The leadership of the Chinese Football Association held an industry event in Beijing called the "2024 National Youth Football Winter Training Conference". At the meeting, the new chairman Song Kai made important instructions, emphasizing that Chinese football still needs to strive to achieve self-transcendence at all levels, especially the reform of youth football. In addition, for the recent consecutive defeats of the Chinese women's football team, Song Kai said that the main reason is the lack of training. However, this argument has caused controversy among experts.
The development of Chinese football in recent years has been in trouble, especially in the field of youth football, and there is a huge gap between us and the world's top powers in all aspects, and this gap is unbearable. According to statistics, the number of registered footballers in the mainland is far less than that of developed countries, and in this case, the talent training and selection system is also imperfect, resulting in a lack of high-quality football players. In addition, the lack of a reasonable management system in the professional league has led to a low level of league level and lack of attractiveness.
At the same time, the construction of our national team and the development of football culture as a whole are still in a backward state, lacking systematization and normativity. In this case, we must be soberly aware of our own shortcomings, face up to reality, take every problem seriously, and look for solutions. Only in this way can Chinese football gradually move on the right track and contribute to the development of the country. In an interview, Chairman Song Kai deeply analyzed these problems and said that if Chinese football wants to be on the right track, it must have a long-term vision and patience, formulate a scientific and reasonable development plan, and continuously promote its implementation.
In the face of the problems of excessive pursuit of results and tacit ball, inhumane foul actions and match-fixing in football events, Chairman Song Kai made it clear that the occurrence of these phenomena is a serious drawback in the development of youth football, and the existence of these phenomena not only seriously affects the fairness and impartiality of the game, but also has a negative impact on the development of football culture. Therefore, he called for the prohibition of such phenomena, and at the same time, he also hoped that all youth football participants would consciously abide by the rules and ethics to ensure the fairness, justice and openness of football. He pointed out that only by thoroughly solving these problems can we fundamentally improve the competitive level of Chinese football and make football culture truly an important part of China's sports culture.
Although the Chinese Football Association put forward many suggestions and measures for the above problems at this meeting, many people in the football community have reservations about their effects. Especially regarding the explanation of the reasons for the defeat of the women's football team, some netizens believe that although this is the first official statement made by Song Kai after serving as the chairman of the Football Association, his remarks did not answer the most critical question - how to conduct comprehensive and effective training?
Sun Wen, a well-known coach who led the Chinese women's football team to conquer the World Cup, looked down at the documents in front of her after listening to Song Kai's speech, and her face did not show too many emotional changes. can't help but speculate that she may not agree with Song Kai's point of view. Wang Shuang, the core player of the Chinese women's football team, also expressed his confusion on his personal social platform after the fiasco of the World Cup. She said frankly that although the Chinese women's football team has made more efforts than ordinary people can imagine, they have always struggled to achieve the expected good results. Their training was undoubtedly the most expensive, but the result was not up to expectations. The athletes were eager to make up for Xi by practicing more, but they couldn't get away with the constant losses.