The Guizhou Rongjiang Village Super Tournament has become the most popular focus of Chinese soccer this summer, and has now attracted the attention of Xinhua News Agency. Recently, Xinhua published an article about the "Village Super" for Chinese soccer, bringing us more authoritative news about the Village Super.
As we all know, the Village Super League is very popular, so how popular is this tournament? According to Xinhua News Agency, the highest attendance of the Village Super League has reached 50,000 people, and the cumulative number of views on the whole platform has exceeded 20 billion times. In comparison, the highest attendance in the Chinese Super League this season was 50,312, so it is clear that the number of people attending the Village Super League is not inferior to the Chinese Super League.
Rongjiang County resident population of only 297,000, the village super seats so high, from the local deep soccer heritage. According to Rongjiang County Records, soccer was introduced to Rongjiang in the 1940's. In the 1980's, there was a local saying that "if you want to get a job, you have to learn to play soccer", and in the 1990's, villagers started the Village Premier Tournament on the grassy area by the river in the county town.
Fans often complain about the lack of fields to play soccer, but take a look at Rongjiang. Without a field, there is no obstacle to the birth of the Village Premier League.
Recently, a group of professional soccer media people and some fans who claim to know soccer keep throwing out the idea that village super Chinese soccer is useless. The Village Super League is amateur. Amateur is useless for Chinese soccer? Rongjiang County has nearly 40 amateur soccer teams and more than 1,200 players, Xinhua said. The article quoted Jia Leishi, the initiator of the Guangxi Football Super League, as saying, "The biggest role (of the Village Super League) is to allow everyone to participate in soccer. As the number of participants increases, the soccer population will increase. Chinese soccer must first be popularized. Thousands of people are completely different from thousands of people."
Some time ago, the National Junior Team was eliminated from the U16 Asian Cup group stage with a bottom result, and then a professional soccer media person wrote an article explaining that the National Junior Team's poor performance was because the coach only had 60 players to choose from. Yes, Chinese soccer has been engaged in elite education since childhood. How can so many families have the money to train their children to play soccer? If Chinese soccer youth training can be surpassed in the village, the national junior team has only 60 players to choose from?
The Xinhua article confirms the "local flavor" of the Village Super League, which includes carpenters, fishmongers, chefs, teachers, takeaways, deli owners, master excavators and construction workers. Team formation, scheduling, promotion rules, performances, awards and other matters are organized, decided and implemented by the villagers themselves. As you can see, soccer can still be played without a soccer association.
Immediately after the fire of the village super, the CFA issued a red-head document stating that it would go to the village super for research. Coincidentally, as soon as the CFA arrived, Guizhou Province and Qiandongnan Prefecture, where Rongjiang County is located, held a conference on education and rectification in the field of soccer. Since then, the Hong Kong Stars soccer team and the Village Super team agreed to play a match, but the formalities were cumbersome. Now that the Hong Kong Stars have arrived in Rongjiang, the match license has not yet been approved. This back and forth has made many people think that the HKFA intends to target the Village Super League. Although the FA has repeatedly denied this, many fans are still highly skeptical of the FA.
Xinhua also pointed out the FA in this article. The article quotes professionals twice saying:Â "The Football Association should make a difference, not missing a position, not overstepping its bounds." "Care should be taken to avoid affecting the enthusiasm of the masses due to too much administrative intervention."
Finally, Xinhua quoted an English fan in the article, which is very reasonable. The English fan, named David, said after watching the Village Premier League, "Watching soccer in England is also an atmosphere. This is what soccer should be like."
Some fans talk about the soccer atmosphere in England with jealousy, but they talk about the Village Premier League with contempt. The Village Premier League is not a flavor of community soccer in England, but a spontaneous, national, people's popularity, which is the prevailing standard of soccer in the world. In recent years, Chinese soccer has become an "aristocratic sport" that only a few elite families can afford. The pyramid has no base, and therein lies the root cause of the deteriorating performance of the national soccer team.
