Beijing time on February 20, the Los Angeles Sparks officially announced the signing of Chinese women's basketball player and main guard Yang Liwei. In addition, Han Xu, a center who has extended his contract with the New York Liberty, and at least two Chinese players will play in the wnba league next season. According to media reports, many Chinese women's basketball players have recently received invitations from wnba teams, and many Chinese players have expressed a desire to play in higher level leagues to accelerate their personal growth and to build up their personal reserves for continuing to play for Chinese women's basketball teams. The Chinese women's basketball team may set off an "overseas wave".
Time back to a week ago, February 14, Chinese soccer set off an anti-corruption storm. Chen Xuyuan, president of the Chinese Football Association, was suspected of serious disciplinary violations, and became another "leader" of the Chinese Football Association who was investigated after Nan Yong and Xie Yalong. Previously, the former national soccer coach Li Tie accepted the supervision and investigation, Chinese soccer has been in the public opinion of the storm swing.
While many Asian teams have proven that they can beat strong teams at the World Cup, and while the Chinese women's three goals were strong at various stages, the men's soccer team continues to challenge the bottom of the losing barrel. Is the Chinese men's soccer team currently at the bottom of the abyss? After this cleanup, will it move upward?
Data graph: Chen Xuyuan
Open the Chinese men's soccer team's gorgeous robe, which is full of lice
Since last November, four senior staff of the CFA have been investigated one after another.
On November 26, 2022, former national soccer coach Li Tie accepted a supervisory investigation; on January 19, 2023, the Executive Committee of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and former Secretary General Liu Yi accepted a supervisory investigation, and Chen Yongliang, Executive Deputy Secretary General of the CFA and Head of the National Management Department, accepted an investigation; and on February 14, 2023, the President of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chen Xuyuan, accepted an investigation.
In this regard, the People's Daily microblog commented that there is no no-go area in the fight against corruption, and that the "iron" can be traced back to the "source", no matter who is associated with it. The green scene can not be tarnished, Chinese soccer can not afford to be tossed. Clean up the discipline, purify the soccer ecology, consolidate the foundation, reshape the image of soccer.
Wait a minute, almost all of the media's first statements were in the hope that the strong winds of soccer's anti-corruption efforts would blow away the haze that has recently enveloped Chinese soccer.
After the large-scale news broadcast, more stories and materials about Chen Xuyuan were uncovered. Some media outlets "recalled" his ambitions at the time, and some media people had no qualms about exposing Chen Xuyuan's "black materials" and even wrote a "campaign" to criticize him, listing the latter's crimes during his tenure. The latter's crimes during his tenure were listed.
At noon on Feb. 15, many media outlets reported that China Happiness had recently received a notice from the Supervisory Committee of Chongyang County, Xianning City, Hubei Province, that Meng Wei, a director and co-president of the company, had been placed on probation for allegedly committing an illegal crime, according to its announcement on Thursday. When China Happiness, Hubei, and the Supervisory Committee come together, it seems to turn to Chinese soccer.
Several media reports said that Meng Zhen's detention may be related to something that happened during Li Tie's tenure as coach of the China Happiness soccer team. Another source said Meng Zhen was taken away long before the Chinese New Year. The fervor over the news that Chen Xuyuan is under investigation has not yet passed. All indications are that the soccer anti-corruption storm triggered by Li Tie is still going on and will continue.
Eileen Chang said that life is a gorgeous robe full of lice. As the first sport, soccer has countless fans in China. If life is not easy, the Chinese men's soccer team has shown what is cruel and painful with their results.
Chinese men's soccer team is determined to lose in the end, soccer is not round
At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Saudi Arabia beat Argentina in the first match; Japan beat Spain and Germany 2-2 in the fourth match; and South Korea won 1, drew 1, and lost 2, beating Portugal and drawing Uruguay. The six Asian teams on the continent have wowed the world with their performances.
China's women's three-ball performance proved the same.
DATA CHART: China's women's soccer team rallies to win ninth Women's Asian Cup title over South Korea
Although the Chinese women's soccer team is no longer a world power, it is historically quite strong. Since 1986, the Chinese women's soccer team has participated in 15 Asian Cups, and won 8 titles in the first 14 Asian Cups, creating a record of "7 consecutive Asian Cups". Entered the World Cup final round 8 times, participated in the Women's World Cup 7 times, won the runner-up 1 time, entered the quarter-finals 1 time. 2022 February 6, China's women's football team in the 2022 Women's Asian Cup final in India to beat South Korea 3-2, after 16 years to win the Asian Cup again.
China's women's basketball team has won many Asian Games, Asian Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games runners-up, and has long been ranked in the top eight in the world and first in Asia. In the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team once again reached the World Cup final after 28 years. Although she ultimately lost to the U.S. women's basketball team, the World Cup runner-up performance tied her best record in a world tournament.
The Chinese women's volleyball team also won the 1981 and 1985 World Cups, the 1982 and 1986 World Championships, and the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, becoming the world's first "five consecutive champions".
"Soccer is round", everything is possible. But in front of the Chinese men's soccer team, soccer seems to be square, blindly hovering between regret and disappointment, determined to lose to the end.
In the past 30 years of professionalization of Chinese soccer, Chinese people were full of hope after one disappointment after another. They used to pin their hopes on foreign coaches and on reforms. However, their achievements were always surprising and dissatisfying, soaring all the way to the abyss.
On October 31, 1997, when the Chinese men's soccer team lost in Jinzhou, Dalian, New Weekly published a series of 12 poignant and sad articles about not playing soccer in China. One of the articles, in the article Why We Are So Tolerant of Chinese Soccer, reads "Chinese soccer puts us under the obligation to face defeat only rationally, never enjoying the right to win" "But fail, fail again, fail forever, Chinese soccer, no matter the time or the place, the coarse salt relentlessly sprinkled on the Chinese fans' almost never scab on the wound."
Now it seems that this series of articles is obviously immature, when faced with just the top ten China 2 strong:3 Qatar, they did not expect after all, China will not only lose Qatar, but also Thailand, Vietnam, many countries...
Can the Chinese men's soccer team be healthy after major surgery?
Criticizing the Chinese men's soccer team is the thing with the least technical content. Fans can criticize, the responsibility of love; actors can criticize, it's a more interesting story than entertainment; retired players can criticize, there is no worst only worse, at that time it was worse, easy to not have pressure.
Chen Xuyuan was the first president of the CFA to come from a non-sports administration, having held a leading position in a large state-owned enterprise. During his tenure as president of the CFA, Chen Xuyuan proposed the establishment of a professional league and issued a "wage restriction order". Fans used to think that "foreign monks reading scriptures" seemed to see a bright future for the reform and transformation of Chinese soccer.
However, during Chen Xuyuan's tenure as president of the Football Association, Chinese soccer exposed deep chronic diseases. The discipline of the professional league repeatedly raised questions from fans. From golden dollar bosses to chicken feathers, the performance of the Chinese men's soccer team plummeted. In the end, the Chinese men's soccer team lost to Vietnam and was eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers. The "naturalization project", in which huge sums of money were invested, then surfaced, causing fans across the country to be in an uproar.
Data Chart: Chinese Men's Football Team
In 2009, Chinese soccer triggered an anti-gambling storm, including the full-time vice president of the Chinese Football Association, Nan Yong, which ushered in more than a decade of golden development, and the men's national soccer team was re-entered into the World Preliminary Asian 12, defeating South Korea, and Qatar in the highlights. Now, with the investigation of some senior personnel of the Chinese Football Association, Chinese soccer has once again hit rock bottom, but also stands at a new starting point.
Leaves a lot of time for Chinese soccer because people expect very little from him and as long as they stop exposing scandals they can make a little progress. I hope this cleaning will lead to a healthy development of Chinese soccer.
(Popular Net, poster news editor Liu Xuan synthesized People's Daily microblogging, China News Network, Qilu one point, poster news, etc.)
