Original source: Beijing Youth Daily
July 27, China's women's soccer team in the Tokyo Olympics with a score of 2 to 8 against the Netherlands, the group stage with a draw and two losses suffered a disastrous elimination; August 2, China's women's volleyball team to the group stage with two wins and three losses of the results of the Tokyo Olympics ended early; August 4, China's women's basketball team with a score of 70 to 77 against the Serbian team, stopping in the Tokyo Olympics women's basketball Quarter-finals. As China's "three big balls" men's team group is not involved in the main round of the Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation in soccer, volleyball, basketball projects on behalf of the team all do not have access to the Tokyo Olympic Games medals.
"Three big ball" poor performance, to arouse their own determination to rise and respond to the expectations of the fans, perhaps we should first analyze and summarize the internal reasons for lagging behind from a deeper level. Naturalization is a direction to compensate for the lack of talent, but the real future is "the integration of sports and education". Although the relevant departments have begun substantive action, but see the results will take time to witness.
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Has women's soccer been affected by the '16 14 marquee?
If "Lang Ping curtain call" is sentimental, China's women's basketball team did not have the chance to be among the semi-finals of the sobering, then the Chinese women's soccer team in the current Olympic Games to give the people of the country more is sad. With 17 years ago in Athens Olympic Games "0 to 8" the same, Tokyo Olympic Games "2 to 8" is also jaw-dropping.
On April 13 at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center, China's women's soccer team caught the last train to the Tokyo Olympics after the 2nd round of the Olympic Preliminary Round playoffs. Despite the fact that the game was at a clear disadvantage, Wang Shuang scored twice in a critical moment to confirm the victory. In the main round of this year's Olympic Games against Zambia, Wang Frost was still the star of the show, scoring four goals.
From the actual situation, counting on Wang Frost one after another in the qualifier, the main game "a handsome cover a hundred ugly" is not practical. Almost at the same time as the team's 5-goal defeat to Brazil in the first match, the official announcement of Tang Jiali's stay in the English Premier League came from China. Chinese players to stay in the program restarted, Shen Menglu, Tang Jiali and other three women players have been implemented to stay in the ocean. An official statistic from the World Football Federation (WFF) shows that the financial and other support achieved by Chinese women's soccer is now leading the world. The scale and brand appeal of the domestic Women's Super League and Women's First League are also among the highest in the world. Thus, it seems that Chinese women's soccer is not lacking in support.
Well, there must be other reasons behind the Chinese women's soccer team's performance in this Olympics. After the team's exit, some people pointed the finger at head coach Jia Xiuquan. Objectively speaking, Jia Xiuquan has shown some coaching ability by leading the team to the third place in the Asian Cup, the second place in the Asian Games, and into the main round of the Tokyo Olympics. Also for this team to pay a great deal of effort.
The question about hiring may only be the surface reason. Jia Xiuquan took over the Chinese women's soccer team in June 2018, but is the team's 14th head coach in nearly 16 years. In other words, this Chinese women's soccer team in the past nearly 20 years, irregular experience turbulence. If the pain of "0-8" began with the turbulence, then who can deny that the current Chinese women's soccer team has not been affected by the previous turbulence?
An insider who has worked in women's soccer for many years commented that different coaches have different tactical ideas, showing different levels and characteristics of charisma and command and collaboration ability. As a head coach, even if not meritocracy, but at least to reuse the players can be trusted. Jia Xiuquan no matter what choice, from the point of view of the head coach's responsibility, are very normal.
Whether it is the sincerity and strength of the program support, or the trust and decentralization of the women's soccer coaching staff, it is difficult for outsiders to blame the CFA for not acting. The women's soccer coaching team needs to explore the reasons for the loss and take due responsibility from their own work level. In the past years, the uncertainty of the development direction of Chinese women's soccer brought about by the uncertainty of the team building mode and management mode has also created obstacles to the team's forward movement. Such responsibility should not be borne by Jia Xiuquan alone. Similar responsibilities cannot be assumed by the head coach.
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Why is men's basketball all stars and no results?
There is a saying in China's basketball world, "Look for women's basketball for results, look for men's basketball for stars." Chinese women's basketball star Miao Lijie once told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter: "Every time we go to the World Championships, the results of the women's basketball team require a high level of results, but usually the outside world pays very little attention to us." In the previous Olympic Games in the campaign, China's women's basketball team had the best results once got a silver medal, but the best of the Chinese men's basketball team is to enter the top eight.
After the Chinese men's basketball team failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in its history at the Tokyo Olympics, the outside world's attention has turned more to the women's basketball team as well as the three-player basketball program. Objectively speaking, although the Chinese women's basketball team failed to enter the quarter-finals at the Olympic Games, but the results of the group stage win and the spirit shown in the process is worthy of respect, they also defended the honor of China's basketball to a certain extent. China's three-player women's basketball team on the podium is undoubtedly a reward for the many years of preparation and investment in this program. However, the Chinese men's basketball team, whether it is a five-player basketball or a three-player basketball team are far from the previous investment, expectations, I am afraid that this situation is difficult to get effective improvement in the short term.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, in these years presents a very unequal situation, CBA no matter professionalization, attention, reputation and other aspects of the rapid forward development, but the results of the Chinese men's basketball team has plummeted. Two years ago, they are sitting on the host of the biggest favorable conditions, but in the World Cup halted, which is undoubtedly the most painful setback in Chinese basketball. From the Olympic Games defeat can also be seen, the gap between the Chinese men's basketball team and the European team is getting bigger and bigger.
Previously, the Chinese men's basketball team can still obtain a ticket to the Olympics by winning the Asian Championships, but since the introduction of the World Cup and Asian Cup points after the Rio Olympics, the probability of the Chinese men's basketball team wanting to enter the Olympics is much lower than before.
How to change the problems and situation of the Chinese men's basketball team, so that more players go out, training at a higher level, accelerated growth, may be the best way to look at the Japanese men's basketball team can be seen. At the same time, the issue of naturalized players may also be discussed again.
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"The integration of sport and education" is more "radical" than naturalization.
The weakness of China's three major ball games in the world in fact has long been not only the Tokyo Olympics topic, as early as before and after the London Olympics, the State General Administration of Sports has put forward "to revitalize the three major ball games from the beginning," said. At that time, the ground almost all focus on talent development in table tennis, weightlifting, diving, badminton, gymnastics and other traditional strengths of Chinese sports individual sports. For men's football and basketball, two highly market-oriented sports, the burden of talent development was directly and completely handed over to the market.
Group ball sports talent training cycle is long, low success rate, the possibility of achieving results in the Olympic Games is low, so that the provincial and municipal sports bureau leaders have to calculate their own "small account" in terms of capital investment. Eventually, the Chinese Super League and CBA league because of the shortage of talent, gradually become a "mirage", the top players pay more and more, but the whole pyramid of talent is more and more fragile foundation.
Starting from 2019, making up for the lack of talent short board by naturalizing outstanding athletic talents has become a fast and effective method, but the talent pool of competitive sports still needs to rely on a proven training system to complete.
In fact, leaders of the CFA and the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) have realized the need to truly integrate with the Ministry of Education. The three major sports programs have entered into a closer degree of "integration of sports and education" than ever before in terms of talent development.
According to the Beiqing Daily reporter understands, the Chinese Football Association, China Basketball Association leaders are with the Ministry of Education and the relevant leaders of the China Association of Secondary School Sports to jointly plan the "sports and education integration", hoping to build a new Chinese group ball game project talent cultivation sports system. In the past, some sports and education two parts separately to organize the national youth tournaments, but also gradually combined into one, to form a real synergy.
The "integration of sports and education" may be the fundamental way to solve the three big ball stubborn problems, but want to really recover, at least two generations of hard work is needed. "Long-term success" is undoubtedly the motto that China's three major balls need most.
Three big balls to say goodbye to the field of play still have the Olympic dream in their hearts.
August 4, with the Chinese women's basketball team in the Tokyo Olympics quarter-finals against the European champions Serbia and then did not qualify for the quarter-finals, China's three major sports have all bid farewell to the current Olympic Games. From the worst record in the history of the end of the Tokyo trip to the Chinese women's soccer team, to the group stage failed to complete the defense of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and then in the masters of the field stopped in the last eight of the Chinese women's basketball team, the three women's teams are China's three major balls in the Olympic Games to play, they held up a piece of the sky of China's three major balls, but can only withstand the fate of the early to return home.
Although the Chinese army in the Tokyo Olympics continue to fight for gold and silver good news, but the death of the three big ball is people's heart for a long time can't let go of the regret, because people for the three big ball always have unlimited expectations, especially these women's forces have experienced a glorious past.
In April of this year, with the Chinese women's soccer team obtained a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics, and China's women's basketball team and China's women's volleyball team, completing China's women's "three big balls" gathered in Tokyo. At that time, people were sighing in admiration of the women, these girls shoulder the expectations of China's women's ball team programs, but also in the downturn of the men's three major sports, to hold up the whole sky. Chinese women's soccer and basketball in the Olympic Games, the best result is the runner-up, the Chinese women's volleyball team has stood on the Olympic podium three times, this time with the desire to defend the title began the journey to Tokyo.
However, Tokyo is not destined to be the stage for China's three major soccer balls to bloom. China's women's soccer team in the group stage only achieved 1 point, but also in the face of Brazilian women's soccer team and the Netherlands women's soccer team suffered two tragic losses, and finally left the field. "Try my best" is the most incapable and the last expression of the women's soccer girls before leaving the field of the Tokyo Olympics. China's women's volleyball team, on the other hand, started the road to defend the title with the expectations of the nation, but failed to pass the group stage hurdle, accompanied by the song of the sun always comes after the storm, the women's volleyball team girls completed the curtain call of the Tokyo Olympics, they bowed deeply to the meritorious coach Lang Ping. China's women's basketball team is the furthest of the three units, but has also stopped at the last eight.
There will always be success and failure, withstand the praise and commendation at the peak, we must be able to withstand the loneliness and reluctance in the trough. Success makes one's heart pounding, but failure is more people's bones, only do not forget the failure, the future will one day return to those who belong to their glory. Once we marveled that they are lucky to have a dream in their hearts and dare to go after them, they are also extraordinary, extreme force and hard work is an eternal tradition. Today, we are worried about their loss, the three big ball left everyone a unique story, there are pain and joy.
Farewell to the Olympic Games at this moment, they will have the next Olympic dream in their hearts, and the rising stars of the three major sports may still carry the flag of their elders in the future. The Olympic Games not only teaches people how to pursue their dreams and enjoy the victory, but also teaches them how to bear the failure and start from scratch.
