In the just concluded 40 strong match, the return of the war general Wu Lei's performance is particularly eye-catching, his experience in Spain let him shine, for China's soccer set up a heck of a battle. After the game, Wu Lei was overwhelmed with emotion and finally realized the mystery of the power of Japanese and South Korean soccer. He firmly believes that if half of the players in the national soccer team can go out of the country, the performance of the national team will be brand new.
Wu Lei's sentiment is not empty, his personal experience let him deeply feel the gap between Chinese and Western soccer. We also look forward to more players like Wu Lei to fight for the country.
Shortly after the 40-team tournament came to an end, the FA seemed to be inspired by Wu Lei and announced that it would restart its program to stay in the ocean. A wu lei is obviously not enough, the football association plans to let more wu lei type of players out of the country, this year and next year to start the implementation of this program.
However, the details of the implementation of this program are still unclear and its effects are difficult to predict. Perhaps a better player than Wu Lei will emerge, or perhaps a huge investment will be made in vain.
The FA's mood to change the status quo is understandable, but do not be hasty. Changing the status quo of the national soccer team is not just a matter of letting a few players go abroad to study. This approach is no different from the foreign affairs movement of the late Qing Dynasty, which is a cure for the symptoms but not the root cause. We see that Japan and South Korea have a lot of players playing in Europe, it is these players to enhance the level of national soccer, but their success is not only by official promotion.
We cannot just see a caterpillar and think that it is going to become a butterfly. To understand the gap between our country and Japan and South Korea in terms of soccer, we should not go to Europe to look at it, but go to Japan and South Korea to see how many soccer pitches they have and how many football-loving children they have. In contrast, our large shopping malls are more luxurious than one another, but we cannot find a piece of land to build a soccer pitch.
Can anyone tell me where I can find 5 soccer fields to play for free in the city I live in? I'm willing to move if there are any, it must be a blessing to live in such a city.
Moreover, there is no lack of players returning from abroad, such as Zhang Xunzhe and Zhang Yuning, but why is the level of the national soccer team still the same? This shows that relying only on external forces to promote individual players to stay abroad is not a feasible way. We should let more children contact soccer, through quantitative change to produce qualitative change, digging talented players, without the need to promote, will naturally attract the attention of European teams.
In fact, the problem of the national soccer team has been a cliché for a long time. Our registered players are still not much better after so many years, slogans have been shouted for many years, and it is still not easy to find a field in the city where you can play soccer, which may be the helplessness of the Football Association.
