Since the defeat of Vietnam and the complete loss of hopes of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, the Chinese national football team has become a joke. Nowadays, how to develop and progress Chinese football has become a more urgent and realistic issue than ever.
In fact, don't look at Chinese football now, but not long ago it was full of pride. Recently, in an interview with the Italian media "football market", the famous Italian journalist and sports columnist Turini broke the news that the Chinese national football team had promised to become the World Cup champion after 2035, and therefore hired Lippi as the head coach, but now, this goal should be a complete failure.
"I can tell you one thing, and that's what Lippi told me himself." Turini said, "When Lippi was appointed as the head coach of the Chinese national football team, the top management told him that the goal of the Chinese team was to win the World Cup after 2035. Lippi told them: 'Yeah, I mean, it's not going to be easy – but I'll try to help.' ’”
Given Turini's position in Italy, and the close personal relationship between him and Lippi, the veracity of his message is beyond doubt. That is to say, if the Chinese national football team plans to win the World Cup after 2035, then from now on, there are only 13 years left for the national football team to build a team with the level of world champions. On the other hand, considering that national football teams have lost the qualification for the 2022 World Cup, they need to use the future three World Cups in 2026, 2030 and 2034 to accumulate strength.
As Lippi puts it, it's clearly not an easy task. Especially considering the current actual level of the national football team, even if it can make rapid progress in the next 13 years, it is difficult to say whether it can progress to the point of competing with the world's traditional strong teams. Just like a few years ago, when football association executives boasted that they wanted to build the Chinese Super League into the world's "sixth largest league", this plan to "win the World Cup after 2035" has now been estimated to have become a bubble.