However, in recent years, our men's soccer team, instead of seeing improvement, has hit rock bottom.
In the old days, we were firmly in the top ranks of Asian soccer, with only a few countries such as Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran being able to marginally outperform each other, and the gap was not that wide.
However, to date, the level of the national football team has fallen to the ranks of Asia's second and third rate, and the gap between Japan and South Korea's soccer is widening day by day.
According to the past position of the national football team in Asia, after the expansion of the World Cup, we should have been easily among them. However, now ranked thirteenth in Asia, the World Cup quota allocation is simply impossible to reach 13.
Van Tino knows the national soccer team like the back of his hand, and as president of FIFA, he is mostly encouraging, and this criticism is rare and hits the nail on the head.
Whenever witnessing the national football team in recent years soccer's dramatic slide, those who erode the moths of Chinese soccer will surface.
Over the past year and two years, the relevant authorities have thoroughly rectified corruption and falsehoods in Chinese soccer.
DU Zhaocai, CHEN Xuyuan, LI Yuyi, YU Hongchen, and so on, who used to be the navigators of the soccer sector, have pushed soccer into the abyss due to their selfish desires, and their crimes are clearly revealed.
Now, most of these people have been duly punished, but Chinese soccer still needs time to heal its wounds.
Li Tie, as one of the members taken away for investigation, his special status is striking.
On the level, Li Tie is not as good as Chen Xuyuan and others, but its harm and the degree of corruption is even greater. He did whatever he wanted in the key position of the national team manager, suspected of huge sums of money, can be said to be the biggest culprits of the national football team "injury".
It has now been seven months since Li Tie's first trial, the outcome of which is usually revealed within three months, and in serious cases no more than six months, according to regulations. The fact that Li Tie's case has dragged on for more than six months, and that he faces a very high probability of a reprieve or even the death penalty, is, in a way, not a welcome outcome.
