it will take another five to eight years to get out of the trough! senior sports media person chen yong "diagnoses" the chinese national football team
2024-09-13
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after two consecutive defeats in the world cup qualifiers, the chinese national football team's world ranking has fallen again. xinhua news agency
after losing to japan and saudi arabia in the round of 18, the chinese national football team is expected to drop to 91st in the world ranking, a record low in recent years. the chinese national football team has once again become the target of criticism and even ridicule from the outside world.
what happened to the chinese national football team? when will it be able to get out of the trough? how can it avoid repeating the same mistakes? a reporter from qilu evening news and qilu one point interviewed chen yong, a senior football reporter with more than 20 years of experience in the football news, in order to find the answer from his professional perspective.
ivanslow reaction time
it's not unfair to be called off get out of class
the 0:7 loss to japan set three shameful records: the biggest score loss to japan in history, the most goals conceded in a single world cup qualifier, and the biggest score loss in a world cup qualifier. this game can be called a "tragedy" in the history of the chinese football team.
on the 10th, the chinese national football team returned to their home court and lost to saudi arabia again with a score of 1:2. although the loss was not so tragic, the impact of this defeat on the outside world has not diminished.
saudi arabia first gave the chinese national team two candies: in the first half, the chinese national team scored a goal and saudi arabia was sent off, and the balance of victory seemed to have tilted towards the chinese national team. then, the chinese national team received two slaps: saudi defender kadish scored twice with headers, pushing the chinese national team, which was somewhat arrogant, into the abyss.
after the game, the chinese national football team coach ivankovic became the target of public criticism. in the stadium, voices of "ivan's resignation" were heard one after another. in the press conference hall after the game, when a reporter asked ivan whether he would be fired, there was applause.
chen yong believes that compared with the former head coach of the chinese national football team, jankovic, ivankovic's dismissal is certainly not unfair. "there were big problems with his on-the-spot command. when the players were obviously exhausted, he only made three substitutions during regular time, and the first substitution was a passive one." chen yong said, "in other words, he did not make the second tactical substitution until the 87th minute. the whole reaction was too slow. whether you want to strengthen the offense or defense, there must be a clear idea, but ivan just 'sat and waited' on the sidelines. especially at the last moment, when saudi arabia replaced three people in a row and controlled the situation for 9 minutes, ivan's reaction was very slow."
the national football team has fallen into a trough
recovery needsfivearriveeightyear
did the chinese national football team perform at the level it should have? chen yong gave a negative answer. "some experienced and capable players, as well as some middle-aged players with strong strength, lacked the desire to play for the national team and left the national team on their own initiative or through various other means. so the current team is definitely not the highest level of the national football team."
at the same time, chen yong admitted that even if all these players were recruited, the level of the national football team would not improve much. "in general, the national football team has fallen to the lowest point in recent years."
after two consecutive defeats, the chinese national football team's world ranking will drop to 91st. however, this is not the lowest ranking in the history of the chinese national football team. in 2013, the chinese national football team performed poorly in the asian cup and its world ranking once dropped to 109th.
chen yong believes that the two low points of the chinese national football team have similarities, both of which were caused by violating the laws of football and neglecting the development of youth football.
the difference is that the development of chinese football youth has shown signs of recovery. however, many clubs are facing an operational crisis and have reduced their support for echelons to participate in youth competitions. this is a new problem facing chinese football.
how long will the national football team's slump last? chen yong gave a not-so-optimistic figure: five to eight years. "at this stage, the post-00s generation can hardly fully support the improvement of the national football team's level. until the 2007 and 2008 age groups, no particularly outstanding players emerged," chen yong said.
chen yong has a more optimistic view on the longer-term future, which is based on the performance of the national youth team in recent years.
after being eliminated in the group stage of the asian youth championship for two consecutive times, the national youth team advanced to the finals of the event twice in 2019 and 2023; from the second half of 2023 to the beginning of 2024, the national youth team advanced to the finals of the asian youth championship after a lapse of 4 years, and advanced to the quarterfinals after a lapse of 9 years; in 2023, the national youth team won the u15 east asian cup...
"compared with before, the overall performance of the youth national team has improved, which is also the prerequisite for the improvement of the national team's performance. however, it will take at least ten years for the results to be transmitted from the youth national team to the national team." chen yong said.
ecological governance has an effect
regular supervision is more important
in november 2022, li tie was put under investigation, marking the beginning of a new round of "anti-corruption and anti-gangster" campaign in the football field.
on the morning of the day when the chinese national football team faced saudi arabia, a press conference on the special crackdown on "match-fixing and gambling" in the professional league was held in dalian. 43 people were banned for life, 17 people were banned for 5 years, and 120 matches were found to be suspected of match-fixing and gambling, involving 41 third-level league clubs...
a string of shocking figures are laid bare before the outside world.
"this kind of governance at the football ecological level will definitely have a positive effect on the development of chinese football," said chen yong.
we must also see that the "anti-corruption and anti-crime" campaign in chinese football has gone through many cycles. every time, the outside world thought it had come to an end. but every time, the period eventually turned into a comma.
in the 1990s, chinese football had broken out with the yanbian passive match, the sui bo incident, and the chongqing-shenyang match-fixing case. in 2001, the emergence of the "a-b five rats case" strengthened the chinese football association's determination to fight corruption and crack down on gangs. many players from the five teams involved in match-fixing were banned by the football association, and referee gong jianping was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
in 2009, the former owner of the guangdong eagles, zhong guojian, was detained by the police, marking the beginning of a new round of anti-corruption storm in chinese football. in 2010, the storm became more and more intense. in the end, as many as 57 football association officials, players and referees were imprisoned.
how can chinese football avoid falling into the cycle of "anti-corruption and anti-crime" again? chen yong believes that the most important thing is to establish and improve a regular supervision mechanism and adhere to both industry supervision and judicial supervision. "only by nipping the signs of problems in time and solving problems in a timely manner can we avoid the next collapse of corruption."
(public news·qilu one point ji yu)
