Recently, the online debate between Gong Hanlin and former national football captain Feng Xiaoting seems to have triggered a fervor of discussion between the entertainment circle and the soccer circle, but in fact, it has aroused the public's empathy for the "pain of Chinese football": how to crack the code of the plight of men's football?
In recent years, these kinds of debates have been commonplace, but the hotly debated topics have always centered around one core: "Where is the future of men's soccer?"
When an avalanche hits, no snowflake is innocent. A soccer system is only as good as the performance of everyone in it. In the aftermath of a loss, there is a greater need for someone to step up and say "I'm in charge" - and that's not for the cookie-cutter. Avoiding responsibility, getting frustrated and taking it out on the critics is not an option.
The loss to Vietnam on the first day of the year was but a microcosm of the continuing decline of men's soccer over the last 20 years. Since our first World Cup appearance in 2002, we have not maintained our momentum, but instead have rapidly declined, becoming lost and disorganized. During this period, whether it is at home in the Asian Cup runner-up, or in the World Qualifier blowout victory over South Korea, just one step short of entering the play-offs, can not change the men's football team's overall downward trend: from the first class in Asia to the Asian X-stream, from the talented to the green and yellow ......
Analyzed objectively and rationally, this decline is not the result of several losses and individual players and coaches. Continuing to stand still and keep hitting the wall can only show that there is a fundamental problem in the development of soccer. Find out the cause of the disease, take strong medicine, and even self-renewal, bone healing, has become a task that can not be delayed. Because this is the key to the courage, the more frustrated, the more courageous.
Today, the key to the men's football out of the fog is to firmly embark on the path of deepening soccer reform. The so-called reform, not yesterday the implementation of the "U23" policy, today to encourage the stay in the ocean; yesterday the reuse of foreign marshals, today favors the local marshals; a moment to emulate Brazil, a moment to learn from the European ...... but with decades of solidity and bottom line, originally in accordance with the reform of the national football team! Development planning to promote the reform process as a whole.
Reform cannot be achieved overnight. In the process of mistakes, take a detour are not terrible, the terrible thing is to lose the courage to "push back". At present, around the selection of managers, playing style and portal and the technical discussion is important, but the problem-oriented, sorting out all the factors that hinder the development of the national football team, comprehensive management, is the most important thing. The aforementioned program has been implemented for several years, combined with the actual situation to find the problems and weaknesses, to find the details of the "deviation", targeted to improve the system of policy, it is urgent.
The "Feng Gong dispute" has inadvertently revealed the negativity that pervades both inside and outside the soccer circle. It is our common expectation that the pace of reform will be accelerated to change the landscape, boost morale and increase the confidence of the whole society in the development of soccer.
