As long as half a year gap, China's men's national football team for the first time suffered a "long-lost vacuum state", on the contrary, the women's national football team is active in training, events and overseas training in various scenarios, frequently appear in the public eye. Recently, the work of the National Management Department of the Football Association has obviously favored women's football.
Men's soccer team out of the World Qualifier, no official matches for the time being, is it therefore intentionally avoided? Did the loss of the Asian Cup host status make preparations less urgent? These are not the underlying reasons for the disappearance of the men's soccer team.
It has been speculated that the disappearance of the men's national team may be a victim of the demands of the Chinese Super League. The women's soccer league, with its compact schedule and limited influence, is often forced to make way for the national team, while the Chinese Super League, although it has also made concessions for the men's soccer team before, can't go against the laws of the profession after all. Under the anti-epidemic policy, the men's national team will spend a lot of time if they normally transfer players to train and play, which involves issues such as immigration and quarantine, and will harm the interests of professional clubs and affect the normal progress of the Chinese Super League. The expansion of the Chinese Super League to 18 teams this season, the schedule is more intensive, the men's national team "disappeared" objectively contribute to the successful completion of the league.
However, this is not the real reason for the disappearance of the men's soccer team. This attitude of thinking for the sake of the league has not always been the practice of the parties concerned.
National soccer team's disappearance has little to do with poor performance
It is reported that the men's national football team delayed action is the direct cause: in the main leadership changes, the need to redesign, develop the management system, which is a personnel changes brought about by the "National Football League silence".
Gou Zhongwen, former director of the National Sports Bureau, stepped down in July after serving as head of the men's national team leadership group. Gou Zhongwen was the head of the men's national team's leadership team, which was responsible for the selection of the national team's head coach and other key decisions. The CFA did not have the same decision-making power as it did in the past few World Qualifiers.
It is a well-known fact that the General Administration and the Football Association have both cooperation and games in the management of the men's national football team. Therefore, when the head of the leading group stepped down, the distribution of responsibilities and powers of the management mechanism also needs to be readjusted. Before the straightening out, the tricky men's national team has become a vacuum that both sides consciously or unconsciously avoid, which is understandable. And a variety of objective circumstances, so that this "avoidance" appears more hidden.
According to FIFA's statutes, member associations are the governing bodies of their respective national teams, and member associations cannot be subject to the legal and political interference of their respective countries. Although it is difficult to have absolutely clear boundaries and standards here, it is a mainstream rule of operation in world soccer that associations are responsible for their national teams.
September 22, the new State General Administration of Sports Secretary Gao Zhidan in the CFA research for the first time publicly speaking on soccer. He said: "Football is the world's number one sport, is an important symbol of sports power, the development of soccer, not only to win in the world competition, but more importantly, to play the unique value of soccer in the people's mental outlook, enhance the sense of mission to fight for the country, and to promote the all-round development of young people and other aspects. It is important to fully realize the significance of good soccer work for the construction of a strong sports country and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."
In the doldrums, the National Football League needs games more than ever before
The outside world is concerned about how Gao Zhidan will deal with the Chinese men's soccer team that the outside world has been waiting for. It is reported: the management mechanism about the work of the national team, compared with the previous will certainly have changes, has been in the process of reformulation. Once the rationalization of the national team management system, the work of the men's national team will immediately enter the next cycle, including the selection of the new coach, the team's blood, the arrangement of warm-up matches, as well as the preparation for the Asian Cup.
Both World Cup teams like Japan and South Korea, and teams that have failed and then restarted like Vietnam, are methodically training and playing according to the FIFA schedule. Even the Russian men's soccer team, which has been banned by major international sports organizations, recently played a friendly match against Kyrgyzstan. The "silence" of the Chinese men's national soccer team does have some helplessness, it is caused by multiple reasons, but it is ultimately a kind of escape.
There is only one way to play the "world's number one sport" and it is impossible to find another way. The Chinese men's soccer team will always have to face it.
