On May 8, Ma Guangyuan, a well-known economist, posted a sentence on his social media that sparked a heated discussion among netizens:
Ma Guangyuan said: "I would like to suggest that the Chinese men's football team withdraw from the international ranking."
This sentence has no context and is quite prominent; on the surface, this seems to be the meaning of "the wall is pushed down by everyone, and the drum is broken" - a kind of humiliation of the Chinese men's football team again: the "broken drum" of the national football team, everyone can come and hammer twice, and even well-known economists have humiliated it.
Of course, if you follow another expression of some people: "the drum breaks the hammer of ten thousand people", that is, "the reason why the drum is broken is because of the hammer of ten thousand people", it seems to be the same: that is, when everyone is crazy about the Chinese men's football team, the Chinese men's football team is also "broken and broken".
But people with a little brain know that here, this well-known economist is actually "Wang Gu left and right", he is just "referring to the mulberry scolding, insinuation", meaning something.
"Chinese men's football" has become a "prop" for Ma Guangyuan to comment on other things here, because it is obvious that Ma Guangyuan is ostensibly talking about the national football team, in fact, it refers to the recent voluntary withdrawal of several domestic famous universities from the international university rankings.
However, the author is only shallow and shallow, and he does not dare to "play a big knife" in front of this economist, but still only wants to talk about the view that "The Chinese men's football team withdrew from the international ranking" in the eyes of ordinary fans.
In fact, most of the world university rankings are a mixed commercial and academic behavior of commercial institutions, and if universities want to submit materials and sponsorship fees to the ranking institutions, then their ranking factors are wrapped in certain interest factors, and the opt-out of the world university rankings such as Nanjing University, Lanzhou University and Chinese University is obviously an active withdrawal behavior.
However, when it comes to the ranking of FIFA's national football teams, it is completely different - FIFA rankings do not charge members a fee, and are only ranked according to the score of international competitions, which is based on real results visible to the naked eye, and the authenticity and objectivity are very strong.
Moreover, if Chinese football does not withdraw from FIFA, the Chinese men's football team does not have the initiative to freely withdraw from the ranking on the issue of "whether to participate in the ranking".
That is to say, even if the Chinese men's football team begins to lose "face does not want", such as constantly losing to the Vietnamese team, even the Myanmar team, cambodia team, etc., and even said that one day the Chinese men's football team is at the bottom of the world ranking, we can not take the initiative to ask to withdraw from the ranking.
Of course, there is only one possibility, that is, to conform to the phrase: "football, divided into world football and Chinese football" - that is, Chinese football withdrew from FIFA, never participated in world football competitions again, and then only closed the door to play themselves, and there is no problem of ranking first in the world. Because, we will always be the first place: positive or reciprocal numbers are the first!
Of course, economist Ma Guangyuan said "Chinese men's football team", in fact, his heart is not at all imprinted with the heart of football, his intentions, completely in the university rankings - but Ma Guangyuan is still inadvertently humiliating the Chinese men's football team, saying "I would suggest that the men's football team withdraw from the international ranking", which implies that he obviously does not agree with the withdrawal of Chinese universities from the international rankings.
Instead of suggesting that Chinese universities withdraw from the world rankings, scholars suggest that Chinese men's soccer teams withdraw – he clearly still thinks that China's universities are far better than China's men's soccer teams, right?
Once, a passage by scholar Wang Xiaodong also caused controversy, he said: "The national football team has won the World Cup championship, and it is not as great as the contribution of Tsinghua Peking University!" What is the position of the national football team in the world? The national football team is actually not important, is not it a ball, playing, for the country to fight for honor? Can you represent me? I don't need you to represent. If we have to take a sport to represent ourselves, we have table tennis. In terms of industry, you are not important, and within the industry, you are doing too poorly. ”
At that time, there were also many football people who hit back, like Liu Jianhong said: "Speaking of which, is China's education very good?" Tsinghua Peking University can be ranked among the top 100, but it cannot hide the pale color of China's education background. The helplessness of not being able to enter the World Cup or the helplessness of not getting Nobel, which is more speechless? In the final analysis, the sluggishness of sports and the lack of concept and function of education will always affect our young people, year after year, generation after generation..."
In fact, think about the words of Wang Xiaodong and Liu Jianhong, in fact, there are places that make sense, but it is particularly meaningless to let "football and education" compare and bite each other - even if China's education is still not the strongest in the world, or there are still some deficiencies, this is really not comparable to football as a cultural and sports entertainment project: we can not have football, but absolutely can not do without education!
Of course, Liu Jianhong macroscopically looks for reasons from education, believing that this is also a root cause of football's failure, although it is also reasonable, but there is still a suspicion of justification for football: Is education in Brazil, Argentina and other South America better than ours? But why is football so much stronger?
Of course, football cannot disappear from China – the more it fails, the more it is ridiculed, the more Chinese footballers should be ashamed and then brave! Otherwise, if you are willing to be hammered when the drum is broken, then such a "Liu Adou who can't support the wall with mud" may really disappear. Because, always waste a ranking position of FIFA, then the men's football team is really as Fan Zhiyi said: "Face is not wanted"! 【Original Review: Yu said that hugh】