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if my memory is not rusty, in the more than 20 years that i have been watching chinese football, except for the historic first entry into the world cup in 2002, whenever talking about every failure of chinese football, the so-called industry experts almost always convey and emphasize one point to the fans: the lowest point of chinese football is actually far from coming.

please note that this view applies to every failure of the chinese national football team, the national olympic team, the national youth team and the national junior team in their respective competitions. the fundamental and only basis for the experts' emphasis on the fact that the lowest point in chinese football has not yet arrived is that even if chinese football is rotten to the core, this is not the worst time yet, because there is no successor and each generation is worse than the previous one.

what's even more sad is that this seemingly absurd yet cruel view has been used on chinese football for more than 20 years, but there is still no sign of it stopping. not only that, the signs of intensification reached a peak on september 10th, and the reason is self-evident.

i don't know what the authorities were thinking, but they chose to announce the disciplinary punishment of 61 football practitioners involved in the case in dalian yesterday morning. almost ten hours later, in the same city, despite unexpectedly taking the lead, the opponent having one less player, the referee obviously favoring us, and saudi arabia being so weak that it makes people want to laugh, and having almost everything in place, time and people, the chinese national football team still lost to saudi arabia 1-2.

of course you can argue that the main responsibility for the chinese national team's loss lies with the on-the-spot dispatch of head coach ivankovic. after all, the players on the field have done everything they should do. i certainly don't deny this point of view, but unfortunately, competitive sports only look at results, and all the lessons learned are left to the losing side.

you can also analyze why the chinese football association chose to appoint ivankovic. but then again, no one dares to take over the local coach, nor does he have the ability to do so. the foreign coach you like may not like you, and he can't offer a high salary. who else can chinese football look for?

i am not excusing ivan, nor am i making excuses for the people who appointed ivan. i just want to emphasize why we always fail to find the right head coach. what is the problem? if we keep arguing about it, it will only drive chinese fans crazy.

in the past few years, judging by the results, apart from milu, which head coach finally left the chinese national football team with a smile? even milu was criticized for his three defeats in the world cup. on the day he left china, no official from the football association went to the airport to see him off.

if we only analyze the results and yesterday's anti-gang storm, chinese football is back to the original question: is the lowest point still far away? if so, when will the lowest point come?

i am tired of this stubborn problem that has plagued chinese football for more than 20 years, and i can't give a clear answer. after all, chinese football always makes mistakes over and over again, and fails over and over again.

after every failure, we always fall into reflection and review, and feel deeply sad. youth training has not been done for many years, system problems, the league level is too low, local coaches are incompetent, foreign coaches do not understand china, players have no blood, long-term closed training, leaders are too involved... it is no exaggeration to say that any point you can think of as to why chinese football is weak has actually been hyped countless times by fans and the media, but is it useful?

in 2009, a crackdown on gambling scandals shook the industry, but only 15 years later, the second scandal broke out. in the long history of football, there have been scandals of gambling scandals in both highly professional europe and the more casual south america, but it is rare for such a short interval, wide range of impact, and large scale to happen in chinese football.

as a fan and as a chinese, i don’t expect chinese football to achieve brilliant results. i just hope that it can stay on the right and normal path instead of becoming a laughing stock of this society. that’s all.

in view of this, i sincerely hope that the so-called lowest point in chinese football will come soon and disappear quickly.