Data map: The 2016 Chinese Star Football Team's Olympic Charity Tour kicked off at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. The picture shows former national footballer Fan Zhiyi's breakthrough. Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
China News Service, August 5th. A few days ago, in an interview with the media, Fan Zhiyi was asked how he saw the current state of public opinion in the national football. He once said frequently on the topic of the national football: "If Chinese football will make you feel at ease. Don’t watch it!” Although he has criticized the bad performance of the national football team, the Chinese football star still hopes that the national football team can have a good public opinion environment.
Last month, labels such as "Chinese players are not as good as Tsinghua boys" and "Chinese football is not as good as Chinese education" have made Chinese football, which is still in the offseason, once again "break the circle" and forced to be under the spotlight. Accept the rounds of "consultations" from all parties.
The ridicule of the entire network seems to have become a regular "task" of the national football team. Fan Zhiyi was asked in an interview what he thought of this phenomenon. He said that if Chinese football is so heartwarming, you must not watch it. You can watch TV.
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In recent years, Fan Zhiyi's speeches on Chinese football have often become the focus of heated discussions among fans. Among them, the most famous sentence is "No more Chinese football faces!"
On June 15, 2013, in an international friendly match in Hefei, the national football team lost 1:5 to the semi-main team of Thailand. After the game, former national footballer Fan Zhiyi criticized the national football team in an interview: "China's football face is gone!" and said: "If this continues, even Vietnam will lose."
Since then, this sentence is often quoted to mock the national football team. However, Fan Zhiyi once said in a live webcast that these remarks were taken out of context, but he also said: "It doesn't matter if you lose, but you can afford to lose."
"You lose 1:5 at your own door. How did these 5 goals make you score? It doesn't matter if you lose the game, but you have to afford to lose this ball. How to lose such a ball, you wear national clothes and your own goal Let people go in like this, let people fall down and hit an empty door to go in. That's why there was such a passage at the time." Fan Zhiyi explained.
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Fan Zhiyi also revealed that he almost entered the Premier League team Liverpool. But because the Asian Cup that year was held in mid-October, it happened to conflict with the Premier League season. The condition for joining Liverpool is that Fan Zhiyi cannot participate in the Asian Cup.
"The premise of Liverpool's contract was not to participate in the 2000 Asian Cup at the time. I couldn't do this. After all, I am Chinese and national interests are above everything else." Fan Zhiyi said.
The outspoken Fan Zhiyi may be unceremonious about the criticism of the national football, but for him who has worn the national team jersey to fight for the country, the so-called "famous saying" is more of the expectation of Chinese football. I hope that one day, the national football team can use its strength to change the state of public opinion. (Finish)