Kuko
It's really funny!
Just now, on the afternoon of April 26, 2024, Toutiao recommended an "article" entitled "Cheng Yaodong's 2018 Interview: Chinese Football is the Second Rate in Asia, Military Training and Long-term Training Camp are Suitable for the Chinese Team". The reason why the word article is in double quotation marks is because it only has a title and no content. In fact, this article transferred from a well-known platform, Cheng Yaodong was interviewed and appeared on the Internet on October 29, 2018, and the content is quite rich.
Here we need to briefly explain two backgrounds:
First, the reason why Toutiao forwarded this article with no content but only a title should be related to some of Cheng Yaodong's remarks in an interview with the media after the defeat of the U23 Asian Cup in the National Olympic Games a few days ago.
The second is the third day before Cheng Yaodong was interviewed by (CCTV "Football Night") 6 years ago, that is, on October 26, 2018, Cheng Yaodong's national youth team defeated Malaysia 2-0 in the third round of the group D group stage of the AFC U19 Asian Youth Championship and bid farewell to the tournament with a victory. Previously, in the first match on October 20, the U19 national youth team lost 0-1 to Tajikistan, and on the 24th, the national youth team lost another 0-1 to Saudi Arabia and was out of the tournament early.
The reason why I couldn't help but laugh at the beginning of this article was not just because I read an article without content, but because after searching and carefully reading the real article 6 years ago, I found that the editor of a certain platform who was "playful" was the same as myself, and the views expressed by Cheng Yaodong in the interview that year were the same as today, that is, two days ago - to be precise, "Cheng Yaodong's Selling Interview (1)" published by a well-known football reporter surnamed Ma on April 24, 2024, and at least two very important points of view are the same.
And these two points of view are: Chinese football should be stable in the second rate of Asia (the original saying is "I think we should be stable a little above the second gear (of Asian football)"), and long-term training is to solve the problem of fewer player games.
Attentive readers should find the "wonderful" in it: what Cheng Yaodong said 6 years ago was repeated 6 years later. Coincidentally, six years ago, the U19 national youth team was eliminated in the group stage with 1 win and 2 losses in 3 games, and six years later, the national Olympic team was exactly the same in the U23 Asian Cup. What's even more "thunderous" is that even the first two rounds were lost, and the second round was determined in advance to go home, but the "mode" of winning in the third round, and even the "lack of ability to grasp opportunities in front of the goal" summarized after the game are the same. The difference is only the identity of Cheng Yaodong, 6 years ago he was the coach of the national youth, and 6 years later he was the coach of the National Olympic Games.
Oh my God, this is really a reincarnation of 6 years, and what Cheng Yaodong did and said was just repeating the story of that year.
Whether Chinese football was second-rate in Asia 6 years ago is a bit long ago, I don't know, and I don't want to look for answers. But today, 6 years later, Cheng Yaodong even said that Chinese football "should stabilize a little above the second gear (of Asian football)", which is either ignorance or nonsense.
It should be added that when the group draw in May last year, the national Olympic team was placed in Pot 4, along with Malaysia, Tajikistan and Indonesia. Tranche 3 is for Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand and Kuwait, Tranche 2 is for South Korea, Australia, Iraq and Vietnam, and Tranche 1 is for Japan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Uzbekistan. On the evening of April 25, the Indonesian team eliminated the South Korean team through a penalty shootout to advance to the top 4, and the Vietnamese team, which also entered the top 8, will compete with Iraq for another place in the top 4.
In the 1/4 finals of the U23 Asian Cup, Indonesia eliminated South Korea
Writing this short article is not to prove anything, but to say that after 6 years, Cheng Yaodong is still insisting that long-term training is more conducive to Chinese football; It is really a joke that such a person has been "stable" in the position of the head coach of the national brand, and even led the team to the Olympic Games.
It's just that what about the next six years? Will Cheng Yaodong still be the coach of a national team? How many streams should Chinese football be in Asia?
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