December 2, Sohu Sports Sports World program, senior sports media Li Xuan and the audience in-depth discussion of the current Chinese Super League and even China's national football into the dilemma. Li Xuan believes that China's administrators lack respect for soccer and have a poor understanding of the rules, leading to poor league operations; administrators are selfish, and even go so far as to subvert what's right in order to justify their own reforms and overthrow their predecessors.
Li Xuan first profiled the National Football League, "Since its inception in 94, although the road has been bumpy, but we have been moving towards professionalization, but nearly 30 years have passed, we are still wandering on the road to professionalization, has not yet been fully realized professional league. 30 years, we have not studied the nature of the professional league in-depth, and now the league is in an embarrassing situation."
Li Xuan further pointed out, "I have been in contact with several administrators, they are confident that they can do a good job in competitive sports, Olympic gold medals are not a problem, and other sports can be well organized, but lack of respect for soccer, do not understand the rules of soccer, especially the development path of China's national football team. Although soccer is a competitive sport, but with basketball, diving, table tennis and other sports are very different, in our country more of its specificity, soccer managers but are not willing to in-depth study, unwilling to listen to the lessons learned from the end of the line to the beginning, and then to the end of the line, in the management of the force and the league operation have not seen substantial improvement."
"Many of the things that we know have been dropped into the State Council documents, but they are just not being implemented, and the professional league that has been talked about for years has not been established yet. If we think it is right, we should act and not stop at words. With the national team underperforming and the state of the league worrying, it is time to reposition ourselves."
Li Xuan believes that "the frequent occurrence of chaos in recent years, but also with the local sports bureau failed to play an effective role. If the clubs are not working, they will look for the Football Association, and then apply to the Sports Bureau, with the help of administrative means. In my opinion, shareholding reform is a feasible path, whether it is private or state-owned capital injection, purely private or state-owned. First of all, we have to do a good job of this cake, so that everyone knows that this is a money-making business, and that this cake is delicious and can be tasted at the cost of a little money. Unlike the previous Evergrande, who wanted the championship as soon as he came up, he not only harmed his own club and ruined the business, but more importantly, ruined countless children. The next people who engage in soccer, first of all, pure love for soccer, respect for soccer."
Li Xuan then talked about: "In our country, soccer is not only a sports activity loved by the common people, it is both economic and cultural, commercial and political, and is extremely comprehensive. If we can institutionalize and standardize our soccer management experience, we can naturally attract outstanding entrepreneurs to pay attention to soccer and invest in it. In fact, many of the ideas and rules are already clear to us, we just need to make concerted efforts to implement them, otherwise we will never be able to achieve the desired goals."
Li Xuan also mentioned fan "shareholding", "If you run a club in a standardized way, the local fans should have enough money. If you play a crooked way, impractical, it will not work. Players and coaches can also accept that fan shareholding is also a good model."
Li Xuan also criticized the selfishness that exists in some managers, "Newly appointed managers, who must prove that they are better than their predecessors, have to change and overthrow many things of their predecessors, even if they are right. This is against the rules of soccer, even the rules of the sport and the rules of sports, and this selfishness will inevitably lead to many things not working well."
Li Xuan mentioned the "four no's" of the national soccer team: "no humility, no study, no hard work, no unity. Including our managers, practitioners, players, coaches, usually rarely watch the ball, thinking about business, our coaches are even more so, think they can do everything. Especially not united, you can't build a great career without unity. The reason why we've been spinning around for 30 years and back to square one is because we're not united. Also, we've agreed on many things, so why can't we execute them together, just because these guys are selfish and think I can be better than you, which ultimately leads to a mess."
Finally, Li Xuan said that the national football people should be hard work, "originally you get ten million dollars a year, now take 100,000, but also higher than the income of ordinary people. But the salary structure of your soccer practitioners should not be so much higher than ours, your contribution to society, dedication to the work really can not reach, no one can get tens of millions of dollars. Golden dollar soccer has messed up the pay structure, making it impossible for our players to play and train with peace of mind. Now we need to establish a professional league as soon as possible and let professionals run the league to keep it on track and give us the confidence to participate in the league."
