After Chen Jiayuan was taken away, everyone became interested in the topic of what kind of problems happened during the World Preliminary Tournament. Quite surprisingly, the 74-year-old former national football head coach Lippi was not willing to be lonely and spoke out about the situation at that time. In an interview, Lippi talked with great interest about Chen Jiayuan, the president of the Chinese Football Association, who he was familiar with, and gave some little-known inside information about the various problems that occurred during the World Preliminary Tournament at that time.
Lippi bluntly said that the reason why he accepted the challenge to choose the Chinese national team in the second palace was because the issue of naturalized players proposed by him was supported by the Football Association, which also made him see the hope of leading the Chinese national team to the World Cup in Qatar. But what I didn't expect was that after Chen Jiayuan parachuted into the Football Association in 2019, everything about the naturalized team members changed drastically. Chen Jiayuan was extremely disgusted with the naturalized team members, and Lippi finally chose to resign, and by the way, he also gave up the remaining sky-high annual salary.
Originally, under the leadership of Lippi, it was entirely possible for that national football team to create a new history and reach the World Cup final stage again after twenty years. When the level of many domestic players in the team is not bad, it is also in the year of play, plus a few naturalized Brazilian players, not to mention in the Chinese Super League, and even in the whole of Asia is a recognized high level. With such a mix of players, it is not difficult to stand out in a relatively good group, after all, this group also has traditional Asian underdogs like Vietnam. As for our "new" national football, Japan has shown enough attention, which also shows that our paper strength has attracted attention from all parties.
However, after the change of office, our football association once again had a diametrically opposed understanding and implementation of the policy. Policies supported by the predecessor become meaningless or even completely rejected in the next. This problem is even more evident in the use of naturalized players. Exxon and others, who invested nearly 2 billion in naturalization, sat on the cold bench for a long time during the qualifiers, and Gotra did not appear for a minute. Afterwards, many people targeted the then head coach Li Tie, asking why they didn't let all the naturalized players play, of course, Li Tie did not give a specific answer, but few people could really understand the reasons behind it.
Is Li Tie not caring about leading the team to the World Cup to create history, absolutely impossible! After all, Li Tie has already played in the World Cup as a player, and if he can step on the World Cup again as a head coach, he will be able to become a celebrity in history!
However, all this was worthless in Chen Jiayuan's opinion! He himself has no interest in football, and he does not like to rely on the policies set by his predecessor to achieve a so-called good result. So we saw such a scene, during the supervision of Tran Jiayuan, no matter how bad the team's record, the naturalized players could not appear at the same time, until the team completely lost the opportunity to qualify from the group after losing to Vietnam. Even so, Chen Jiayuan still insists that Chinese football does not need naturalized players!
What Chen wants is a football era of his own, a Chinese national football team that has developed by relying on his own policies and finally reached the World Cup. Therefore, any people and things left by the predecessor need to be abolished and denied, which shows that he is not thinking about how to develop Chinese football, but how to let Chinese football leave its own individualistic imprint.
A football layman is so willful, Chinese football has to pay a price. Sure enough, under the leadership of Chen Jiayuan, the league teams lost too much blood, resulting in bankruptcy or dissolution, and those who remained also faced salary arrears or other problems.
Perhaps, if Chen Jiayuan was not so willful, or Li Tie had a bit of backbone to resolutely use naturalized players, should the national football team appear in the Qatar World Cup? In fact, naturalized players must be effective in the short term, and it is an effective model recognized by teams around the world.
It's a pity that we always don't see the good side of others, always take extreme examples to tell ourselves to stick to our own characteristics, it seems that we always have endless time to waste, always comforting ourselves that this World Cup is not good, we can still look forward to the next one. I just wonder how much time and patience we have to wait for our national football team to play a little reasonable?
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