Text/Duan Li
"On this sailing ship, when we encounter stormy seas, we must work together. If the ship runs aground, no one can do it alone." Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Football Association, said this at a meeting of salon directors (Shanghai), which is not as funny as the Shakespearean quote quoted by Yan Shiduo, but also seems to be a serious matter.
Chen Xuyuan said the "national football maintenance", the core of which is to prevent injuries, and strive to achieve good results in the Top 40.
In preparation for the World Qualification Tournament, the Football Association can be described as a lot of action, not only actively bidding for and successfully obtaining the right to host the tournament system, but also the first game time ahead of schedule, the opponent also changed from the Maldives to Guam.
Now, it all depends on the performance of the National Football League.
How is maintenance carried out? Although Chen Xuyuan did not state it explicitly, I think we already have the answer in our minds.
As a matter of fact, the "national footballer maintenance" is not the first creation of Chen Xuyuan.
Looking back to 2001, on the eve of the Top Ten, the first round of A A tournament, there were 10 international players were injured, the Association immediately introduced three measures: international players need to strengthen self-protection, try to avoid injuries; international players should maintain a fair competition; intentional fouls or malicious injuries to increase the penalties, if the motive is impure, it will be dealt with seriously; salons need to protect their own players, while avoiding injuries to other team members, especially the national football players! In case of problems, salons should provide reasonable explanations and internal treatment results to the FA.
Its purpose is to avoid harm and defend itself at the same time, and for this reason, the Football Association is even willing to "small-minded" to speculate on the intentions of the salons.
To the eve of the 2002 World Cup, the national team training list of 35 people in 11 people were injured, including a number of star players, the Football Association has introduced new measures: salon shall not be sent to the field of injured players, and to ensure that no injuries to players are no longer injured; once the players are injured, the Football Association will be dispatched to the national team team doctor medical team down to the salon to assist in the treatment of the medical team.
At that time, the Football Association on the care of international players, can be said to be "national treasure" treatment.
However, the theory is that no matter which year's measures are taken, they do not take into account the interests of the salon, ignoring the fact that the international players are first and foremost part of the salon, and that their salaries are paid by the owner of the salon.
As a result, Dalian manager Kosa had angrily told the FA that year, "National team? World Cup? What's that got to do with me? I only care about how to lead the team well and win victory after victory, what do I care if they get injured on the field? I have my league duties, the national team has nothing to do with me." He also said that if an international player from his team does not perform well in the league for fear of injury, "then I am sorry, he has no place here."
No salon boss will tolerate his team's internationals not putting in their best when it counts.In 2018, Pogba won the World Cup with France, while Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho insinuated that Pogba was not giving his all at the club.
This year's Super League, there is no super strong team, the pattern of contention for the championship tends to average, at this moment, the key is who dare to fight, "narrow way to meet the courage to win" - what, you let our country's feet to do a good job of self-protection?
I'm sure every saloon manager would say the three words of advice to the FA.
In fact, the "maintenance" itself is a paradox, if the international players to protect themselves and avoid the fierce competition in the league, poor performance, Sharon naturally will not let him play again; and lose their position, the level of difficulty to ensure that may even decline, the national team will call them up again?
