October 17, Beijing time:Let hundreds of millions of fans completely disappointed, China's national football team's biggest turning point came, finally went to the most unwanted scene.
Song Kai, the new president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), had just taken office, but the team suffered a bolt from the blue, losing outright to Uzbekistan. Even more embarrassing than the score on the field was the reaction of the fans off the field. After the match, Wei Shihao, the hero of the goal, pleaded with the fans to stop cheering for them. They also won the honor for the country, not asking everyone to support us, but I hope not to fight for them and cheer for the opponents. I hope this will not happen.
It's really bleak and sad to have an international soccer superstar say something like that after a game, but why did Wei Shihao say that at the same time? That's because more and more people are disappointed in the national soccer team and more and more people don't support them. Even now many people are too lazy to scold. When the national football team loses attention and even passers-by don't bother to curse, that's the saddest time, and the Chinese national football team has come to this point.
From June to October, the national soccer team went through six warm-up matches, and the number of spectators kept dropping off a cliff, especially after the turning point. First, in June, the national soccer team played Myanmar and Palestine. At that time, the crowd was huge. There were 27,000 in Myanmar and more than 16,000 in Palestine. On average, there were about 22,000 spectators for the two games, with more than 20,000 loyal fans traveling to support the national soccer team at each game.
In those two games, the national soccer team played 6 :0, crushed Myanmar 4:0 and beat Palestine 2:0. Then we move on to the warm-up match with Malaysia in September, where Malaysia, ranked 136th in the world, was held to a draw, still at home. The national soccer fans suffered a great deal of humiliation, as if they felt they had been cheated. There were 26,000 fans on hand to follow the national soccer team playing Malaysia and they all felt that they were hanging on to the opposite side. They wanted to witness a complete victory, but they didn't expect to be beaten 1:1. This match was the biggest turning point.
The crowd for the national soccer team dropped dramatically after the game, with 26,000 people seeing the national soccer team play in Malaysia. Do you think you want to see the national soccer team lose? Of course not. Do you want to see the national soccer team draw? No. After the disappointment of the fans, they wanted to see them finally pinch a soft one and then play Syria in September. There were only 12,000 spectators there, from 26,000 before to 12,000, and even after the final 0:loss, some people threw bottles to where the national soccer team retired and hit them hard because the fans were disappointed.
From Malaysia, it was a turning point, the number of spectators dropped dramatically, a few days ago in Vietnam, there were only 9,212 fans, it was the first time that the national soccer live and support spectators were even in 5 figures, only thousands of people supported them and then played 2:0. The heat picked up slightly. Next up was the previous game against Uzbekistan with 12,868 fans on hand. Can you see where the turning point was? It was the end of the kicking of Malaysia.
In the first three games, the national soccer team averaged 23,000 spectators. After Malaysia, the crowd totaled about 30,000 for the three games, an average of only 10,000 per game. It was a turning point where you didn't understand the abuse of food and the fans were finally disappointed. If that's still the only fans on hand to cheer on the subsequent national soccer team's home matches in the World Qualifiers, then I fear the match against South Korea will be a close one.
