October 17, when the Beijing time, a let hundreds of millions of fans heartbreak moment came, China's national football team ushered in an unprecedented turning point, the situation is more and more serious.
Shortly after Song Kai, the new president of the Chinese Football Association (CFA), assumed his duties, the team suffered a sudden and heavy defeat to Uzbekistan. The fans' reaction was more embarrassing than the score on the field. After the game, goal hero Wei Shihao pleaded with everyone to stop cheering for them as they fight for their country, not asking for everyone's support, but hoping to stop fighting for them and cheering for their opponents. He hopes that this will not happen again.
A superstar of the national football team issued such a sad feeling after the game. Why did Wei Shihao say this? That's because more and more people are disappointed in the national soccer team and no longer support it. Some people are even too lazy to curse. When the national soccer team lost attention, even passers-by no longer discuss, that is the most desperate moment, China's national soccer team has fallen into this situation.
From June to October, the national soccer team participated in six warm-up matches with declining crowds, especially after the turning point. First, in June, the national soccer team's matches against Myanmar and Palestine drew large crowds. With 27,000 people in Myanmar and more than 16,000 in Palestine, the average crowd was about 22,000, with more than 20,000 loyal fans on hand to support each game.
In those two matches, the national team crushed Myanmar 6:0 and 4:0 and beat Palestine 2:0. Then came the warm-up match against Malaysia in September, in which Malaysia, ranked 136th in the world, was held to a draw, with 26,000 fans on hand to follow the national soccer team. They were looking forward to witnessing a victory, but were disappointed to end with a 1:1 scoreline. After the match, the number of spectators for the national soccer team dropped drastically from 26,000 to 12,000, and some people even threw bottles at the location where the national soccer team retired from the field to vent their disappointment.
Starting with Malaysia the crowds have dropped dramatically, a few days ago in Vietnam there were only 9,212 fans, it was the first time a national soccer live and support crowd was even in 5 figures, only thousands of people backed them and then played 2:0. next up was the previous game against Uzbekistan, there were 12,868 fans on the field. Can you see where the turning point was? It was the end of the kicking of Malaysia.
In the first three games, the national soccer team averaged 23,000 spectators. After Malaysia, the crowd totaled about 30,000 for the three games, averaging only 10,000 per game. It was a turning point where you don't understand the abuse of food and the fans were finally disappointed. If that's still the only fans on hand to cheer on the subsequent national soccer team's home matches in the World Qualifiers, then I fear the match against South Korea will be a close one.
