On April 8, the Chinese Football Association held a conference and carried out a major reshuffle. Song Kai, the chairman of our Football Association, stood on the platform in person, and Zhang Jiasheng also spoke loudly there. The original middle-level cadres have all been asked to step down, and new department and personnel appointments are about to be launched.
The 11 people who played football on the field were actually operated by more than 150 people and 19 departments in the Football Association. After this adjustment, the number of departments has been reduced to 14, but can this change bring a turnaround to our national football team?
The recent wave of operations by the Football Association has made people shine again. On April 8, the big move at the plenary meeting of the Football Association was not a small fight. Chairman Song Kai gave an order, and all the middle-level cadres were suspended, waiting for the new personnel adjustment plan to land.
The bureaucracy of the Football Association is too big to be built. Those cadres do not all understand the ball, and some may even be vague about whether the football is round or square. The previous 19 departments sounded like a big head, but now they have been reduced to 14, but they can really improve efficiency, and there is still a question mark.
In the past few years of the Football Association, it's really hard to say. Do you remember Li Tie? The bold remark that "there is nothing wrong with domestic coaches" was sonorous and powerful when it was said. In the end, he was arrested for accepting bribes, and the amount involved was as high as nearly 120 million yuan. In the courtroom, he repented and confessed his sins, and the scene was really embarrassing.
There is also Chen Xuyuan, the former chairman of the Football Association, whose 81.03 million case is directly a life sentence, deprivation of political rights, and full collection of property. Their series of scandals directly pulled the reputation of the national football team to the bottom.
On the surface, the adjustment at this conference is a major operation, but the people are not stupid, and they criticize it sharply as just "changing the soup but not the medicine". Those moths in the Football Association never seem to have really been cleaned up. The fans are indignant, and some are outspoken, so the Football Association might as well not want it.
The road to progress for the national football team has been difficult. The negative news that comes from time to time has exacerbated the dissatisfaction of fans. Although this personnel shock has given people a glimmer of hope, it is really unknown whether this hope can be translated into actual improvements and whether it can really put the national football team on the right track.
Some people say that these cadres are like "parallel foreign aid" on the football field, who get high salaries but can't play football well, and now they have finally cleared the door. But some people say that this is just another personnel game, and the real problem has not been solved, that is, how to fundamentally improve the management and training system of Chinese football.
The performance of the national football team is heart-wrenching, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, but our "Hexi" seems to be special, waiting for decades. From small to large, from youth training to professional leagues, there are a lot of problems. Will these 14 new departments really make a difference? This will depend on the test of time.
The real challenge is how to establish a fair, transparent and efficient management system, and how to make every penny of football count. What fans want to see is the struggle and victory of the national football team on the field, not these farces in the Football Association.
Each of the 14 newly established departments has a person in charge of preparation, and it is said that personnel adjustments and division of departmental functions can be completed within a week. This sounds like a good efficiency, but it's not easy to do. The bureaucratic culture of the Football Association is not formed in a day or two, and it takes a huge effort to change.
It's not as simple as changing the name of the department, but to put those who really understand the game into the position, so that they can contribute to the development of Chinese football. The appointment in a week is undoubtedly an important highlight. Who goes up and who goes down, who can bring a new atmosphere, and who will repeat the mistakes of the past, these are the focus of attention of the majority of fans in the coming days.
How to achieve a real breakthrough under the new system, how to pay equal attention to management and technology, and how to improve the overall level of the national football team are all difficult problems in front of us. Every time the national football team goes out, it affects the hearts of hundreds of millions of fans. They don't just need a clean FA, they need a strong national team, a team that can thrive and win respect in international competitions.
There are always twists and turns on the road to reform, but as long as the direction is right, there will always be hope. The loudest clamor among the fans is the demand for radical change, the hope that football will return to its purest form: the competition and passion of 22 people on the green field. The Chinese people are looking forward to that day and looking forward to the national football team being able to get rid of the shackles and return to the ranks of the strong teams.