Recently, Kung and the former
national soccer team
Captain Feng Xiaoting's online exchange, ostensibly a topic of focus in the entertainment and soccer worlds, has set off a profound discussion about Chinese soccer: "How to solve the riddle of the men's soccer dilemma?"
In recent years, such debates have been frequent, and although the war of words has been intense, the core question has always been the same - "where is the future of men's soccer?"
No snowflakes are innocent in an avalanche. The success or failure of a soccer system lies in the performance of everyone in the system. After a loss, it's even more important for someone to step up and be brave - no need for a songwriter to take the blame.
The loss against Vietnam on the first day of the New Year is just a microcosm of the men's soccer team's nearly 20-year decline. Since 2002, when they first broke into the
World Cup
Since then, we did not continue to brilliant, but rather a sharp downward spiral into confusion and chaos. During the period, whether it is home to win the Asian Cup runners-up, or the last World Qualifier nearly advanced to the play-offs, can not change the trend of the overall decline of men's football: from the first-class in Asia to the marginalized, from the talent to the green and yellow ......
Objectively speaking, this decline is not a matter of individual losses or players or coaches. Stepping in place, hitting the south wall, exposing the fundamental problems of soccer development. Identify the cause of the disease, apply strong medicine, and even self-reinvention, can not be delayed, which is the necessary conditions for the courage, the more frustrated, the more courageous.
Today, the fundamental path of men's football out of the fog, is still firmly on the road of soccer reform. Reform is not the "U23" policy, not today's foreign marshal, tomorrow's local marshal swing, but for decades as one day to do a good job of solidity and confidence, is strictly in accordance with China's soccer reform and development plan to promote the reform as a whole.
Reform is not a quick fix. Mistakes, twists and turns are not terrible, the terrible thing is to lose the courage to "push back". At present, the discussion around the selection of managers, playing style, portal is certainly important, but more important is problem-oriented, comprehensive sorting out the factors hindering the development of Chinese soccer, targeted to improve the strategy, can not be delayed.
The "Feng Gong dispute" has inadvertently exposed the negative sentiment in the soccer circle. Accelerating the pace of reform, changing the face, boosting morale and increasing the confidence of the whole society in the cause of soccer are the goals we all look forward to.
