Sharjah's Pain: The National Football Team's Journey Through Adversity
Contrasts are stark, and injuries are inevitable. The national football team is in Group B, five rivals have been in the home stadium to start the competition, and the group leader of the Saudi Arabian team, in October to face Japan and China, the number of home fans more than 50,000, the results are naturally significant. In contrast, five months ago, the national football team suffered a similar predicament, head coach Li Tie clever use of advertising slogans to motivate the team, emphasizing that "where you are, where the home is." Now that the situation is critical, but the loss of home field advantage, Li Tie compared the national football team to "homeless children", long-term away from home and fans, the spirit of solidarity seems to have been eroded.
The West Asia trip, the national football team chartered a plane to the United Arab Emirates in the early hours of November 7, and Australia's game the next day that is to return to isolation, the whole team stayed in West Asia not more than two weeks. Loss of time, place and people, the outside world and the internal are counting on Sharjah "blessed" name, but ignored the opponent's strength and intention. The face of the upcoming Oman and Australia, shouting the impact of four points or even six consecutive victories in the slogan, but exposed the strength of the national football team positioning of the unrealistic and vain.
The national football team has always had a fragile mentality and may need one-on-one counseling to be able to face the game in a positive frame of mind. in October, they had hoped to return to Suzhou to play in an empty stadium, but now the environment has changed drastically, and off-field negativity is difficult to digest in a short period of time. The two tests in Sharjah, if they lose, the blessed land will turn into a sad place.
Butterfly effect: a season of national football in tatters
National football "home" relocation, domestic events are also affected. The national football team to complete two games back to the country after the need to isolate 14 + 7 days, meaning that the national footballers to restore the freedom of time in December 8 or so. In this way, the plan to restart the Chinese Super League in early December will have to be postponed, coupled with the end of January next year, there is also the Japanese team's matches, the national football team needs to stay in training for about 20 days, the second phase of the Chinese Super League is inevitably compressed.
The current contingency plan is that the second phase of the 8 rounds of the Super League will start on December 13th and end on January 4th of the following year. According to the plan, there will be only 2 days between each round of matches, and the participating teams will continue to play according to the rhythm of "2 rounds in 3 days". In addition, the Chinese Super League, the Central League elevation play-offs will be held after the end of the regular Super League matches. 2021 season of the domestic clubs may be delayed until the end of the sequence of matches in mid-January next year. In the environment of the national football team's impact on the World Cup, once the dream is shattered, the league is bound to suffer a heavy blow in the short term, and Chinese soccer still can't see the light in the darkness. (Zhuo Aoyou)
