In the list of host cities for the 2021 Club World Cup and the 2023 Asian Cup released by the Chinese Football Association on December 28, Guangzhou successfully made the Club World Cup, but did not qualify for the Asian Cup.
Xie Zhiguang, chairman of the Guangzhou Football Association, revealed in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News reporter that the biggest reason is that Guangzhou currently lacks professional football stadiums. (Poke the original link to learn more>>> Guangzhou successfully bid for the Club World Cup, but why did it not qualify for the Asian Cup?) This reason is critical! ）
Is Guangzhou still a football city?
Text/Que Daohua
Is Guangzhou a famous football city? This is a false proposition, depending on who to compare.
In the face of cities like Manchester, Liverpool, London, Madrid and Buenos Aires, Guangzhou's level of football should be considered Neolithic. But looking at China, dare I say that the football city is stronger than Guangzhou, who else? 8 crowns in the Chinese Super League.
I'm honored to be one of the first to see football, which of course refers specifically to Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. When I was in my second year of junior high school, at the end of the 1980s, the whole school teachers and students worked together to pick up stones in the third class every afternoon, and finally picked up a football field, and the phoenix people finally saw the real football off the TV screen, although it was only a rubber product worth more than a dozen yuan, but our physical education teacher Yu Mingshu was still excited to write when writing the ball review, and the ball hung directly on the net.
Don't laugh, in the whole of Xiangxi, this is the first standard football field with a 400-meter track, not even Jishou, a county-level city next door to Fenghuang, the capital of Xiangxi! Jishou University, which was already promoted in 2018, was still in Daejeon Bay at that time, and there was only a playground with a 200-meter track, which was actually stuffed with a basketball court and a football field.
If Xiangxi is a poor place, then look at Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. In 2019, I followed the Guangzhou Old Naughty Boy Football Team and the Guangzhou Xiangxi Team to Changsha twice, and met Cheng Jian, a prominent figure in Hunan football and a national brand resume. Speaking of Hunan football, Teacher Cheng said that Hunan once won the sixth place in China! Now, don't say the Chinese Super League, even professional teams are going to go extinct!
You think That Hunan people are particularly seedless and can't play football, noisy! The whole of China is like this, counting, the real professional football atmosphere, nothing more than Beijing, Shanghai, Sui, yes, I hate the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou such an uncultured statement. And then Dalian, Qingdao, Wuhan, who else? Meizhou?
Every time we talk about 1.3 billion people in China, we can't get together with a national team, and everyone is so angry that their legs are shaking. Please, look at the international ranking is good, the World Cup has expanded only 32 teams, the Chinese team ranks more than 70, why does the Chinese team have to enter the final circle?
Many people do not know that there are 5 football pilot cities in China: Guangzhou, Qingdao, Wuhan, Dalian, Chengdu, only one of these five cities has not built a national youth training center, guess who?
Yes, you guessed wrong, not Wuhan, not Chengdu, but Guangzhou!
This place that gave birth to a bunch of legendary Chinese stars, the city that almost monopolized the national team, has not yet had a professional football stadium! Of course, a professional football stadium is planned near Guangzhou South Railway Station. Real estate developers can say that the future has come, so we will also have a professional football field in Guangzhou. However, they actually erased the youth training field construction plan around this professional football stadium last year!
Therefore, isn't it normal for the Asian Cup not to look at Guangzhou and not to let Guangzhou become the host city? Just like the Chinese team can't reach the World Cup final, what bike do you want! (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
@ Green Rush: What is the use of doing the Asian Cup level is so low, we have to look at the top level of the Club World Cup! It is better not to do it, and there is no need to work hard and hurt the people.
@Wuhan revival is unstoppable: I think Guangzhou fans still like to watch Liverpool and Bayern duels, and will not go to Cambodia to play Myanmar.
@ Dog Leftovers 35: Evergrande has won great honors for the city of Guangzhou, but even a piece of land for the construction of a stadium can not be approved, really speechless... No wonder Evergrande moved its headquarters to Shenzhen next door.
@ Charcoal 52: Guangdong, as a province that loves football, should reflect on it, put aside some useless industry jurisdiction concepts, honestly develop football, host football competitions in Guangdong region, cultivate talents, explore talents, and consolidate guangdong's football foundation.
@ Thin Water Long Stream: Why does Guangzhou host the Asian Cup? Why reflect? Guangzhou's club world cup is enough, he is much more influential than the Asian Cup, and his income is more impressive.
@ Cat Meow Dog: The Asian Cup requirements must be a professional football field, Guangzhou officials have not stated that they will build a professional football field, and other cities have promised to build a professional football field!
@ Life Passerby: If the results of this Asian Cup are not good, you can't blame Guangzhou, you go to the black pot.
@ the sound of the wind and the footsteps of the water: Guangzhou does not have a professional football stadium at all, does not meet the requirements of the AFC, and it is too normal not to be selected.
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