After the national football team lost 1:3 to Vietnam, it completely failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. During the Spring Festival, such a defeat is indeed difficult for fans to accept. However, after reading the following statistics, you will have a new discovery, the last time we fought, the national football team won 3:2 to Vietnam is the real "upset", and the current level of the national football team itself is not as good as Vietnam.
Before this game, the Chinese team had never lost against Vietnam in international A-level competitions, so in the eyes of most fans, the national football team, although weak, must be stronger than Vietnam, which is also an important reason why it is difficult for fans to accept that the national football team has lost to Vietnam. But in fact, for so many years, Vietnamese football has been improving, and we have been standing still, the so-called "sailing against the current, not advancing is retreating", which we can detect a clue from a piece of data.
According to the commentator Zhang Lu, since 1990, this data in China has been 10,000 people, and this figure of 10,000 people has lasted for many years, until 2014, the number of primary and secondary school students who play football all year round in China is still 10,000. If the number of "10,000 people" alone may not be intuitive, then we can look at this data from other countries. The football powerhouse Germany has 200,000 people, the United Kingdom has more than 1 million people, Italy has hundreds of thousands of people, and Spain has more than 1 million people. In Asia, Japan's youth football population is not less than 600,000, Thailand has nearly 300,000 people, even Vietnam has more than 100,000 people, although it is 2014 data, but this group of primary and secondary school students are exactly the players who are now playing, which is why the Vietnamese media has always been confident that they can beat the Chinese team.
After reading this data, do you feel that losing to Vietnam is not unjust at all. Some fans have been saying that the population is huge, 1.4 billion people, not even 11 people who can play football, this is the reason, because we are not selected from 1.4 billion people, there are only 10,000 people for us to choose, and Vietnam has more than 100,000 people to choose from, which is the key to their victory. Such a status quo is not to say that it can be changed, there are many factors restricted, such as football culture, football environment, etc., Chinese football has a long way to go.