The restoration of the professional league is particularly tricky in the face of the grand social context and the actual situation. Despite the fact that the Preparatory Team of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and the Football Association (FA) have been doing their best, even when Beijing and other places have been affected by the epidemic, the staff of the Preparatory Team and the FA have been working hard in the midst of the closure and control, and they have been keeping in close contact with the clubs and the competition areas through the online means to deal with various matters. However, numerous matters were not entirely decided by the Preparatory Team or the FA. In fact, there is a deeper issue involved in the process, namely jurisdictional authority. In the past, when outsiders discussed the lack of rise of Chinese soccer, they often used the term "one set of team, two brands" to describe it, thinking that there are problems in the management system of Chinese soccer. The introduction of the overall plan for the reform and development of Chinese soccer, clearly put forward "in accordance with the separation of government and society, clear powers and responsibilities, the principle of autonomy in accordance with the law to adjust the formation of the Chinese Football Association, to change the Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sport Football Sports Administration Center of the organization of the two brands, a set of people," clear Chinese Football Association and the General Administration of Sport decoupled, and the Association does not have an administrative level. The association does not have an administrative level. This seems to clarify the position and function of the association as a legal person. However, as an association legal person, the CFA has encountered brand new challenges in the reality of China's social development. Take the centralized tournament system that the Chinese Super League had to adopt after the epidemic as an example. In determining the tournament area, the preparatory team or the FA was always at a disadvantage when negotiating with the localities. Since the FA is only a social organization, while the localities are led by government departments, the local government departments may pay more attention, or reciprocate, only if the administrative sports authorities take the lead. This is determined by the administrative management system of our society as a whole. At that time, under the epidemic situation, the principle of "whoever organizes, whoever is responsible, whoever approves, whoever is responsible" was adopted for collective activities such as soccer matches. As the Football Association or the preparatory group, of course, can say "I host I am responsible for", but the problem is that the Football Association does not have "territorial management rights", that is, the specific hosting of the tournament area, the tournament does not belong to the Football Association, which there is a "management There is a "management gap" in the middle of the problem. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the preparatory group and the Football Association contacted so many cities in the hope that they can host the Chinese Super League, the Chinese A League or the Chinese B League, but ultimately agreed to host not many cities. Against the backdrop of the current anti-epidemic campaign, it is of course normal and understandable that many cities refuse to host the tournament, as soccer is not a top priority in the construction and development of an entire city. This is the reality of Chinese soccer. In the eyes of the uninformed outside world, I am afraid that it is biased to simply attribute all the problems to Chinese soccer or the Football Association (FA) because of their incompetence, inefficiency and incompetent leadership. After all, the Association has no possibility to exercise government or administrative functions, just a "community organization". Therefore, China's soccer wants to really make a breakthrough and change, how to solve this fundamental problem in the change has been imminent.
One of the very real reasons why it has been so difficult to restart the Chinese Super League is that the tournament has not been finalized so far. At that time, Chinese soccer was at a low ebb, and a consensus among both the preparatory team and the FA was that they wanted the 2022 professional league to be complete, and did everything they could to ensure that it would be played on a home-and-away basis. But the recurrence of the epidemic forced the idea of a home-and-away system back to a centralized tournament system. Forced to adopt the centralized tournament system, the preparatory team and the Football Association had to re-examine the tournament zones, i.e., it was hoped that the 18 teams participating in this year's Chinese Super League could be divided into three groups according to the previous year's results in a serpentine fashion, as was done in the previous year's Chinese League, and then arrange for the 18 teams to play as many as possible for the full 34 rounds of matches. That would require at least three divisions. Therefore, the preparatory group and the Football Association to join hands with the inspection team has examined the Meizhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming and other cities, but many cities have withdrawn, so far the legend has finalized the Meizhou, Dalian, two districts as well as pending Shandong Rizhao district and so on, which involves this article said earlier to the issue of territorial management. The finalization of the tournament area is not just a matter of approval by the municipal government department of the city location area, but also needs to be reported to the higher government department for approval and fulfill a series of formalities. Only after the approval is granted by the higher level government will the relevant public security, epidemic prevention and many other departments do their best to cooperate. Only then can a city willing to host the tournament give formal feedback to the preparatory team or the FA on whether or not to host the tournament. The process is quite complicated, just as Wuhan was rumored to host the opening ceremony of this year's Chinese Super League, but Wuhan ended up not even being the venue because the process was not completed and the news was spread first, which was ultimately embarrassing. On another level, the reason for the delay in finalizing the hosting of the Chinese Super League is that there is another very important situation, which is that both the preparatory team and the Football Association would like to host the tournament to a higher standard. After all, although the tournament system is adopted, the Chinese Super League is the highest level of Chinese soccer, during which there is also a problem of broadcasting to foreign countries. A high standard will benefit the image of the entire Chinese Super League, the image of the city in which the tournament takes place, and even the image of the country as a whole. Like the women's super league, women's A, women's B league have now successfully opened or about to open, compared to the requirements are not very high, because it does not involve the issue of external communication, so the game is played in the base. But now, the Chinese Super League has been delayed in finalizing the tournament, from the organizer's point of view, or hope that the game as far as possible all arranged in the stadium, and this also facilitates the broadcast equipment set up, etc., in the hope of allowing viewers and fans to see the league better, more positive side.
Chinese soccer people in the valley in the face of reality did not choose to give up, but it must be said, a variety of objective factors, off-field factors are often defensible, the so-called "ideal is full, the reality is very bone", and the plan will never be able to catch up with the changes. Like the preparatory group and the Football Association has been expecting this year's Chinese Super League in the end of the 12 strong, the national team back to the end of the isolation immediately after the full launch, expect to be able to fully restore the home and away system, you can play a full 34 rounds. And all parties are working together, including the clubs playing in the AFC Champions League to send the youth army to play, but also expect to not affect the domestic league. However, the epidemic rebounded and the pressure to prevent the epidemic soared, so that the various programs had to be changed again. Therefore, the scheduled restart of the Chinese Super League has been postponed indefinitely, which is completely beyond the control of the preparatory team and the Football Association. Including the two teams in Shanghai on the 7th and 8th have left Shanghai, Dalian, is also after a lot of exchanges and coordination to be able to travel. Do not experience it, it is difficult to appreciate the effort. Then, for example, like how to deal with the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Association for the U23 national football team can better prepare for the war, from last year onwards planning, so that the troops in March this year can be successfully followed by the national football team together with the west, and finally let the troops in the interval of nearly three years for the first time to play on the international warm-up matches. Subsequently, how to better prepare for the Asian Games, the Football Association and the troops have been meeting with each other to study, including coordination with the preparatory group of personnel transfer, the response of the league and so on. But now, with the official postponement of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, so that all kinds of previous preparations look to be doing useless, and the outside world will not mind how much the parties paid during this period, but the preparation of the U23 troops will not be because of the postponement of the Asian Games and do not need to continue. Frankly speaking, similar to these objective factors, off-field factors really can not be prevented. But no matter what, Chinese soccer still has to survive, and Chinese soccer people will not let soccer disappear from our society. The epidemic has changed many things in our society, but just as our country will not stop the pace of progress and development because of the epidemic, Chinese soccer will still be strong and survive, and this year's Chinese Super League will surely come back into the lives of fans and people.
