Song Kai emphasized that the development of soccer must focus on youth training, starting with children, to achieve "layer by layer, to transport talent". This concept is not wrong, the beginning of his term of office and Shandong, Shanghai, Evergrande and other clubs to meet with the head of youth training, this initiative is also approved. However, to break with the old and establish the new, facing resistance should not be underestimated. Firstly, the youth training system is full of loopholes, the responsibilities of all levels of organizations are unclear, there are no clear guidelines and policies on the degree of participation of the Association and the collaboration of various departments, which can easily lead to the phenomenon of "unregulated"; secondly, there are vacancies in the infrastructure of the youth training and coaching team, and the model of "generating electricity with love" is both ironic and unsustainable. Secondly, there are gaps in the youth training infrastructure and coaching team, and the "love power" model is both ironic and unsustainable. There are many problems that should not have arisen, all of which have become immediate challenges; furthermore, there are deeper problems with the talent selection mechanism, which I am afraid cannot be solved by the FA on its own.
On this basis, Song Kai negotiated with the Bundesliga officials, the AFC and other organizations, hoping to introduce advanced international models to guide the development of local tournaments and enhance the actual level of competition. The new team's thinking is impeccable, and it has a great deal of insight into many issues. But the gap between "say" and "do" is crucial, such as how the market reform of the Chinese Super League will be implemented, how to avoid the introduction of policies that will harm the clubs, how to ensure the stability of the Association's policy, how to consult the implementation of the neutral name policy, etc., can not remain at the level of slogans. Slogan level.
Soon after Song Kai's appointment, the national team faced a major tournament test, as the Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament group stage started in Xiamen's Egret Sports Center. Playing at home and with a relatively complete squad, this is a good opportunity to qualify. Facing old rivals such as South Korea, North Korea and Thailand, the team was familiar with each other and had the right time, place and people. However, the roses didn't do the President any favors, losing to North Korea and then being held to a draw by South Korea, while the 3-0 victory over Thailand paled in comparison. The failure to qualify for the Olympics was deeply disappointing.
Ironically, Chairman Song not only supervised the game, but also shouted the slogan "must go out" before the game.
It is important to realize that the value, status and spiritual attributes of women's football in the country are much more than just the game of soccer and athletics. They were once the pride of the country and the spiritual pillar of previous generations. However, the decline of women's soccer is inevitable given the poor overall soccer environment. What people did not expect is that the last Asian Cup champions have fallen so quickly, so it can be seen that times have really changed. The glory of women's soccer has become a thing of the past.
A 1-4 defeat by Sweden in a friendly match in February was telling enough, and in April, a draw by Switzerland and an easy defeat by Spain made the gap obvious. Despite the coaching staff's efforts to make up for it, it seemed too late and the outcome of the tournament was finalized.In July, after being beaten 3-0 by Brazil, the women's soccer team came to the World Cup stage, a stage that had created countless glories.
The 0-1 loss to Denmark was a bit unfortunate, and the 1-0 defeat to Haiti was full of hardships. If these two matches are still "acceptable", then the 6-1 defeat by England in the final round is a complete failure. After the game, Wang Frost's helplessness, Shen Mengyu's loss, Yang Lina's tears could not cut the supporters' hearts. Everyone is still in an incredible daze: could it be that the gap between women's soccer and the world's top teams is already so wide? Yes, this is the truth, and it is no coincidence.
If the World Cup "to find excuses" attributed to "away games", then in September at home there is no excuse for the game. Hangzhou Asian Games should be the women's soccer "clean" the opportunity to fail, but also the players out of the haze of opportunity. Unexpectedly, the semi-final with Japan has become the opponent's second team (or even the third team) to find confidence in the game. Since then, Japan has almost completed the "renewal" work, 90 minutes of the game, our hosts can only be secretly sad.
Together with the subsequent Olympic qualifiers, the year ended in failure in all three competitions. After the tournament, the team's meritorious head coach Shui Qingxia left the team and the women's soccer team was forced to enter a new era. Although the head coach is yet to be determined, the fiasco of the U.S. training session reminded the team that our gap cannot be solved by changing the head coach. The all-around gap needs to be alleviated by three-dimensional and systematic countermeasures, and if we don't make an effort, I'm afraid we'll really fall even deeper.
The women's soccer team, ranked 19th, is already at its "worst ever" and cannot afford to slip any further. Encouragement of travel to Europe, training, and support for the league, these important work should also be handled by professionals. However, the dilemma of the "feminization of men's football" has become an embarrassing fact, and it is not easy to go back to the past.
Of course, compared to the performance of women's soccer, men's soccer is not much better. The new manager Yankovic took office, itself with a lot of "contradictions", "helpless" and "compromise", and the first big test with New Zealand, two games 1 draw and 1 loss, is considered to be The first big test with New Zealand, two matches, one draw and one loss, is considered to be "failed". After the match, there were voices calling for Jankovic's dismissal (talentless and incompetent), which is indeed laughable.
The subsequent friendlies, in which the national soccer team beat Myanmar and Palestine, were a temporary relief to Jankovic's crisis. However, 1 draw and 1 loss against Malaysia and Syria were disappointing, and the offense and defense of the national football team was really bad. The good thing is that 2-0 Vietnam and 1-2 Uzbekistan are still content, bringing some "confidence" to the World Cup.
The second round of the World Qualification Tournament in November, 2-1 away win over Thailand, home 0-3 defeat South Korea, are expected, get three points is considered passable. Considering the next World Cup "active expansion" and the Asian region of 8.5 places and the tournament system reform situation, the national football team's chances are relatively big a lot, take Thailand is basically certain to enter the next round of the competition, but also let the green fans temporarily maintain a certain degree of "hope! "The
On paper, taking out the 5 teams that are bound to advance, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia (90%+ probability), the remaining Syria, Iraq, UAE, and Vietnam are the real rivals for the national soccer team. Competing with 8 or 9 teams for the remaining 3 places (the 0.5 play-off is too difficult to be ignored), the national soccer team must ensure enough margin for error, and it is a very important measure to study the opponents and come up with a targeted arrangement. In other words, it is possible to lose to South Korea by a big score, but never to Syria, which is the fundamental principle.
In this "dark hour" environment, the utilitarian purpose is correct. The requirement of "both to and from" is indeed too difficult for the current national soccer team. If we can produce good results, such as reaching the final round of the Asian Qualifiers, or even qualifying for the play-offs, then support for the national soccer team is bound to pick up immediately. At the end of the day, this is still our own national team! At the end of the day, everyone is eager to see the national soccer team step onto the World Cup stage!
Therefore, we can continue to observe Jankovic's mindset (be careful, win what you need to win, and don't expect to win what you "shouldn't" win). After all, as President Song Kai said, too much back-and-forth and policy changes will not help the development of soccer, and the last naturalization policy has been a failure for a long time now. Let's be patient with Jankovic!
Of course, the Asian Cup tournament is just around the corner, which will surely be a big test for the national football team. The national football team, which has been preparing for the tournament a month in advance, has long since arrived in Abu Dhabi. According to a report from a reporter following the team, the manager will arrange a lot of technical and tactical training, hoping to instill all his designs into his players. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, compared to the past training week, two weeks, nearly a month's time is enough to familiarize themselves with each other, "fight for eight to fight for four" goal, should also have the opportunity to complete. The lineup is complete, the physical fitness is abundant, the environment is suitable, and there are no more "excuses" to be found. Li may be dismissed for not following the rules, which shows the strictness of the team, and hopefully this can help boost the morale of the national soccer team.
The internationals were able to maintain their fitness for the Asian Cup participation, which still has something to do with the official end of the Chinese Super League. However, the issue of access to next season's Chinese Super League has become the center of attention for green fans, a task that is indeed much earlier than in the past, showing the new leadership's attention to the local tournament. However, attention does not equal success. According to statistics from Football Daily and other media, only half of the teams are guaranteed to meet the entry requirements, and the rest are more or less problematic. This also clearly reflects the reality of the Chinese Super League: no money.
The frequent problems of non-payment of salaries, wages and professionalism have seriously dampened the motivation of the players, and naturally, they have become the key to launching attacks on the tournament from the outside. This is indeed detrimental to the development of the tournament, not only appeared in one team, reflecting the systematic nature of the problem. Whether it is a champion division or a small or medium-sized team, they are all struggling to find sponsors, which is extremely rare in the world.
In this regard, whether to restore the "lifesaving straw" neutral name reform policy, has become a key point of discussion. In this regard, although the Football Association has not given a relatively clear answer, but the introduction of the draft can still be seen in the "clues". The idea of saving lives first, and success second is likely to announce that the club name will be "changed back" again, and hopefully this can become the fundamental and starting point for the new life of each team. After the end of the wild golden dollar soccer era, the pain is still lingering, and how to solve it will test the wisdom of the new senior leadership.
Of course, apart from the capital issue, the design of the tournament is also highly controversial. Shandong team in the Asian Champions League in the case of the fierce competition, lost the important foreign aid Fellaini and Moises, the problem is in the tournament design. Obviously, can not be across the year of the local tournament is a lot of people are complaining about the point, can not be connected with the world league of the embarrassment, slowly became unable to connect with the Asian league of the problem, J, K League is considering reform measures, the Chinese Super League should not "with" it?
This is only a simple aspect, there are many specific problems. For example, the referee caused a huge controversy, the inconsistency of the penalty standard, the national training problems, etc., the Chinese super "unprofessional" is not a day, two days lead to, want to solve or to rely on the high-level to start, gradually targeted arrangements. Without the positive maintenance of the foundation of the league, it is impossible for the national team to achieve good results. This is the basic rule of the green world.
Of course, in addition to the competitive and commercial factors of soccer, love is also a topic that cannot be ignored. After all, this is the foundation of the development of the soccer business, but also the root of the masses love. In contrast to the problems of the Chinese Super League, the fire of the "village super" league has become a beautiful landscape of the green business in 2023. Although the people's self-entertainment is amateur and unprofessional, but from the heart of the participation and love, or touched a lot of viewers, leaving many unforgettable moments. Do not underestimate her role, the star can start a prairie fire.
Although the national team we still maintain a certain degree of patience, but the poor performance of the ladder team at all levels, so that many supporters have lost the basis of trust. Especially the poor performance of the "successor" national Olympic team is really hard to accept. After a long period of training around the world, it is incredible to be drawn by the United Arab Emirates and the Maldives. After looking down on Tajikistan (coach Sung Yeo-dong hoped to play against a "strong team" before the match), they got 1 win and 1 draw in their home country. To make matters worse, last week they were shut out by Malaysia, another "disgrace".
The Asian Games team, playing at home, also failed to put up a good performance, with the previous big wins over Myanmar and India not being of much value. The crunch defeat after meeting South Korea reflects the huge difference in real strength. To know, U22, U23 is the orthodox successor of the national football team, in the 35 + Yoshida Maya and Nagatomo Yudu has long been out of the case of the Japanese national team, China's veteran Wu Xi is still "entrusted", which is a reflection of the problem of no one to follow.
Of course, there are also faint glowing lights that are lighting up the way ahead. At the U15 East Asian Championships in Shandong, the Chinese youngsters beat Japan to take the title. Many of the children in that team are from Evergrande and Luneng football schools, and the head coach of the Japanese team, Nakamura Masaki, is only a "temporary foreman" (Evergrande coach, but not in the Football Association "license" without qualifications). But in this case, their accumulation of tacit understanding, but cast the victory, which may bring new ideas. Collective training, overseas training, really not as good as the real, down-to-earth better. As Wang Frost said after the World Cup fiasco, "We really do not need to learn Brazil, Germany, Spain, we learn Japan is very good, their experience is enough for us to learn".
The year 2023 is the year when Chinese soccer will slowly climb out of the "darkness" and try to feel its way forward. The new leader came to power to bring new ideas and directions, sounds good many policy guidelines, yet to be implemented, only practice, landing, promote the development of national football, can be truly recognized. After all, the "cake situation" is really too much, trust the need for practical efforts to endorse. The decline of women's soccer is a reflection of systemic problems, just as men's soccer suffered similar difficulties. Only by truly enhancing the appeal of local tournaments and attracting the public to participate and love them can we truly promote market development policies and allow positive incentives to be reflected back to the clubs themselves, building a positive cycle.
It is inevitable that parents will be willing to involve their children in the foundation of the green youth training business, and no one will encourage their children to join a field where there is no hope in sight. With the New Year approaching, may the Asian Cup be an opportunity for a new beginning, and may the practitioners truly respect the rules and arrange for professionals to be at the helm. Green fans never complain about the slow progress, what we can't tolerate is just the uncertainty of change, just can't be determined at all tomorrow.
