South Korean football seems to have always been an insurmountable mountain in front of Chinese football.
According to past head-to-head records, in recent decades, the Chinese men's football team has played no less than 30 games with the South Korean men's football team, basically losing more than defeat. From 2003 to the present, the Chinese men's football team and the South Korean team have played each other a total of 13 times, with a record of 2 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses. In particular, the last 4 encounters have all ended in defeat. In the last meeting, the Chinese men's football team lost 0:3 directly, without any power to fight back. It can be seen that with the discontinuation of Chinese football talents, there are fewer and fewer outstanding players, and the Chinese men's football team has been left far behind by the South Korean men's football team.
What is the difference between the Chinese men's football team and the South Korean men's football team? Recently, South Korean coach Choi Kang-hee, who coached in Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League, was also asked this very sensitive question by a reporter from CCTV's "Football Night".
Faced with this sensitive issue, Cui Kangxi did not choose to avoid Mingzhe's self-preservation, but answered the reporter's question very frankly. In Cui Kangxi's view, although there are some gaps between the Chinese men's football team and South Korean football, it is not as big as our media portrays. Choi Kang-hee pointed out that the gap between Chinese football and South Korean football is mainly reflected in two aspects. The first is the psychological level. The so-called psychological level refers to the fact that when the Chinese men's football team faces the South Korean men's football team, there are psychological shadows, and there is a cowardice before the battle, and they often think too highly of Korean football, but they obviously lack confidence in themselves.
In the second aspect, Cui Kangxi talked about the playing habits of Chinese players. He believes that many of the most basic football skills that Chinese players ignore in the youth training stage. For example, running tactics without the ball, or passing the ball with one foot, or how to handle the ball to make sense. There are some problems with these most basic soccer techniques. And these football habits are not well instilled in the youth training stage, resulting in a lot of hidden dangers when it comes to the senior team, and once the big game, these bad problems are slowly highlighted. And this is where the real gap between Chinese football and South Korean football lies.
I have to say that the two gaps mentioned above by Choi Kang-hee are very sharp, but they are very objective, and they can be said to point out the real gap between Chinese and Korean football. The author thinks that the gap at the psychological level can be slowly improved through the guidance of coaches, but it will take a relatively long time for some bad habits at the technical level to be completely improved and reversed. As the manager of Chinese football, I should appreciate the two gaps mentioned by South Korean coach Choi Kang-hee. If we want to gradually close the gap with Korean football, we must start by thinking deeply.