Super League relaunch is difficult, officials reveal industry woes!

In the face of vast contexts and social realities, the resurgence of professional leagues has become incredibly tricky. Despite the efforts of the Preparatory Group and the National Team of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and the fact that a city like Beijing is under the shadow of an epidemic, with many of the staff members of the Preparatory Group and the National Team sequestered in their homes and unable to work normally, they remain in close contact with the clubs, the competition areas and so on through online means to deal with various matters. However, many decisions are not entirely up to the preparatory team or the national team. In fact, there is a deeper issue involved in this process, namely the management jurisdiction and authority. In the past, when outsiders discussed the reasons why the development of Chinese soccer was hindered, they often used the term "one team, two brands" to describe the problems in the management system of Chinese soccer. The introduction of the overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese soccer, a clear requirement "in accordance with the separation of government and society, clear powers and responsibilities, the principle of autonomy in accordance with the law to adjust the formation of the Chinese Football Association, to change the Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sport Football Sports Management Center of the two brands, a set of people's organizational structure," clear Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sport decoupled, and, the Chinese Football Association does not have an executive branch. Moreover, the Chinese Football Association does not have an administrative level. This seems to clarify the position and function of the CFA as a legal person. However, the ensuing problem is that the CFA, as a legal person, has encountered brand new challenges in the actual social development of China. Take the centralized tournament system that the Chinese Super League had to adopt after the epidemic as an example. In determining the tournament areas, the preparatory group or the national team was always at a disadvantage when negotiating with the localities. Since the preparatory group or the national team is only an association organization, while the local area is dominated by government departments, the local government departments will only pay more attention or achieve reciprocity if the administrative sports authorities intervene, which is determined by the whole social and administrative management system in China. During the epidemic, the principle of "whoever organizes, whoever is responsible, whoever approves, whoever is responsible" was adopted for large-scale activities such as soccer matches. As the preparatory group or the national team, of course, can say "I hosted my responsibility", but the problem is that the preparatory group or the national team does not have "territorial management rights", that is to say, the specific tournament area, the tournament site is not under the management of the preparatory group or the national team, which there is a There is a "management gap". Therefore, we can easily understand why the preparatory group and the national team contacted so many cities in the hope that they could host the Chinese Super League, the Chinese A League or the Chinese B League, but not many cities finally agreed to host the event. Against the backdrop of the current anti-epidemic campaign, it is only natural that many cities would not take over the hosting of the league, after all, soccer is not a top priority in the construction and development of an entire city. This is the reality of the survival of Chinese soccer. In the eyes of the uninformed outside world, simply attribute the problems of Chinese soccer or the preparatory group to incompetence, inefficiency, incompetent leadership, and blame all the problems on the preparatory group may be a bit biased. After all, the preparatory group basically can not exercise government or administrative functions, is only a "community organization". Therefore, if Chinese soccer really wants to realize a breakthrough and change, how to deal with this fundamental problem in the reform is imminent. **2. Difficulty in determining the tournament area affects the start of the tournament **. The reason why it is difficult to restart the Chinese Super League, a very practical situation is that so far the district has not been finalized. At that time, Chinese soccer was at a low ebb, and the consensus of both the preparatory team and the national team was that they wanted the 2022 professional league to be complete and did their best to ensure that it would be played on a home-and-away basis. But the recurrence of the epidemic forced the idea of a home-and-away system to be changed back to a centralized tournament system. With the change to the centralized tournament system, the preparatory team and the national team had to search for new zones, i.e., the 18 teams participating in this year's Chinese Super League were expected to be divided into three groups according to the previous year's results in a serpentine fashion, as was done in last year's Chinese League, and then the 18 teams were arranged to play the full 34 rounds of matches as far as possible. In that case, at least three divisions would be needed. Therefore, the preparatory group and the Football Association to join hands with the inspection team has examined the Meizhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming and other cities, but many cities have withdrawn, to the legendary finalized Meizhou, Dalian, two tournaments as well as to be determined in Shandong Rizhao tournament, etc., which involves this article said earlier to the issue of territorial management. The finalization of the tournament area is not just the city location area of the municipal government departments to approve the consent can be, but need to a higher level of government departments for approval, to fulfill a series of procedures. Only after the approval is granted by the higher level of government will the relevant public security and epidemic prevention departments give their full support to the event. Only then can a city that is willing to host the event give formal feedback to the preparatory team or the national team as to whether or not it will host the event. The process is quite cumbersome, just as Wuhan was rumored to be hosting the opening ceremony of this year's Chinese Super League, but it ended up not even being a tournament zone because the process wasn't completed before the news spread, which was ultimately embarrassing. On another level, the reason for the delay in finalizing the hosting of the Super League is that both the preparatory team and the national team want to host the tournament to a higher standard. After all, despite the conference system, the Chinese Super League is the highest level of Chinese soccer, during which there is also a problem of broadcasting to foreign countries. A high standard will benefit the image of the entire Chinese Super League, the image of the city in which the tournament is held, and even the image of the country as a whole. Like the women's super, women's A, women's B league has now successfully opened or about to open, comparatively speaking, the requirements are not very high, after all, does not involve the issue of external communication, so the game is opened in the base. But now, the Chinese Super League has been delayed in finalizing the district, from the organizers' point of view, or hope that the game as far as possible all arranged in the stadium, and this also facilitates the setup of broadcasting equipment, etc., in the hope of allowing viewers and fans to see the league better, more positive side. **3. Objective elements are not defensible ** Chinese soccer people in the valley of the face of reality did not choose to give up, but it must be said that a variety of objective elements, off-field elements are often defensible, the so-called "ideal is very rich, the reality is very bone", and the plan will never be able to catch up with the changes. Just like the preparatory group and the national team has been expecting this year's Chinese Super League in the end of the 12 strong, the national team back to the end of the isolation immediately after the opening of the full range of expectations can be fully restored to the home and away system, you can play a full 34 rounds. And all parties are working together, including the clubs playing in the AFC Champions League to send the youth army to play, also expect to not affect the domestic league. However, the epidemic rebounded and the pressure of epidemic prevention increased dramatically, so that the various programs had to be changed again. Therefore, the scheduled restart of the Chinese Super League has now been postponed indefinitely, which is completely beyond the control of the preparatory team and the national team. Including the two teams in Shanghai on the 7th and 8th have left Shanghai, Dalian, is also after a lot of communication and coordination to be able to travel. Do not experience it, it is difficult to appreciate the effort. Another example is like how to deal with the Hangzhou Asian Games, the national team in order to let the U23 national team can better prepare for the war, from the previous year onwards planning, so that the troops in March this year can successfully follow the national team together with the west, finally let the troops in the interval of nearly three years after the first time to play on the international warm-up matches. Subsequently, how to better prepare for the Asian Games, the Football Association and the troops have been meeting with each other to study, including coordination with the preparatory group for the transfer of personnel, the response of the league and so on. But now, with the official postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, so that all kinds of previous preparations look to be doing useless, and the outside world will not mind how much the parties paid during this period, but the preparation of the U23 troops will not be because of the postponement of the Asian Games and do not need to continue. Frankly speaking, similar to these objective elements, off-field elements really can not be defended. But no matter what, Chinese soccer still has to survive, Chinese soccer people will not let soccer disappear from our society. The epidemic has changed many things in our society, but just as our country will not stop the pace of progress and development because of the epidemic, Chinese soccer will still be strong and survive, and this year's Chinese Super League will surely come back into the lives of fans and people.