Reborn on Top of Football

There are a lot of things to think about in this game. For example, Iraq is almost at home. In the absence of a big star comparable to Wang Ai, it is clear that they are both "away games" like China, but they have been quasi-home games. treatment.

If it were not for Wang Ai, the Chinese team would have been booed. This kind of treatment that can turn away games into home games has always been the treatment of big-name stars, and Iraq cannot do it with its tragic life experience.

For another example, how did Iraq reach the final? Obviously the strength is very average, and it is unexplainable only to cooperate well.

Since he couldn't sleep, Wang Ai sat on the sofa and looked at the rows of Jakarta in the distance, thinking slowly. This has become a special habit of Wang Ai. The linear rise in stadium performance and football achievements does not mean that the mind is also moving in a straight line. Thinking and thinking again and again has helped Wang Ai become more mature and help him make progress.

After returning to China this time, the leaders wanted to talk, what should they talk about? It was also late at night that Wang Ai realized the significance of this Asian Cup win to Chinese football. The self-renovation of a huge system requires both internal and external forces. For football, the championship of major international competitions is an obvious external variable, but it is not absolutely positive.

It may promote greater progress, or it may become a barrier to progress. The key is for whom this external variable is used and for whom to testify.

With the improvement of his status, especially the number of deputy ministers of the Ministry of Youth, which was originally called more than practical, Wang Ai's observation and understanding of Chinese football has become more and more profound. As early as 2001, after he won the World Youth Championship, the huge Chinese football system was touched. However, many minor revisions were made over the years, and the overall structure still has the structural contradiction between the planned economy and the market economy. This contradiction is not only reflected in the youth training, but also in the women's football, but also in the league and the national team.

Practitioners of Chinese football also know the existence of these problems and are also seeking to change them. However, their respective perspectives, knowledge structures and even subjective tendencies have led them to roughly divide them into four propositions, which are grouped into four factions, according to their propositions. The classifications are Regressive, Status Quo, European and American, and Featured.

The returnees are mainly based on the fact that football players have high incomes, low performance and spiritual will, and even the fact that the country is still relatively poor. They believe that this round of professional reform should be ended, returned to the era of sports schools, and continue to give full play to China's human resources Strong advantages, running football at a lower cost, and strongly oppose the extravagance and waste caused by high income and high wages. Its supporters are mainly marginal roles in football and some fans.

The status quo faction refers to the faction that is more satisfied with all the current Chinese football. They believe that, judging from China's current national strength and national conditions, it is already quite good that Chinese football can develop to the present point. Although there are problems in all aspects, only repairs are needed. This faction even took out Wang Ai's series of viewpoints that the level of national development affects the level of football as evidence to oppose greater reforms. The backbone of this faction is mainly the Football Association cadres.

The European and American faction basically continued the reform concept formed at the Hongshankou Conference in 1992, and believed that it should continue to follow the direction of learning and imitating European and American football, thoroughly breaking the sports school system, planned economic system, and making all aspects of Chinese football marketized. . Regarding the reform of some specific systems, it is advocated to push forward the relevant systems of Europe, especially the five major leagues, with a strong force. It would rather have a temporary chaos, but also believe that "the future is bright." The backbone of this faction is the middle-aged and elderly cadres of the Football Association, offices, research institutes, sports universities, and even some public figures, social figures, and scholars who have nothing to do with football.

The characteristic faction has the least number and least influence. This faction advocates that Chinese football has its own cultural soil and sports soil, as well as its own operating rules. In the reform, it should actively explore innovative ways to combine advanced European and American experience with Chinese football soil. In the system reform, we must not only learn, but also create, and constantly revise. This faction also believes that no matter what advanced experience, as long as it comes to China, it will gradually become "Chinese characteristics." So instead of passively adjusting and supporting left and right, it is better to have anticipation. The characteristic faction is still not showing up, and there is no representative. It is often a tendency expressed in a few words by some senior football players and leading figures such as Wang Ai.

The above four factions are only general classifications. In fact, there are more detailed disputes within each faction. For example, in the “returning faction”, there are retired old coaches who strongly miss the era of sports schools and advocate the end of professionalism. There is also a “conservative faction” who believes that the cost of football should be reduced. The European and American factions are divided into the German faction, the English faction, and the Spanish faction. The status quo group advocates maintaining the status quo and tends to be conservative, and there are those who favor gradual changes in accelerating innovation. As for the characteristic faction, let alone the Chinese characteristic football system? Are you talking about one, two, three? What's the feature? Everyone who realizes that they should be unique has their own unique propositions, and the whole is a mess.

As for the four factions, some people moved with each other at different times, and there were also quarrels and cooperation. However, the attitudes of the retreats and the status quo are relatively close, and both "do not bother to move", so they form a conservative force together. Both the European and American faction and the characteristic faction are more radical, so they formed the reform faction.

The good results that Wang Ai has brought to Chinese football over the years have also been used by the above-mentioned factions to varying degrees. For example, the returnees deny the prospect of professional youth training by saying that Wang Ai is not from the club youth training, and praise the superiority of the traditional sports school system with the rise of Bai Guanghai and others. The status quo faction backed up the effectiveness of the current system with Wang Ai's good results. The European and American faction tells Wang Ai in the five major leagues to prove the success of the European and American football method. The characteristic faction also refers to the particularity of Wang Ai to varying degrees. For example, his scholarship and star status are not a characteristic?

Last year, when Wang Ai returned from the World Cup, the dialogue with Bai Yansong at CCTV pointed out a crucial question. Chinese football is currently "big head and small body". The national team has performed well, but the foundation is very weak. After this point of view was published, it was unanimously recognized by people inside and outside football, and it also made the struggle between the above four factions suddenly intensified.