Nine years ago, the national football team lost 1-5 to Thailand in the warm-up match, and fan Zhiyi said the famous sentence in an interview after the game - "The next loss to Vietnam, the face of Chinese football is gone."
Nine years later, on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2022, the prophecy came true, and Fan Zhiyi's words were also screened all over social media.
For this defeat, Fan Zhiyi also wrote such a paragraph for the first time after the game - "Chinese football must not divide you, me, and him anymore."
Helpless national football players, the following is the full text of Fan Zhiyi's Weibo: Football has no borders, but football needs a sense of ceremony, cohesion, and inheritance.
The more critical question now is whether we can re-establish the legacy of football and allow others to step on our shoulders.
If through our youth training work, there are a group of children who can know how to treat people and things, know how to observe the rapidly changing situation on the pitch, know how to make more reasonable decisions under pressure, or even just know how to treat winning and losing more reasonably, let them know that winning is the goal, losing to accept, and the process to enjoy, then the meaning of football is enough.
If those of us can't put ourselves in the right position, then Chinese football will really be out of the game.
Only when we take the lead in starting from the small environment and making changes can Chinese football get back on track.
The most important thing is that Chinese football must not be able to divide you, me and him anymore.
