In last night's game, the eighth round of the Asian qualifier Round of 12, the Chinese team lost to Vietnam 1-3, completely missing the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
After losing this game, the national enough to end the Asian qualifier 12 finals with 8 wins, 1 win, 2 draws and 5 losses, many fans who supported the Chinese team expressed great disappointment in the Chinese team - naturalizing so many players to play like this is simply a waste of money.
You know, Vietnam's total population is 95 million, the proportion of young people accounts for 24%, calculated, it is 22.8 million people, not as large as some of our more populous provinces, but it is in the football field to defeat us, which is closely related to their youth training.
From the perspective of basketball, I often think about the current situation of other sports in China - is there really no way out for Chinese basketball and Chinese football?!
It is worth mentioning that the Vietnamese national football team has maintained a core team since the 2016 Asian Youth Championship, and this group of players has gone all the way from the U19 youth team to the current national team, and the overall run-in is very in place, and the tactical literacy is very high.
Looking at the data, in the past five years, the record of Vietnamese youth football is indeed much better than that of Chinese football, and it is not surprising that the national football team has lost.
In 2016, the U19 Asian Youth Championship Final Four (the best in history), the 2017 U20 World Youth Championship ticket (the first time in history), the 2018 Asian Cup runner-up in the U23 Asian Cup, the Asian Games group stage 1-0 Japan, and finally won the fourth place (the best in history), the 2019 Vietnamese national team advanced to the Asian Cup Top 8 (the best in history), and won the Southeast Asian Games football project at the end of the year. In 2021, they entered the World Cup Asian Zone Round of 12 for the first time (the first time in history) and won the opportunity to compete for World Cup tickets.
It is understood that the 9-year-old teenager of Vietnamese player Nguyen Quang Hai left home to learn ball and left his parents' training base at T&T (now Hanoi FC) in Hanoi for paramilitary closed training. In fact, most of the Vietnamese youth players have begun to undergo systematic training at this age.
These training bases basically use the method of national selection to collect potential teenagers from various regions for training and exploration of their potential.
To tell the truth, like the 9-year-old and 10-year-old children of my relatives around me, they have learned to fight landlords, learned to eat chicken and the glory of kings, and will already go online to "pit people". To start from myself, at this age, I am still playing game king cards with the little brothers in the community, playing military flags, playing table tennis, playing skateboarding and roller skates, and I know nothing about football and basketball youth training, even if my father is a fanatical fan of basketball and football, he has not thought about it, sent me to a certain base to be trained - on the one hand, we grassroots people do not have this awareness, on the other hand, we grassroots people do not have such economic conditions. After all, such training expenses are beyond the reach of ordinary families.
I still think that our side is really not suitable for the cultivation of football and basketball talents
Yesterday I saw a lot of fans in the comment area of the major forums complaining about the national football team, I feel very helpless, you don't like such a team, you don't like such an environment, why don't you think about how to change such a status quo?! Why don't you play football yourself, why don't you send your son to play football? Blame the coaching team will not use people, blame the national football team will not choose materials - why in the national football team in urgent need of talent transportation, your parents always teach you to study hard, get into college, and find a job after graduation. In the same way, after becoming a parent, you still repeatedly teach your children to study hard, go to college, enter a big factory, and make a lot of money.
As we all know, youth training, children suffer hardships is certain, this is the first level that every professional sports person must go through. But how many parents can make their children suffer like this? And this kind of suffering will take years, or even 10 years, as soon as it is eaten. After suffering, there is no guarantee that you can become a talent. The investment is large, the effect is slow, and the general family cannot hold it.
As far as the current environment is concerned, the first priority of teenagers is to learn, and if they do not study, they will be eliminated by several rounds of examinations. In Guangzhou, every year, 50% of middle school students are diverted to higher vocational and secondary schools, which is a concern of tens of millions of parents, who do not want their children to be diverted to secondary schools and higher vocational schools when they take the middle school examination. Almost all parents believe that the so-called secondary schools and higher vocational schools are for this group of young people to mix up, and there is no future to speak of when they go in. In such an environment, who dares to allow children to play football and basketball at this stage?
For ordinary people, learning is the shortcut in life, learn the course content, take the exam well, read a good high school, take a good university, and have the confidence to find a well-paid job in the future, and then form a family, have children, and live a life in a plain way, which is the destination of most people. Who would dare to gamble their future on football and basketball? I don't dare myself anyway.
The reason why Vietnamese football has made a leap in the past 5 years is mainly because they have figured out the truth of competitive sports - selection.
The real football talents stand out under such a large selection mechanism, and the so-called "one in a thousand" is even so.
Many fans are thinking about China's big country, 1.4 billion people, can't we find the dozen or so people who can play football? In fact, there is no such selection mechanism in China, and the focus of this selection is almost inclined to several key examinations, such as the middle school entrance examination, the college entrance examination, the provincial examination, and the national examination. Except for the mainland, there is almost no country in the world that can make the competition of the exam play so vividly, and the candidates are tens of millions of candidates every year.
And football players, 2018 data: China has only 6,000 registered football players. This is a very cruel statistic, 1.4 billion people, only more than 6,000 football players, we have to find 11 of these more than 6,000 players, the base itself is very small, far below the level of Vietnam's national football team "one in a thousand".
If we want the Chinese men's basketball team to rise, we must establish a reasonable and perfect mechanism to truly select talents from 1.4 billion people.
As for how to operate, I recommend starting from the grassroots level, looking for children who really like to play football, and cultivating them from an early age.
Implement the diversion of youth training, so that teenagers who cannot enter the professional arena can return to school and return to society to solve their worries.
Only in this way can Chinese football and basketball have enough vitality to change the status quo.
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