Dumbfounded, the news of New Oriental's plummeting share price came into view, the degree of misery, simply unbearable to look at, more bleak than the Philippines 10-meter diving platform loss.
However, what one would never expect is that our women's soccer team's record is even worse than that.
For our women's soccer team, the challenge of 2021 is even tougher than that of 2020. In the first half of the year, they were the resplendent roses that blossomed again; while in the second half of the year, the performance of the girls made it difficult for me to find an appropriate word to describe them, only regret.
In the past, whenever the men's soccer team lost, I never minced words in criticizing it because emotional outbursts during a loss seemed like a reasonable option. But what can we say when women's soccer loses?
Chastisement? I can't bear to do it, life is hard enough for women's soccer girls, and they're all good for sticking it out.
Consolation? Honestly speaking, if we console the women's soccer team for conceding 17 goals in three matches, who will console us? It's like eating a hot bun, you can't spit it out, you can't swallow it, and your heart is full of disappointment.
But such strong emotions always need a vent, so I saw that suddenly appeared on the microblogging "heartache Wang Frost" hot search? This is ridiculous.
You feel sorry for Wang Frost? Don't the rest of the team deserve it? Aren't those Peng Shimeng who had their doors broken down 17 times worth the heartache? (As for Mr. Jia Xiuquan, maybe it's a different story, but that's for another article.)
Is this kind of favoritism really good?
I am not denying Wang Frost's ability and her fighting spirit. When only the last 5 seconds of the game were left and the Dutch team attacked, all the other Chinese players had lazily waited for the end of the game, only Wang Frost gritted her teeth and sprinted all the way to catch up ......
There is no doubt that our women's soccer team is lucky to have Wang Frost. But the question is whether this luck is a ten-year, twenty-year, thirty-year, or fifty-year, fifty-year fortune.
If it's the blessing of the decade, then this Olympic fiasco is nothing, because maybe we'll see two Wangs side by side at the next Olympics.
Not bad if it's a twenty-year blessing. Look at France, who won the World Cup in 1998, went through all sorts of slumps, and finally won it again in 2018 thanks to an influx of super-talent. Applied to women's soccer here, it's the same thing. After all, twenty years ago, we were world runners-up.
But if it's thirty or fifty years ...... then it's unimaginable.
Therefore, the problem of our women's soccer team, or the problem of Chinese soccer, does not lie in whether or not to feel sorry for Wang Frost, but in how to cultivate more Wang Frost.
How to cultivate? Definitely cannot rely on probability, nor on the FA, nor on the system. What we should believe in is the environment, the soil.
On July 24, a document entitled "Guiding Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Homework on Students in Compulsory Education and the Burden of Out-of-School Training" was released. The highlight of this opinion is the requirement that "existing discipline-based training institutions be uniformly registered as non-profit institutions" and the provision of off-campus training institutions:
The first one cannot charge high fees and the second one cannot be listed for financing.
In addition, the news of a real estate company bursting into flames again and the disappearance of school districts have all released a signal to varying degrees:
At least at the institutional level, the State should completely eliminate the secondary factors that give rise to "chicken children", so that parents can relax their nervousness. Let learning become a process, not a purpose, let education become the cornerstone of realizing the meaning of life, not a ladder for fame and fortune.
From this perspective, New Oriental's plunge may be a good thing for Chinese soccer.
Nerves are relaxed, homework is reduced, the pressure of the future is lessened, and more children will have time to go to the playground, the field, the training ground. To be strong and fit, to dream, in short, to love.
With more love, more Wang Frosts will emerge.
There was a hot quote at this year's Olympics:
Fortunately we have one Wang Frost, unfortunately we only have one Wang Frost.
With the right environment, in the near future, Wang Frost will no longer be a case, an out-and-out star, but a dream army belonging to China.
