Chinese football in recent days can be described as a double day of ice and fire. The Chinese men's football team lost to the vietnamese team of the past "fish belly", while the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup. The completely different performances of men's and women's football teams have also brought fans' dissatisfaction with men's football to the peak. As a result, "learning from women's football" has once again become the mainstream of public opinion in Chinese football.
This time, what should the Chinese men's football team learn from the women's football team? Many people, including the media, are talking about one word: the spirit of women's football. Specifically, it is a spirit of "never give up": the women's football team in the Asian Cup against Vietnam, Japan and South Korea, all in the backward situation to win, relying on this spirit; the men's football team in the round of 12, because of the lack of this spirit.
However, the success of the Chinese women's football team is entirely attributed to spiritual strength, which is obviously underestimating the women's football team. In fact, to blindly talk about "spirit" is to ignore the long-term hegemony of Chinese women's football in Asian football. In today's Asian football world, China, Japan, South Korea and Australia are the only four teams that can make up 11 professional players to start, which has a huge advantage over other teams.
Taking this Asian Cup as an example, in addition to being inferior against the Japanese team, the Chinese women's football team has a clear advantage in terms of strength against Vietnam and South Korea. And in recent years, with the continuous decline of Japanese women's football, it is not a small probability that the Chinese women's football team can defeat them to win the Asian Cup.
You know, the Chinese women's football team is the winner of the Asian Cup 9 champions, we can dominate Asia, the most important capital is still strength.
From this point of view, if the Chinese men's football team limits the learning goal to the "imitation" of the spirit of the women's football team, it is easy to fall into a kind of mental inertia, thinking that the men's football team's performance is not good is just no desire to win. In fact, from the perspective of actual combat, even if this men's football team plays the so-called "spirit", the result will usually be very miserable.
For example, in the first match of the round of 12 in Australia, the men's football team took the lead as soon as it came up, but in the end it lost 0-3; against Japan, Oman and Saudi Arabia, the men's football team's attitude was not correct, but even after exhausting the strength of suckling, many players still fought until cramps, and the result was still a defeat.
The development of modern football to this day is far from the era when "spirit" can balance everything. Even Germany, which used to be the model of "willpower football", has already begun to transition to the flow of technology. However, whenever the Chinese men's football team fails, the top level and public opinion still focus on "rectifying the wind" and "vigorously grasping spiritual construction", which is not a kind of inversion of the horse.
In fact, the Chinese men's football team has not stepped on the thunder in this regard in the past. For example, four years ago, Lippi led the men's football team to defeat the China Cup, when a senior leader believed that the international footballers had a problem with their game attitude, fighting in the club, and there was no "unity spirit"; for example, the former national youth coach Shen Xiangfu firmly believed that the men's football team was not strong in spirit, so he asked all players to close the training and practice four ten thousand meters a day.
The result? The former almost made the farce of the "national training team" playing in the league a reality; the latter set up a U25 training team, forcibly transferred players for "military training" during the league, but even the Serbian second-tier league team could not play. Further ahead, there is Zhu Guanghu in the national football team to implement the "mad dog spirit", the result is only in exchange for the Fiasco in the Asian Cup.
Facts have proved that not starting from the technical and tactical level of players and coaches, not starting from the improvement of the general environment and structural improvement of Chinese football, putting aside all objective factors and only talking about "spiritual will", and counting on the so-called "spirit" level of improvement in exchange for miracles, this will not help to solve the actual problems of men's football, and will only be "punched in the face" again and again.
Like this time, when we once again propose that men's football should learn from women's football, what exactly is to be learned? The so-called "spirit" is only the surface of the women's football team to dominate Asia, the real inner layer of this team - the absolute competitive level of at least the top three in Asian football, can these things be learned by the men's football team?
At least for now, it can't be learned. Because the men's football team has never really been fully reformed after painful thinking, it is impossible to have the unswerving and scientific football development line of Japan and South Korea that has been unswerving for decades. That being the case, this time calling on men's football to learn from women's football may be just like in the past, and can only be reduced to another "slogan propaganda" that tickles the boots.