On April 1, Shanghai became the focus of attention as the heads of salons in the Chinese Super League, Chinese A League and Chinese B League gathered to discuss the 2021 season. Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Football Association, emphasized at the meeting that salons and the national team have a stake in the same boat, so he strongly appealed to the salons to fully support the national team and protect the rights and interests of international players.
Fans are concerned about the national football team, expect it to promote our country's prestige, which is the right thing to do. However, do the national footballers really need to be pampered? In recent years, the performance of the national team seems to lack the kind of fighting spirit for national honor and the spirit of continuous improvement.
Back in the 2014 AFC Champions League group stage, Shandong Luneng faced the all-Korean Pohang Steelers and took a 2:0 lead shortly after the start, with Pohang being sent off for a while, and appeared to be in a strong position to win the match. However, POSCO showed amazing power of counterattack, the whole game scrambling fierce, with four foreign aid and a number of international players Luneng suppressed in the half, and even Luneng in their own half of the big kicks have made mistakes. In the end, POSCO equalized the score, and the players collapsed on the ground after the game.
This spirit of fighting for the honor of the team never seems to be seen in the national players. What we often see is that the performance of international players in the national team and the salon are two different things. In the national team, they are like amateurs, making mistakes one after another; while in the salon, they show the style of professional players.
Is such a phenomenon simply the result of pressure? One journalist pointed out that the deeper reason is that the players are accumulating wealth too quickly and are worried that injuries on the national team will affect their saloon performance and income. However, they seem to have forgotten that the red jersey they wear represents the honor of the country, putting money and personal interests above national honor, such players, really do not deserve to be cared for.
