In the past year' international arena, Chinese football has suffered a very serious test. In the round of 12 matches, the Chinese men's football team scored 6 points in 10 matches, which caused controversy and dissatisfaction among many fans, and also proved that the current strength of Chinese football has not only not improved, but also has an intolerable regression. For a long time, the topic of national football has also become an enduring problem, and many more radical fans can even continue this sentiment to the AFC Champions League youth army, which does reflect the current dilemma of men's football and the attitude of fans.
However, after questioning and reprimanding, in fact, how to go on Chinese football may be the key topic that more rational fans will discuss, and it is also a topic that Chinese football has discussed for decades. It can be seen that for the development of football, everyone is anxious and helpless, anxious that the team's results have continued to regress, rankings in Asia can fall continuously, helpless is that Chinese football has tried many ways, but has not yet obtained good results. In the face of these problems, many fans also express their own opinions, but in general, everyone's views are nothing more than two, one is to grasp the youth training, and the other is to engage in leagues. The purpose of grasping youth training is to improve the level of domestic young players, and to do a good job in the Chinese Super League is to synchronize our youth army to a higher level and let them continue to grow through domestic competition. So these are two directions that are well known and recognized, and they are also the directions that Chinese football has struggled for many years and has been maintaining.
But does this approach work? In fact, the results of Chinese football have already given the answer. And just recently, Chinese football celebrity Zhang Lu also gave a completely different answer, as a footballer for decades, he directly and clearly stated in a recent interview that the problem of Chinese football is not in youth training at all. And Zhang Lu believes that many people's understanding of youth training may not be very thorough, he also interpreted it with fans in the program, Zhang Lu said that youth training is actually to let some teenagers with football talent develop in the direction of football, but in fact, the fundamental problem is that there is another layer under the youth training, that is, the popularity of football. That is to say, China is not even doing a good job in the popularization of football now, and it wants to do youth training, so it will lead to the inversion of the horse. And Zhang Lu also gave a questionnaire of the average number of Chinese teenagers playing football every year, this table shows that Chinese football from 2000 to 2014, 14 years of Chinese teenagers only 5,000 people play football per year, which means back and forth, in 14 years, the Chinese football youth army only relies on these 5,000 people, whether it is ok or not, then this number is a very vivid expression of Zhang Lu's statement.
Because in the European and American countries in the same period, the number of people playing football all year round may have exceeded two or three million, so when you pick out hundreds of people from 5,000 people to play football, and pick out hundreds of people from millions to play football, then this result can be imagined, so this is the gap between Chinese football and world football. And in fact, from the perspective of youth training alone, Chinese football has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and we can see the efforts of the Football Association in this regard, so this proves that the possible direction is the biggest problem. And constantly violating the rules of football has led to the result of not making ends meet. Then after the famous Zhang Lu said these words, the Football Association should also think about where our problems are and where is the way out of Chinese football.