Who will feel sorry for Chinese fans

Written by Yu Ruiyin

Editor丨Feng Xiao

If you are still stubbornly looking forward to the miracle of qualifying for the Asian Cup, your home team of the Chinese Super League happens to be one of the Dalian team or the Shenzhen team, and you yourself have asked for leave in advance and waited early to see Ronaldo at the Shenzhen Longgang Universiade Center - that is really a debuff full.

Fans crowded outside Ronaldo's hotel, waiting to see him.

But was this feeling of heartbreak and disillusionment sudden? Not necessarily.

The national football team, which has scored one goal in three games in the group stage, is not only theoretically possible, and it needs Hong Kong, China to draw with Palestine, and Syria to draw 0-0 with India and receive 2 yellow cards to be established. It's a terrible feeling to have someone else in their hands for their fate, and over the years, the cute and poor fans have long learned not to believe in miracles.

The exit of the two former champion teams in Dalian and Shenzhen is also due to the fact that the club's operation has been sinking for a long time. Failing to solve the problem of salary arrears and failing to meet the registration and access conditions for the new season is not only a one-size-fits-all rule of law, but also unrealistic for players to continue to "generate electricity for love". What is certain is that these two teams are not the only ones who will quit due to similar problems in the foreseeable future, and the Guangdong team, which has faded the halo of the "Evergrande Dynasty", now needs to sell goods and rent championship trophies in the live broadcast room to make a living.

Then, there is the farce of Ronaldo's trip to China last night. Originally, the fans who watched Ronaldo's "toasted a cup of white fungus pear soup" and lamented that the top stars were very self-disciplined without drinking, but they were slapped by an unexpected humble press conference later. It was determined that Ronaldo would not be able to play due to injury, although he still said something like "China is my second hometown", but at the end he did not give the media any opportunity to ask questions with a cold face. Although the organizers of the tournament immediately threw out a full refund + compensation for the aftermath of the wine, I believe that the fans who are waiting for Ronaldo outside the hotel to give an answer may want to laugh absurdly after being rightfully angry.

"Ronaldo toast" was also hyped into a hot stalk by the short video

Accident? Accident. But what happened in the Chinese football market seems to be less than so unexpected. Not to mention, the exhibition match between the Brazilian star team VS the Chinese star team led by Ronaldinho, which was originally scheduled to be held in Shenzhen on January 13, not only ended without a problem, but there are very few traces that can be searched on the Internet. Going back further, Messi and Inter Miami's trip to China in November last year was finally canceled after changing key information several times, and in June, Argentina and Australia played an exhibition match at the Workers' Stadium, and the tickets were speculated higher than the World Cup final, and a series of supporting fan activities were also canceled one by one. Every time, it makes people want to shout the slogan that breaks the dimension in football: "XXX, return the money!"

To paraphrase a recent buzzword, the world is a huge grass team, and those who play football in China interpret the spirit of "grass stage team" to the extreme. The seniors who played hard have already formed a game in the prison. In the recently launched anti-corruption feature film "Continue to Make Efforts to Promote in Depth", Chen Xuyuan, Du Zhaocai, Li Tie and other silverfish of Chinese football seem to sincerely tell the inside story of corruption in Chinese football that we did not know in those years in front of the camera. knew that they were greedy, but they didn't expect to be so greedy, and even some details made people want to laugh and sigh - for example, when Li Tie was coaching the Huaxia Happiness Team, he took 6 million to deal with Li Fei of the Shenzhen team. Li Fei didn't use the money to dredge up the relationship between his teammates, but swallowed it all by himself, saving his teammates to some extent.

Li Tie's confession in front of the camera now sounds a little ironic

For the most unprofitable, but most sincere and kind part of China's football ecology, fans have allowed farce-like scenes to flash in front of them like marquees from the end of last year to the beginning of this year. Originally, I wanted to kick and shatter this falsehood, but I found that the broken picture can automatically be reassembled into a hideous smiling face, looping in front of you and in your ears, sneering at you after a "never look at it again" curse, and then willingly return to the persistence in the stands...... To paraphrase a sentence from "Teahouse": "I love Chinese football, I'm afraid it's over." "But I love it, and who loves me?

Chinese fans are the group that needs people the most to "feel distressed".

The core of this sadness lies in the fact that what we see is not a complete mess, but that there are a number of individuals and links in everything, and if we really want to do this well, it is like a grasshopper shaking a tree, and it is difficult to stop the systematic collapse of Chinese football.

If you don't score a goal in the Asian Cup, how can you pin your miracle on others?

In the 3 Asian Cup group stages, Jiang Guangtai played the level of "Jiang Daike" on the back line, Wei Shihao came back to create (and missed) countless good opportunities, and Yan Junling had an impeccable performance except for the kick "Flying Immortals" who couldn't save it...... The 34-year-old Zhang Linpeng is still working hard, and Lin Liangming, who heard that the Dalian team is gone, is still working the front line, and the players did not give up until the last moment. If you want to say that all positions are not as good as others, and no one is available, then the fans have also admitted it. But if the table is full of dishes, how much responsibility does Jankovic, as a "cook", have? Not to be held accountable, but to feel sorry for those fans who are shouting for "change of coach", and there is hope in his heart.

In the process of the Dalian team and the Shenzhen team withdrawing from the historical stage, in the rescue room where the Guangdong team struggled to maintain its last breath, governments, enterprises, and people from all walks of life, including the players and fans themselves, also contributed money and efforts to make various efforts, but in the end they were still unable to leave football blood for their city. In the context of reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the whole society, the funders behind it also injected capital before the dissolution of the team, but the astronomical salary arrears are still a drop in the bucket. Some companies are willing to provide some financial support for the team, but one of the conditions is "not to disclose our relationship to the outside world". Some teams rent out former championship trophies for between 50,000 and 300,000 yuan – what do you think this thing can do, but not the silly fans who are trying to scrape together some change for a team in trouble?

Dalian withdrew from football, in fact, all parties involved did their best

Let's talk about Ronaldo's trip to China last night. According to sources familiar with the matter, this cooperation was very professional and reliable at first from signing to implementation, and the domestic organizers and Ronaldo and Riyadh Victory Team also quickly reached an agreement. But Ronaldo's injury is not optimistic, and the signal that he may not be able to appear in the game on the evening of the 24th is by no means temporary, his teammates and agents have conveyed relatively accurate news before, but the organizers and organizers have obviously had several timely opportunities to save themselves, but they have missed them again and again, and then they have been brought up by the pervasive Internet celebrities and self-media. The most obvious is the various situations at the welcome banquet, "Ronaldo toast" was hyped into a hot stalk, and many uninvited people even started a paid live broadcast on the spot, and Ronaldo could be regarded as friendly at that time. But after the explosive news came out last night, the self-media, who know too well how to mobilize public sentiment, have a stage to show their strengths.

Like the rout of the national team and club team, the farce of Ronaldo's trip to China this time is also a professional team that originally wanted to do things well, mixed in too many unprofessional factors, or was swayed by too many unprofessional factors, which made this ending so laughable. Not only do the organizers and organizers of the tournament need to bear huge economic losses, but it also means the collapse of the last pillar of trust - in this cold and unusually harsh winter, the Chinese fans who originally needed this bowl of chicken soup to warm their bodies are like being doused with ice water.

Is there a road ahead, and where is the road?

The scene at this moment is very similar to 2016. Putting aside the long-term memories, fans can probably still remember that summer, the "Manchester Derby" in Beijing's Bird's Nest was hastily canceled because the venue after the rain was not up to standard, and the organizer at that time was a sports company that was just like the middle of the day and continued to raise funds, and it also declined rapidly after that, leaving behind inexhaustible sky-high debts; it was also in October of that year that the national football team lost 0-1 to the Syrian team in the final 12 of the Russian World Cup in the Asian round of 12 at home in Xi'an, and fell deeper and deeper in the sinking of "no one loses if it loses again".

More than 7 years have passed. At that time, the fans who were just leaving the school are now in their prime, and the fans who were in the prime of life at that time have changed their hair volume and hair color. What remains unchanged is that we have long been surprised by the farce of the temporary cancellation of top-level competitions - after all, Du Zhaocai has given up the hosting rights of the Asian Cup, and what has not changed is that we still can't win the war-torn Syrian team, who qualified last night.

What is more distressing than "heart death" is the fan group that still has hope and obsession with Chinese football. Even the media are not so enthusiastic, from the original "8000 feet to record the sea ridge" to the current World Cup qualifiers, the Asian Cup media on the door of the snubbing, the practitioners who eat this bowl of rice are voting with their feet; the owners know how to see the situation clearly, the title sponsor of the Chinese Super League never mentions the renewal of the contract after the expiration of the contract, and the local real estate enterprises and local finances that originally fully supported local football are taking care of themselves in the context of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and they are making cuts in a timely manner for Chinese football that is neither applauded nor popular.

After the expiration of the title sponsor contract, the Chinese Super League has not yet found a new title sponsor

But only the great and humble Chinese fans can't cut this feeling. It's just like the rhetorical question of fans from all over the world when Chen Xuyuan promoted the "neutral name change" -- some names are engraved in our hearts, are you going to take them away with a knife? For the team in your own city, you will never abandon the national team that you have never been able to support, and for "Chinese football" in a broader sense, you always believe that the darkness before dawn is about to pass, and what is coming to you is the expectation that "tomorrow will be better...... This is the Chinese fans who never shout when they have bitterness in their hearts, and break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.

Who can feel sorry for them?