With the dust settling from the four rounds of the 12-team tournament, the Chinese national team ranked second to last in the group with a record of one win and three losses, accumulating only three points, and drifting away from qualifying for the tournament. In the Sohu sports interview program, senior media person Ma Dexing bluntly said that the national team's current performance is the norm, not surprising. On the Li Tie coach's stay and go, he believes that this is not our influence, no need to worry too much, the status quo of Chinese soccer is not one or two coaches or players can be swayed.
Talking about the issue of Li Tie's stay and departure, Madsen emphasized: "I can't give a clear opinion, and it's obvious that the coach's stay and departure is not decided by us. I have been engaged in the soccer industry for 30 years, and I have called for numerous dismissals and classes, but what is the use? There is no substantial change in who is dismissed and who attends classes after so many years. It's not for us to decide, and since it's not our responsibility, there's no need to be overly concerned, that's my personal opinion."
Regarding Li Tie's coaching ability and level, Madsen said, "At least so far, the national team's games and level are basically in line with the pre-tournament expectations and the overall situation. The current ranking is normal, as are the other groups. Ranking first Iran, second South Korea, as early as before the 12 strong match, we predicted that the team that can represent Asia to participate in the World Cup in Qatar is South Korea, Japan, Iran, Australia and Saudi Arabia. 2018 is such a team, 2014 less Saudi Arabia, and then forward is still these five teams. So it's no surprise that China is at the bottom of the rankings. What's unusual about China winning a game they should have won is Vietnam, and losing against all three other teams? Given the overall situation, there is no need to dwell on other details. In a few days, the latest FIFA rankings will be revealed on October 21, when you can pay attention to the scores of Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan, Iran and South Korea, whose scores are either more than 1,500 or 1,400, while we only have more than 1,300, FIFA's rankings are not aimless, there are reasons and justifications."
The change of Chinese soccer in 30 years, Ma Dexing lamented: "I have followed Chinese soccer for 30 years, 30 years ago, we are discussing who should be dismissed, who should take classes, who should be in the national team, who should not be in the national team. 30 years later, we are still discussing who should be the head coach, whether it is a local coach or a foreign coach, which is meaningless. Now Chinese soccer is not a problem of one coach or one player at all, nor is it a problem that can be solved by a few coaches and a few players. If coaches and a few players could change Chinese soccer, Chinese soccer wouldn't be the way it is now. It's not something we can decide, so let's not think about it."
About Li Tie on the use of naturalized players, Ma Dexing pointed out that: "the arrival of naturalized players is not to let the overall level of Chinese soccer has a qualitative leap, these naturalized players just let the Chinese soccer and the national team to show the downward trend and the speed of delay a little bit, is not to let the Chinese soccer with the level of Qatar World Cup, but just to let the decline of the speed of slowing down a little bit, rather than the overall speed of the upward elevation. Let's not face the reality that Chinese soccer has not cultivated talents in the past ten or twenty years, and can only fill the vacancy of talents with the help of naturalization, instead of letting the level of Chinese soccer rise."
Talking about the national team players, Madsen mentioned the "barrel theory", "don't you think the national team has short boards in many positions? It's not just one position. For example, Li Tie is a midfielder, can run, belongs to the attacking players, you say now the national team who is an attacking player, who is doing the dirty work? Not only the national team, but also the Chinese Super League is hard to find. Everyone says that the center backs Jiang Guangtai and Zhang Linpeng, apart from these two, you can find another one, there is Feng Xiaoting in the last session, you can find another Feng Xiaoting out, and you can find another one in the side backs, if Stanley Wong didn't have two assists in the game against Vietnam, he would have been scolded too. You get the feeling that the national team should be naturalized in all 11 positions. Just like now are saying, Li Tie four games played down not even a fixed starting lineup, four games changed four lineups, but in two years ago, some people are also saying, Lippi 40 games did not change, not targeted, are a lineup. All said and done are bad results, a mouth two layers of skin, say more meaningless."
