The incident of Xie Hui's drunkenness, once exposed by a sneak peek, triggered an uproar, leaving behind many reflections and lessons.
In the late afternoon of August 22, Nantong Zhiyun Salon has made a suspension of Xie Hui, the head coach of this team, through personal social platforms released a statement announcing the resignation of the post of head coach. This decision stems from the uproar caused by Xie Hui's drunken blundering and being secretly photographed, which is considered to have come to an end for the time being. However, this controversial incident still triggered a lot of regret and deep thoughts.
Drunken gaffe, video causes ripples
In an earlier video, Xie Hui was blunt: "Chengdu Rongcheng Salon has invested 200 million yuan, these are useless, they don't know how to play. We can only press them to play, I'm going to show them up."
Then he added: "Like certain Chinese Super League salons that have accumulated tens of billions of dollars in investment, we (Nantong Zhiyun) only need 10 million dollars a season and are fifth in the Central League. I'm going to tell you to sober up, don't mess around." The video shows that Xie Hui is clearly drunk, and as he speaks, someone chimes in on the side.
Nantong Zhiyun Salon then issued an announcement that Xie Hui had been suspended from his coaching position with immediate effect for making inappropriate remarks after drinking at a private party, which caused an adverse social impact.
On August 22, Xie Hui announced through his personal social platform that he resigned from his position as head coach of Nantong Zhiyun Football Salon. He said, "This is a difficult decision, because I have long regarded myself and the team as one. I especially want to apologize to the players who struggled together, and I am sorry for not accompanying you to the end."
Candid Camera Behavior in the Spotlight
Regarding the controversy caused by Xie Hui's drunken remarks, most netizens' focus is not on the soccer itself, but on the indignation towards the person who secretly filmed it. Many netizens believe that regardless of whether Xie Hui's remarks were exaggerated or not, the behavior of secretly filming others' private get-togethers and taking videos of them is not desirable.
Xie Hui, 46 years old, is a former international footballer of our national soccer team, playing as a striker, and has played for Shanghai Shenhua and three German Bundesliga teams in his career. After his retirement, he has served in different positions in Shenhua and Harbor, and in 2013, he was hired as the research coach of China's U16 national junior team. In March last year, he was officially appointed as the head coach of Nantong Zhiyun in the Central League.
After realizing that his words were inappropriate, Xie Hui took the first time to publicly apologize through his personal social channels, saying, "I attended a friend's dinner party and drank a lot of wine. I didn't realize that the person on the other side of the table had evil intentions, took a sneak peek, posted my drunken words on the Internet, and exaggerated the facts, seriously damaging my reputation. To such scum abhorrence, I reserve the right to legal action! At the same time to the words mentioned in the unit (Chengdu Rongcheng, Shanghai Shenhua, Shanghai SIPG, Nantong Zhiyun) to express a deep apology."
In announcing his resignation, he also said that he should have been more professional and careful in his words and actions. "I hope that in the world of the future, things like this will become less and less or even never happen again, and I hope that we don't lose our daily sense of security because of this incident, because what comes with the loss of security is the skepticism of humanity. We still have to believe, and only by believing will the world get better."
Public figures need to be careful what they say and do
"Drunken speech" secretly photographed the incident, the young coach Xie Hui is a profound lesson. Xie Hui in the player era is known for daring to speak, will speak, but this time in the green field outside the evening meal drinking moment "lost footing", obviously he also need to self-reflection.
In my opinion, one of the lessons learned from the "drunkenness" incident of clandestine photo-taking is that head coaches and players, as public figures collectively, should always be mindful of their status and quality. The bad behavior of the photographer is indeed disgusting, but it should have become common sense and axiomatic that public figures should be given partial privacy by the community. Especially on public and open occasions, public figures should be more mindful of what they say and do.
Xie Hui, as a public figure, has made remarks involving his own salon, rival salons and other Chinese Super League salons, theoretically enough to cover the entire Chinese soccer level. Leaving aside the act of being secretly filmed, as a working coach in professional soccer, even if he expresses his words in the private sphere outside the field of play, he should focus on correctness and prudence, rather than emotionalism and willfulness.
The second lesson from the "drunkenness" incident is that, as a soccer practitioner, it is slightly inappropriate to use the difference in the capital investment figures of salon investors to emphasize their own ability as coaches. Professional soccer can not be separated from the economic input, the British Premier League Manchester City, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga, are relying on a large investment to attract superstars, take the road of the giants. The giants will hire big-name coaches and sign big-name players; grassroots teams will sign ordinary coaches and use players who have no stars for the time being - this is the basic logic in the world's soccer world.
Victory is the only criterion.
Nantong Zhiyun is a not too much investment in the Central League team, Xie Hui in the drunken salon invested 10 million yuan to take the fifth place, as a standard to judge the excellence of its coaches, as a result of Chengdu Rongcheng, the Super League team of large investment in the market attributes of the biased.
For one thing, the investment in a season in the Central League should be at least 50 million yuan, the so-called 10 million yuan seems to be simply not valid; secondly, professional soccer is only strictly regulated, a penny for a penny, 200 million is the effect of 200 million. The world of soccer, never spend money is not.
In my opinion, Xie Hui's drunken gaffe is more like talking out of breath. The third lesson of the controversy is that a coach needs to understand that winning is the only criterion for judging success or failure, not how much money the saloon has invested, let alone who is pressing who to play.
The league, Xie Hui coached Nantong Zhiyun twice lost to Chengdu Rongcheng, according to the input and output of the market-oriented theory, "10 million" kick but "200 million" is very normal. Only, Xie Hui not to win or lose as a basis for judgment, but to salon input differences, forcibly highlight the level of coaching, to pressure the opponent to play the situation as a standard of judgment, more or less some pompous, more like drunken talk.
Looking around the world, the green field has always been judged by only one criterion: the winner takes all, only the champion is written in history. As for who pressed the opponent to play, traditionally is a floating cloud - the opponent 1-0 lead, of course, to recover to play counterattack, is it for nothing to give up the opportunity to let the pressure to play?
I have always appreciated Xie Hui's style of play and temperament, but with regard to his pressure on the opponent to play as a strong team standard, in the business discussion level to put forward different opinions. If you press the opponent to play even if successful, our national team can be in the next World Qualification Tournament, local moments to press Japan, Australia and other Asian powerhouses to play! Just, if this pressure on the strong team to play, the final score will be how, finally can be counted directly into the World Cup?
