Despite the hard work and fighting spirit of the National Youth Team in the U20 Asian Youth Championship, the lads showed fans that there is still hope for the future of Chinese football.
However, from the anti-corruption of Chinese football, Wu Xinghan's match-fixing scandal, to contract disputes between clubs and players, football here is very impure.
01. Is it all caused by the epidemic? Who is swimming naked after the gold dollar low tide
A. Neutral names are a good thing: but carry a cauldron
The neutral name reform proposed by the Chinese Super League is intended to be a good thing. After all, the Chinese Super League has become an advertising platform for real estate and problem companies, which is not a healthy development direction.
Before entering the football industry, Evergrande Real Estate was quite limited in China, and its own ranking was relatively low.
Evergrande claims to have invested 13.2 billion yuan in the football field, but the advertising effect, market development and financing benefits obtained are far greater than the investment.
There are also troubled companies like Quan Jian, who use football to advertise and give them a protective cloak.
The introduction of the neutral name is, to some extent, to make the Chinese Super League "pure" and no longer exploited.
b. Pressure on the financial chain brought about by the epidemic: can our league withstand it?
The problem is that when the epidemic hits, too many companies have broken their capital chains, which makes our own league have a life and death crisis.
One enterprise after another withdrew, and new enterprises stopped because they could not "effectively name", so that the normal metabolism and the replacement of the old and the new lost the possibility.
When one former Chinese Super League champion after another fell, it was not Evergrande's fault that really killed them (Suning's departure had a lot to do with the problem of capital chain and Evergrande), and it was precisely at this point in time that problems broke out one after another.
02. Wu Xinghan's match-fixing scandal: This is not unique in East Asia
a. Lack of money for 3 years in a row: match-fixing has a breeding environment
Since the suspension of home and away games in 2020, the conference-based Chinese Super League has seen a significant decline in broadcasting, ticket and merchandise revenue.
The investor's tight capital chain and unwillingness to "free blood transfusion" have caused many teams to have the problem of arrears of wages.
Wu Xinghan's big melon, a ball may bring 400,000 "black gold", in fact, it is also a product of this special era background.
After all, when the boss cannot pay salaries normally, or even cuts salaries again and again, players who are accustomed to spending money have ideas that they should not have, and the purpose is to find the former "drunken gold fans".
This is not unique in East Asia: turning bad things back into good things
If anyone abhors match-fixing in the Chinese Super League, it may be too simple. After all, in East Asian football, this is not an isolated case.
Even if it is the Japanese J-League and the Korean K-League, there are one thing after another that cannot be explained.
As early as 2011, three players of the Daejeon Citizen team of the K League were detained on suspicion of match-fixing, for which the president of the Korean Football League publicly apologized.
However, more than 10 years later, the problem has not been resolved, but has become more and more serious. The reversal from 0-4 to 5-4 is no accident, and with a stoppage-time draw in three games in one round, it's hard to explain these "miracles" with football.
Even Japanese football, which has always been considered very rigorous, actually has too much "trickiness".
After Iniesta came to the Kobe Victory Ship, he witnessed a farce. The team was leading 6-0 and he was substituted and watched his teammates inexplicably concede two goals in the final moments.
Especially the goalkeeper came to such a front position and tried to try people, it was incredible. Maybe this game is destined to bring the total number of goals to 8?
In the J2 League, the problem is even more serious. Ehime FC, which clearly had the advantage of the scene, was inexplicably reversed by two goals by Machida Zewia on its home turf.
When the goalkeeper threw the ball to his teammates, the latter directly returned the pass to score, leaving countless people stunned. If Japanese football is at this level, how can it beat Germany and Spain?
However, the quagmire of the domestic league will not prevent truly talented young people from going out. Even the purpose of the salary limit of the Japan-Korea League is to let talented players more firmly choose Europe as a stage for further improvement.
Due to the low income of domestic leagues, they can easily accept second-rate European league platforms such as Belgium and the Netherlands.
03. The deepening of anti-corruption work: the beginning of a new life?
Killing chickens for monkeys: Anti-corruption efforts have brought more people back from the brink
In this cold winter era of Chinese football, the in-depth anti-corruption work is on the one hand to let more people restrain from the precipice, and at the same time, to bring our league back to life.
Li Tie's question made many people sigh, in order to make our football slowly pure, we must always do something to set an example.
After all, the last sweep, the fall of Nanyong and Xie Yalong and others, gave more investors confidence, and also brought a relatively prosperous new era of the Chinese Super League.
At this point in time, faith may be more important than anything else. The Chinese Super League needs to be restarted, and Chinese football needs to be restarted.
b. The Asian Youth Championship is a start: there will be more good seedlings later
After nine years, we have reached the knockout stage again in the Asian Youth Championship, which is a good start.
It's not that these children are so good, but at least their hard work and fighting spirit will be a positive sign.
Children born after 05 years in Chinese football will have a wave of climax. Because in the context at that time, more families were willing to let their children go to the green field (the prosperity brought by the revival of the Chinese Super League and the depth of youth training), which will be the hope of the future of the national football.
Maybe in the 2026 World Cup, they may not be able to catch up with it if they are still immature. But this is the beginning to "clean" our own league so that they can have their best time in the 2030 or 2034 World Cup.
Conclusion:
The purpose of 315's crackdown on counterfeiting has never been just to find fake things, but to give the market a fairer and cleaner environment.
In this way, we can obtain better development space and leave hope for the future. This is not only for Chinese football, but also for all walks of life.