China hopes to basically realize the goal of becoming a sports powerhouse by 2035 and to fully build a modern socialist sports powerhouse by 2050. Soccer is recognized as one of the most popular sports in the world and occupies an extremely important position in the international sports arena.
Obviously, the development of Chinese soccer is an important part of China's goal to become a sports powerhouse, and the stronger China's table tennis becomes, the less we can forget about Chinese soccer! While China's achievements in other sports such as table tennis are notable, soccer, as the best sport in the world, has an undeniable impact on China's image as a sports powerhouse. Only if Chinese soccer can make a real breakthrough in international soccer can the overall strength and international status of Chinese sports be more fully realized!
According to FIFA's statistics, in the 2022 Qatar World Cup, more than 5 billion people around the world attended the World Cup, of which 1.5 billion people watched just one World Cup final, and the number of spectators in this World Cup was also a rare 3.4 million, showing the superb charm of the World Cup. And the market value of the soccer industry is huge, and the global market is valued at more than $50 billion, of which Deloitte's 2023 Football Financial Report shows that the revenue of the five major European leagues alone reached 17.2 billion euros.
According to Socialiall, a more intuitive comparison is this: among the 10 most followed people on Instagram on the global social media platforms as of March 13, 2024, Blade's data shows that Crowe is number one with 630 million followers, Lionel Messi is number two with 500 million followers, and the Kardashian family is followed by two soccer superstars from other fields. Soccer is the number one sport in Brazil, Argentina, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Portugal, Uruguay, Japan, South Korea and other countries, and is even the "national sport" of many countries.
Top 10 Instagram Individual Followers in March 2024
Originally, China's soccer has the greatest potential to become China's number one sport, but China's soccer has not shown the attraction and fighting power it deserves, and now, table tennis is the real "top stream" of China's sports world!
How to regain the trust of Chinese soccer?
Obviously, the tragic state of Chinese soccer was not created in a day. Table tennis and soccer are very different, but ultimately, the reason behind it is trust. So how can you become more trustworthy?
Franklin Covey once talked about a formula for how to gain trust that included four core elements: sincerity, motivation, competence and achievement. Chinese soccer and Chinese table tennis have completely different approaches to these four core areas, with different results.
First of all, the most sincere way for a sport is to give it all you've got and not to fake it. However, Chinese soccer has just committed a taboo. In the past 23 years, there have been three anti-corruption incidents in Chinese soccer. 2001, the "A B five rats" incident, Gong Jianping was sentenced to 10 years for bribery and match-fixing, and died while serving his sentence in prison, becoming the first "black whistle" to be sentenced to prison. 2009, the first large-scale anti-gambling and anti-blackness storm broke out in Chinese soccer, including the former deputy chairman of the Football Association (FA), who was also a member of the Chinese Football Association (CFA). In 2009, the first large-scale anti-gambling and anti-blackness campaign broke out in Chinese soccer, including the former vice-chairman of the Football Association, Nan Yong, and Yang Yimin, who were both jailed. Golden Whistle Lu Jun and a large number of famous international players were caught up in the match-fixing scandal, which led to the first collapse of the Chinese against the Chinese.
The second element is motivation. As a Chinese sport, the highest motivation is undoubtedly to win glory for the country. However, time and again, Chinese soccer practitioners have encountered undue competition and corruption. The corruption of money has made outsiders suspicious of the motives behind some soccer practitioners.
Thirdly, you should prove that you are good enough in your field. As a result, Chinese soccer players have been surprised once again, with many videos of missed stops and lack of fundamentals going viral, and some matches showing unforgiving comparisons of skill levels that have disappointed Chinese fans time and time again.
Finally, you should prove that you are trustworthy with your achievements, accomplishments and accomplishments. This is the biggest gap between Chinese soccer and Chinese table tennis. So far, Chinese men's soccer has only made it to the World Cup once, 22 years ago. They have only participated in the second Olympics in 1988 and 2008, 16 years ago. On the other hand, the table tennis team has won the championship time and again in various competitions, earning honor and trust for the country.
The Chinese men's soccer team, which entered the Asian top eight, can storm the hot seat.
In fact, "China's men's soccer team advanced to the top eight" ranked second on the 2023 Weibo sports topic hot search list, even surpassing the popularity of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, who won the mixed doubles title at the Hangzhou Asian Games at the time, which is enough to prove that Chinese people are still full of great expectations for Chinese soccer.
Sports Hot Buzz 2023 Rankings
Although the Chinese men's soccer team was only a youth-oriented Asian Games at that time, not a real men's national team, and although it only entered the second round of the knockout round of the Hangzhou Asian Games at that time, and there was still a big gap from the Asian Championship, it was enough to make the Chinese people feel surprised and proud!
If Chinese soccer is to regain the trust of the Chinese people and reassert its position as the world's number one sport, it must manage the four cores of trust in any situation and prove itself with results.
Imagine if the Chinese men's soccer team can score a goal in the World Cup, win a goal in the Olympics, and win the Asian Cup, I believe these small breakthroughs are enough to make the Chinese people feel happy and inspired! Only when Chinese soccer is the No. 1 sport in the world can China realize a real sports power.
The famous wooden barrel theory tells us that the capacity of water is determined by the shortest plank, table tennis has stood on top of the world, we need to see the shortcomings of Chinese soccer is still "leaking"!
