During the Spring Festival, the Chinese team lost to Vietnam, and the discussion about why Chinese football has not improved for many years has once again become a boom.
With fewer and fewer chinese youth professional players and a narrower range of materials, people can't see where the hope of improving the strength of the Chinese team in the future lies.
Nowadays, many colleagues and fans blame the "pathogen" of the sinking of Chinese football on social problems: in China, football education tuition is too high, and only children with well-off families can receive professional training. This has kept many children from poor families in China away from football. Counting on the children of the rich? They are delicate by nature, have no fighting spirit, are more interested in fragrant car beauties, and are doomed to play bad ball!
I will not dwell on China's social issues.
Just one thing to say: a well-off child must not play well, it is too absolute. Let's talk about one of Inter's "rich second generation" players: Bastoni.
A few days ago, reporters asked Bastoni: "If you don't become a professional player, what will you do to make a living?" ”
Bastoni replied: "Then I can only inherit the family business and go to my father's company to sell products..."
Bastoni's father was an industrialist who produced and operated kitchen and bathroom supplies, which was not "rich and expensive", but in northern Italy, it was also a little famous.
However, it was the entrepreneur's father who became the most important "guide" on The road to bastoni's football growth.
Bastoni's father was a die-hard Inter Milan fan.
Bastoni said: "The first Milan derby I watched? It's at home, with his father, he's also an Inter fan."
Bastoni revealed that Zanetti's long run in the 90th minute to create a corner kick to help Milito achieve a dead end and let Inter win AC Milan, which is one of his best memories of football as a teenager.
In another interview a few months ago, he revealed that the influence of his family and the great football played by Inter during the Treble era (when Bastoni was in his early teens) made him an Inter fan at a very young age.
In 2017, when he was still playing for Atalanta, when he received an invitation from Inter, he only took a few seconds to give a reply when he did not talk about annual salary or contract years: "If it is Inter Milan, I can run (from Bergamo) to sign a contract!" ”
Italian media asked: If Bastoni's father is an AC Milan or Juventus fan, will he still hold hands with Inter? Not easy to say.
Of course, the road of professional football is not easy to walk, especially in a country like Italy: the country has a population of only 60 million, but there are dozens or nearly one million people who have received professional football training, which makes Italy's football youth training always an "inverted pyramid" structure, the more upward, the higher the elimination rate.
In Italy, children who want to become professional players, hard work is the foundation, it is a prerequisite.
Children from well-off families, because there are more choices in life, even if they can't become professional players, they can survive worry-free, if they are not tough enough and hard enough, it is naturally difficult to get ahead.
There are many such people in Italy. For example, not long ago, Zanetti attended an Inter theme event of a car brand and was surprised to find that the management of the other side was once a student of the junior football school, but he was eliminated very early, so he changed careers and later became a business elite.
Bastoni received help from his father.
His parents, from a very young age, pay attention to the tempering of his will and quality.
As a teenager, Bastoni did not live in the city with his father, but was arranged to live with his grandfather. Bastoni's grandfather farmed and planted melons in a small town called Casal Maggiore.
At a very young age, Bastoni was asked to do farm work, he said: "When I was a child, I was a good farmer, I helped my grandfather harvest vegetables in the field, which allowed me to always stand on the ground, understand what is value, and now, I still love vegetables."
As an adult, Bastoni has become an "urban hero" of an international city such as Milan City and has become a "national treasure" of Italy, but he can still see some simple and diligent elements unique to farmers.
For example, other players like to post luxury cars and beautiful women on social networking sites, and Bastoni likes to go back to his hometown as soon as he has a vacation, go to the water, touch the fish, walk the dog, and enjoy the idyllic idyllic life.
Today, Bastoni's signature stunt is a precise long pass, tested in the Italian derby. How did it come about? That's all from a young age, hundreds of times a day hard work, sweat like rain!
Parents consciously hone that Bastoni can afford to suffer and be down-to-earth. This is of great benefit to his growth.
In summary, Bastoni is also a rich second generation, but he has become one of the best players in Italy, and on his growth path, his father's love for football and the parents' education methods are his excellent help.
Is there such an example that a well-off child would not be able to embark on the road to football and succeed? Too absolute.