- 1 There is still no clear news about the restart of the Chinese Super League in the new season, not that the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association do not want to restart early, but subject to reality, under the impact of the current epidemic, the reality of football in Chinese society is not worth mentioning.
- 2 The staff of the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation and the Chinese Football Association could not work normally during the lockdown, but they still maintained close contact with various clubs and competition areas in an online manner.
- 3 When determining the competition area, the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association is only a community organization, and it can be said that "I undertake I am responsible", but the host area and venue are not under the control of the Chinese Football Association.
- The finalization of the 4 division is not approved by the municipal government department, but needs to be approved by the higher level government department, and the relevant public security, epidemic prevention and many other departments will fully cooperate.
- 5 In addition, due to the involvement of overseas broadcasting, the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation and the Chinese Football Association still hope to host the event to a higher standard.
The dawn of the restart of the Chinese Super League reappears
With the postponement or cancellation of the Hangzhou Asian Games in September and the Shantou Asian Youth Games in December, the two national team of China's 99-year-old U23 national football team and the 06-age group U16 national minority will lose the opportunity to appear at home during the year, and the only thing that Can make people miss in 2022 is probably the professional league.
But to this day, there is still no clear news about the restart of the Chinese Super League in the new season. As the management department of the industry, the preparatory group of the Chinese Professional Football Club Federation (CFA) and the Chinese Football Association have naturally become the target of public criticism.
But the fact is: it is not that the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association does not want to restart early, it is really subject to reality and it is difficult to be autonomous.
Of course, with the two Chinese Super League teams in Shanghai leaving Shanghai for Dalian on May 7 and 8, it means that the biggest obstacles have been solved for the time being, and the dawn of the restart of the league is ahead.
The industry sector said it didn't count
Frankly speaking, under the impact and impact of the current epidemic, the reality of Chinese football in Chinese society can be described as "no sense of existence", which is not just because there are no achievements, but determined by its status and attributes in China's real society, especially compared with the five major livelihood issues that the people care about, such as employment, education, distribution, social security, and stability, football is not worth mentioning.
Even from the perspective of the industry itself, it is also because its scale and volume in various industries are too small to be completely negligible. Therefore, in the process of resuming work and resuming production under the current epidemic prevention and control, football is simply not ranked.
In such a context and social reality, the restart of professional leagues has become a problem.
Although the China Football Federation Preparatory Group and the Chinese Football Association have been making continuous efforts, and like Beijing, which is currently affected by the epidemic, the China Football Federation Preparatory Group and many staff of the Chinese Football Association are in the process of being under lockdown and unable to work normally, but they still maintain close contact with various clubs and competition areas online to deal with related matters, but many things are not completely decided by the China Football Federation Preparatory Group or the Chinese Football Association.
In fact, in this process, there is another deep-seated problem involved, that is, the issue of managing jurisdictions and authorities.
In the past, when talking about the reasons why Chinese football did not go up, the outside world always liked to use the vocabulary of "one set of teams, two brands", believing that there was a problem with the management system of Chinese football.
Therefore, after the promulgation of the "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", it is clearly required to "adjust and establish the Chinese Football Association in accordance with the principles of separation of politics and society, clear powers and responsibilities, and autonomy according to law, change the organizational structure of the Chinese Football Association and the Football Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports", and clarify the decoupling of the Chinese Football Association from the General Administration of Sports, and the Chinese Football Association does not have an administrative level.
This seems to be a clear definition of the positioning and function of the Chinese Football Association as a legal person.
However, what followed was that the Chinese Football Cooperation was a community legal person, and it encountered a completely new problem in the reality of the entire Chinese social development.
Take the centralized tournament system that the Chinese Super League has had to change to after the epidemic as an example. When determining the competition area, the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association has always been in a state of asymmetry in consultation with the local government.
Because the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association is only a community organization, and the local government department is presented by the government department, only when the administrative sports department is present, the local government department may pay more attention to it, or reciprocate, which is determined by the administrative management system of the whole Chinese society.
Under the current epidemic situation, gathering activities such as football matches adopt the principle of "who hosts who is responsible, who approves who is responsible".
As the Chinese Football Association or the China Football Federation, of course, it can be said that "I undertake I am responsible", but the problem is that the Chinese Football Association does not have "territorial management rights", that is, the specific areas and venues undertook do not belong to the Chinese Football Association, which has a problem of "management gap".
Therefore, it is easy to understand that the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation and the Chinese Football Association have contacted so many cities, hoping that they can host the Chinese Super League, the Chinese First Division or the Chinese Second League, but there are not many cities that have finally agreed to host.
In the current situation of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic, it is of course normal and easy to understand that many cities do not take over, after all, football is not the primary responsibility in the construction and development of the entire city.
This is the reality of the survival of Chinese football.
In the absence of the truth from the outside world, it is simply biased to attribute it to the ineffectiveness, inefficiency and leadership of Chinese football or the Chinese Football Federation, and to blame all problems on the Chinese Football Association.
After all, it is impossible for the Chinese Football Association to exercise government or administrative functions at all, just a "community organization". Therefore, if Chinese football wants to really make breakthroughs and changes, how to solve this fundamental problem in reform is imminent.
The difficulty of determining the division affects the start of the match
A very realistic situation in the chinese Super League is that the division has not yet been finalized.
At present, Chinese football is in a low valley, whether it is the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association, a consensus is to hope that the professional league in 2022 can be fully carried out, and go all out to ensure that it is carried out in a home-and-away system.
However, the recurrence of the epidemic has forced the assumption of the home-and-away system to be changed to a centralized conference system. Under the circumstance of being forced to change to a centralized competition system, the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation and the Chinese Football Association had to re-find the competition area, that is, hoping to be able to divide the 18 teams participating in this year's Chinese Super League into three groups according to last year's results and in a snake-like arrangement, and then arrange 18 teams to compete in 34 rounds as completely as possible.
In this case, at least three divisions will be required.
Therefore, the inspection team jointly formed by the China Football Federation Preparatory Group and the Football Association has inspected Meizhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming and other cities, but many cities have withdrawn, and so far the legend has finalized the two divisions of Meizhou and Dalian and the pending Shandong Rizhao Division, which in turn involves the territorial management problem mentioned earlier in this article.
The finalization of the competition area is not just the approval of the municipal government department in the area where the city is located, but it is necessary to apply for approval and perform a series of procedures to the higher level government department.
After the approval of a higher level of government, the relevant public security, epidemic prevention and many other departments will go all out to cooperate. In this way, the cities that are willing to undertake can officially feedback to the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association to clarify whether to undertake or not.
The process and procedure in the middle are quite complicated, just like the previous rumor that Wuhan will host the opening ceremony of this year's Chinese Super League, but Wuhan is not even a division in the end, because the process during the period has not yet been completed, and the news has been circulated first, which is finally embarrassing.
On another level, the reason why the division hosting the Chinese Super League has not been finalized is actually a very important situation, that is, whether it is the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Federation or the Chinese Football Association, the original intention is to host the event to a higher standard.
After all, although it is a tournament system, the Chinese Super League is the highest level of Chinese football, and it also involves a problem of broadcasting abroad.
High standards are of great benefit to the image of the entire Chinese Super League, the image of the city in the division and even the image of China as a whole.
Like the Women's Super League, Women's A, women's B league has been successfully launched or about to be launched, in comparison, the requirements are not very high, after all, it does not involve external communication, so the game is launched in the base.
But now, the Chinese Super League has not been able to finalize the division, from the perspective of the organizers, it is still hoped that the game can be arranged in the stadium as much as possible, and this is also convenient for the installation of broadcast equipment, etc., hoping to let the audience and fans see a better and more positive side of the league.
Objective factors are invincible
Chinese footballers in the trough have not chosen to give up in the face of reality, but it has to be said that various objective factors and off-field factors are often invincible, the so-called "ideal is very full, reality is very bone", and the plan can never catch up with the change.
Just like the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation and the Chinese Football Association have always hoped that this year's Chinese Super League will be fully launched immediately after the end of the Round of 12 and the end of the isolation of the national team, hoping to fully restore the home and away system and play 34 rounds.
And all parties are working together, including clubs playing in the AFC Champions League sending youth troops to play, but also hoping to not affect the domestic league.
However, the rebound of the epidemic and the sharp increase in the pressure of epidemic prevention have forced various plans to be changed repeatedly. Therefore, the original restart time of the Chinese Super League has been postponed indefinitely, which is completely beyond the influence of the China Football Federation Preparatory Group and the Chinese Football Association. Including two teams like Shanghai, which left Shanghai on the 7th and 8th and went to Dalian, they were also able to make the trip after a lot of communication and coordination. Without experiencing it, it is difficult to appreciate the effort.
For example, like how to deal with the hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese Football Association began to plan from last year in order to make the U23 national football team better prepare, so that the team could smoothly follow the national football team to the west in March this year, and finally let the team play the international warm-up match for the first time after nearly three years.
Subsequently, how to better prepare for the Asian Games, the Football Association and the team have also been meeting to study, including the transfer of coordinators with the China Football Federation Preparatory Group, the response of the league and so on.
But now, with the official postponement of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the previous preparations seem to be useless, and the outside world will not care how much all parties have paid during this period, but the preparation of the U23 team will not have to continue because of the postponement of the Asian Games.
Frankly speaking, factors like these objective factors, off-field factors are indeed invincible. But no matter what, Chinese football still has to survive, and Chinese football people will not completely let football disappear from Chinese society.
The epidemic has changed many things in Chinese society, but just as China will not stop moving forward and developing because of the epidemic, Chinese football will still survive strongly, and this year's Chinese Super League will definitely re-enter the lives of fans and people.
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