From national football to women's football to men's basketball! The three major goals have been blocked one after another, so that the national football team is no longer alone
This National Day holiday, how good should the fans be.
On October 1, the Asian Games men's football team 1/4 final, the national football Asian Games team lost 0-2 to South Korea;
On October 3, in the semifinals of the Asian Games women's football team, the Chinese women's football team lost 3-4 to Japan's three teams;
On October 4, in the semifinals of the Asian Games men's basketball team, the Chinese men's basketball team lost 76-77 to the second team of the Philippines...
National football fans are actually okay, accustomed to defeats, and the ability to resist blows is full; If you want to rely on the Chinese women's football team to find some comfort, a half-time 1-4 is enough to empty half of the blood trough; If you still want to see the men's basketball team, there is not much blood left in half of the blood trough; If you happen to be a Manchester United fan again...
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese delegation dominated the gold medal table from the beginning and went straight to the 200 gold medals. From swimming to table tennis, from diving to athletics, Chinese athletes have made breakthroughs in the Asian Games again and again. However, can these more than 170 gold medals really smooth out the frustration caused by the men's football, women's football and men's basketball team? No amount of gold medals can change the fact that China's three major ball events are insufficient, and they are declining year by year, and the decline is quite rapid! Before the start of the Asian Games, it was already very obvious.
[The three major balls are blocked one after another, so that the national football team no longer travels alone]
On August 1, 2023, in the group stage of the Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team lost 1-6 to England, the first group out of the tournament, the first no sports goal, the worst record in the team's history;
On September 2, in the men's basketball World Cup qualifying match, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the Philippines 75-96, winning 1 and losing 4 in five games, completely missing the Paris Olympics, setting a record for the worst ranking (29th) in team history;
On September 9 & 12, the Chinese men's football team drew 1-1 at home against Malaysia, lost 0-1 to Syria, and continued to explore more strong teams in Asia;
On September 23, even the Chinese women's volleyball team, which was once the most carded, lost to Dominica 1-3 after losing 2-3 to Canada and being reversed by the Netherlands 2-3, suffering three consecutive defeats and missing the Paris Olympics!
In two months, from the Chinese women's football team, to the Chinese men's basketball team, from the Chinese men's football team, to the Chinese women's volleyball team, China's three major ball projects have all collapsed!
On the day after the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to Dominica, the Hangzhou Asian Games officially started, and the Chinese delegation won gold in a row. There is no doubt that the Chinese delegation is still the sports hegemony in Asia, the gold medal hegemony, and the feat of 200 gold medals at the local Asian Games is also very promising to be achieved. Wang Shun, Zhang Yufei, Qin Haiyang, Zhang Zhizhen, Zheng Qinwen, Wang Chuqin, Quan Hongchan, Xie Zhenye are the stars of the Chinese delegation, and their hard work day and night has been exchanged for the glory of the gold medal, which is worth rejoicing.
Objectively speaking, the importance and influence of the three major ball projects are incomparable with many other projects. There is no distinction between high and low sports, but there are big and small influences. Even two hundred gold medals can hardly erase the huge sense of loss brought about by the three major ball events.
Even if the three major sports win gold and silver at the Asian Games, it does not mean the full revival of the three balls, but at least, Chinese fans can find some comfort in the Asian Games, and the audience, especially the children, will be very happy. After all, the Chinese team is going all out, and there are not many competitive opponents, except for the men's team and the men's volleyball team, the other four sports are the favorites to win gold.
However, even this little comfort, a little happiness, Chinese fans did not get. The Japanese women's football team and the Philippine men's basketball team are both substitutes, the Japanese women's football team only one person participated in the World Cup, the Philippine men's basketball team only four people participated in the World Cup, between winning there is nothing to blow about, losing is too humiliating, the Chinese women's football team and the Chinese men's basketball team chose the latter, the loss method is different, but both make fans blocked.
In contrast, it seems that the loss of the Chinese men's football team is the most acceptable, the team also won a knockout match, breaking the embarrassment of a round of five consecutive knockout matches, and there is nothing to say about losing to South Korea, after all, South Korea attaches the most importance to the football gold medal, and regards this gold medal as a redemptive light that changes fate. The national football Asian Games team entered the quarterfinals, lost South Korea 0-2, and could barely hang on to the face, not to mention that the women's football team and the men's basketball team came out in time to share the firepower.
In the history of China's three major balls, the results of women's football, women's basketball and women's volleyball have always been better than men's football, men's basketball and men's volleyball, of course, this is also related to the objective environment in which China first attaches importance to women's projects in the world. But now, with the globalization of women's sports, the Chinese team's advantage is getting smaller and smaller, and the fiasco of the Chinese women's football team at the World Cup is the best example.
Today, the men's football team and the men's basketball team are still not contending, and the men's volleyball team, as an unvalued child, is trying to win everyone's attention with a silver medal in the Asian Games. The defeat of the women's volleyball team in the Olympic qualification tournament will surprise everyone. Now in the three major ball sports, the most competitive is the Chinese women's basketball team, the women's basketball World Cup runner-up, the women's basketball Asian Cup final against Japan to win the championship, with Han Xu, Li Meng, Li Yueru and other golden generation of Chinese women's basketball team is defending glory, tonight will compete with the old rival Japan for the gold medal.
In two months, the large-scale rout of the three major balls was accidental? Or is it inevitable? Is it the beginning of a trough? Or a brief downturn? The reasons for this are too complex, there are athletes, coaches, management, sports systems, and even educational concepts, social environment, and so on.
The problem of poor performance in collective events has always plagued Chinese sports, a huge social proposition, the answer of which can be found in the details of the game, in the locked playground, in the confiscated ball, in the alley full of cars, in the mobile games of elementary school students, in the pharmacy everywhere... These fragmentary answers can support a free-flowing comment area, and can piece together a piece of paper. Everyone can say an accurate answer, but the answer is never finished.
[Women's football: I love training, but training is too scum]
In the Spring Festival of 2022, the sharp contrast between the Chinese men's football team and the Chinese women's football team triggered an unprecedented explosion of public opinion effect. When the national football team first lost to Japan in the World Preliminary Round, and then lost to Vietnam on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Chinese women's football team defeated Vietnam, beat Japan at the absolute point, and defeated South Korea to win the Asian Cup!
The national football team got the name "Sea Cucumber Team", and the sonorous rose returned to glory. The long-standing public opinion gap between men's and women's football reached its all-time peak at that moment. At this time, you can see a variety of bizarre voices on the Internet, the most representative of which is that the strength of the Chinese women's football team has exploded the Chinese men's team, and the men's football team cannot play the women's team. This reflects a current situation in Chinese sports, although there are many fans, but only based on the population base of the number of large, in fact, the proportion of our fans is very small, many people love not the sports themselves, but the added value brought by the victory of sports projects.
What about the Chinese women's team? Our players are used to the empty stands in the league, the attention and care during the competition, and people love the way the Chinese women's team competes for glory, and the sense of achievement that the Chinese women's football team brings, not the sport itself.
The loss of the Chinese team in the 2023 Women's World Cup shattered all brainless rumors and unrealistic illusions, and truly showed the gap between Chinese women's football and the world's women's football. When 77,390 spectators watched the FA Cup in England, when 91,553 spectators watched the Spanish national derby of women's football, our FA Women's Cup final was played empty, our Women's Super League averaged only 1,300 viewers per game, the commercial value was almost 0, and there was no broadcast revenue! The annual broadcast revenue of the women's Premier League reaches 8 million pounds, the women's La Liga reaches 8.4 million euros, and the women's Ligue 1, although not high, has 1.2 million euros. Moreover, with the prosperity of the Women's Champions League year by year, the broadcast revenue of the Women's Football League is increasing on a large scale, and it is expected that the market value of European women's football will increase sixfold in the next decade!
The weak fan base and the dismal size of the league are the reality facing the Chinese women's football team. At present, the registered players of the Chinese women's football team are about 15,000, only 1/200 of Europe, and if you calculate the proportion of football population, it is 1/333 of Europe! In the past, only Germany and Sweden and Norway in Europe developed women's football, but now that European women's football is fully rising, Chinese women's football is drowned under the wave.
Without a high-level league and a mass base, the Chinese women's football team can only rely on continuous training to surprise the competition, relying on mental strength to make up for the lack of quality of the game. However, the bonus that mental strength can provide is limited after all, and it cannot bring qualitative improvement to the team. However, under the condition that the league level is insufficient, intensive training is the most trusted means for the Chinese Football Association to improve results in a short period of time. As a result, the Chinese women's football team entered a vicious circle, constantly training, training physical fitness, and training willpower, which was an outdated routine that was unveiled by the professional pace of European women's football.
"Why do we practice harder than European players and never deliver the results we want?" "Football is not won by spirit alone." Wang Shuang is transparent, and how can she still only fly back from the United States over and over again to participate in training and face a fragmented season. Because her contract with Li Mengwen and Shen Mengyu has the clause of returning to China to compete.
On September 9, Chinese female football players went to Suzhou to report for intensive training, and on September 19, they went to Hangzhou to prepare for the Asian Games. Coach Shui Qingxia said, "The training is only 10 days, which is relatively short, and there are actually only 7 field training sessions when it is full. ”
The Japanese women's football team braved the heat to fight the League Cup on Sunday, September 17, urgently assembled in Tokyo on September 18, arrived in Wenzhou on September 20 for adaptive training, and won 8-0 against Bangladesh in the first game on September 22. Only Rei Chiba played in the World Cup, and the Japanese women's team washed Argentina 8-0 on September 23.
Fans are the food and clothing, the league is the foundation of the pyramid, and for the sake of the fans, the Japan Football Association has not given any convenience to the players participating in the Asian Games. But the result, unfair? Fair enough!
You love training, but you don't love you, football doesn't love training, you love a team that respects fans and respects the laws of objective development. Football is not a sport that can be trained, it depends on the game, relying on high-level competition to constantly polish. When our football system, league construction is not as important as the national brand results, the league can make way for the national brand competition at any time, the club can not have any opposition to the national brand transfer, the overseas players must be called up at any time to play the game, are constantly training to break the rhythm of the season, perverse performance supremacy thinking, destroy the players, destroy the team, hurt the fans and the entire football system!
[Men's basketball and national football, good brothers of "handout gas"]
If the Chinese men's basketball team is a mischievous scumbag, the Chinese men's football team is definitely a righteous diehard. One does not study well, the other will never secretly make up classes, one exams are smashed, the other will never pass, one is overwhelmed with scolding, and the other is definitely not a good sentence. When the Chinese men's basketball team lost to Manila, the Chinese men's football team immediately drew with Malaysia. When the men's Asian Games team drew with Bangladesh and went out in the 1/4 final, the Chinese men's basketball team lost another Philippines, so that the national football brothers will never walk alone on the road of being sprayed.
Think about it, when you are scolded, there is a person who stands up to bear the firepower for you, what a brother with affection, this kind of friendship, let the players move, let the coach relax, let the fans infarction...
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Chinese men's basketball team was the Asian hegemon, and the Chinese men's football team was the first class in Asia, and then, the Chinese men's football team took the lead in going downhill, and the Chinese men's basketball team also followed the men's football team and stepped on the void in the past four years.
Regarding the Chinese men's football team, it is really difficult to say a word, the problems of the Chinese women's football team are also in the men's football, the women's football team condenses the problems of the men's football, and the men's football team amplifies the problems of the women's football. In the final analysis, it is all a lack of attention to the league, a disregard for fans, and a vain attempt to make up for the gap by training camps. As a result, what we saw was a lifeless Chinese Super League, with a slow pace and fragmentation, and when we got to the international arena, we couldn't adapt to the high-intensity rhythm, the movements began to deform, and the psychology began to panic.
All three teams in the Chinese Super League lost simultaneously in the second round of the AFC Champions League group stage, and Taishan and Zhejiang are still the best teams in the Chinese Super League right now. The Tarzan player had to admit: "The pace of the game was too fast, especially in the final moments of the first half, it felt like a lot of people were going to be overwhelmed. "Accustomed to the rhythm of one stop, two and three shots in the Chinese Super League, it is difficult for Chinese players to adapt to the slightest intensity of pressing in the continental arena.
When the national football team and Malaysia are evenly matched, the national Olympic team is struggling to defeat India, and the national football Asian Games team is 0-0 by Bangladesh, we can probably see a horizontal line, a horizontal line that Chinese football is approaching. We have freed ourselves from the quasi-first-class intrigue in Asia and gradually entered a broader family, popularizing more geographical knowledge for the broad masses of the people, and finding a comfort force for all those who have fallen into the trough. Look at it, the national football team played so badly and did not disband, why did you give up lightly?! (Please forgive Xiao Er's delirium)
Born of sorrow, died of happiness. When the national football team and the men's basketball team were strong, they had a sense of worry, that is, a sense of worry about life, in the words of Gong Xiaobin, "At that time, go to the national team to solve something, buy a refrigerator for home, buy a TV, maybe in the provincial team, the annual income is two or three hundred yuan, to the national team can reach two thousand." For their own lives and the glory of the country, the players of the Chinese men's basketball team are all tough guys, especially the "God of War" Liu Yudong.
"To be honest, it's because they don't want to work hard, the conditions are so good, they don't want to work hard, they are all soft bones, they don't have any spirit at all, I don't like any of them, I don't like them at all." I know that today's athletes can't say, can't touch, and no one dares to say that no one dares to touch, but their performance on the field is unacceptable to all peers. I can feel that their current training level and training environment have all changed, and they may be more economically utilized. It's not that they are jealous if they have more money, no, the more the better, but you have to be responsible, if you don't take responsibility, you don't deserve to enjoy such a high honor and value. ”
Liu Yudong's words are deafening, not to mention whether the current players have the bloodiness of the god of war who still fights with injuries with 11 broken bones in the knee, let's say that the divine semi-volley, the terrifying free throw shooting percentage, but if there is half, then the Chinese men's basketball team will not lose to the Philippines last night. Zhao Jiwei's two missed free throws, Zhang Zhenlin's mid-range open selection did not score and did not foul, including Wang Zhelin's consecutive empty layups in the previous World Cup, all of which reflect the problem of poor basic skills.
Just as Fan Zhiyi's "football bible" of "no face" applies to the men's basketball team, Liu Yudong's criticism of "soft bones" also applies to the men's team. Of course, there is also a difference, the national football team is not "no one dares to say that no one dares to touch", that is stepped on casually, compared to the national football, the trend of Chinese men's basketball "rice circle" is very obvious. In fact, from the Mero hegemony in the football world to the Zhan Hei Zhan Mi in the NBA, including our Chinese table tennis arena, the trend of rice circles is obvious, but the important premise is whether there is "strength". Regarding the influence of the rice circle, Fan Zhendong is subjected to "illegitimate" and "poisonous wei" and other entertainment industry rice circle behaviors abound, no less than any male basketball player, but he can still keep an athlete awake in the world.
Fans of the rice circle will give encouragement when the athlete falls into the trough, but on the Internet, this encouragement gradually changes to protecting the calf, stepping on, and attacking, and the players have worked hard if they lose. As a result, the players immersed in the country of gentleness and wealth completely lost themselves. Players should be awake, in addition to fans who like you, but also fans who support your team, whether you are playing for fans or for fans. Speaking again, on handsomeness alone, is there really someone in the men's basketball team who is handsome Gong Xiaobin, the "Xiaoyao King" of the year?
Both the Chinese men's football team and the men's basketball team are facing the problem of insufficient league level, and both have high salaries, but the important thing is that your strength and spirit are not worthy of these incomes. Therefore, why is the same loss, the Chinese women's football team is scolded less, firstly, in competitive sports, public opinion is relatively relaxed about girls, and secondly, the Chinese women's football team's useless mental will, at least makes the fans look less angry. If there's a little use for spirit, it's probably to let the fans lose their breath.
[We are a sports power, but not a sports power]
From the number of gold medals to the scale of sports development, China is a sports power, but it is difficult to be regarded as a sports power. What is a sports powerhouse, that is, to be competitive in athletics and the three big balls.
Athletics is the most intuitive event that shows the physical fitness of athletes, showing the Olympic motto "higher, faster, stronger", and the racial advantage of blacks is quite obvious. In the history of Chinese athletics, the achievements of Wang Junxia, Wang Liping, Liu Xiang, Su Bingtian, etc. make the Chinese people proud, especially Liu Xiang, but also the pride of all yellow people, he broke through the limitations of race, a black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese in the straight race to dominate the black people, how exciting!
If athletics is a bit out of reach in Asian countries, then the three major sports are the perfect combination of physical fitness and competitive wisdom, breaking through the limitations of race. In 2021, the IOC's 138th plenary session voted to officially change the Olympic motto to "faster, higher, stronger, more united", in which "more united" was concentrated in the three major events.
There were also people who wondered whether the reason why Chinese football could not work was because of racial restrictions, but Son Heung-min's success and the breakthrough of Japanese football shattered this suspicion and eliminated this excuse.
In the history of the Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation's 262 gold medals ranked fourth in the world after the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, almost double that of Uruguay (2), Portugal (5), Croatia (14), Argentina (21), Brazil (37) and Spain (48) combined. Countries such as Iraq, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Ghana and other countries have not yet won Olympic gold medals, but their football results have made the Chinese men's football team unmatched.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Argentina took away only two gold medals, one gold medal for men's football and one gold medal for men's basketball, ending Argentina's 52-year absence of Olympic gold medals, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Argentina's men's football team won consecutive gold medals. From Ginobili and Scola to Messi and Sergio Aguero, their influence has spread to the whole world, they are not only Olympic champions, but also national business cards. With Maradona and Messi alone, who would say that Argentina, with only 21 gold medals, is a small sporting country?
At the Asian Games, the Chinese delegation has won more than 1,500 gold medals, while Iraq has only 7, Syria 9, Saudi Arabia 25, Qatar 43, all far less than China, but the Chinese men's football team is using "strength" to erase this gap. If you're just a spectator, if you're a fan, then the performance of the national football team and the men's basketball team is really wearing away the sense of honor that other sports bring.
Looking back at the three major balls, let's take a look, in the World Cup, Women's World Cup, Men's Basketball World Cup, Women's Basketball World Cup, Men's Volleyball Olympic Games, Women's Volleyball Olympic Games, what is the performance of the Chinese team?
Men's World Cup, 1 participation, no goals, no points;
Women's World Cup, 8 entries, best runner-up (1999);
Men's Basketball World Cup, 10 appearances, best eighth (1994);
Women's Basketball World Cup, 11 entries, best runner-up (1994 & 2022);
Olympic men's volleyball, 2 times, best fifth (2008);
Olympic women's volleyball, 10 competitions, best gold medal (1984 &2004 &2016).
Only the Chinese women's volleyball team has won the world championship, and the best of women's football and women's basketball are the runners-up.
What about putting it on a worldwide scale? Let's look at such a data, A represents the men's World Cup, B represents the Women's World Cup + Olympic Women's Football, C represents the Men's Basketball World Cup + Olympic Men's Basketball, D represents the Women's Basketball World Cup + Olympic Women's Basketball, E represents the Olympic Men's Volleyball, F represents the Olympic Women's Volleyball, the number represents the number of champions, look at those countries that have won the world championship with three balls.
Brazil: A5, C2, D1, E3, F2
Germany: A4, B3, C1
Italy: A4
Argentina: A3, C2
France: A2, E1
Uruguay: A2
Spain: A1, B1, C2
United Kingdom: A1
United States: B8, C21, D20, E3, F1
Norway: B2
Japan: B1, E1, F2
Canada: B1
Former Yugoslavia: C6, E1
Former Soviet Union: C5, D8, E3, F4
Australia: D1
Russia: E1
Netherlands: E1
Poland: E1
China: F3
Cuba: F3
Spain and Germany, the only two countries to have won the men's and women's World Cup and the men's basketball World Cup, and they have won the Women's World Cup and the men's basketball World Cup for the first time this year, respectively, achieving historic breakthroughs. The United States and the former Soviet Union, the two superpowers, have strong comprehensive strength in the three major ball projects. Brazil would have become the only country in the world to have won the Grand Slam in all three tournaments if it had not failed in the 2007 Women's World Cup final and the 2008 Olympic Women's Final. In contrast, China's three major ball projects are really bleak.
If we compare China's three big balls to six children. The eldest son got the most funding from the whole family, the most attention, but also the most indisputable one, the second son used to be very tough, shouldering the burden of the family, but now he always follows the eldest brother, the third son is the least valued, there is not much scolding when he loses, and there is not much applause when he wins. The daughters are all small cotton jackets, the eldest daughter used to be the face of the whole family, the younger daughter won the highest honor in the family, and the second daughter is now the most reassuring for the family.
Happiness and sadness are independent of each other and can be diluted, but they cannot fade. Happiness can give sadness some comfort, and sadness can make happiness more sad. This loss and sadness cannot be soothed by another kind of excitement and pride. We want more and more gold medals and we want the big three balls to rise across the board, and there is no conflict. If China's three big balls continue at this pace, that sense of loss and frustration cannot be smoothed out by no amount of gold medals!
(P2)