On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Chinese men's soccer team unexpectedly lost to Vietnam, and the captain Wu Xi, in an interview, attributed the consumption of sea cucumbers by the international players as the cause of the defeat, which triggered widespread public accusations. Recently, Liu Jianhong, a well-known soccer commentator, sharply analyzed the misconceptions of Chinese soccer in his personal program, such as the belief that poor performance should not enjoy sea cucumbers and luxury cars, and even compared soccer education to the coddling of Haidian's mother, bluntly stating that these concepts are worrisome.
Liu Jianhong elaborated his point of view in the form of a metaphor: "If your math scores are among the best on campus, but the school has a bad reputation in the area, once the school recommended you to participate in the national math competition, you unexpectedly lost, were crushed, and returned to the country devastated, at this time, you find that the attitudes of the people around you changed, the principal blamed you, the teacher questioned you, the parents wondered why sea cucumber eating More grades are still bad, classmates laugh at you, is this not the current situation of Chinese soccer?"
Liu Jianhong further pointed out, "Among the many misunderstandings about soccer, the most terrible is the belief that players do not work hard enough, do not become talented, should not enjoy sea cucumbers, luxury cars, should not wear high-grade watches, should not take private jets, should not stay in luxury hotels. As long as the results are poor, everything becomes a sin. However, have we ever thought that this student was trained by us, and we did not give them excellent teachers, a good teaching environment, teaching aids and teaching materials, and did not let them undergo rigorous training and competition from an early age, and they eventually performed poorly in the examination room."
Liu Jianhong questioned, "Instead of reflecting on the educational philosophies of schools, teachers, and principals, we blame all the problems on the participating students and shift the responsibility to them, so that we can have an easy time? How long are we going to linger in this circle?"
Can soccer be saved by including it in the college entrance exam? Liu Jianhong put it bluntly: "Why can only soccer enter the college entrance examination? Why can't volleyball, ice hockey, table tennis, badminton and other programs that also need more talent? There is a huge obstacle in this logic itself."
According to Liu Jianhong, "It's not that soccer should enter the college entrance exams, but that all sports should have a foothold. Soccer should enter colleges and universities, so that sports have enough status and space in higher education. Only in this way can our education system form a complete chain."
In response to a suggestion to leave soccer to Haidian mothers, Liu Jianhong asked rhetorically, "Are Haidian mothers willing to send their children to play soccer? With no way out of soccer, are they still willing? Soccer is different from studying, it requires more collisions and competition, are you willing to let your child get hurt often? Do our parents have such courage and a strong heart?" Liu emphasized, "It's not about giving soccer to Haidian mothers, but about having all parents support their children to exercise on the soccer field and develop their communication skills, team spirit and mentality to face difficulties, which is more important for the development of Chinese soccer."
