Recently, the Chinese soccer world has been in a state of flux, with news coming out so frequently that fans have been on a roller coaster ride. We are happy to see that the black sheep that dragged down Chinese soccer have finally been removed, however, what follows is that Chinese soccer seems to be caught in a strange circle that is hard to escape. Remember, the victories of the southern and Xie leaders made fans mistakenly believe that Chinese soccer was about to usher in a spring, however, the reality has dealt us a heavy blow. When the technical teams won the championship, fans were disappointed again, as if they were back to square one. The arrest of Chen, a senior member of the CFA, sparked an uproar in the Asian soccer world, with Japanese, South Korean and even Vietnamese media not sparing in their mockery.
We might have been able to keep quiet before the Japanese and Korean media's satire on China, but now the Vietnamese media has joined in, satirizing the embarrassment of our soccer. In the past, no matter how bad the national soccer team was, we could still win easily against Vietnam. However, with the rise of Vietnamese soccer, they are no longer on par with us, and we even lost to Vietnam in the national soccer preliminaries, even with naturalized players, it's hard to hide our regression in recent years.
At the beginning of the decision to go the naturalization route, fans had high hopes that the success of the national soccer team could be replicated. Guangzhou Evergrande was invincible in Asia with a team of domestic players, supplemented by a few former foreigners. If the national soccer team can naturalize a few powerful foreign aid, it is expected to compete with Japan and South Korea. However, the reality is cruel. Under the leadership of Chen Moumou and Li Tie, the performance of the national soccer team is disappointing, these results may not be due to strength, but the magic of money.
As the old saying goes, "A gentleman loves his money and takes what he can get," and this is an appropriate phrase to use on Lippi. He can easily leave the attention of hundreds of millions of people, take the initiative to resign as the head coach of Chinese men's soccer, Lippi has publicly said: "My annual salary is very high, but I do not want to rob money." Such determination is proof of his temperament. With the arrests of Li Tie and the programmer, Lippi spoke about Chinese soccer again in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport. He believes that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the best chance for Chinese soccer to influence the World Cup because there are several strong naturalized players in the league. As for his resignation, the main reason was a bad job.
When Lippi learned that Li Tie and the programmer were arrested, he looked a little excited. He expressed his deep affection for Chinese soccer and the passion of the fans for him. Talking about his experience of coaching the Chinese men's soccer team, Lippi said, "There are always people interfering with my work, especially when it comes to candidates and who to put on the field. If I was not trusted, why was I invited? This is something I can't figure out." As we all know, Chinese soccer's naturalization policy is a product of the Cai So-and-So era. Before the programmer became the top leader of the CFA, he was strongly against naturalization. After entering the CFA, although the programmer became ambiguous in dealing with the naturalization issue, he has said, "What's the use of Evergrande winning so many titles? Chinese soccer still can't go up." This more or less reflects his disdain for naturalization. On the contrary, the head coach under the FA also interferes with the selection and employment of head coaches. Under such a top boss, Lippi's job was difficult to imagine. At the time, Lippi resigned of his own accord, and many fans criticized him for not having the ability to resist pressure. Now it seems that we may have really misjudged Lippi.
