Over the past decade, Chinese soccer has invested billions of dollars in soccer academies and attracted talented coaches from around the world for youth training, but without good results.In 2016, the CFA began revitalizing its local leagues, chanting slogans about the world's sixth largest league and bringing in retired players at high salaries, including Paulinho, Hulk, Carrasco, Teixeira and Hamsik.
Look at the signing investments made by Chinese clubs back in the day, who at one point stood shoulder to shoulder with the signing investments made by the Big 5 giants. These sky-high figures were supported by a debt bubble that eventually burst. Some teams couldn't even afford to pay their players' salaries and headed for bankruptcy and dissolution, and young players didn't make it out, becoming frogs at the bottom of the well in the Chinese Super League's gold-dollar bubble.
In contrast, Japanese and Korean soccer, their overseas players are exploding. Currently, Japan has 451 overseas players and South Korea has 330. They have gained experience on the big stage of European soccer and finally exploded in the World Cup, earning respect from all over the world. Asian giant China is once again sitting in front of the TV watching the World Cup.
[Lagging behind is not scary, the key is not seeing hope]
This wave of spitting in the Western media has left Chinese fans speechless and outspoken! In fact, lagging behind is not terrible, the key is to see no hope, because today's Chinese soccer, under the leadership of Chen Xuyuan, there is really only a chicken feather left.In 2009, we began the anti-gambling and anti-black action. As a result, 13 years later, Chinese soccer is still anti-gambling and anti-hacking.
Golden dollar soccer has corrupted the Chinese men's soccer team. Now, Chinese soccer practitioners are basically thinking about making money (a few are not). Even Li Tie, former coach of the national soccer team, is suspected of serious violations. Former national soccer team goalkeeper Zhang Lu was also arrested. They are both suspected of playing fake soccer, while Li Tie's personal bank account has hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits. These people know the law and have corrupted Chinese soccer.
Li Tie and Zhang Lu are just a representative. There are more people making money behind them. When Chinese soccer equals making money, where is the hope for Chinese soccer? In the past 10 years, the failure of Jinyuan soccer to invest huge sums of money is not scary. What is scary is that the whole Chinese soccer environment has changed and the original purpose of soccer has disappeared. Everyone just wants to make money. This is the most terrible point. Currently, these players retire into youth training and then only make money.
This time, anti-gambling and anti-mafia action 2.0 has begun. Will this save Chinese soccer? No one has the answer! Because we went down such a road in 2009, we have been expecting Chinese soccer to become strong. Currently, Chinese soccer is useless. We hope this is not a similar cycle, but a new start for Chinese soccer.
