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Speaking of Last Year's Chinese Football, how do you feel?
Everyone has their own answer, but the main idea should be similar, and can even be summed up in two words: disappointment.
There are two disappointments:
The first is the performance of the national team (especially the Chinese men's football team), although the performance of the top 40 is good, but it is only after Syria, with the best group second qualified. After qualifying, the head of the Football Association, Chen Shuyuan, was very excited, and at one point jumped up in the locker room with joy and shouted a high-profile slogan to enter Qatar.
However, in the ensuing round of twelve, the national football team broke all the way and the performance was shocking. Until the last round of the fiasco defeated Vietnam, early out! Now it seems that it is not just ridicule, but more of a disappointment, a despair for the future of Chinese football.
Secondly, the league was made into a miasma and chaos. Before the start of the Chinese Super League last season, because it already had the experience of the previous year's conference system, the Football Association had actually planned a detailed charter for the 30 rounds of the whole season. However, with the deepening of the round of 12, the Football Association had to take the league again, in order to make way for the national football team, it did not hesitate to cut off the league.
Therefore, there is also a rare scene in Chinese football: the interval between the league periods is as long as 4 months, even longer than the offseason between the two seasons. In order to end the league in a hurry, the entire second stage was abandoned, and the third stage even appeared in a strange format of three days. Looking back now, it seems like a complete farce!
The national football team did not play the desired results, and our league became a joke. The reasons are manifold, but as the leader behind the scenes, the Fa has an unshirkable responsibility. The organization is chaotic, there is no clear idea of the main idea, always following the unstable factors, arbitrarily changing the goal, and ultimately it can only be a chicken feather.
We do not deny that it is important for the national football team to win the glory of the country, but the league is the foundation of all honors. Without a qualified league, the players' status is not guaranteed to be stable, can the two dozen or so people who rely on the national team alone go a long way?
Speaking of this, we are going to lead to the topic to be said today: this year, the national football team basically has no competition tasks, and even if there is, it is mainly to train new people. If we follow the Football Association's consistent idea of "winning glory for the country", then the AFC Champions League is also a façade for Chinese football, and the Football Association will not make league adjustments for the teams participating in the AFC Champions League?
The famous football teacher Ma Dexing broke the news: Recently, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation have communicated with the four teams participating in the AFC Champions League, conveying the basic idea, that is, the arrangement of the league schedule will be the same as always, and will not be adjusted for several of your AFC Champions League teams, so the league, the AFC Champions League, which is more important, I hope that the club will weigh itself and make a choice.
Then the question arises: it is also for the glory of the country, why can't the Football Association level a bowl of water?
Previously, the AFC announced the schedule of this year's AFC Champions League, and on the 15th of next month, the AFC Champions League play-off will officially kick off, and Changchun Yatai will take the lead and will face the winner between Sydney FC and Kaya at its home. This time period, because it has not officially entered the Chinese Super League time, has almost no impact.
However, on April 15, the group stage of the AFC Champions League will officially start, and the entire group stage will be held in a tournament system until May 1. According to the latest news, the new season of the Chinese Super League will start around April 22, that is to say, the schedules of the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League overlap, so the teams participating in the AFC Champions League are bound to make trade-offs.
In addition, it should be considered that even if these teams participating in the AFC Champions League want to win glory for the country, the league as a team cannot be lost. If four teams return to The Country for a 14+7 quarantine after the group stage, they will not be able to participate in the league until May 22 at the earliest. According to the regular Chinese Super League schedule, then these four teams will definitely miss five or six rounds of the league, and if there is a week of double matches in between, then there will be more leagues missed.
And these four teams participating in the AFC Champions League represent the image of the Chinese Super League. Giving them worries means that the club cannot do its best to win the glory of the league. For example, in last year's AFC Champions League, Guangzhou and Beijing Guoan both let the reserve team plus some young players play, and the result created a series of humiliating records, which are still vividly remembered.
To know that the AFC Champions League is the highest level of competition in Asia, club level, we will be punished if we do not pay attention to it. The most direct impact is to reduce the number of places, although this year is 3+1, next year it will become 2+2, and even directly reduced to 3 places (including play-offs). In addition, once a tournament does not have the ideal intercontinental competition results, it means that there is no convincing (referring to the achievement) impact in the international community, and it is more difficult to win more high-level foreign aid, and can only rely on high salaries to attract, after all, the league has no influence level is too low.
Frankly speaking, the national team and the club are all for the glory of Chinese football, at least in this regard, there is no high or low between the two. At present, we are at the end of the road at the national team level, or in the past decade, and how many decades in the future, the national football team has gained nothing, which will become a foregone conclusion. In such a terrible future, the Football Association still does not change the idea of giving way to the national football team in the league, is it too stubborn.
We have always said that if the national team wants to improve, then the league must be sound. If our club can play what everyone wants in the continental competition, such as the AFC Champions League today, then the confidence of the players is also a great improvement.
There is no doubt about this!
We know that the members of the national team are generally composed of the top teams in the domestic club rankings, although other teams also have them, but there are not many. In other words, the top four teams in the league, the players selected for the national football team, will account for 70% or even 80% of the entire national team. It's not just the Chinese Super League, it's the same in the whole of Asia, and even the world. (Of course, the "all-European class" like Japan is a different matter.)
But the clubs participating in the AFC Champions League are the strongest teams in various leagues, and the collision between them is not only representative of the club, but also of the national team. You can imagine if Guangzhou, Shandong Taishan, etc., go to meet the top clubs in Japan and South Korea, although they are clubs, they often meet on behalf of their respective national teams. If our players can always have the upper hand at the club level, will there be a psychological advantage for the future selection of the national team, and then meet these players?
Therefore, the Chinese Football Association's practice of attaching importance to the national team and ignoring the AFC Champions League is absolutely undesirable.
We also understand the difficulties of scheduling under the epidemic. But you can't choose to escape or make far-fetched arrangements because of difficulties, which is not what a top decision-maker should do. Always talking about the epidemic is actually a manifestation of evasion of responsibility, and see how the Japanese Football Association and the Korean Football Association deal with it. During the Round of 12, according to Japan's requirements, it is also necessary to observe for 14 days. But because it takes too long, it will affect the progress of the league, as well as the status of the team and players. Therefore, the Japan Football Association, the professional federation and the relevant departments jointly launched a petition to hope that it could be treated specially, and finally it was granted, from 14 days to 7 days.
In addition to this, Vietnam, which just beat us, made the same effort, and finally reduced from the prescribed 6 days to 3 days!
Therefore, the difficulties are in front of everyone, and as for whether you want to solve them or not, that is your business. Blindly running away, not trying to do it, not only can not get the results, but to leave more legacy.
We are not encouraging the FA or related departments to follow the example of Japan and South Korea. After all, we have our own specific policies, but we also need to find out what works for us. In this way, we will not let our fragile football fall into the abyss.
The Chinese Football Association or professional leagues must fight for something, really do something, and save Chinese football. We cannot destroy all the arrangements for the sake of the national football team, nor can we choose to ignore it because the influence of the AFC Champions League is not as good as the national football team. In the special environment, the Football Association needs to find a balance point for our national football team, the AFC Champions League, and our league to coexist harmoniously.
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