Reporter Chen Yong reported that on February 6, 2022, the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup, which was a grand event for Chinese football during the Spring Festival, and eventually exploded to the point of breaking the circle, and countless non-football fans also joined the discussion. The reason why the women's football team won the championship caused a sensation, in addition to the miracle created by its own efforts, one of the backgrounds that have to be mentioned is the extremely bad performance of the Chinese men's football team: on January 27 and February 1, the Chinese men's football team lost 0-2 to Japan, 1-3 to Vietnam, of which the fiasco in Vietnam can be called the darkest moment of Chinese football in many years.
The light shines brighter in the darkness.
For the development of China's women's football team, I believe that fans are full of confidence at this moment, so where does the Chinese men's football team go?
It must be said in the front: after the 1-3 defeat of the Chinese men's football team to Vietnam, many fans have said with hatred that this is good, not broken, not standing, just completely liquidate the men's football team. In fact, the dilemma of the development of Chinese football has never been the relationship between breaking and standing, just like the anti-gambling sweep 13 years ago can be described as a broken and standing, but today, Chinese football has not been once and for all because of this big break.
The problem of Chinese football, in fact, is ultimately a question: whether it can consistently follow a correct path.
In this day when Chinese football is so devastating and surprising that it is a little confused, our advice is that if Chinese football wants to develop, "one can't" must be absolutely sober, and the "four persistences" must be consistently adhered to.
The meaning of political achievements and performance projects is different, the meaning of the former is to benefit the people and make political achievements, while the latter is to engage in some image projects for political achievements, generally will be called strategic, but in essence, it is a rush to achieve quick success and greed for false fame.
Chinese football to this day, in fact, is 20 years ago and 20 years of some "performance projects" of the consequences: the current national team, can use very few talents, a group of players are almost closed for a year, in the end, their physical fitness may be able to support the game, but their mentality has been completely unable to play normally, the Sino-Vietnamese battle of the players appeared in the defensive shrinkage, low-level mistakes, dare not pass control and other strange phenomena are clearly pointed to this point.
If we have enough football talent, it is natural to choose the survival of the fittest and choose the players with the best state and mentality, but unfortunately for Chinese football, this assumption does not hold.
Everything stems from the darkest stage of Chinese football from 2003 to 2009, when the youth training institutions that could adhere to youth training on a large scale were only a few such as Luneng Football School, Greentown Football School and Genbao Base, and as for professional leagues, they were even more rampant in fake gambling, which led to the anti-gambling sweep in 2009. From 2003 to 2009, it is precisely the key period for the main age groups of the national football team to play the youth league in the 89, 91 and 93 generations.
What caused all this? Quite simply, performance engineering. Although Chinese football rushed into the World Cup in 2001, the cancellation of relegation in 2001 and 2002 brought about the disaster of Chinese football, and the fake gambling black ran rampant, especially in 2001, when the A B five-rat incident broke out. Among them, the background of the cancellation of promotion and relegation is to make way for the World Cup, or world cup strategy.
Subsequently, A changed the Chinese Super League, but the relationship was rampant, and then, the World Cup strategy gave way to the Olympic strategy, because too much attention was paid to the construction of the national Olympic team and ignored the construction of the national team, the 2010 South African World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the performance of the Chinese men's football team was extremely bad, and the chaos behind it was far worse than today, after all, the performance of the national team today does have objective factors, and the national team has completely become a mess at that time.
Performance project, in fact, is not just the sports authorities or football authorities are doing, Chinese football has always been the "cancer performance project" is to change the age, even if many of the current players in this national team, their age is also false: you may think that he should be the year of playing, should be passionate, but he is actually old.
In fact, attaching importance to the Olympic Games and attaching importance to the World Cup is not a problem in itself. But the sadness of the performance project is that it will interpret the emphasis into a big gamble, like a gambler, who only has to bet and win money in his eyes, and forgets his parents, wife and children, and the performance of Chinese football is that everything is at all costs for the World Cup, even if the league and youth training are bad. This kind of performance project, in today's still has a market, there is space, to take this World Cup qualifier as an example, at the beginning is a big bet on the World Cup, so crazy naturalization, and later found that the World Cup out of the difficulty is indeed too large, naturalized players began to use and began to wander.
What needs to be emphasized is that the performance project is not just a big bet on the World Cup or the Olympic Games, it has more aspects of performance today, including but not limited to the following aspects:
First, it rigidly sets the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan" or "Short Plan"), and even distorts the suggestions into instructions, ignoring that things are developed, and also lacks the attitude of seeking truth from facts and analyzing specific problems, as exemplified by neutral names. The requirements of the "Plan" on neutral names are "to encourage qualified clubs to gradually realize the non-enterprise of names", and the Chinese Football Association directly came to a one-size-fits-all approach.
Second, every football association leadership team, or the relevant decision-making departments, will continue to introduce a variety of policies, some policies have more advantages than disadvantages, some policies do more harm than good, their starting point may be good, but the problem is that they only produce policies, but ignore the supervision and implementation of policies, such as salary restrictions, the Football Association on the one hand tightened, on the other hand, it is very easy to open a backdoor - commercial sponsorship. Commercial sponsorship is fine, but how are you going to regulate it? Will it be made public? And how to evaluate it? Similar things are not a minority.
Third, because the Chinese Football Association does not give strength, more departments want to prove that they can contribute to Chinese football, and then different systems have introduced different policies, we still firmly believe that their starting point is also good, the question is, the continuous introduction of policies, the continuous introduction of actions, is it another embodiment of the performance project?
Football is a systematic project that needs to be maintained and developed for a long time, but Chinese football has turned this systematic project into a "municipal road construction project" that was once called a joke - digging up and repairing it when there is nothing to do. To tell the truth, although the road is tossed, the road is indeed getting better and better, but after the Chinese football has been tossed again and again, not only has it not improved, but it has become worse and worse, especially the Chinese men's football team, which can now basically be called the third-rate in Asia.
The problem of Chinese football, in the final analysis, lies in whether it can consistently follow a correct path, and to always walk on the right path, in addition to maintaining a sober "one can't" and not engaging in political performance projects, Chinese football must also consistently achieve "four adherences" to achieve sustainable development.
Have the managers of Chinese football truly implemented the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football"? The answer is, almost none. Or, they thought there was, but in reality there was none.
Leaving aside the development goals of the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", just in terms of basic principles, we can look at it:
The second basic principle of the Plan calls for "a combination of a long-term perspective and a solid foundation." Strengthen the top-level design, pay attention to the implementation of the strategy, consolidate the population foundation, facility foundation, management foundation and cultural foundation of football development, and continue to work hard for a long time. But we can find very clearly that no one has a long-term view; no one wants to lay a solid foundation; there is no "continuous effort" and "long-term achievement", and some are just in a hurry. To take the simplest example, there is no Youth Super League in 2020, and the Youth League in 2021 only plays a group stage, and each youth training team only has 3 to 5 games. Say what to lay a solid foundation? Is this called continuous exertion, long-term work?
The second basic principle of the Plan states that "the national system is combined with the market mechanism." Give play to the advantages of the socialist system, integrate resources, and form a joint force; give full play to the role of market mechanisms, stimulate vitality, create a fair and honest environment, and encourage the protection of equal competition. "But now in Chinese football, either private investors are rushing to the top, or private enterprise investors are rushing to withdraw, many local governments are even more indifferent to football, if there is a problem, they will investigate it, and then take a stance, and then how to solve the problem simply ignore, or sit and wait for instructions, is the national mechanism like this? The core of our national mechanism is that all parties work together to develop together, and Chinese football is that the benefits are all wanted, and problems are hidden.
As for the short-term, medium- and long-term objectives of the Programme, leaving aside the medium- and long-term objectives, none of the short-term objectives have been achieved. The expression of the short-term goal is: "Improve the environment and atmosphere of football development, straighten out the football management system, formulate a medium- and long-term development plan for football, innovate the football management model with Chinese characteristics, and form a pattern of coordinated development of the football industry and the football industry." "But how is Chinese football done?
First of all, the football environment is temporarily unrelated to improvement.
Secondly, the football management system has changed, professional leagues (or China Football Federation) have not yet been established, and the division of responsibilities and rights changes every year, and the Football Association is ready to withdraw some rights of the Preparatory Group of China Football Federation again in the near future.
Again, the development of football medium and long-term development plans, this is often the case, but who remembers the previous plans? How did the previous plan go? A plan is often a plan on paper.
Finally, innovate the management model of football with Chinese characteristics. This is innovative, but a football countless mother-in-law, you say a word, everyone may want to contribute to football, but the three monks have no water to eat the truth should always be understood.
Therefore, Chinese football does not need to "break" anything, what should be "broken" is "broken", and there is no need to "stand" anything, and the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football" has long been established. Now, it is only necessary to truly adhere to the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", on this basis, comprehensively straighten out the decision-making mechanism and management mechanism of Chinese football, comprehensively clean up and improve the policies of Chinese football, comprehensively straighten out various youth football events, and more importantly, ensure the overall planning between sports systems and between sports and education systems, especially in terms of policies and events.
After the 2014 World Cup, the People's Daily wrote in an important commentary entitled "League-based, Youth Training is the Root": "Nowadays, the league-based is the consensus of all football powers. The league is the foundation of the development of football, which can send elites to the national team and cultivate national stars; downward can drive the enthusiasm of the public to watch and participate, so that more teenagers like football and continuously expand the foundation of football. ”
In fact, taking 10,000 steps back, when the record of the Chinese men's football team disappointed countless fans and Chinese people, despaired, and even triggered widespread ridicule, the league actually became the last line of defense of Chinese football: if even the league completely collapsed, what would our fan base do? Is it a call for them to only go to the big five leagues?
Only by building a good league can we provide the most solid guarantee for a larger football population, including the possibility of more and more campus football and youth training talents. From another height, the development of the sports industry and the development of the football industry need the carrier of the league.
But for so many years, we have been accustomed to sacrificing the league, encountering any World Cup strategy or Olympic strategy, the league will be cut, because the national football team has to train in advance, and the league will be changed to a 3-day game. Of course, we also admit that for now, Chinese football managers still attach more importance to the league, but attaching importance to and managing the league is two different things.
To adhere to the league-oriented, we also need to pay attention to several levels of problems: First, we must not have the idea of abolishing the league and engaging in sports teams, from a small aspect, this is a pit football, from a large aspect, this is a pit football industry and sports industry; second, the real attention of local governments; third, the league should avoid too much interference with the league at the policy level, and the existing policies should be comprehensively cleaned up and improved; fourth, the league should really implement supervision, prevention and investigation; fifth, The league-based real establishment of the Chinese Professional Football Club Federation (that is, the China Football Federation, which is still in the preparatory group stage) as soon as possible, the responsibilities and rights of the Football Association and the China Football Federation must be clear, and they cannot hesitate and switch to each other.
At this stage, the core work of the league is to solve the problem of wage arrears, the current work is mainly to protect the club, but after a period of transition in the future, the Chinese Football Association must be determined to keep the unpaid clubs away from Chinese football through real financial supervision, even if the league is downsized, it should be at all costs - the league that cannot protect the interests of players is not a real league at all, and what is the league?
In fact, the development law of football has always been honestly placed there, to create a perfect league, to persevere in youth training, football has no reason not to develop. Many people think that the 1-3 defeat of the national football team to Vietnam has nothing to do with youth training, and may have nothing to do with youth training, because the international footballers obviously do not want to play football in this game, and their mental state is a big problem, but the fundamental reason is closely related to youth training, and the youth training of the opponent Vietnam has developed extremely rapidly.
Zhang Tao, a meritorious coach of Luneng Football School who has been engaged in youth training for a long time, told reporters that from 2017 to 2019, the 14-year-old team of Luneng Football School can basically play in Japan, and you can come and go, although it is a disadvantage, it can also win through effective tactics, but after one or two years, it cannot be played, and after 18 years old, it can not be kicked, and Japan has a gap of about 2 balls, and the excellent teams in Europe and the United States have even reached 3 to 4 balls.
In fact, if the Luneng echelon from U13 to participate in Japan's youth league, then the level after the age of 18 is estimated to be the same, this is the problem caused by the poor quality of the youth league, and because of the poor quality of the youth game, talented children do not need to work hard to win, and then waste talent, so many of the courses that need to be completed during youth training, our players need to make up lessons in the league, make up 100 to 200 games before they can make up for it, which is the reason why many Chinese players are "getting older and more demon". But some ideas and thinking, how to make up can not make up for it.
It is conceivable that there is no youth league in 2020, and the youth league will play 3 to 5 rounds in 2021, and this batch of children in the 03 to 07 age group will be better when they grow up, and how good can the national team dominated by them be? That's the Chinese national team ten years later. In other words, today, we can already foresee the awkward situation ten years from now.
This moment's efforts in youth training are only to retain hope for Chinese football in fifteen years.
Regarding youth training, there are only three suggestions: first, the president of the Chinese Football Association, who does not put youth training in the first place, is an incompetent president of the Football Association; second, the youth events must ensure the quantity and quality, and must be completed; third, the youth events are currently in the process of reconstruction, and we hope that through comprehensive combing, we can finally create a youth event that can last for more than thirty years, and cannot be like the Youth Super League, which has changed again after its establishment.
When the reporter visited the youth training, he found a phenomenon: the quality of children in the 2009 age group was significantly improved, and after the investigation, it was found that this has a lot to do with the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football": in 2015, the "Plan" was released, and then campus football began to develop, although there are also some fake and empty things, but the schools engaged in campus football are eventually more numerous, and after the number is expanded, gifted children will be easier to be excavated.
Therefore, the development of campus football is very important, and in terms of sports and education integration, Chinese football also needs to further clarify the organization and connection of the event, as far as the education system is concerned, it is recommended to improve the system of "District Governor's Cup - Mayor's Cup - Governor's Cup - National League", as well as the system of "Primary School League - Junior High School League - High School League - College Student League" as the core goal, and strive to use about five to ten years to make these events truly fully and regularly operated.
As for amateur football, it is the fertile soil behind professional leagues and campus football, and only when this fertile soil is getting more and more fertile can Chinese football develop more rapidly. At present, this work should focus on the construction of stadiums and the standardization of the use and opening of stadiums (especially campus stadiums). As for how to play football, the people have their own enthusiasm.