Since the former national football head coach Li Tie was investigated at the end of November last year, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) has set off a storm of rectification. In the past three months, from Li Tie to Liu Yi to Chen Yongliang to Chen Xuyuan, the Association has four important figures suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, is under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the State General Administration of Sports and Hubei Provincial Supervision Committee. Public opinion on the CFA staged "violent anti-corruption" have different opinions. Some public opinion that, after this scraping, the rise of the national football team is just around the corner; there is also public opinion that this rectification and more than ten years ago, there is no difference between the action, the national football team is very difficult to return.
Problems facing Chinese soccer
China's men's soccer team lost two consecutive goals in just eight minutes in the Asian Zone 12 group stage of the 2022 Qatar World Qualifiers. :3 loss to Vietnam, missing the Qatar World Cup altogether. The media and netizens criticized Chinese soccer for corruption in a bizarre outrage, leading to frequent tragedies and a step down in the national football team.
Chinese soccer is riddled with corruption. As early as 2009, the judiciary launched a legal action to crack down on match-fixing, gambling and other crimes by illegal means, and former FA executives such as Xie Yalong, Nan Yong and Yang Yimin have fallen from grace.CCTV host Bai Yansong once joked, "Chinese soccer was originally said to start with the dolls, but now it's from the chairman of the Football Association. The others are busy playing soccer and we are busy with the trials." The choice of shady, match-fixing, commercial disputes, all kinds of corruption makes Chinese soccer "sick". Chen Xuyuan after the fall, the central broadcasting network said in an article: "anti-corruption in the end, never mercy, is to scrape the bones of the will to break the wrist, clearing the muddy water of the football world of the original meaning. However, some public opinion is still deeply worried, commented: "Every scrape the bones, which one treatment over the poison?" "What is the difference between catching Xie Yalong more than ten years ago and today?" "Will there be more pests in the future? Chinese soccer really can no longer afford to be tossed around. In a sense, the Chen Xuyuan incident shows that Chinese soccer has not yet gotten rid of these "diseases". The review of the CFA chairman is not the end of the soccer anti-corruption, need more efforts and in-depth "treatment" means.
Institutional mechanisms need to promote "Chen" innovation. Economic Observation Network commented on the root cause of corruption in Chinese soccer, corruption continues. In addition to individual factors, the poor institutional mechanism is a more important reason. Market-oriented, socialized, professional soccer, can not tolerate administrative constraints. In soccer, the fusion of politics, society, politics, business, official and business inevitably leads to corruption factors. Based on this, the 2015 CFA restructuring and reform plan was released, representing the beginning of the "de-administration" of Chinese soccer. Three years ago, Chen Xuyuan, as the first full-time president of the CFA in the history of Chinese soccer, was a complete symbol of the de-administration of the CFA.
Lack of professional team. First, the lack of team talent. As early as 2010, Xie Yalong's resignation letter pointed out that "the competition of competitive sports, the key is the competition of talent. China's soccer has been in a hurry for a long time, ignoring a lot of basic work, especially the cultivation of young people." Second, the lack of professional coaches. According to the Times sports reports, the CFA in the national team development to increase the use of local coaches, but during this period, whether it has been reviewed Li Tie, or not determine the position of Li Xiaopeng, have exposed their own ability problems. Third, the lack of management talent. Chinese soccer that needs to develop as soon as possible needs to be adjusted as soon as possible.
Public opinion on the fight against corruption in soccer
The Chinese news network said it had three hopes for Chinese soccer:
I hope that scraping the bones to cure the poison. I hope that this soccer anti-corruption and rectification sword can be a sword to the bone, and then scrape the bones to cure the poison, completely eliminate the malpractice, clean up the soil of soccer corruption, and disinfect the polluted soccer soil. Netizen @nedved_1972 wrote that decent national soccer fans want a normal league environment with little to no results, not a bunch of hot money rushing in. They even won the AFC Championship this year. Two years later they were out of the game and in. The buzz is hilarious. Is this just soccer? After this soccer anti-corruption, netizens have said, may the green field be cleaner, so that Chinese soccer can grow gradually.
Secondly, I hope to push forward the "old" new. Chen Xuyuan's "wet shoes", the FA chairman of the "fall" is enough to sound the alarm for Chinese soccer. As Xie Yalong wrote in the book of 10,000 words: "Chinese soccer has a long history of quick success, always want to speak with the results, always contribute to a battle, was led by the nose by public opinion." I hope that Chinese soccer can learn a lesson, to rot muscle, the formation of scientific and standardized management system and operation mechanism, so that the FA chairman position is no longer "sitting on pins and needles", so that soccer practitioners are no longer taunted by public opinion and "such as the back", so that the people who love soccer No longer talk about the national football team.
Third, I hope it doesn't come to Thailand. Hopefully, after this cleaning and sanitizing, the hotspot of Chinese soccer can shift from off-field back to on-field, from negative to positive, and become an opportunity for Chinese soccer to bottom out and rebound, not just a footnote in the midst of a sinking ship.
Hopefully, this soccer anti-corruption is the darkness before the dawn of the rise of men's soccer.
