In 2005, the Netherlands World Youth Championship, the Chinese team came out of the world, emerged a group of so-called "super platinum generation" players, this group of players with their performance, conquered everyone.
In the group stage, China's opponents were Turkey, second place in the European Youth Championships, and Ukraine, third place, with Panama slightly worse.
Before the tournament started, China was an underrated team. Most people thought the probability of China advancing was low. After all, the opponents were too strong. The strength of the runners-up and third-place finishers in the European Youth Championships is no joke.
However, when we faced Turkey in the first match, we thought the game was not one-sided beforehand. On the contrary, China scored first and Turkey didn't equalize until the 84th minute.
However, in injury time, the Chinese team staged the "White Three Minutes" by scoring a beautiful world goal to win the game.
If the first match was a lucky win for China, then the second match against Ukraine, the UEFA Youth League champions, was a win by absolute strength.
When the teams were tied at 2:2, China was penalized for one player. However, at 10-11, China completed the comeback in the last 20 minutes to win the game.
Winning all the first two games of the group stage and getting out of the group ahead of schedule, dare I ask you, when have you ever seen China perform like this?
A draw and you're out can be dry and a smooth loss is normal.
Even with an early exit, the Chinese team in this World Youth Championship still did not relax, beating Panama 4-1 in their final match.
In the knockout rounds, although China lost to Germany 2-3, the Chinese team showed a high level of athleticism by playing a thrilling and amazing match without any stage fright.
After the game, Chen Tao was selected as the best player of that year's tournament, known as the best player of that year's tournament "Zinedine Zidane, China" Feng Xiaoting and Lionel Messi were selected together with the "Ten Rising Stars of the World Youth Championships" At the age of 19, Dong Fangzhuo joined Manchester United at a level that was c Luo Rooney's The same level as C Lo Rooney.
Meanwhile, the Chinese National Youth Team at that time also had a group of talented, gifted and passionate players such as Zhao Xu Ri, Zhou Haibin, Zhu Ting, Gao Lin and Hao Junmin.
But then China was the same Chinese team that was used to losing.
For various reasons, Chen Tao has become a modern version of "Hurt Locker".
Compared to Messi, Feng Xiaoting is getting better and better at soccer and by the end of the day, he's soft everywhere except his mouth.
And Dong Fangzhuo, who once had high hopes from Manchester United, has long been recuperating with a pot belly, while Crowe had a record-breaking World Cup in Qatar.
It has been proved that China is not a person without talent, but a soil without the realization of talent, no matter how good the talent is, it will be in this magical land one after another into the "wounded Zhongyong".
The Chinese soccer world has been accused by its fans of corruption and match-fixing.
However, no one can come up with definitive proof. It's hard to tell with the naked eye if a player is playing poorly on the field or getting paid to deliberately set up a performance.
In 2009, Wang Xin, who was the captain of Liaoning Guangyuan, the general manager of the club and the deputy general manager of Shanxi Lu Hu Football Club, was issued a red notice by Singapore for allegedly fixing a soccer match in Singapore.
According to the Red Notice issued by Interpol's Singapore National Central Bureau and related requirements, China conducted a careful investigation into Wang Xin and accidentally found evidence of his manipulation of Chinese soccer.
For this reason, China has also set up a special investigation team to dig deeper, and many big fish have been unearthed over time.
In 2012, 11 key FA executives, including Xie Yalong, vice president of the CFA, were sentenced to prison, four members of the national team were sentenced to prison, and a large number of domestic soccer clubs were brought to justice.
Imagine playing soccer in such an environment, not to mention Chen Tao and Dong Fangzhuo, even if C Luo and Messi come, they will inevitably disappear in the end.
The punishment could be said to have almost reshuffled and pushed back the entire FA.
But yeah, a big tree with rotten roots is useless even if you prune the branches and leaves.
The Chinese men's soccer team is still down and out, not picking up steam and starting to get to the point where any team can lose.
The national soccer team used to be one of the top teams in the world, and by now, what with Vietnam and Thailand trying to lose.
There's no pressure to eat a few sea cucumbers at the most to replenish after a loss.
On November 26, 2022, a short official message was released: Li Tie, the former head coach of China's men's national soccer team, is suspected of serious violations of the law and is under investigation.
Officials have yet to notify Li Tie of the crime he committed.
However, as you can tell from all the crap that has been going on in Chinese soccer for so many years, the odds are that it's corruption and bribery.
Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long for it to be revealed that Li Tie had been found to have deposits of more than 100 million dollars in a bank in Shenyang alone.
One bank has over 100 million in deposits, so what about the others, and the fixed assets, and Li Tie's pile of at least a few million hands.
It's hard to imagine that a national team coach, in fact, so able to collect money, less than two years of national team coach, can make hundreds of millions of ah!
It's not too much to ask that Li Tie be sentenced to more than 10 years for committing such a crime, is it?
Perhaps Li Tie can also be a cellmate with Wu Zha, one performs kicking a soccer ball and the other sings a big bowl of broad noodles, making prison life instantly full of laughter and fun.
Maybe Li Tie is still just the tip of the iceberg of corruption in Chinese soccer, can arresting a Li Tie change the fate of Chinese soccer?
It's not hard, it's impossible.
The FA didn't fix the problem in 2012, and 2022 is just a 10-year turnaround.
Perhaps over the next decade, losing to Vietnam and losing to Thailand will become the norm, and even being at the bottom of Asia is possible.
Who's going to sweat and work hard and play soccer seriously when there's a lot of money to be made from swinging casually around the field and performing once?
Save some energy for the food and drink and girls. Doesn't he smell good?
After accumulating, it is invigorated with fierceness.
When Chinese soccer is really willing to give itself a strong dose of medicine and fundamentally change the status quo of Chinese soccer, maybe we can see the Chinese team in the future World Cup.
