Chinese soccer has been in a flurry of activity lately!
On the occasion of the romantic Valentine's Day, an explosive news spread: the top management of the Football Association was "invited" by a mysterious man in black.
This incident was like a bolt from the blue, instantly attracting widespread attention. The originally calm days were stirred up, and even without the romantic date of Valentine's Day, everyone turned their topics to this fiasco.
Someone shouted, "The dawn is coming!"
Is the dawn really coming?
After the Chinese men's soccer team missed out on the World Cup in Qatar, the buzz that was once there is no longer there, only sporadic discussions remain.
Chinese soccer has invested heavily with little effect.
The clamor for gold-dollar soccer brought a brief boom, but the national soccer team's performance has deteriorated.
For the first time in its history, the National Football League has brought in naturalized players on a large scale, only to be met with restrictions.
Some have questioned the age and strength of the naturalized players, arguing that they may not be better than the local players.
Chinese soccer has been developing for decades, and there are many strong players and many weak ones, can't we see all this clearly?
Are those naturalized Brazilian players really not as good as the homely white chicks?
It's a crying shame that some people are trying to whitewash this.
What is Li Tie, a player once known to longtime fans, but brute strength and speed?
Who would have thought that such a person would later become a coach and get carried away with the slightest achievement.
He has especially drifted since becoming head coach of the national team.
He failed to focus on his soccer career or think about how to improve the strength of the national soccer team, but instead was keen on self-aggrandizement, even questioning domestic coaches, "Are we really worse than foreign coaches?"
This arrogance is shameful. With the results he has led the team to, he still has the audacity to talk big.
What is even more outrageous is that he also used his position for personal gains, taking advertisements and enriching himself, even to the detriment of the team.
The national soccer team invested huge sums of money and ended up missing the World Cup early and becoming a laughing stock.
Soccer has become a tool for personal gain for some and the lack of results has taken its toll on these people.
On November 26 last year, Li Tie was taken away for investigation. On January 19 this year, Liu Yi, the executive committee and former secretary general of the Football Association, was also investigated. On the same day, Chen Yongliang, executive deputy secretary general of the Football Association, was also taken away. As of now, the head of the FA, Chen Xuyuan, has also been taken away.
It is reported that more than a dozen people were taken away for investigation during this period. Within a short period of 80 days, all those associated with it have been investigated.
Perhaps, only by completely removing the "cancer cells" in the soccer world, the national football team can regain its life.
After a rigorous investigation, I believe the National Football League will get rid of some undesirable factors and move towards a healthy development.
Then someone cheered, "The dawn is coming!"
However, can the dawn really come for our national soccer team?
It's still an unknown!
As Liu Jianhong said, "The development of Chinese soccer is not helped by one person or a few people going in. Chinese soccer has no foundation, a chaotic system and no direction to move forward. If Chinese soccer is so wasteful, catching as many people as possible won't solve the problem."
China's soccer has been developing for decades, with a bumpy road and few achievements.
Until the national soccer team is cleared of some of its black sheep, the future remains uncertain.
Soccer, or soccer, we just can't have fun with it. It has never brought happiness to the fans except as a tool for some for personal gain.
How to put an end to corruption and prevent the national soccer team from being reduced to a tool for some people's personal gain is the crux of the matter.
Many people have worked hard for this, but with poor results. Chinese soccer has a long way to go and the wait is quite long.
