At a count, the 2022 AFC Champions League campaign has quietly opened for over a month. Even though
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
Bid farewell to the 2022 AFC Champions League stage with Shanghai Seaport (March 1, 2022)
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
(The Shanghai seaport quit the AFC Champions League this season on April 11, 2022), but there are still expectations for the yet-to-be-winning Guangdong team and the deep-rooted Shandong Taishan team. In April, the Chinese Super League team's AFC Champions League campaign since April 15 has given me a dismal visual feast: Guangzhou lost all five matches and conceded a whopping 23 goals, while Shandong drew one and lost four of their five matches, scoring only two goals and conceding 19.
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of the veteran powerhouse.
Witnessing such a poor performance, I can't help but sigh to the sky, why has the Chinese men's soccer team fallen to such a state? Is it true that there are not 11 soccer players out of a population of 1.4 billion? I recalled that in the 1960s, when the men's soccer team did not perform well, General He Long had directly ordered the disbandment of the men's soccer team. Nowadays, the Internet is full of attacks and ridicule on the men's soccer team, and even the national soccer team itself sometimes laughs at itself, and only by scolding the men's soccer team can it attract attention. Personally, I think the neutral title may be the last straw that breaks the Chinese men's soccer team's back.
First, let's understand what a team title is. Simply put, players need to wear jerseys to play on the field, and the jerseys can have lettering on them. In order to advertise themselves, companies fund the printing on the jerseys and change the name of the team to include the name of the company. In this way, the enterprise can enhance its popularity and the team has financial security, realizing a win-win situation. In this regard, Guangzhou
Evergrande (name)
Undoubtedly, it has done the best job, relying on the Golden Dollar policy to build Evergrande Group into a top five developer in China. However, why
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What about the restrictions on titles and the requirement to remove team names starting in 2021? Personally, I think it's because the lifespan of Chinese teams is so short that it makes foreigners feel that Chinese soccer is chaotic. Therefore, such measures had to be taken. I counted the detailed lists of Chinese teams participating in the AFC Champions League in the 20 years from 2002-2022 season, and surprisingly, I found that many teams have mysteriously disappeared.
In these 20 years of AFC Champions League journey, there are 16 Chinese teams participating. However, did you know that As of now, six teams have announced their dissolution, a dissolution rate of 37.5%. One of the most famous examples is the 2021 season of the
China Super League (soccer league)
The champion, Jiangsu Suning, withdrew for some special reason
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Dissolved teams (I used to wonder if, in terms of investment, Serie A world
Milan (Italy)
The inputs are definitely greater than
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Jiangsu Suning, why Suning would rather give up
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And loans at 12% per annum will also have to continue to be invested in world
Milan (Italy)
I've been thinking about it now, because there's a good one in Serie A.
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Personally, I love watching soccer and used to follow my hometown team, Taizhou Yuanda. I also often communicate with the players and found that their fate is also miserable (only representing the players I have contacted). They are not only responsible for playing soccer, but also have to run around for wages, worry about when the club will be dissolved, and think about their future. Maybe it's all because
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The inaction. We often discuss that so-and-so player earns ten million dollars a year, which is not the credit of so-and-so leader, vaguely remembering Oscar who was brought in for 80 million dollars back then. There is nothing wrong with a neutral title, but it can only be implemented when the league has a certain level of popularity. However.
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Forcing a neutral title at this point in time will surely turn away companies interested in investing. By then, more and more clubs will be dissolved, more and more teams will be unwilling to participate in the AFC Champions League, and the strength of Chinese teams will get worse and worse. Then, in my lifetime, I will not be able to see the day when Chinese men's soccer rises.
