Soccer team, the best patriotic education
After the match, fans were reluctant to leave the field. more than 40,000 people lit up their cell phone flashes and sang the five-star red flag together. Soldiers from the Chinese men's soccer team also walked around in song and interacted with the fans for a week.
In the stands, there are a few young volunteers with tears in their eyes, said excitedly, the first time to see the national soccer team live, which is also too touching.
Prior to this, there were always people who, when reflecting on why Chinese soccer failed, would focus the reason on China's lack of soccer culture. Even Lippi, the former national soccer coach, said in an interview with an Italian TV station that China's soccer level is not as low as the outside world imagines, and that what China lacks is only a soccer culture.
But the fact is that soccer culture needs to be built up bit by bit, and the national team game is the best stage to showcase it.
Two days before the start of the match, the Football Association held a China Team Charity Family Experience Day for parents and children, inviting 12 young fans to feel the atmosphere of the China-Singapore battle in advance. When visiting the Chinese team's locker room, the children left their big brothers of the national football team full of blessings on the stickers.
Watching the national soccer team train afterwards ignited the children's enthusiasm, and on each one's chest, there was a national flag that made them feel solemn. The young fans have admitted that this experience will make them work harder and serve their country when they grow up.
As the game approached, the atmosphere of fans cheering for their country was at its peak. The Fan Carnival also started three hours before the match on the second floor of the Water Drop Stadium. The match promoter, Ford Bowl, and the Chinese team sponsors prepared various activities and trivia games for the fans.
For the fans set up a live bar together cheering 8 activities not only for the national football team, but also won a small gift, further warming the hot atmosphere before the game. Mengniu also set up a shooting game, so that many fans to relax before the game. Shooting Addiction; Voodoo also set up a national soccer fan store, which was very popular, from cheering shirts to cheering scarves. This also turned the stands into a sea of red during the match.
A series of activities not only brought the national team closer to the fans, but also let many young fans feel the patriotic sentiment and traditional cultural heritage of Chinese soccer.
Indeed, soccer, as a collective and passionate sport, has the unique advantage of bringing people together. Whether it's the intense rivalry on the field or the emotional resonance between fans, people are immersed in it. When fans wave the national flag, sing the national anthem and cheer for the national soccer team, they are not only supporting a soccer team, but also expressing their love and pride for their country.
Chinese soccer is on its way back to the national team.
It is important to realize that a few days before the game, the National Football League even sold many of the tickets that originally belonged to the visiting team's section again due to the hot ticket sales.
It was expected that the fans would be disappointed with the team's performance after the away game in Singapore, but the fans still picked up the plane in Tianjin; cheered for the players downstairs in the hotel; and nearly 300 media reporters attended the... A series of facts proved that the national soccer team got enough respect as its own children.
This game can still attract so many fans to watch the game live on weekdays. In addition to the support of fans from all over the world, the fan culture that Tianjin has precipitated over the years is also indispensable.
On the outskirts of the Stadium Carnival, a historical and cultural wall filled with the deep roots of the Chinese soccer team and Tianjin was erected, focusing on every international match the national team has hosted in Tianjin, as well as information about all the international players in Tianjin.
Today's Jinmen Tigers FC is also the top-ranked team in the Chinese Super League. Before the match, countless Jinmen Tigers fans campaigned for their favorite player, Barton, to play in their own home stadium in Tianjin. Many of the fans who came to the venue also wore old jerseys of Jinmen Tigers and even TEDA to cheer for the national soccer team.
The heat of this game has also made many people a part of the live spectators, and fans who are used to watching the game live will naturally be more active in the national team's games.
Professional stadiums such as Phoenix Hill, Barracuda Bay and Youth Island have become the next hosting venue hotly debated by fans. Behind the fans vying for the right to host the preliminaries, it not only proves the scarcity of high-level intercontinental matches, but also means that there is still more room for improvement in our local game.
Attendance continued to climb in the first two rounds of the new Chinese Super League season, with the second round averaging 23,138, with clubs' home attendance, for the most part, higher than the average for the 2023 season. In addition, with the Chinese Super League on hiatus this week, the market for the China First Division and the AFC Cup remains hot.
In fact, one of the highlights of the game was the two fan clubs cheering one after the other. In the past, the Dragons were the largest and most important fan base for the National Football League, now it's a new fan organization. China Made Noise wore black and red and made their first appearance in the stands at a Nationals game.
We can speculate that the future of the national football team will be cheered on by more than 40,000 people across the country against the backdrop of a continuing ball market boom - that's the kind of feedback the league has fostered from the soccer culture to the national team.
At the competitive level, the hot market has also led to the development of youth soccer training around the world. At the same time, 30 colleges and universities have introduced various policies such as soccer majors, which have also served to aid the development of youth soccer training.
But in the final analysis, the essence of soccer is to make people happy, to make more people feel happy through soccer, and to give more people a chance to fall in love with soccer.
After the game, the writer hears a dad say to his child, When the weather gets warmer, I'll buy you a pair of soccer cleats to play soccer.
When thousands and thousands of children are inspired by the games of the national soccer team, Chinese soccer will surely be better developed. In addition, the patriotic spirit carried by the national team is the most valuable treasure and the best patriotic education.
