Understanding the urgency of the Football Association's urgent need for scientific decision-making optimization mechanism from the new U23 regulations.

Yesterday (18), the China Football Association of the Chinese Football Association officially issued the Notice on Adjusting the Articles of Association of the 20 19 Super League to all clubs in the Super League. The core content of the notice is the adjustment of the number of U23 players and foreign aid. From the Super League 16 round, there are always no less than 1 U23 players in each game, and no more than 3 foreign players play at the same time, that is, foreign aid can be exchanged for foreign aid. In the past, adjusting the whole competition rules in the middle of the league season may cause strong rebound or opposition from all walks of life. After all, it is very lax and serious to suddenly change the rules halfway through the game. But this time, from rumors to the final official text, these new adjustment measures have been supported by more people, and the contrast may be worth pondering.

The original implementation of 1 and U23 policies is contrary to the starting point.

In the latest notice, the China Football Association adjusted the U23 player regulations to "The total number of U23 players on the field is not less than 1 person per game (except for reasons such as leaving the field due to injury, running out of substitutes, being sent off by a red card, etc.). ). If any U23 player has been recruited by national training teams at all levels, the U23 player policy may not be implemented. "

The reason for this adjustment is that since the beginning of this year, the confusion in the use of U23 players in the Super League and the Chinese League has reached an unprecedented height. In the past, U23 players entered the starting lineup and were replaced within a few minutes. This is normal, but the starting time of U23 players is getting shorter and shorter. Just like this year's 13 round when Tianjin played against Henan Jianye, the 22-year-old Wen was replaced by Pei Shuai in just 55 seconds, creating a "wonderful" record in the Super League. What's even more ridiculous is that the goalkeeper of U23 also appeared at the last minute wearing the jerseys of the players on the field, in order to meet the original requirement that there should be at least 1 1 U23 players among the starting players of each club team in each game, and the actual cumulative number of U23 players should not be less than 3. All these have completely deviated from the motive and starting point of launching "U23 policy".

When the regulation of "U23 players" reappears in domestic professional leagues, I'm afraid its original intention and purpose are beyond doubt, that is, I hope to give local young players more opportunities for exercise and competition, and cultivate their own local players, so as to better let young players grow up. And since the implementation of several seasons, on the whole, there are still many U23 players who have grown up through league training, and the effect is still there. Of course, in the specific implementation process of each club, there are inevitably some chaos, and we can't just blame these chaos on the U23 policy.

In fact, U23 policy is not only implemented in professional leagues in China, but also in neighboring countries such as South Korea and Japan, Qatar and Bahrain in West Asia and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. In recent years, the author has written many articles and introduced them, so I won't repeat them here because of the limited space. As for how to better implement U23 policy in domestic leagues, public opinion and the media have also put forward numerous rationalization suggestions. However, why has this policy been well implemented in football leagues in other Asian countries and regions, but when it comes to football in China, there are so many strange "chaos"? In the final analysis, I am afraid that the root cause is still in the relevant management departments.

2. There is also a concrete example of policy downstream countermeasures.

In today's China society, there has been a phenomenon for a long time, that is, the so-called "there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom". As we all know, the introduction of "U23 policy" is not the original intention of China Football Association, but the opinion of the superior management department. As a higher management department, it is suggested to increase the "U23 policy" in order to curb the bad tendency of "everything depends on money" in domestic leagues and cultivate local players, especially U23 young players.

And from the management point of view, as a higher management department, it is more just to put forward a principle. It's like "The Overall Plan for Football Reform and Development in China" is a programmatic document for football reform and development in China. It's just a lot of principled things, but when it comes to a certain problem and a certain actual situation, it needs specific executors to come up with more effective, concrete and feasible schemes and measures according to the principles and related spirit in this scheme to solve the concrete and realistic problems of football in China. Therefore, it is impossible to cover everything in the Plan. In fact, more details should be studied by the executive department in order to implement it more "grounded" and finally implement and implement the spirit of the Plan.

But because this U23 policy was not put forward by China Football Association, it even involves some specific interests of some people. Therefore, in order to let the outside world see that "U23 policy" is "problematic" and "inappropriate", too many flaws and loopholes were deliberately left in the process of formulating the "detailed rules" of this regulation. So in the last two or three years, we have seen so many "chaos" in the Super League and the Chinese League. In the face of these "chaos", the relevant management departments seem to have a reason to shirk their responsibilities: "We don't want to introduce these policies, and there is no way. What can we do if there are requirements above?" Its ultimate goal is nothing more than "proving" to the outside world: "You see, leading amateurs to make these absurd and unreasonable demands."

This is a typical "policy at the top and countermeasures at the bottom". In the whole process, the relevant parties did not actively take remedial measures, but passively and mechanically implemented them, and even let the chaos overflow.

3. China Football Revitalizes Scientific Decision-making and Optimization Mechanism!

When the "U23 policy" was hastily introduced, there was actually a "loophole" in employment. If there is any impression, the Liaoning team made a "joke" when they participated in the first game of the Super League. But after such a long time, why didn't the loophole be corrected in time? This time, after the China Football Association issued a notice, it quickly got positive feedback. On the one hand, the opinions of local clubs are fully solicited; On the other hand, it can be said to be a kind of "decision correction", that is, the whole process has received positive feedback, dare to adjust the unreasonable things in the past through scientific and reasonable decision-making procedures, and dare to face their past mistakes. This is actually what is more worthy of recognition behind this U23 and foreign aid adjustment notice.

I can't guarantee that there will be no other loopholes or "divine operation" mode in the future implementation of the adjusted regulations and rules, but this new regulation will definitely greatly reduce the "market" and "space" of a series of "divine operation" that appeared before. Moreover, "laws and regulations are always lagging behind." What China football needs is timely correction. Making mistakes is not terrible. The terrible thing is not to admit that mistakes have happened, or even to let them spread everywhere. That's the problem with little U23. Over the years, there have been many concrete and realistic problems in China football. If not everyone, only half or a small number of people have to adopt this attitude and "fool things", China football will not be normal.

At present, what China football needs first is to reduce all kinds of "man-made disasters", to establish a scientific decision-making mechanism as soon as possible, and at the same time to modify and optimize the decision-making mechanism, so as to make the provisions of China football more scientific and reasonable, so as to ensure that China football can advance on a normal and healthy track.