At the end of the group stage of this European Championship, in the f group known as the "group of death", two World Cup champions and one Defending Champions of the European Championship - Germany, France and Portugal were finally able to qualify, but the performance in the group was more eye-catching and won the respect of the world, the first to be eliminated was the Hungarian team!
Hungary fought tenaciously until 83 minutes after the first match of the group against Portugal, and then due to lack of fitness, the defending champions scored 3 goals in 8 minutes.
The second game of the French team, it can be said that its mental willpower is so strong that it is very embarrassing to force the defending champions of the World Cup, and the 1-1 score also makes the French team, which scored 4 points in the two games, even before the end of the last game, there is still a possibility of being eliminated.
At the end of the war, against a German team that was highly likely to be eliminated if they did not win, the Hungarians played an unprecedented spiritual dimension - two times ahead, until 80 minutes later, when they saw that the German chariot was about to be overturned, the Germans pulled a 2-2 draw, and finally crossed the danger in a cold sweat.
After the three battles, the Hungarian team, which made the three champions so anxious, began to be refined into the "Hungarian spirit" by people!
In this regard, in the live broadcast on June 24, football commentators Dong Lu and Li Xin and former player Xu Liang also discussed this "Hungarian spirit":
Dong Lu: "At the European Championships, the Hungarian team gave the Chinese (football) team inspiration..."
Li Xin: "Because of the 'Miracle of Pornic' in 1954, Hungarian football was leading the world at that time, and its strength was also very strong, and that year's World Cup group stage scored 8 goals for West Germany..."
"If you want to talk about the role of reference, I especially want us (Chinese football) to learn from it!" But one of the most important things that Hungarian football has now, we don't have – spirit! Really (not possessed)".
Dong Lu: "You see the No. 9 captain in the second Hungarian game (against the French team), running and running, he fainted, and he was already going to die for the motherland!" ”
Li Xin: "Then replace him, the next game against Germany started again; then, you look at the Schaefer kid, the goal scored, it was risking his life in the header, the little brother will come out facing the one-meter-nine-meter gate, and he is stunned to shrink his neck and top!" ”
"Chinese players? I reckon that in my lifetime, I may not see such a desperate person - it is the whole so unified in action, so determined! Do you know what you can beat the Germans into? Turn the Germans upside down! The Germans entered one, and within two minutes, the Hungarians could enter another one, and the willpower was so strong that the Germans trembled! ”
"You think about it, this thing, I think we just have to change two or three stubble players, there is a possibility of such willpower, our current players..."
Dong Lu: "Professional players playing for money is not shameful, but they must reflect the spirit of matching money."
Xu Liang: "Money and spirit are not in conflict, when players didn't have money in the past, they had to fight, and this generation (players) were educated from childhood to adulthood, which affected the strength of the game... But there is nothing wrong with money, but on the basis of no problem, you must also have other psychological things, not just for money! ”
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Indeed, the discussion of the "Hungarian spirit" of these three big names in the football circle should be said to have poked an idea on the current Chinese football, especially the national football team, or really stuck to the sore spot - this former player Xu Liang personally admitted that this lack of spirit can also be well proved!
First, Chinese football actually did not lack a similar "Hungarian spirit", Chinese football in the 1980s, 1990s and before, it is precisely because of its strong spiritual willpower, so Chinese football in Asia, can still be called first-class!
For example, in Chinese football in the early 1980s, there was a "zhixing style, zhixing spirit" - the national football team represented by Rong Zhixing, its tenacious struggle and dedication to the country, which is an important reason why Chinese football can make the Asian strong team tremble for it.
Like in the 1982 World Cup play-offs, as the captain of the Team, Rong Zhixing led the national football team, once won 4:2 to North Korea, he had three assists in four goals; when he defeated Kuwait 3:0, Rong Zhixing was injured, and still dragged a calf that had just been stitched more than a dozen stitches and was densely wrapped in gauze, and opened the record.
When Rong Zhixing came off the court, all the audience stood up and applauded him, and the fans shouted "The motherland thanks you, the people thank you" - after the game, people in many cities across the country began to spontaneously march in teams, cheering the slogan of "revitalizing China", at that time, Chinese football was not only not a "national spittoon", but like the "spirit of the women's volleyball team", it became an important spiritual model to inspire the Chinese people!
In fact, at that time, just opened, only to open the door, Chinese football is not only in the level, ability and cultural thickness, and not to mention what professional football elements, but all aspects are far from the world football level, but it is Chinese football has this "spirit of aspiration", so that Chinese football is still at the top of Asia!
Second, why with the advent of the market and commercial era, Chinese football, like some Chinese in society, has begun to lose some of the most precious things, such as the spirit! In fact, Xu Liang is right about a key point: there are some problems in our education!
In school education, family education, especially in the invisible education and edification of real society, businessism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, material interests prevail, and greatly cover up the spiritual dimension, China's professional football has also become one of the typical occupied areas!
Like before this year's Football Association's salary restriction order, in the past, the annual salary of a national footballer was as high as 12 million yuan, and there were many prize money for many names; more national footballers transferred, there were as many as tens of millions of "signature fees" - it is conceivable that in the past ten years, similar national football players, some have become multi-millionaires in one year, and after their careers, the Chinese Super League has created many billionaire local players!
There is nothing to blame for making more and more money – this is market behavior after all, even if this market is not completely normal, but it is legal for Chinese players.
However, as Dong Lu said, "make more money and match the performance on the court", but our national football team in the results, but "Wang Er Xiao New Year - a year is not as good as a year", and its performance on the field, away from the "Rong Zhixing spirit" of that year, is also getting farther and farther away!
Like the national football team Wei Shihao in the program, he openly said bluntly: The reason why he came back from abroad is because he can easily make a lot of money playing in the Chinese Super League!
If it were not for Wu Lei staying in the West at the end of his career, none of the Chinese players would have played in Europe's five major leagues in the past decade: do these players not want to go out? No! It's because playing at home, without much competition and pressure, you can earn a lot more than in Europe's five major leagues!
You can easily earn more without having to work as hard as others in world football – this abnormal football market and the reality of values is an important reason why Chinese players are slowly losing their mental strength.
For example, when Lippi was in Evergrande, he could play a beautiful result, but when he got to the national team, the roots of the whole team were still Evergrande's team, but as Li Tie said recently: In the past, some players were summoned to the national team for training, but they took something and had an injury and pushed back the phenomenon - to put it bluntly, it is afraid that the national team will be injured and affect the appearance in the club, and it will take a lot less money!
Therefore, the loss of mental strength in the hearts of such players is inevitable - this is why Lippi was angry about the performance of some players at that time, and never called them into the national team again, and it is also the reason why he saw that the national football team was forced to draw 0-0 by the Philippines, angrily said that he was "unwilling to earn hundreds of millions of annual salaries" and took the initiative to leave the Chinese team coaching position!
Third, as for Li Xin's pessimistic remark that "in my lifetime, I can't see that the national football team can also play out the overall willpower like the 'Hungarian spirit'", in fact, we still see a little hope now.
That is, in the recent top 40 competitions, the national football team led by Li Tie showed changes: the biggest change of "Li Jiajun" is that the tenacious fighting spirit of "unity is iron" is returning!
It is still this group of players, but compared with the Lippi era, the real biggest difference in the national football team under Li Tiezhi's army is that he is more familiar with the players and the whole team is more united; second, the fighting spirit and tenacious willpower shown by the players on the court are much stronger than before! Faintly, we saw a shadow of the "spirit of zhixing" of the national football team at that time!
Perhaps, this shows that Chinese football is still saved! Even if we know that in terms of football foundation, youth training, education, and league level, the gap cannot be filled in a day, but if this kind of "spirit of aspiration" of Chinese football, which is similar to the "Hungarian spirit", can truly return, I believe that Chinese football will not always be like this in the past 20 years, and I believe that Chinese football will not lose its spiritual foundation and due respect regardless of whether it wins or loses! 【Original Review: Yu said that hugh】