Last year's World Cup in Qatar won the world's attention, not only because of Messi's victory, Qatar's commercial operation, the drive for local tourism, and the infrastructure that China helped build...
These things put together, providing a classic case for subsequent countries to host the World Cup, and also leaving a strong mark in the history of the World Cup.
Looking at every grass and tree in Qatar, from the green field to a screw in the stands, there is an unclear relationship with "Made In China".
Souvenirs in the hands of spectators, buses carrying football teams... Made in China has swept the whole of Qatar with an overwhelming posture.
Here, China has everything it should and shouldn't have, and even the ticket peddlers who flipped up the tickets have crossed the mountains and thousands of rivers, intending to make a big profit in the Qatar World Cup...
But only, there is less national football.
This is a Chinese regret, and for Qataris, even more regret. Chinese love football, as long as their football team appears in Qatar, they will surely see Chinese fans traveling thousands of miles and across the ocean to come to the scene to cheer for their national team.
Chinese many forces are great, the fans look at it, it is a sea of people, densely packed, gongs and drums are noisy, firecrackers are sounding, red flags are on display... How much consumption will this drive Qatar.
China is everything, that is, the football team can't be hard, in Fan Zhiyi's words, Chinese football, don't want face!
Argentina, who won the championship, is united like a person, and the Chinese men's football team is also like a person... But has Chinese football always been so bad?
Not.
Today, let us reminisce about the past, recalling the green days when Chinese football was on the green field, when Chinese football had blue skies and white clouds, enthusiastic warriors, and marshal He Long...
The battlefield is not lost
In 1937, the July Seven Incident and the Japanese war of aggression against China began in an all-round way.
Before 1937, Chinese football stood at the top of Asia, hands in their pockets, not knowing what an opponent was.
After 1937, the Chinese football team was gone, gone.
Yes, it just disappeared out of thin air.
All the football players threw themselves into resisting the tide of Japanese invaders, those with guns went into battle to kill the enemy, those without guns went everywhere to raise donations, and those who had no guns and no money ran to fly planes.
Before they joined the war, they were the dragons of the East, killing all sides, and the entire era was unified.
Contemporary people accustomed to the crotch pulling performance of Chinese football may feel that this is making up stories and telling jokes, but to be realistic, from 1913 to 1934, counting all the top Asian competitions in those years, there was a game, as long as it could get a nag on the platoon, the Chinese football team only lost once.
It can't be said to lose, only that once, we took the runner-up, and at any other time, we were champions.
At that time, Chinese football was a nightmare for the Japanese contemporaries, the terrible dominance of the stadium, the Chinese team let the Japanese goalkeeper, they could not win. At that time, stars such as Li Huitang, Dai Linjing, Li Fenglou, Yong Fuzhen, Tan Jiangbai and so on emerged, but what supported them was very different from the so-called personal hobbies, money, and honors now.
The internal drive of this football team is very simple, just do not want to be looked down upon, just for the sake of national dignity, that is the most simple patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese.
At that time, Chinese was bullied, and in my own country, I had to look at the faces of foreigners, not only could not raise our eyebrows, but foreigners did not treat us as people.
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, China sent a 69-member delegation to include all events, except for pole vault, where the performance of Chinese athletes was remarkable. As a result, the infamy of the "sick man of East Asia" has poured in.
How can it be so crotch-pulling? How could you lose so badly at the Olympics?
Chinese don't understand the rules of the competition, the rules of the competition are all set by the West, which is one of them;
Chinese it is difficult to eat, not to mention that doing nothing daily is professional training, self-funded training cannot be done, and the publicly-funded state is powerless to stop it, which is the second;
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese opium smokers were everywhere, densely packed, and everywhere you could see the skinny, yellow-skinned smokers, lying on the side of the road waiting for death...
Therefore, closing the door and saying his own words, this East Asian sick man's evaluation is not all insulting, but really has a bit of a realistic meaning. But the problem is that we can Chinese think bitterly and reflect on the poison of opium to the Chinese people, which is our own business, and it is not your turn for foreigners to point fingers, point fingers, and interject indiscriminately.
Chinese self-reflection, called shame and courage;
What foreigners impose on us is called an insult.
So, with indignation and dissatisfaction, in order to wash away the insult of the sick man of East Asia, the Chinese football team gritted its teeth and desperately played on the green field. Take Li Huitang as an example, his family is solid, he is a well-known rich businessman young master in Guangdong, and he is not a person who suffers hardships.
But for the sake of his country, he scored a total of 1,860 goals in official competitions in his lifetime, and became one of the five superstars with more than a thousand goals along with Pele , Müller of Germany, Romario of Brazil and Riddenlake.
You know, at that time, there were no professional leagues such as the Chinese Super League, Serie A, and La Liga, and all of Li Huitang's balls were obtained in international competitions.
In 1976, the "Universal Football Magazine" of the Federal Republic of Germany selected the world champion, and Li Huitang was named the "world's top five football kings" together with Brazilian Pele, British Matthews, Argentina Stéfano and Hungary Puskas.
That year, Messi, who shone at the World Cup in Qatar, was not yet born.
But unfortunately, since the beginning of the Japanese invasion of China, this team has basically bid farewell to the green field. They have a new battlefield, where they forged a new Great Wall with flesh and blood.
Li Huitang used his influence to run around to raise donations, and all the proceeds were supported to the anti-Japanese front;
Tan Jiangbai followed the 19th Route Army to participate in the Songhu War of Resistance and the Defense of Shanghai, and fought bayonets with the Japanese;
Chen Zhen became a pilot and was only thirty-five years old when he died.
Battle of Songhu
Kitchen knife general, court point soldier
When it comes to Mr. He, he is a household name, and he is widely known for carrying two kitchen knives to make a revolution.
In the early days of the Chinese revolution, He Long commanded the Nanchang Uprising, raised the revolutionary ranks, and became one of the founders and main leaders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
He closely followed in the footsteps of Chairman Mao and was a revolutionary feat, and he was present in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
After the founding of New China, these old marshals continued to shine and devote themselves to all walks of life. In 1952, He Long was appointed director of the National Sports Commission.
Subsequently, Chairman Mao asked him to form a football team. But with the development of various sports, such as table tennis, volleyball, etc., are in full swing, have emerged in international events, achieved good results, but football, like a stone sinking into the sea, has never moved.
After carefully observing many matches of the Chinese men's football team, he came to the conclusion that these football players are not bloody! Therefore, he did not stop doing anything, and selected more than a dozen good seedlings from the army who were strong, tall, and jumped three feet tall to strengthen the Chinese football team.
At the beginning, after these soldiers learned that they had been selected by Mr. He, they all cried and had bitter words, and a hundred reluctance in their hearts. They joined the army under the glorious call to join the army, and they planned to hold a steel gun and defend their home and country, but they didn't think about it, and after a few days of touching the gun, they were pulled to play football ...
The blood that was intended to be spilled on the battlefield was actually going to be sprinkled in the green field, isn't this?
One day, when the players finished training and walked to the dressing room in groups, Mr. He stood in the green field with his hands crossed at the waist
While gazing at the sky in the distance, he coincidentally heard the conversation of the two warriors.
I only heard Da Long say to Er Zhuang: "Brother, you don't know the buck teeth in our village, since the little five short stature, the speech leaks, the whole face can't see anything else, all big plate teeth... It was such a person, after taking the board brick to the 38th line to wave around, he actually returned to the village wearing a military uniform, wearing red flowers on his chest, and carrying a plaque of a first-class meritorious hero, although he lost two legs, and his face was bright and his teeth were missing, but just like that, it suddenly became a fragrant food that swept the county, and the daughter-in-law he married was originally he couldn't marry with a lantern and burning high incense..."
Yes, they are all hot-blooded young people in their early twenties, who does not have a heroic dream of serving the country? At that time, the people were simple, the people liked heroes, the people believed in heroes, the people wanted to be heroes, and there was nothing more glorious than fighting for the country and the shroud of Mag.
Immediately, Mr. He understood why these soldiers looked so resistant to training and bitter hatred, it turned out that they had a knot in this regard.
So, the next day, he held an all-hands meeting and told the soldiers, you are the first generation of Chinese footballers, play well, and later people will look up to you; The kick stinks, and later people say that you are coercing ...
Now that the international situation is moving towards peace, it is Guangzong Yaozu who represents the country on the battlefield, and it is not Guangzong Yaozu who represents the country in the green field? Kicking the ball well, it is the same as winning glory for the country, I He Long's background in carrying a gun, I don't think it's bad to engage in football, it's your turn?
Think about it, if you don't play well, China loses a mess in the world, loses to Japan, loses to South Korea, and loses the dignity that the big country defended with blood and flesh on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and ended up losing it on the football field? Where do you put your faces? Where to put my He Long's face? You are not ashamed, I am ashamed ...
It is said that the old marshal in the early days of the founding of our party is counted as one, and the ability to do political work can be called the ceiling of the times.
Not to mention the organization of the May Fourth Movement, the Five Swords Movement, the Beijing-Han Railway Workers' Movement, etc., but Mr. He's two sentences in football, deep and simple, penetrated into the inside, he knew very well what the young man of Twenty Lang was thinking about, so he prescribed the right medicine, straight to the heart, and after a word, those passively trained soldiers were ashamed and understood the importance of representing the country in battle.
Later, Mr. He asked again, do you want to lose people and throw them outside?
Off the field is a uniform answer - no
Do you want to win glory for your country?
The field brushed and shouted, louder than the sound of the bugle - think.
In this way, the new Chinese football team began to set sail and set sail.
Say no, disband the team
After the enthusiasm of the young football players is ignited, the green field is filled with a red whirlwind. The military style of daring to fight and fight, put on the football field, won very brilliant results.
Throughout the decade of the 50s, the Chinese men's football team participated in a total of 65 international matches, of which the Chinese team won 30 games heartily, and the opponent killed back and forth, and the draw was equal, which was 16 games.
In 1958, China even fought back and forth with the Soviet Union, the first socialist power at that time, and the final match slowly ended in a draw.
At that time, the brilliant performance of the Chinese football team made the enthusiasm of the people of the country for the national football team unprecedentedly strengthened, China's huge fan base is playing here, many old and eighty bosses, and they talk about men's volleyball, men's basketball, they may not be able to say two words, but talk about men's football they know some rules, it is from this era.
In 1959, after China defeated the Hungarian national team, it won the championship in Asia. But the good times did not last long, FIFA at that time did not recognize the one-China policy, and it was unbearable to treat the Taiwan region as a country, and it was unbearable to do so, so indiscriminately, regardless of the feelings of the Chinese people, it was enough not to participate.
After the Chinese national team withdrew from FIFA, it nakedly hit the football federation in the face, so a bunch of small tricks swept towards the Chinese men's team, first banning China from participating in any football match around the world, and then calling on countries not to train with the Chinese team...
In the context of this era, Chinese football has become an isolated lone army, let's train, it's useless after training, no one plays with us; Don't practice, it's not like that, what are you doing here?
National football players, you look at me, I look at you, and they all say that they will not be able to be rectified by FIFA, so the competitive level of all players has declined to a greater or lesser extent.
But fortunately, FIFA, a puppet controlled by Western countries, does not count in many things, in some countries that have good relations with us and trust us, what do you FIFA do? Why are you everywhere? Whether I play football or not, with whom, can you care? Did my soccer team cost you? Nothing to fund, sponsorship, no points in mind? Why are you still so able to nag?
And after the good news of the game reached the team, the players were excited, but in the next few rounds of confrontation, whether it was a strong team or a weak team, the performance of the Chinese team could not be seen directly, Mr. He called out spicy eyes, in the two years of 1961 and 1962, the national football team did nothing, basically lost.
It is true that the national football team behind closed doors, whether it is technical and tactical level or team cooperation, is out of touch with the overall situation in the world, but this is not a reason to lose. Where is the style of daring to fight?
Where is the strong strength of the integration of attack and defense? Didn't you get enough to eat before the game? Marshal He Long's hatred was itching at the root of his teeth, his fists were clenched tightly, and he couldn't wait to slap the gang of members on the wall.
Before the 1964 match against Pakistan, Mr. He said, if you lose again this time, you don't have to play football after you come back, and the national team is disbanded! And even under this pressure, the national football team still lost the game.
In the face of this strange humiliation, Mr. He could no longer bear it, and he could not bear it again and again, so he fulfilled his promise and blatantly disbanded the Chinese national team.
This time, he called the elite backbone of the football team, and Da Long and Er Zhuang were among them.
Marshal He Long said, don't you want to go to the 38th line to make a wave, now throw you into the team returning from the 38th line, you see if they can afford to look at you.
People in the Korean battlefield, they can't wait to take off the Yankee's head as a ball, and you, give a ball for nothing, you don't understand. The same Chinese, the same eating rice white noodles ...
In this way, the national football team after the disbandment, shameful and brave in the "hard bone sixth company", gritted his teeth, and trained hard for a whole year.
And this year, Mr. He was not idle, he found talents in city and county-level football teams across the country, selected good seedlings, just like that, a year later, the Chinese national football team was re-established.
In the seventies, the national football team was unstoppable in Asia, winning fourteen consecutive international matches in one year, not only that, but also in the Asian Emerging Power Games, the national football team won the runner-up and ranked among the world's top teams.
Dare to ask where the way is?
To be honest, I really don't know what to write here.
Now the Chinese national football team looks like this...
Ay......
It is unjustifiable that one-fifth of the population of the earth cannot make up twenty or so people who play football.
Chinese far away, Nuwa mending the sky, Jingwei reclamation is not discussed, just from Jinggangshan to the present, there has never been a shortage of people who sacrificed their lives and forgot death for the honor of the country, strong and yellow, and many heroic sons and daughters...
But in the past twenty years, Chinese football has made Zhao Benshan break the sand, let Wang Jianlin leave the table in anger, let Milu exit the game sadly, and let Lippi run away overnight... The management of the association is not divided, all kinds of insiders, fancy to make money...
If you give the power to rain to an umbrella seller, there will never be a sunny day. This should be the cleanest green field, not Vanity Fair, and this is not the place to fight for power.
If you want to make money, go and earn money, go to the sea to start a business and earn a fortune, everyone will give you a thumbs up! Don't have the mind of backing the mountains and eating the mountains, trampling on the dreams of the Chinese people here!
Born as a human being, there are too many surprises in this world.
Men stand against the sky, stand on the ground, carry the old and young food and drink Lasa, busy running every day for a few taels of silver, they hope to watch the football game in their hearts after a tiring day, see how the team they support soars into the sky, roaring vicissitudes, they hope to enter the dream in the cheers of victory, because every man is a teenager until death.
There's nothing wrong with that!
Their expectations of Chinese football should not be disappointed!
Chinese football should not make everyone who loves it sad, whenever the World Cup qualifiers come, the fans' eyes are red, tears are rolling in their eyes, they bite their lips aggrievedly, watching the national football team lose to Vietnam, lose to a large number of countries that feel varied and strange just by hearing the name... Moreover, even if the face of the national football team is not wanted, it is not a reason to lose to a county team in Jingchuan Wenhui.
Chinese fans are the loveliest people, they are all living beings, they are ordinary people, they are busy and struggling to move bricks, they are more desperate than anyone. Fans have long understood before the players - a difficult life is not romantic, and living steadily is the most intelligent art. Don't let this group of fans be born broken and then spend the rest of your life sewing and tinkering. The fans don't want anything else, they just want to be treated well!
After experiencing evil, and then experiencing good, you will feel extra warm.
And after experiencing the trough, when you climb to the top of the mountain, you will feel that there are no regrets in this life. Only the experience of time and time can produce a pure and long-lasting century-old wine.
Like this World Cup, Diego saw it, Leo did it, Diego saw Leo do it in heaven. The damn romance of the Argentines, under the baptism of time, exudes a refreshing fragrance.
Chinese fans also want to have their own romance to smash their hearts!
Don't let the grievances of Chinese fans flourish more, while they still have residual love!
How does the devil torment people? It is to make people constantly expect, expect, the most grinding!
Chinese men's football team, don't become the devil!