The strange policy of the Football Association has ruined Chinese football: cancel the relegation and relegation! The double coach of the national football team, the 1.7 billion adjustment fee will not be refunded
The national football team was out of the Asian Cup group group, with 0 wins and 0 goals to set the worst record. 20 years ago, in 2004, the national football team could still win the runner-up of the Asian Cup, and in 2001, it could qualify for the top ten matches and enter the World Cup for the first time. So what's the problem? Song Kai, the new chairman of the Football Association, revealed the root cause in one sentence: The Football Association should not come up with a strange policy!
From Nan Yong and Xie Yalong to Du Zhaocai and Chen Xuyuan, behind the investigation of the leaders of the Football Association, in addition to corruption, there are also a series of strange policies that have emerged in an endless stream and capricious in the past 20 years.
In 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005, the League A and the Chinese Super League cancelled the relegation and relegation twice! You must know that the relegation system is the foundation of the professional football league, and the cancellation will inevitably lead to the team's rottenness, the decline in the quality of the game, the sharp reduction of the audience, and the sharp decline in club and league income.
Before the 2001 Top 10 match, in order to complete the goal of entering the World Cup, the Football Association mandated that no player should play overseas and must stay in China in order to receive long-term training.
In the 2002 A League, the second-place Shenzhen team and the third-place Beijing Guoan team had the same points, according to the rules of international football, either the goal difference was compared, or the win-loss relationship was compared. In the end, Shenzhen drew the Q of spades, Beijing Guoan drew the plum J, and Shenzhen won the league runner-up by one point. Although the original intention of the Football Association was to worry about tacit understanding and match-fixing, this kind of unconventional operation still made people speechless and too much.
In 2003, the last generation of League A, because of another strange rule of the Football Association, there was a final round of loss to be relegated! The Football Association stipulated at that time that the league points in 2002 were multiplied by 0.5, plus the ranking in 2003 to determine the relegation place. In this way, Chongqing Lifan can only lose to Qingdao in the last round, Qingdao's ranking can surpass Tianjin, and Chongqing can overpower Tianjin and retain the place in the first year of the Chinese Super League in 2024!
In January 2005, the Football Association launched the "Big National Team Plan", and at the same time, in order to ensure the implementation of the "08 Olympic Plan", it was proposed that all clubs that did not send players to the National Olympic Games should not have less than two U20 players in each game, and the playing time should not be less than half time, otherwise they would lose 0-3! However, this policy was widely questioned and was soon canceled by the Football Association, but 12 years later, a similar policy was born.
In 2004, the Football Association issued a transfer policy: if a team has four or more internationals, it will not be allowed to transfer to a new international. The explanation given at that time was to ensure the balance of development between the teams and prevent the increase of polarization, but it artificially limited the development of the team, which in turn affected the level of the league.
In the 2007 season, the Football Association set up a strange penalty to increase attendance: clubs with an average attendance of less than 5,000 and 10,000 leagues will deduct 10% and 5% respectively from the year-end league dividend.
After the 2007 National Football Asian Cup group exit, in order to prepare for the 08 Olympic Games, the then National Olympic coach Dujkovic was appointed by the Football Association as the head coach of the men's football + National Olympic Games, and Dui recommended his fellow countryman Forado to the Football Association. As a result, the two-head coach system, which is extremely rare in world football, was born: Dui is in charge of the national Olympic Games, Forado is in charge of the national football team, but Duyi, as the head coach, has the right to interfere in the training and even personnel selection of the national football team.
In the 29th round of the 2010 Chinese Super League, due to the fierce competition in the AFC Champions League and relegation, the Football Association decided to unify the halftime of the eight games into 30 minutes, in order to kick off at the same time in the second half. The FIFA competition rules clearly stipulate that the halftime should not exceed 15 minutes.
In June 2012, the Football Association passed Guangzhou Evergrande's proposal to allow the Chinese Super League teams participating in the AFC Champions League to relax the introduction of foreign aid to 6 non-Asian foreign aid + 1 Asian foreign aid, so Evergrande used the second transfer to increase the number of foreign aid to 7. It is understandable to support the Chinese Super League team to strive for the AFC Champions League, but it is related to the major issue of the registration of foreign aid.
In the 2017 season, the Football Association launched the U23 policy, but "there is a policy, and there are countermeasures", so there was a god operation in the Chinese Super League where the U23 players were replaced at the beginning. The most typical example is the 2019 Chinese Super League season, where Tianjin Tianhai's goalkeeper came off the bench as a striker and was replaced by another U23 player after four minutes. This policy seems to protect young players and give them opportunities, but in fact it is encouraging seedlings. It wasn't until the 2023 season that the U23 policy was lifted.
In June 2017, the Football Association stipulated that clubs that spend more than 45 million yuan per person on foreign aid and more than 20 million yuan per person on domestic players are required to pay an adjustment fee to the Football Association in equal amounts. Since then, according to media reports, the Football Association has collected a total of 1.7 billion in adjustment fees. Over the years, many clubs have asked for a refund of the adjustment fee to save the fate of disbandment, but the Football Association just does not return, and there is no result so far.
In the summer of 2018, there were rumors that the General Administration of Sports planned to implement the "national team playing in the Chinese Super League" program. According to media reports, this plan was indeed proposed at the time, but because it was too bizarre, it was strongly opposed internally and finally ran aground.
In November 2020, the Football Association launched the "gender-neutral name policy", and only Dalian people met the requirements in the top 16 of the Chinese Super League at that time, and the remaining 15 clubs had to change their names. This policy has caused controversy because it has greatly influenced the willingness of investors to invest in football. The gender-neutral name was only implemented for three years before the start of the 2024 season: the club will remain gender-neutral, but the first team and echelon will be able to accept the title.
Compared with the above, the introduction and use of naturalized players is nothing, after all, it is still in line with the development trend of world football. In short, in the past 20 years, the successive leaders of the Football Association have launched a lot of strange policies, resulting in a consistent and sustainable development strategy for Chinese football, from club to league, from league to national team, from player training to youth training, all of which are a mess, which is also one of the main reasons for the degeneration of Chinese football. I wonder if Song Kai, who shouted "don't make strange policies", can bring real changes to the Football Association?