the Japanese team, but only because of the misjudgment of the referee on duty, the national football team hated 1-3, not only lost the final at home, but also faced the Japanese team with 3 consecutive defeats, followed by the opponent's ride.
After that victory in 1998, the national football team and the Japanese team played 13 times, with a record of 5 draws and 8 losses, and after suffering double kills in the round of 12, the national football team faced the Japanese team with four consecutive defeats. Of course, after the 2004 Asian Cup, the national football team can rarely meet the main Japanese team, the East Asian Cup, the Japanese team is the second team, or even the third team to "exercise", of which many East Asian Cup national football team to get a lot of "water".
Why did the national football team not evenly shoot in 2 games from more than 20 years ago to the Japanese team that played in the round of 12? The gap has become so large in 20 years, what is the rise of Japanese football?
The conflict between Wei Shihao and Takumi Minano is not what it used to be
Youth training is abandoned + there is no one to follow in the west, and the national football talent is broken
Whether it is the top 10 matches in 1997 at the peak of the national football team, and the first world cup in 2002, or in the case of today's generation is not as good as a generation, youth training has always been a topic in the mouth of the media, but Chinese football has not been implemented, and it has always been groping forward in the east hammer and west crutch.
Entering the World Cup in South Korea and Japan in 2002 was originally the east wind of the rise of Chinese football, but it did not want to watch its neighbor Japan become the hegemon of Asian football with the help of the east wind of hosting the World Cup, and it was a combination of men's and women's football. In addition to laying the foundation for youth training around the 2002 World Cup, the promotion of the plan to stay in the West is also another key factor in Japanese football's long-term leadership in Asia.
Judging from the statistics of the foreign players who played between China and Japan in the second leg, in the absence of Kenhiro Fuan and Hengwu Fuqiao due to injury, 16 of the 23-man list of the Japanese team will come from Europe. The national football team has recruited 26 players, but only Wu Lei has stayed in the Ocean, and in Espanyol has been completely reduced to a substitute, and 7 consecutive rounds of La Liga have not obtained even 1 minute of playing time. Most of the Japanese international players are the main players of their respective teams, but Wu Lei can only give Wu Xi a "substitute version" jersey.
The lack of youth training has broken the Chinese football talent, a group of veterans in their 30s still have to work hard to support, if conditions permit, Li Xiaopeng is eager to send the 42-year-old Zheng Zhi to the field. In the Sino-Japanese war, the national football team started 11 people with a price of only 8.475 million euros, but the Japanese team was as high as 44.9 million euros, the two main players Takushi Minano and Endo Hang are ten million euros level, the hanging of the body value, directly presented in the results of the game, 2-0 plus zero shots for the national football team.
The plan to stay in the West landed, and Chinese football still lacks a leading big brother
While Chinese fans envy the number and quality of Japanese football, Li Lei went to the grasshoppers of the Swiss Super League, Guo Tianyu went to Vizzella in the Portuguese Premier League, and the first team of European football finally had 3 active Chinese internationals. However, with Wu Lei's current situation, Li Lei and Guo Tianyu have just landed in Europe, and I am afraid that it will take a step to seize the team's substitute and even the main position, and it is difficult to achieve one step to the sky.
The Chinese Football Association has played a big role behind the current stay of Chinese players in the West, with Chinese-funded background teams being the main "transmission" objects, while Japanese players have already taken this step. With small European teams as a springboard and the second division of the five major leagues as excessive, the eyes of Japanese players have long been directed to the middle and upper reaches of the five major leagues.
Moreover, the success of Japanese and Korean players such as Liuyang, who were planted by predecessors and cooled by the latter, Nakata Hidetoshi, Junichi Inamoto, Shinji Kagawa, Keiyu Honda, Cha Fangen, Park Ji-sung and other players, has made European football slowly accept Japanese and Korean players, so that in the eyes of Chinese fans, Japan and South Korea are now showing a state of blowout.
In the case of Furuhashi, for example, his success at Celtic allowed the Su Super League giants to win a number of Japanese players such as Maeda Dairan, Yosuke Inoueguchi and Flag Bearer Yoshiyo in one go.
As the saying goes, the train runs fast all by the headband, and with the leader, success will come naturally. The road for Chinese players to stay in the West has gradually broken down after fan zhiyi, Sun Jihai, Yang Chen, Shao Jiayi and other players. Yang Chen's success in the Bundesliga allowed the German team to later accept Nearly double-digit Chinese players, but except for Yang Chen, Xie Hui, shao Jiayi, the rest were not too successful, and after Arthur Junmin, including Zhang Xizhe, he went to Germany as a "water dispenser watchman".
Wu Lei is already the leader of Chinese players staying in the West, but he can only sit on the bench in espanyol, and without the successful figure of taking the lead in big brother style, he cannot really attract the attention of European clubs to Chinese players. Even if there is the Football Association and Chinese-funded background teams as pushers, but only rely on this kind of transportation, I am afraid that the quantity will go up, but the quality is still stagnant.
How many years will it take for Chinese football to catch up with Japan?
This may be a pseudo-proposition, based on the Chinese, supplemented by campus football, and the current emphasis on youth training, to rapidly increase the population base of football, coupled with the number of Chinese-funded teams in European football, the accumulation of the so-called "foreign players" number, is a very fast thing.
But it is still the quality mentioned earlier, to achieve from quantitative change to qualitative change, this is a long-term project. Including the Chinese Football Association, as well as many domestic enterprises, more than 10 years ago, they vigorously promoted the model of young players going to Europe for training, but the final results of the huge number of projects to stay in the West were not obvious. Liu Binbin is one of the fruits, but there are too few such fruits.
The policy of Chinese football is "changing from day to day", which is the biggest place that has been criticized, it has never been down-to-earth, and the implementation of a policy is likely to be overturned in a few years, which is the biggest drawback that prevents the progress of Chinese football. Taking naturalized players as an example, the dismal course of this World Preliminary Tournament makes Kaldek's naturalization "stillborn", whether it is the Football Association or the club, no longer touch this topic.
If it is really down-to-earth, with the size of China's population, Chinese football can be renewed in 10 years, and up to two generations of players can make the national football team return to the first-class in Asia. It is just that in the past 20 years, Chinese football has missed many opportunities for "cultivation", learning from Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, which country wins the World Cup, learns football from which country.
Now, naturalization has failed, and the plan to stay in the West has been launched, and the next plan may be after the 2023 home Asian Cup, or after the dismal end of the 2026 World Preliminary Tournament.
in Zakumi