A few days ago, all major online platforms were posting about this hot topic, "Can the Village Super promote the development of Chinese soccer?"
The answer is: yes! Great!
Years later, when the Village Super League has become a part of the lifestyle of ordinary people everywhere, a part of the daily entertainment of ordinary people, such a hot topic no longer exists, such as "whether the Village Super League can promote the development of China's soccer".
The time when this kind of topic no longer exists is when Chinese soccer just has the most basic and fundamental mass base.
Nowadays, the fact that so many people are pursuing the Village Super League (VSL) and even advocating that the VSL should replace the Chinese Super League (CSL), or even saying that the VSL is playing better than the national team, just proves that we lack a soccer culture.
In other words, since most people don't play soccer at all, there is so much strange talk surrounding the village super.
Anyone who plays soccer once a week will never ask, "Can the Village Super League promote the development of Chinese soccer?" Not to mention the fact that the level of the Village Super League is higher than that of the professional league. Our friends who play soccer once a week will only envy the atmosphere of the Village Super League and silently wish that it will continue. At the same time, they will have a little hope. If there are N Village Super League, isn't it better to play soccer and Chinese soccer is better?
Anyone who plays soccer knows that it's useful to have a "practiced" player on your team, not to mention that your team is retired from the B Grade, even if you've played in a regular game on a college team! Of course, if the opposing team has a "practiced" player, then it's not a good idea to play. If they have three "practiced" players, it's basically a no-go.
The Village Super is a self-indulgence for the countryside villagers. What was originally a lot of fun is not so fun when it's blown up into an internet sensation.
What's most infuriating is not the Village Super itself, but the touting of a bunch of pseudo-fans online. Saying that the Village Super can win the Chinese Super League is better than letting the Village Super not play. All these comments reflect the ignorance of these pseudo-fans.
If many online platforms can raise the so-called hot topics, such as "can the village super promote the development of Chinese soccer?" then the lack of Chinese soccer culture would be even more evident. Too poor to hurry!
The Village Premier is, in fact, the foundation of soccer, community soccer in its rawest form.
Isn't soccer in Yung Kiang County, and soccer in Notts County, England, really the same?
People love to watch their neighbors battle it out on the field. They are familiar with the technical characteristics of their relatives' children and the stadium temperament of their village uncle. This emotional bond is the foundation of soccer's foundation.
Such leagues, such teams, abound in many cities, many towns, many communities in China.
However, aside from their own replacements and individual family members, it's often hard for them to get any audience or talk about internet buzz.
They play every week, not necessarily at a high level of competition, but each participant strives for the joy that soccer brings and forgets for a while about the worries of life.
These kind of players, are getting older, most of them are in their 40s and 50s.
Next to where they play soccer are often youth camps for young kids, mostly 5-6 year olds, who are the future of Chinese soccer.
But in contrast to these soccer players, the majority of people in real life do not play soccer.
There are soccer fans among them, but in order to make a living, they have to be busy with their work, just like the takeaway boys at the Dalian Amateur Stadium.
However, 99% of people who don't play soccer don't make it one of their lifestyles. They have many forms of entertainment, such as mahjong, games, idolization, and most traditionally, TV series.
I have an extreme view that anyone who only watches football and doesn't play is not a fan, or at best a fan of a certain star.
Wondering if these kids who usually play next to the field will still be playing soccer in 10+ years?
Twenty years from now, when people are discussing whether a soccer team in Yung Kong County will move up from the eighth league to the seventh, or whether a team in your community will register to play at the eighth level, we can say that Chinese soccer has a foundation.
Twenty years later, when parents were cheering for their daughters and sons in the stands on weekends, it was just an elementary school class league, and we could say that Chinese soccer had a foundation.
Twenty years later, when 60,000 spectators attended the final of the Chinese High School League and tens of millions of people followed the live broadcast of the game, we can say that Chinese soccer has a foundation.
We are not yet afraid to talk about the development of Chinese soccer without these foundations.
If the Village Super, now an internet sensation, can contribute to the development of the base of China's soccer pyramid, it would indeed have historical significance.
But frankly, the Village Premier can't change the way most people live. Soccer, still, is not part of most people's lifestyle.
If you really love soccer and the Village Premier League, then stop speculating on the subject, not to mention letting the FA and other bodies investigate and instruct.
Don't give her instructions, let her develop freely.
If you really love Murakucho, let her remain as she should be and admire her from afar, that's enough.
