On the Chinese National Team

First of all, let me ask you a question. All students and teachers present can participate in an on-site survey. Please put forward what you think is hindering the development of Chinese football or the number one reason for the current situation of Chinese football. What is it?

Answer: System.

None of the voices I heard were correct answers. I am sorry to inform the students of Zhejiang University that you are no more professional in this area than the students from other universities I have lectured before, so you still have to listen. I say, you are the same as classmates from other universities. The first thing you think of is that the system is a national institution. In fact, it is wrong. First of all, the first reason is that of every friend here. May I ask the male students here, in your elementary school, In middle school, who can play football two or three times a week? How many are there? According to a rough count, there are only about 20 people present today. The auditorium here today has more than 400 seats. Even if there are half of them men, they only account for one-tenth. I believe that those who are here today are all football lovers. Before you There are only one tenth of such games, so the popularity of Chinese football is the biggest problem.

We have too few people playing football. Although we have many people, we have too few people playing football. If we go by the popularity of football, the average per capita will play football. This ratio is per 10,000 people. How many can play football? Or how many people have played football?

Using this standard to draw a world map, where would China be? I guess I'm also looking for No. 53 nearby to get a magnifying glass. Oh, China, just like we saw on the world map (secretly), the Vatican is basically nowhere to be found.

This year we sent about 20 countries and regions to enter the top 20 of the World Cup. After returning, the biggest feeling of the so-called young reporters was that they were dejected and hit. What was the most common thing they said? Even though we have many people, we have too few people playing football?

What is the first serious problem caused by popularization? It’s our selection problem. Our football players, including those from some of our other sports, are selected for training since childhood. They are different from you, and their living environment is different from yours. This also means that you are deprived of acceptance. The rights and opportunities of this sport, some of you will give you appropriate opportunities. Among you are China’s Ronaldo and Zidane, but you have no chance to get in touch with it. Even if you carry a big schoolbag to study, teachers don’t dare, and parents don’t either. Dare, if you have time, why not go read some books.

And those children who go to practice sports are deprived of the opportunity to receive cultural education. They have no talent and can only be filled as ordinary players. Their sports talent may not be as good as someone here. some people.

What does athletic talent include? Muscle mass, nerve type, reaction type, reaction speed, explosive power, patience and coordination, balance or even the quality of your will? Our athletes are trained like this. From childhood, 100 people are selected in a certain age group, a certain city, and a certain province, such as the 85-year-old age group. When they are 10 years old, there are 100 people. When they are 15 years old, When I was 20 years old, there were only 80 people left. Some people may have broken legs. When I was 20 years old, there were only 60 people left. Just choose among these people. In fact, other people of the same age as them have simply lost such an opportunity. Many of you are much better than them, or have grown up later than them.

Our level of popularity has caused problems in talent selection and training channels. When chatting with us, many of our team members said that there are actually many people who are more talented than them and suitable for playing football. When they retire When I came down, I realized that this guy was really explosive. I saw that he was a student. He was playing in school and had no chance to interact with him. Many athletes said that we just had to make ends meet just because our legs were not broken. In fact, Talent and brains, in fact, some people are not suitable for this. In literature, art and sports, including scientific research, your happiest time must be your talent. It is the moment when your parents get together that determines whether you are a tennis player or a pony. Ladonna.

When interviewing Bailey, some stupid reporters asked him when the next Bailey would appear. He said no, my parents' factory had closed long ago.

Abroad, it is found that at a high penetration rate, almost all boys have the opportunity to play football in primary school. This opportunity is fair to everyone, so whether you like it or not, whether you have talent or not, Whether you can persist is another matter. This opportunity is open to everyone. This high-level coach can discover that this person has superior qualities that are different from ordinary people. Pele and Ronaldinho are such people. They are 9 and 10 years old. He was discovered by the coach, who was there to discover and protect him, not to let his leg break, and not to leave any shadow on his spirit and psychology.

For example, when he was bullied by older children on the court when he was very young, it would leave a shadow, protect his mental level, and overcome his shortcomings in training. It doesn’t matter if you have poor patience, it will make you happy. But you gain weight easily, so I will control you to eat less sweets.

When Ronaldo was 10 years old, his elementary school teacher wrote a comment saying that it is difficult to predict the development of this person in the future. Don't let him get fat, let him grin and giggle every day, and that's basically it. Because during the game, our team only needs one person, because he can beat all the opponents by himself. There is no need for him to practice endurance running. During long-distance running, he buries himself. When he was young, Make up for your lack of patience, change his muscle type, change this super-talented muscle fiber tissue, and there will be no Ronaldo now, there will be one more mediocre person, but one less Ronaldo, our kind The training system can only be training, because only these people practiced when they were young, so they can only practice hard.

Everyone needs to make up for what they lack. You can’t do it without practicing, because you don’t have extraordinary physical indicators in any single item. You can only practice all the items on average. He is a mediocre person. The serious lack of popularity affects the discovery and reserve of professional talents. At the amateur level, locals can play football. I jokingly said that there are very few Chinese men who have played football. For example, 1% of our country’s men. How many men can play football?

This is the population of a European country. If we have men from a European country who can play football, we will definitely surpass South Korea and Japan in terms of playing football. We in China may not really have men who can play football two or three times a week. It exceeded two million. Liu Jianhong concluded that Liu Jianhong was more ruthless and cut it in half to one million. This decision was due to the lack of real participation and understanding. There are many Chinese people watching football, and the culture of watching football is very developed. The real There are not many people in the audience who really understand football.

So it is easy to be misled, so some people accuse me of misleading everyone. This is understandable. It is easy to do our job, and there are not many viewers who have actually played. It is easy to fool.

In the past ten years, my main job has been to help the audience understand and understand football from a professional and accurate perspective. At least the professional terms are understood. However, there is also a difficulty. It is difficult because it is really difficult. I understand that there are too few people participating, so it is easy to go astray and be misled by football reporters. I am not targeting any colleague. Last summer at the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, a Chinese team player was very happy. He was a sports reporter from a newspaper in Shanghai. Forgive me. Yes, she is a girl, but what is unforgivable is that after working for four years, she is a veteran reporter in the football world. She has covered the top ten games and her qualifications are good. She said while saying, "Is a corner kick a set kick?" "I thought she was joking. She graduated from Shanghai Sport University. A senior football reporter asked me if a corner kick is a set kick? I first explained to her what set kicks are. First of all, set kicks come from the English word. Corner kicks, penalty kicks, goal kicks, and even throw-ins are all considered set kicks. I explained it clearly to her, but there is no chance. There are many reporters who want me to explain things clearly to her. These professional reporters are not willing to come because they think they understand. In fact, I think they should all come and listen.

The impact of insufficient popularity on professional and amateur aspects has just been mentioned in two aspects, and there is another aspect.

What I said is not necessarily complete. Another aspect is that due to the lack of popularization, everyone’s level of understanding, perspective, and way of thinking. Due to the lack of personal participation, the level of understanding among our fans is definitely not as good as that of Brazil. , Italy and Germany, although the level of the German national team is average, amateur football in Germany is very popular. There are hundreds of thousands of amateur games played every weekend, especially in primary schools and middle schools. Everyone has a good understanding of football. , how do you think about the formation of a nation and a country's football culture? No matter how you look at victory or defeat, how you look at surprises, every game in the second-tier league can be filled to capacity.

Because of our participation, we are close to this football. This is a need for it from the bottom of our hearts. We don’t have opinions on the quintessence of the country. When will the popularity of football be half that of mahjong? Or will we? Half of the people who play mahjong can play football and are basically invincible in the world.

The accumulation of this football culture takes time. This topic is not to compliment the students but to place high hopes on everyone. Only if our equipment economy is more developed and continues to develop steadily for 50 years, the people really need a variety of Various forms of amateur culture and leisure, whether it is sports or other, are positive, healthy and legal. On this day, the reserves and accumulation are slowly getting on the right track. First of all, it depends on you to build the country's economy well and do a good job in various undertakings. We are in a peaceful and prosperous age, and this is something that people are happy to have fun with. This is the national economy and people's livelihood.

What else does the popularization of football culture affect? ??In turn, culture also affects us, our parents and children. When we want to join football, many children are utilitarian. If their parents spend money, I sent him to receive football education and training, thinking about what I must do. If I want to rely on this golden rice bowl in the future, I can't treat it as a hobby. I have the richness and ideals of life, and I have a utilitarian mentality. I often ask such parents, if something your child does since childhood is directly related to his future and plays a positive role, is it possible without any waste? On the other hand, will you really force him to use it in the future?

Let’s not talk about anything else. From the perspective of people’s spiritual level, emotions, personality and communication with others, I think it is terrible that people do not have one or two healthy emotional hobbies. There is a famous saying from the ancients: "Don't make friends with people who don't have quirks." This person has no true temperament.

There was an incident with Ma Jiajue a few years ago. From a sports figure like me, if he has a hobby that makes him obsessed, if he plays football, basketball, long-distance running, or weightlifting, He can find a channel to vent, a channel to communicate with others, because it is a language. If you have a hobby, you will get to know many people and change your life. This is a window. Active and healthy cultural and sports hobbies are very important to a person in the formative stage of the world view of college, middle and primary school students.

What I just mentioned is a flaw in popularizing football culture. In fact, it directly refers to the flaw that hinders the development of Chinese football. The second most serious factor that leads to the current development of football is our culture.

Every country’s cultural tradition has great advantages and disadvantages. The Germans are rigid when it comes to order. Classical music has produced many composers, but when it comes to modern music, there are basically no Germans. We The accumulation of cultural traditions and history of the great Chinese nation has formed the national character and culture, which has many advantages. I will only mention some shortcomings in our culture that are not suitable for football.

For example, from kindergarten to adulthood, the education we received, what is the favorite sentence we heard the teacher and principal say? Our teachers all like good children, but they don’t like children who are too harsh, too alternative, or too different from others. In our kindergarten, students are asked to sit with their hands behind their backs. In Western kindergartens, children can stay as long as they like and do whatever they want. , our education has formed a subconscious instillation in you from an early age, that is, if I don’t want to be different from others, I will be criticized by the teacher. I try to be the same as everyone else.

But people must have individual value orientations. How we protect ourselves can only be done secretly. We even have to protect some normal and natural rights and desires, including some things that individuals should have. Suppressed by the collectivism and collective concept of function.

The relationship between us as individuals and the collective is different from the Western worldview and philosophy. As a result, in our living and working environment, you have not yet entered the society. It is quite good at your age. When you were young, you enjoyed more modern education than we did, so you are more individual than us, but I believe you will still have some feelings. Our cultural concept allows us all to draw a small group in any way. In a circle, whether it is a work unit, a school or a certain team, you will find that on the surface there is no individual, everyone is honest and well-behaved, but secretly there is no collective.

We are in such a twisted relationship between individuals and collectives, so many elites, scholars, and critics of our nation have said it in the last century, including Westerners. We Chinese are a mess, but now we are progressing and changing, but this impact will take longer than decades and will require the emergence of new generations from generation to generation.

When this phenomenon comes to the football field, you can think about the same Asian teams. What is the gap between us and the Japanese and Koreans? We don’t have that kind of team awareness. This is a habit. It’s a habit you’ve had since childhood. You have a subconscious mind. Students who have played football may understand what I’m saying. Many times you don’t have time to think on the court. Many of your actions are The reflections formed in daily life are not your thinking process. They are accumulated over time. You can play the kind of football you want based on the kind of person you are.

Our players always run passively when playing football, because they have not had real teamwork since they were young. Our so-called unity and collective concepts are actually forced indoctrination and do not solve the problem of individual and collective issues. In the relationship between people, there is resistance deep in people's hearts. Because their normal desires are suppressed, they must rebel. We are not as good as the Japanese team and the Korean team in the spirit of cooperation. We don't even have the consciousness of cooperation. On the court, the body relies on the subconscious. To control, he would not take an extra step to make it easier for his teammates to pass the ball.

On the other hand, we are not as individual as the players in Africa and South America, who dare to show off and express themselves, because who dares to do this since childhood? They all grew up being photographed by their teachers. By the time they graduated from college, they had hundreds of stitches on their heads. Football most requires the combination of the individual and the collective. Individuals do not have the courage to take responsibility, and the collective actually does not have the subconscious mind to work as a team. , even the conditioned reflex is gone. Think about it carefully, is this true?

I have communicated with many players, and I am amazed by our players. I said you are better than Zidane in Kung Fu. Why? When Zidane plays football, he must have only one standard: how to guide a team to play football. The first action is to control his body and his subconscious according to this. Our players think more than Zidane. Our players look up when they are playing football. If this person is not good to me, I will not pass to him. I must pass to the one who is good to me. Many heavyweight international players have told me that if the game is played well, It's a time of sincere unity. The results of many of our games are actually decided off the court, and they are all matters of interpersonal relationships.

This is the impact of our social culture on football. Football is a sport with the largest number of players and the largest venue, so it can better reflect the cultural background on which it relies. What is the famous saying about Western performances? The audience will have the same kind of actors. Let me apply this sentence and say boldly, "What kind of society there is, there will be what kind of football team." Our overall progress, you, the pillars, promote the overall progress of society and will drive many aspects of development.

Finally, there is the issue of system. This uses a reductio ad absurdum. There are various systems, whether it is the socialist system of the former Soviet Union or the Western capitalist system, whether it is personal religion, look at Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, no matter what it is, there are excellent teams, many satisfactory records, and many excellent stars have been trained, so the system is the last.

You can think, under the same system, we still won 32 gold medals in the Olympic Games. If football cannot do it, it is a problem with the national organization of the Football Association. It is still not the case. Brazil has a population of 160 million, even if half of them are men. Yes, about half of them can play football. When our colleagues were reporting in Brazil, they could see many people of all ages playing football at any time, which made them feel that our reporters were all amateur football masters. They were too embarrassed to apply. No wonder in the early days of our A-A teams in the 1990s, there were some so-called agents in China who went to South America. The A-A teams picked some people and brought them back from the streets. Both of them were useful.

But there is a joke among Brazilians. You may not know it. Football king Pele and Bally Shell both served as Brazil’s sports ministers, but they couldn’t do it anymore and left in frustration, because the dignified sports ministers, It's equivalent to our country's Yuan Weimin, who can't be the president of the Brazilian Football Association. He doesn't even know what games are played in Brazil?

It sounds ridiculous to talk about the majestic football kingdom. Do you know that Brazil has a regular football league? They all go their own way and think they are the best in the world. Rio State has always played its own league. They are playing in a state league, a Brazilian Cup, and a South American Copa Libertadores at the same time. It is most ridiculous. One day, I can’t remember this day, but I want to say that on this day, the great Sao Paulo team sent four teams to participate in four games at the same time, so the position of president of the Brazilian Football Association is definitely gold-plated, and it is also There will be problems of one kind or another, which will be reported by the following groups, and there will be problems with sponsors.

The dignified Sports Minister Pele, with their popularity in Brazil, is more respected than the president. They cannot control the Football Association Chairman Teixeira. Everyone remembers that the 1998 World Cup was held in Brazil. France held a lottery ceremony in the United States. At that time, they did not invite the football king Pele to participate in this ceremony. They were very dark.

Zico (sound) was 40 years old and worked as sports minister for two years. He couldn't compete with him. He couldn't even make a living in Brazil. No team asked him to be a coach. Later, he had to go to Japan to play football. "L League", why Zico is so respected in Japan is that when he is 40 years old, he will have the appeal to drive the Japanese League, which will indeed drive the overall development of Japanese football. Zico is treated extremely well in Japan, so he is a special league We recruit such a person because he is talented and because of his popularity.

Brazilians have said such a joke. Brazilians think that God is Brazilian. They also think that God created football and the world. When they asked Brazilians what do you want, Brazilians said us. They want the best players, so Brazil has the best players. This is paired with the worst football managers in the world, but this does not prevent them from winning the world championship.

So the system is secondary. If we don’t popularize it, if we have 100,000 primary and secondary school students who play football two or three times a week, there will be tens of thousands of people behind each Chinese player. With their eyes on his position, they will definitely play well. If it were one in a thousand, one in a thousand, these players would not think about it at all.

Finally, let me repeat the three direct reasons for the current situation of Chinese football, in order of importance: popularity, culture, and finally the system