Recently, Feng Xiaoting and Gong Hanlin "shouted in the air" on social media, causing heated discussions on the Internet.
Wave after wave, wave after wave. The air shouts of cross-talk actor Gong Hanlin and former national football captain Feng Xiaoting dominated the hot search for two consecutive days, and the "national discussion" about national football that gradually subsided since the Spring Festival once again emerged like a tide.
Time back to last week. On March 6, Gong Hanlin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a cross-talk actor, attacked the phenomenon of high salaries of football players in an interview with the media, saying, "A certain football team (team member), with an annual income of three million, five million or even tens of millions, did not see them score on the court, completely humiliating to the Chinese." Although Gong Hanlin's speech was not named, the directionality was obvious enough. Coupled with the disappointment of netizens after the 1-3 loss to vietnam on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the disappointment of netizens has not completely receded, and for a while, the voice of ridicule and criticism has once again turned to Chinese football.
A few days later, the topic declined. Just when people thought that this intermittent spat on the national football team was about to come to an end, a sentence from the former national football captain Feng Xiaoting added another handful of firewood to this gradually extinguishing fire. On March 11, when Feng Xiaoting replied to netizens about his retirement on social media, he joked, "Retired, give way to Gong Hanlin."
As soon as this remark came out, Feng Xiaoting was immediately caught up in the whirlpool of public opinion, in addition to a number of netizens sneering at him, some netizens also thought that Gong Hanlin did not understand the ball chaotic comments. In short, Feng Xiaoting's words pushed the topic of fading heat to a high position again.
On March 14, Gong Hanlin posted a short video on Douyin in response to the question of saying on the Internet that he "did not understand the ball and also evaluated", saying that "I do not understand football, but I will watch the score" and "I am ashamed of how I played the sketch".
Late at night on the 14th, Feng Xiaoting published a long article, pushing the "Feng Gong Dispute" to a climax. In the article, Feng Xiaoting responded to various controversies over Chinese football, saying that he was not responding to Gong Hanlin, but just wanted to talk about his heart. In the long article, Feng Xiaoting first used the example of Japan being eliminated by Belgium in the 2018 World Cup, so as to illustrate that "behind every success, there is a time cost and input cost of it."
Subsequently, Feng Xiaoting recalled his mistakes in the quarter-final match against Iran in the 2019 Asian Cup, and faded out of the national team after this mistake, saying that he "took on everything" and said that the national football team was "not surprised" to lose to Vietnam this time, and "there were players who came out to take responsibility".
In Feng Xiaoting's long article, he is more like a player representative, saying all the players' grievances together: "a mistake will be scolded to the point of dog blood", high salary cuts "is the law of the market", the club does not respect the player's contract, etc. and so on... Finally, Feng Xiaoting also said that he hoped that everyone would "report and excavate the story from a better perspective, and explore and think about football with more sensitive positive energy." As soon as Feng Xiaoting's long article came out, there were voices of understanding, but more than that, it was the sound of ridicule and insult, thinking that Feng Xiaoting and the "Feng Xiaoting" did not do a good job in their own work, and there was a face that was humiliating.
Looking back at the "Feng Gong controversy" from beginning to end, in essence, it is still the long-standing problem, that is, Chinese football has always been a spittoon for the broad masses of the people. From Feng Gong's ridicule of "Chinese football is good, it has not rushed out of Asia for more than ten years" on the cross-talk stage, to Song Dandan's lament of "Chinese football, when the sun rises", for twenty or thirty years, Chinese football has been the object of spit on the mainland people, and the root cause is only one, the strength of the national football team is not good.
As the most popular sport in the world, football deserves the most attention. However, under the "attention" of the whole people, although Chinese football is not getting stronger and stronger, it is getting worse and worse, from the initial Asian first-class, to being dumped by Japan and South Korea, and then to losing to Vietnam today, the results are getting worse and worse, don't scold who you scold? Over time, every time the national football team loses, it can become a carnival for the whole people to complain. Should I scold? should! Playing badly, as a fan has reason to express dissatisfaction. But at the same time, we also need to find the focus of scolding. The current strength of our national football team is here, and sometimes even if you lose, it is really just inferior to others. At this time, do we scold the players, or should we have another "scolding"?
Scolding and scolding, some people found that while the strength of Chinese football is "getting worse and worse", the income of the players has risen with it, which is also a "strange phenomenon" attacked by Gong Hanlin mentioned at the beginning of the article. The "Golden Dollar Soccer" era, which began a decade ago, has multiplied the income of players, but just like the above-mentioned "football is the most popular sport in the world", football is also the best sport marketed in the mainland. The market determines the value, not the players determine the value. Some people think that players play worse and worse, can still make so much money, and are not worthy of money. So the scolding became more intense. Do people who scold because of the high salaries of players scold in Chinese football, or do they scold because of the "sour grape psychology"?
In this era when anyone can step on the national football team, the outbreak of the "Feng Gong Dispute" is not surprising. Moreover, every response of "Feng Fang" was not exchanged for understanding and support, but for more condemnation from the masses who did not know the inside story. Not many people are willing to understand the difficulties faced in this industry, and not many people are willing to listen to the pain of insiders. More people are willing to take a sip in this "national spittoon" and then leave contentedly, waiting for the next venting moment.
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