Is there a 20-year gap between Chinese football and Japanese football?

If Evergrande hadn’t won the AFC Champions League last year and qualified for the Club World Cup against Barcelona, ??perhaps the three words Club World Cup would still be quite unfamiliar to Chinese fans. Coincidentally, last night's Club World Cup final was held in Yokohama, Japan. If the participating team was Real Madrid with Cristiano Ronaldo, I guess the ratings of the Club World Cup final would not be as good as an ordinary Premier League game.

If you haven’t watched the game, you may be surprised by the score of 4:2. This little Japanese can actually score two goals. Is it because Real Madrid is not the main force? But if you take a closer look, except for Bell, who was injured and did not play, the other Real Madrid players are all main players, and the Japanese team is actually full-time. What is even more surprising is that within 90 minutes, the two sides battled to a score of 2:2. In overtime, Real Madrid relied on Ronaldo's two goals to win the game. But this does not affect my awe of Japanese football. It is a miracle in itself to see an Asian team in the Club World Cup final.

As a team worth only about 15 million euros, which is probably the price of a top foreign player in the Chinese Super League, but it played incredible football, Shibazaki scored two goals Yue is worth only 2 million euros, which is very different from domestic player Wu Lei. This inevitably makes me want to compare the differences between Chinese and Japanese football.

It is said that housing prices in China are expensive. People around me often joke that if I had bought a house a few years ago, I would not have to work now. But one thing is worth another, and the value of Chinese Super League players is no worse than that of the real estate market. Nowadays, transfer fees can easily reach tens of millions or hundreds of millions. A series of constantly refreshing figures stimulate our eyes, and we can only sigh that the boss is really rich.

Compared with the Chinese Super League, the development of the Japanese J-League is much healthier. This is also due to the shrewd measures of the Japan Football Association: Japanese football attaches great importance to youth training. Children from the age of 4 participate in campus football training and the school is responsible for it, truly cultivating it from top to bottom.

They followed the example of Germany and drafted admission conditions for the league: “It must have at least 12 professional players, ensure a freely available football stadium with a capacity of 15,000 spectators, and establish a player training system. Echelon system, coaches must hold qualification certificates." A series of perfect systems have enabled Japan's football population to exceed 5 million, and the number of professional coaches to exceed 60,000.

It is also the Football Association. The leaders of the Chinese Football Association have a very high attendance rate in intercontinental competitions, the AFC Champions League, and the Chinese Super League. Why? Political achievements, money, influence, official-oriented thinking... On the other hand, Japan Football Association Chairman Kuniya Ohito hardly watches Japanese national team games or J-League. He prefers to attend elementary school leagues, junior high school leagues, high school leagues in various counties, or From time to time, we communicate with grassroots coaches on substantive issues such as skills and tactics, salaries, training equipment, etc., and do our best to create a better football environment for Japanese football youth training. When the time is right, we will harvest batches of football seedlings, which really makes us Extremely envious.

At that time, Japanese parents accompanied their young children to play football in the park, allowing their children to fall in love with the sport from the bottom of their hearts; while we were experiencing the darkest storm of match-fixing and black-whistle gambling in Chinese football. Parents advise their children not to play football and read more books at home.

When we were young, we were laughing out loud with page after page of little books about Lao Fuzi, Oolong Yuan, and humorous jokes, but Japanese children were influenced by the comics about football players and determined to become a good player. ;

It was an exhibition match held in Shanghai. Our children were racing against time in the auditorium writing homework assigned by the teacher and playing mobile games with headphones on; the Japanese children were working seriously on the side. Studying the game, recording the game tactics, and drawing game analysis pictures one after another.

It was a high school league in Japan. Although the participating players were only high school students, there were more than 4,200 participating teams. The final attracted more than 50,000 fans to watch the game, and nearly 50 TV stations broadcast the game. Broadcast; and let’s not talk about amateur football, even the attendance of most teams in the Chinese Super League is a problem. Our children are still doing radio gymnastics on the football field, and gradually developed into the current football gymnastics...

So, we have to accept some facts.

When Japanese players shine in the European leagues, we can only use Xiao Zhang Yuning's trip to Europe as a fig leaf; when the Japanese team competes with excellent teams on the World Cup stage, we are still masturbating with the posters that qualified 15 years ago. ; When the gap between Chinese and Japanese football is widening, we invest heavily in foreign aid, hoping to seek dignity through the AFC Champions League.

Perhaps we are vain and always dream that the national football team can win the game, but after so many years, every time we watch the national football team, we either curse or swear never to watch football again, and then the next game is... Just wait in front of the TV...

Some people may say that with Lippi coming, Chinese football has dawned. But I'm afraid that this may be another Westernization Movement, just like the later Qing Dynasty cut off its braids, but it did not change the pre-Qing Dynasty's fake, big, empty, slave philosophy. Without a sound football system or a sound youth training system, it would be very, very difficult for Chinese football, which is eager for quick success and instant benefits, to seek development.

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