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i see a lot of people asking a question:

why do people still watch the chinese national football team even though it is so bad?

the answer is actually very simple, because football is a world sport.

it’s a world sport, so there are always people watching.

in contrast, there are many sports in which we have done very well and which seem to be very popular during the olympics, but no one is interested in them at ordinary times.

no one watches it, only during the olympics when people gather to watch it.

this is actually not about watching the sport itself, you just want to see chinese people beating up foreigners.

when it comes to football, everything must first be understood from the perspective of “world sport”.

since it is a world sport, you must speak the world language when playing it, and you cannot speak in dialect.

the author zhang sanfeng said it interestingly, there are two types of languages, one is the "world language" and the other is the "dialect".

in comparison, martial arts is not a world sport, so we don’t have to speak the world language.

have you noticed that if our martial arts masters lose a fight, many people will often say:

“the people who come on stage do not represent our top level at all. the top players are all in the mountains.”

"kung fu is a killing technique. we can't defeat it because we are not allowed to kill people."

"we are forced to use foreign rules, which is unfair. why can't we touch the crotch and kick the buttocks?"

"why do we have to wear boxing gloves? it affects our acupoint pressing..."

"ambush, cheat, and beat me, old man..."

these are dialects. because it is not a world sport, we can lose without speaking the world language.

but it is not the same in football. if a football match is lost, how many fans will say: wu lei, zhang yuning and others do not represent the highest level of chinese football, and the old guy in the mountains can play better?

football is a killing skill. wang dalei can’t kill people, so he suffers a loss?

we use foreign football rules, which is unfair. we should use chinese rules. if we kick the ball in, we lose?

there are very few such voices, right? even if there are, they won't make a big difference, and no one with a normal mind would believe them. not only would they not believe them, they would probably laugh at them for being stupid.

again, because football is the world language.

that's the trouble. if we could just speak our dialect, we would have won the game long ago.

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now that you understand this, let’s move on to the following:

why is football always going wrong?

not only is it not going well, but since the 21st century, the number of football players has been decreasing and the environment has been getting worse?

fans gave many reasons: fake gambling, poor players' willpower, eating too many sea cucumbers... and so on.

these are not the fundamental reasons, they are just superficial.

let’s talk about fake gambling, gangs and corruption.

if the football association was run by an honest official, even if it was bao gong, would football be promoted? do you have confidence?

you cannot understand the question of "why is football not doing well" only from a superficial perspective.

it must be understood from the fundamental working method of party a.

what is party a? not only the football association is considered party a, but also various localities, cities, and departments.

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what is party a’s fundamental idea when doing things?

to sum it up in one sentence: allocate and utilize resources in the most efficient way.

remember the key is two words: efficiency.

what is efficiency?

it means completing the most important kpi at the fastest speed. this is called efficiency. anything else is called inefficiency.

then you can understand the problem with football.

for example, in "dream of red mansions", there is a piece of land between ningguo mansion and rongguo mansion. what should this land be used for?

the answer is definitely to build the grand view garden.

because sister yuanchun is coming to visit her parents, right?

building the grand view garden is called efficiency. even if the money spent is like a sea, even if yuanchun only comes to take a look and then leaves, it is still efficiency.

but what if it is used to play football for mingyan or even baner?

you are crazy, right? anyone who dares to do this will be beaten to death by master zhen.

because this is called inefficiency. not only is it inefficient, it is actually negative, and it makes everyone lose their minds.

jin yong donated a library, why did it have to be demolished before? because it seemed inefficient to leave it there.

in party a's working mindset, all resources must be used and allocated in the most efficient - second most efficient - more efficient way.

resources, that happen to be very scarce.

football, however, is something that is extremely inefficient, does not produce kpis, yet takes up a huge amount of resources and is very luxurious.

it's just like putting a treadmill in your 80-square-meter room.

some people are not convinced and ask why football does not produce kpis? don’t the three major sports need to be improved? here is the following.

the football mentioned here refers to the football that your child can play. it is extremely inefficient and does not produce kpi at all.

of course i can only stand aside!

compared to other sports, such as golf, you can sell houses.

therefore, in the past few years, not only did we not need encouragement, but we had to stop and put the brakes on it, otherwise local governments would always secretly want to develop golf.

but what can we sell if we build a baseball field, facilities, and let children play football? what can we attract?

"a good room at the stadium, the sound of glass breaking in the middle of the night, a life of surprises?"

how inefficient!

what kind of sports can your kids play and have fun with? to put it bluntly, it's what party a has found.

either they are not taken care of, or they are not valued, or they can be done as a side job without taking up resources. that's fine.

for example, a ping-pong table is simple, and any developer with a conscience will give you two.

for example, badminton is not that difficult to play.

these are what can slip through the gaps between fingers.

but everyone plays football? are you kidding!

resources should be used where they are needed most and on kpis!

why do people born in the 1980s always feel that they played a lot of football when they were young and were very happy?

one of the reasons is that party a was not able to take care of it at that time and had not yet grabbed all the resources. a lot of resources slipped through their fingers, so mingyan and ban'er still had room to make trouble.

when the grand view garden, the middle view garden and the small view garden become kpis, do you still want to play football?

if you want to exercise, go jump up the stairs.

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some people will definitely say, that’s not right, sports is also one of the kpis, don’t you want to do it well?

well, now let us invite the former party a representative, director gou zhongwen, to come on stage.

director gou wants to develop sports. how will he allocate the resources at his disposal?

as before, "distribute in the most efficient way." remember, efficiency is the key.

for example, he himself said: gold medal, gold medal, gold medal!

“the project center is built for gold medals.”

“if the project center doesn’t win a gold medal, there is no need for it to exist.”

“the general administration has no reason to exist unless it wins a gold medal.”

"winning a gold medal is the general administration's job responsibility and it is its lifeline."

to be honest, what people care about is the gold medal, not how your child plays football.

in order to win the gold medal, you can temporarily try rock climbing, surfing, skateboarding, and bmx.

how many people in china like to surf? have your children ever played surfing?

no matter what, we can “recruit talents across fields”. can’t those who practice high jumping change to surfing?

by the same token, those who learn martial arts can be forced to practice skiing, and those who practice long jump can be forced to practice skeleton.

to defeat ding chunqiu, one cannot start from training the basics, it would be enough to just directly initiate the power on xu zhu.

if “cross-border talent selection” fails, we can still naturalize. just gu ailing can solve the problem!

who cares about your child's football problem? that's not efficient.

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you may say again, that’s not right, gold medals are important, but the three major balls are also important.

doesn’t the football association, one of the parties, want to improve football?

think about it, what should i do?

the same old saying comes up again - allocate resources in the most efficient way.

the chinese national football team is not good at heading? well, the league stipulates that one header goal counts as two goals.

it’s time to qualify for the world cup. okay, the league should give way to the chinese national football team and cancel promotion and relegation directly!

the olympics are approaching and young players are needed. okay, the league stipulates that each team must have 2 u20 players, otherwise they will be declared the loser with a score of 3:0.

is it efficient? very efficient.

this is what they have always done.

what's the problem? nothing. the lower level teams give way to the higher level teams; small events give way to big events; the whole serves the whole; the people's secondary concerns give way to the people's most concerned issues. what's wrong with this? just tell me what's wrong with this.

there is nothing wrong with doing this in other things, so why is it wrong when it comes to football?

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this brings us back to the essence of football.

some people say that football is a "balancer of national destiny". what kind of balancer is that? football is not a balancer, but a traitor.

football is inherently annoying. whatever we are good at, football cannot produce.

what we are best at is dogma. but football is the last place to be dogmatic.

what we are not good at is inspiring spirituality and cultivating passion. football needs spirituality and passion.

other things can be instilled into you, but football is something that cannot be instilled into you.

the problem of football cannot be solved by naturalizing one or two strikers.

football is not a single technique, but a combination of many techniques.

if we only compare juggling the ball, mao rongrong would have broken the world record in 1993, juggling the ball 50,000 times in seven hours. isn't that amazing?

the problem is that we can’t just compete in juggling.

if football could be mastered by a group of people who worked hard, we would have won long ago.

it is often said that we should let a bunch of death row prisoners go on the field, and kick the ball with guns pointed at them. if they score a goal, their sentence will be reduced, and if they lose, they will just shoot. we will definitely win against japan!

this is overthinking. if we win in this way, we can't say for sure, because in some countries, the death row prisoners have already been put on trial.

in this world, there are some things that can be efficiently poured out, such as building buildings and subways.

but there are some things that cannot be instilled, such as literature, art, music, and movies.

it requires space, soil, environment and time.

which category does football belong to? it is closer to the latter category. football is both an industry and an art, a wave-particle duality.

we have previously criticized a method of fighting a war called "short-term assault."

as a result, the football was all short bursts.

a bulge on the left, a bulge on the right, and finally a herniated disc.

i really don’t think it’s necessary to go into football.

for football to be good, children must be able to play football easily, there must be venues and time, there must be many good grassroots coaches, there must be a rich variety of echelon matches, there must be a healthy league, and the party a leaders must not act recklessly.

this is too inefficient. just looking at the last one, i can't mess around with it. how can i be the leader of the football association?

as i said in a previous tweet, a quarter of the 21st century has passed, and if your children can only jump over stairs and gamble with cigarette boxes, they can't even play the baseball that your parents played when they were young.

does it really matter whether the chinese national football team is leading by 3-0 or 7-0?