Recently, I believe that many fans are strongly dissatisfied with Chinese football, because our national football team lost 1-3 away to Vietnam on the night of The First Day of the New Year, losing to the opponent for the first time in history, which is a humiliating battle. Of course, it is not only the result that makes us feel humiliated, but also the process, and no one expected us to be so passive against the Vietnamese team. And in the case of our physical confrontation and height advantage, we were actually defended by the opponent's close defense, and at the same time, the opponent scored a header, which is unacceptable to many fans.
However, it is not surprising that Chinese football has fallen to this point, because while world football is developing rapidly, our Chinese football has stagnated. The main reason is the opening of the Golden Yuan era, big-name foreign aid began to occupy the core position of the Chinese Super League, local players were gradually marginalized, so gradually developed the habit of playing health football, responsible for foreign aid, they will only play auxiliary. And because during the Golden Yuan era, the treatment of domestic players has also improved rapidly, and once even young players who did not enter the first team could get an annual salary of millions. Under such temptation, our foreign players not only returned to China, but also the local young talents were not willing to go out again, because they earned less overseas, their salaries were too low, and they were not willing to take risks. As a result, Chinese football has closed itself and cannot see the development trend of world football.
This situation has not only caused the talent in the central axis of Chinese football to be disconnected, but also made Chinese football and Chinese players out of touch with the world, that is to say, we have lagged behind world football in terms of football philosophy and consciousness, and even many Asian teams. For example, when we lost to the Vietnamese team this time, they have been working deeply with Arsenal in the Premier League, fully using Arsenal's training methods and philosophy. Therefore, in terms of technical tactics and concepts, the Vietnamese team has even far surpassed us, and it is precisely with these that the Vietnamese team successfully completed the task of defeating the Chinese team.
So now Chinese football wants to set sail again and keep up with other Asian teams, one is to establish a healthy and advanced youth training system, and the other is that our players should go out as much as possible. When we have more players playing in Europe, we will be able to adapt to high-confrontation and high-tempo games, the level of national football will suddenly improve a lot, and the competitiveness in Asia will also be restored.
But soon a problem arose, and that was that it was difficult for our players to get out. Although Wu Lei left to join La Liga Espanyol 3 years ago, we did not have it after Wu Lei, especially the players with strength are basically afraid of going to Europe to play and choose to stay in the Chinese Super League. So the door we left in the ocean was not really opened, and it was not opened by ourselves, and we did not dare to go out.
However, with the end of the Golden Dollar Era, the era of domestic playing football and making a lot of money is over, so it provides a good prerequisite for our players to stay in the Ocean. I can't earn so much in China, so everyone starts to go out again to realize their real football dreams, which also marks that Chinese football is beginning to go in the right direction.
However, Chinese players who have disappeared from the European arena for many years are difficult to gain the trust of the European League in a short period of time, and it is not easy for them to play. Who will be the first to play the game, take the first step in the new era of Chinese football in Europe, and become the first person in the new era? This man finally appeared, he was the first international player to go out after Wu Lei, the former Beijing Guoan's left wing Li Lei. He recently announced his official joining the Swiss Premier League team Grasshoppers.
At that time, many fans were very optimistic about Li Lei, because Li Lei did not go to the five major leagues, but the Swiss Super League, and the competitiveness was not so strong. And Li Lei himself is a wing player, and his characteristics are able to run, can fight, in the Chinese Super League he can often run out of the level of 10,000 meters, so he has a foothold in Europe.
However, Li Lei still encountered some difficulties after going to the team, because of high-intensity training and confrontation, he was also injured in the Chinese Super League, so Li Lei's debut time was postponed. But just last night, the time to come finally came, Li Lei, who returned from injury, came on as a substitute in the grasshopper's match against Zurich, and performed very well.
Li Lei played in the 77th minute of the game, in just 13 minutes, Li Lei handed over 23 touches, 11 passes, 8 successful, a success rate of 73%, and completed 3 ground confrontations (2 successful) and 2 aerial confrontations (both successful). After the game, Li Lei's rating was given a high score of 6.8 points, which ranked third in the team's tie. The debut 13 minutes, with such a score, is to say that Li Lei's active running has made a certain contribution to the team. Although Li Lei's play did not help the team win, and the team eventually lost 1-3, but in the face of the leader of the Rui Chao, Li Lei was not afraid at all, played actively, and played his own level. I believe that in the near future, Li Lei will have more playing time.
Of course, some people feel that Li Lei is 30 years old and will not make any big progress. But in fact, this is wrong, you play on a high level platform, no matter how old you are, you will make a lot of progress. For example, Zheng Zhi used to be, and now Wu Lei, they were not small when they stayed in Yang, but they have made great progress and gained a lot of confidence. And they will actually become a role model for young players, 30-year-old veterans dare to go out and play games, 20-year-old boys still hesitate?
So we also look forward to that after Li Lei, more Chinese players, especially young players, will go out and make a name for themselves in Europe, because they will be the biggest hope of Chinese football! What do you think? Friends are welcome to discuss together in the comment area!