Children in a rout
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0 to 7! 0 to 5! The two Chinese Super League clubs suffered a rout in the first round of the AFC Champions League group stage on the evening of 16 April. Although all parties have long been mentally prepared before the game, it is difficult for most people to accept the score after watching the two games and facing the bone feeling. Although the mouth shouts about training young people, people who understand it are very clear: training and training young players is not in this way, and it is difficult for young players to grow up in this rout.
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Children in constant fiasco don't grow up!
Whether it was a coincidence or an inevitability, in the matches between Shandong Taishan against South Korea's Daegu and Guangzhou against Malaysia's Johor Bahru, a similar scene occurred shortly after the opening: both the Taishan goalkeeper and the Guangzhou goalkeeper made incredible mistakes and directly conceded the ball. Frankly, this misstep is not due to the technology itself, but to the nervousness. After all, these two young goalkeepers have never even played in the Chinese Super League, and it is impossible not to be nervous to play such a club competition of the highest level in Asia. Psychological fluctuations can easily lead to the deformation of technical actions, which also leads to this incredible mistake.
Therefore, it is not possible to criticize or blame the young players themselves. And, from another point of view, every young player grows up with this constant turnovers. The question is: Knowing that there may be such incredible mistakes, why do you have to do this kind of exercise?
If it is to cultivate young players, the normal practice is generally to lead the new with the old, in the 11 starting players, send seven or eight, eight or nine old qualified players to press the team, and then bring one or two or two or three young players, let the old players help the young players, at any time in the game to guide the young players. Moreover, the same young players grow, and the players who grow up in constant victory are very different from the players who have grown up in defeat all the time. Because there is such a saying, "Children in failure do not grow up."
Take another angle. When we comfort ourselves by training the team, how many of these players who can't even make it into the first team list after such a fiasco can finally get into the first team and eventually kick out and become the mainstay? Apart from allowing the Chinese Super League clubs to leave some unspeakable records in the AFC Champions League, there seems to be no other practical significance. After the self-confidence has been completely destroyed, it is not a day's work to re-establish self-confidence.
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Why can't the team choose to retire?
The author has proposed that in the face of the current objective situation, it is the wisest thing for Chinese Super League clubs that play in the AFC Champions League this year to choose to withdraw. After the author made such an opinion, some people claimed that if they withdrew, they would be severely fined by the AFC, and they would also have to compensate for the losses of many parties, including sponsors, and so on. But the question is: What is the basis for this statement?
Turning to the 2022 AFC Champions League Competition Regulations, in the rules of Chapter 5, Articles 3 to 6, there are indeed relevant provisions for withdrawal fines and even compensation for losses.
However, in Article 7 of Chapter V, it is clearly stated that "the withdrawal of the Competition Because of irresistible factors recognized by the AFC Competition Committee shall not apply to the provisions of Articles 3 to 6 of Chapter V." In the event of an irresistible factor, the AFC Competition Committee may take any action or initiative deemed necessary. ”
The so-called "irresistible factor", because of the epidemic and withdrawal from the competition is a "majeure factor", like this year's Shanghai Harbor team, which was supposed to compete this year, can not go to Thailand to compete, which is the case. In addition to the withdrawal of the Chinese Super League clubs this year, clubs like Myanmar and clubs in the Maldives, Laos and other countries that play in the AFC secondary club competition of the AFC Cup have been affected by the epidemic and withdrawn from the competition.
In last year's AFC Champions League, the reason why the Australian Super League clubs chose to withdraw collectively was due to the impact of the epidemic, and the club team returned to China after participating in the AFC Champions League, and according to the regulations of the Australian government, it must undergo a 14-day quarantine. This is more similar to the current epidemic prevention policy in China, where the Chinese Super League clubs need to accept the "14+7" quarantine after participating in the AFC Champions League and returning to China. This seriously affected the club's team's appearance in the domestic league. Therefore, the Australian Super League club can choose to withdraw from the game collectively, why does the Chinese Super League club have to send a team to play?
In any case, making a decision or decision should not be based on "hearing and hearing", but should be carefully studied in the "Rules of the Competition", everything is subject to the "Rules", and then a more reasonable and scientific choice should be made. Moreover, in this process, we should also stand in the overall interests of Chinese football and make choices that are beneficial to Chinese football as a whole. At present, Chinese football needs every football person to have such a consciousness in order to change Chinese football and make themselves live more dignified.