After experiencing the glory of the "Golden Dollar Football" in the Chinese Super League, today's Chinese football has officially entered a depression period, not only the crises of professional leagues at all levels are frequent, but the national team is also a defeat in the international arena. In addition, there is a more serious problem that has been placed in front of the Chinese Football Association.
According to the European media "dw", a German coach who coached at the Chinese Super League club and did not want to be named revealed to them that his club not only owed wages for a long time, but also had a significant stagnation in the ability of local players.
"The coach revealed to us that his club had been in arrears for four months and that neither he nor the players had received money, one of the reasons was that the home stadium had been cancelled and the club was running out of money. And due to the chronic lack of opportunities for official matches, the vast majority of players have stagnated at the level of competition. The media said.
Indeed, in the past two years, due to the great environmental influence and the need to "make way" for the national team competition, China's professional leagues at all levels have not only been compressed, but also the schedule has been cut into chaos. For example, last season in the Chinese Super League, there was a period of suspension for up to 4 months, in such a highly unstable environment, to maintain the steady growth of players, it is almost an impossible task.
On the other hand, not only professional leagues, but also youth events at all levels in recent years have often been cancelled. Taking last year as an example, the original Youth Super League was cancelled, the second stage of the U17 and U19 Youth Leagues was cancelled, and the U13 and U15 Youth Leagues were also cancelled, which made more players lose the opportunity to improve in actual combat. From this point of view, the "stagnation" mentioned by the foreign coach is still an ideal situation, and the local players have not experienced a horizontal decline, which is already a blessing in misfortune.
For the Football Association, this is undoubtedly a rather tricky situation, Chinese football to enhance competitiveness, the root is to improve the level of players, but now, this work can be described as fruitless, to next year's Asian Cup, the Chinese team can put together what kind of lineup, is a problem that can not bear to think.