For Chinese football, 2020 has just passed is a very story year.
Although due to the epidemic, the national football world preliminaries have been delayed again and again, the domestic league has been successfully launched from the shadow of the epidemic, and the introduction of a number of reform measures is also committed to changing the Chinese football environment.
Han Qiaosheng.
Photo courtesy of "Super Ball Boy" program group.
At the beginning of 2021, Han Qiaosheng, an old friend of Chinese football and a famous mouthpiece, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com and talked about Chinese football in his eyes.
"The level of our national team lies there"
For the national football team, the most important international competition in the past two years is the Qatar World Cup Asian qualifier.
The current world preliminaries are in the top 40 stage, and the national football team ranked second in the group with 4 matches, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in Group A.
In November 2019, the head coach Lippi of the national football team lost to Syria.
Subsequently, Li Tie became the new coach of the national football team.
However, affected by the epidemic, Li Tie has not led the team to participate in the top 40 matches.
On November 14, 2019, in the World Preliminary Asian Top 40, the national football team lost 1:2 away to Syria. The opponent scored the first goal in the game. After that, Wu Lei made a volley shot to equalize the score. Zhang Linpeng accidentally got himself behind, causing the national football team to fall behind again. .
The picture shows Zhang Linpeng in the game.
Image source: Visual China
Fans often have mixed feelings about the national football.
I said that I didn't watch it, it was too bad, it was out of play, and I was always expecting in secret: What if it can create a miracle?
But Han Qiaosheng poured cold water on this, he is not optimistic about qualifying for the National Football World Cup, and hopes that fans will not be eager for quick success.
"The soil of our Chinese football is very poor now, and the overall professionalism is not good. We don't want to ask the national team every time. The level of our national team is there and the reality is there."
In Han Qiaosheng's view, the problems of Chinese football have accumulated over time.
"Chinese football is like a cancer patient, with many illnesses and accumulated over a long period of time. It is impossible that Chinese football is not good here, and the Chinese team is required to qualify for the World Cup. I feel unrealistic."
On November 14, 2019, in the World Preliminary Asian Top 40, the national football team lost 1:2 away to Syria. The opponent scored the first goal in the game. After that, Wu Lei made a volley shot to equalize the score. Zhang Linpeng accidentally got himself behind, causing the national football team to fall behind again. .
Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
In his opinion, the Chinese team may be able to qualify from the group stage in a competition where all Asian members participate.
But the final ranking is either sixth or seventh.
"If you don't believe me, we will ride a donkey to read the songbook, and wait and see."
"The Chinese Football Association has done something down-to-earth"
In 2020, the entire world sports arena will be strongly impacted by the epidemic, and Chinese football is no exception.
However, in an environment where the domestic anti-epidemic work has achieved remarkable results, most football leagues can be conducted in a closed environment.
In this regard, Han Qiaosheng "likes" for the Chinese Football Association.
He believes that last season's professional league has done "very well" in competition organization and media communication.
"Not only the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Football Association, but also the Football Association Cup, the Chinese Football Association B and other games were held, and they were held very well. This is where the success is, and it shows that the Chinese Football Association has done something down-to-earth.
On the evening of July 25, 2020, the 2020 China Football Association Super League Suzhou Division kicked off at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
The "enhanced" salary limit policy and the non-corporate name change policy of the Football Association launched at the end of 2020 have caused a certain degree of controversy.
Especially in the recent period, in the process of changing the names of some clubs, there has been a stronger sense of resistance among the local fans.
Public opinion continues to dispute this, and some media have criticized this policy.
However, Han Qiaosheng holds a more positive attitude towards these two policies and believes that the Chinese Football Association has done a lot of work in top-level design.
He believes that, like the achievements of the National Football Team, the effectiveness of reforms cannot be rushed for quick success.
On December 19, 2020, the 2020 China Football Association Cup final was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. After fierce competition, Shandong Luneng Taishan team defeated Jiangsu Suning Tesco 2-0 to win the championship.
The picture shows the players of Shandong Luneng Taishan team holding the cup to celebrate at the award ceremony.
Photo by Yang Bo
"We have to cut down a big tree, not with a single axe. It needs the 98 and 99 axes in front of it to succeed in the end. So I think Chinese football, including the Chinese Football Association, has a long way to go. "Han Qiaosheng said.
"The way of Chinese football is not only to treat the brain"
Recently, the youth football competition reality show "Super Ball Boy", in which Han Qiaosheng served as the general commentator, is currently on the air.
In the program, young players trained in various youth training modes compete on the same field and communicate with each other.
The broadcast of this program also brought people's attention to the topic of Chinese football youth training.
Han Qiaosheng introduced that the football teenagers in the show mainly come from three youth training systems: professional youth echelon, campus football, and private youth training programs such as "Captain Football" in cooperation with schools.
Han Qiaosheng was at the shooting scene.
Photo courtesy of "Super Ball Boy" program group.
In the program, he not only felt the cheerful and free personality of the children developed by football, but also had more thoughts on the youth training of Chinese football.
"These three models are all positive attempts, but I believe that in the future, China will be more of campus football. For places with economic conditions, such as the "Captain Football" model, more and more people will follow suit in the future. ."
Of course, in Han Qiaosheng's view, China's football youth training still has a long way to go.
"We have not really taken a path suitable for the development of Chinese campus football, nor have we taken a path that can be promoted in more places across the country."
Data map: Young athletes in the 2019 "Northeast League Cup" youth football league warm up before the game.
Guo Jiashe
Han Qiaosheng introduced that through its own efforts and learning from Brazil, China's close neighbor Japan has grown its national team into a second-rate team in the world.
Some private football matches in Japan also have high ratings. Such a football culture environment is currently not available in China.
"The path of Chinese football is not only to manage the brain-to be professional, but to lay a solid foundation and do a good job at the feet, so that there is hope for the future of Chinese football." (Wang Hao)