Chapter 680: Chinese Football
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However, since only studying and serving as soldiers can change their fate in China today, children playing football are still vulnerable to opposition from their parents for a long time. In addition, the field needed for football is also a problem, the Chinese population is dense, and because urbanization is extremely rapid, municipal construction is difficult to keep up, resulting in a more crowded living environment in the city than in later China, so it is impossible to have so many regular stadiums for fans to use, as for playing in the alley streets, it is easy to be dangerous, and the cities of New China (for the time being, can only ensure that in the city, the countryside is too large, and the mountainous area is even more remote, even if the government has the financial resources and wants to take care of it comprehensively, It will take at least ten years. Even children from poor families can ensure the most basic life and education under the care of the party and the government, and will not rely on playing football to escape poverty like children in Brazil's slums, so few parents will let their children take risks, so the Chinese who often play football are always only a minority
However, if it is compared with history, the situation is much better, first of all, China has not yet begun to have children, and the common people generally have more children at home, so they are naturally not so expensive, so they will not be allowed to do any risky things, so although there is resistance for children to play football, it is much smaller than that of later generations in history.
Secondly, before the liberation of China, Chinese football had no rivals in Asia. However, since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, China has been mired in war, and the government naturally has no time to take care of those sports teams, and football is no exception
As a result, on the one hand, due to the underpopulation of Taiwan and the lack of football traditions (Taiwanese are too influenced by Japan, the first sport is baseball. On the other hand, their collective departure, coupled with the fact that for more than a decade after the Anti-Japanese War, there were almost no people in the country who played football regularly (the young and strong ones entered the army. Where else is there anyone to play? )。 As a result, the continent's football inheritance was broken. You must know that North Korean football, which became the hegemon of Asia in the sixties and seventies in history, has not participated in many international competitions for more than ten years, and its level has rapidly slipped to the second rate in Asia. The football team of New China was eliminated by the Indonesian team for the first time in the Asian competition, which shows that Chinese football in the era of Li Huitang has completely become a thing of the past
After the founding of the People's Republic of China The government in order to revive Chinese football. He used to take advantage of the Sino-Soviet honeymoon period. Sent more than a dozen international students to study in Hungary, the first football power in Shijie at that time, these dozen young men later became the initial seeds of new Chinese football, and then after more than 20 years of hard work. The Chinese football team has re-emerged as a strong football team in Asia.
But at that time, the North Korean team was already the first in Asia that was difficult to shake, because North Korea was fully supported by the Soviet Union at that time, the economic development was very fast, and the per capita income was once among the best in Asia, plus North Korea was developing football as the first sport, which is very different from the Chinese government that does not attach much importance to football, so although the population of North Korea is far less than that of China, the football population has not been much less than that of China (the largest football population in the history of New China was 1 million, which is still the return to the light in the early days after the football reform. In addition, North Korea's style of play is tough and tenacious, which is very counterproductive to the pseudo-jishu flow of the Chinese national team at that time (when there is no confrontation, the style of play is very gorgeous, and it will not work as soon as the opponent strengthens pressing and physical confrontation. As a result, Chinese football at that time was often bloodied by North Korea, and it never returned to the first place in Asia again. It is said that at that time, China could still win against North Korea occasionally, which was better than the situation against South Korea during the "Koreanophobia" period, but it was often bloodbathed by North Korea, but it was not encountered during the "Koreanophobia" period, and it was more similar to the situation against Iran after 97
Later, after North Korean football withdrew from the competition for political reasons and killed itself, with the rise of South Korea's economy, South Korean football became our new bitter master, and then a series of man-made disasters after football reform made the national football team become a shame for the Chinese, and even a "spittoon" to vent dissatisfaction in work and life, so Chinese football has never won an Asian championship from beginning to end
But now the situation is relatively much better, first of all, the end of the Anti-Japanese War is much faster than in history, and the domestic unification war is like a whirlwind, the time for a large area of the country to fall into war is actually only three years, and at the same time, because of Hu Weidong's personal love for haode, as early as the end of the Anti-Japanese War, football in the Central Plains has had a certain development, so the blank period of China's original outstanding players is relatively short, although the level of decline is inevitable, but most of the foundation and understanding of football is still there, At least not to have to start from scratch, as in history
And although a group of outstanding players represented by Li Huitang are not as powerful as Hu Weidong said in his memory, even if the general level has dropped because there is no ball to play during the Anti-Japanese War, they can still beat the Japanese national football team without the power to fight back, Hu Weidong estimates that even if they can't reach the first-class Shijie at their peak, they are at least the second-rate level of Shijie, and Li Huitang is still well-deserved to be called the "Asian Football King".
Although these old players are generally older, but the skills are still in the hands of the old players, the young players of New China have naturally grown rapidly, coupled with the growing national strength of New China, and most of the football in other Asian countries have not yet developed, so even if Li Huitang later retired, the Asian championship is still in the bag of the Chinese team. And this has a derivative effect, that is, the Chinese team can always get the opportunity to participate in the Shijie Cup and the Olympic football tournament, and can get a much bigger training than other Asian opponents, which is undoubtedly very helpful for the Chinese team to maintain an advantage.
In addition, this time and space has more Hu Weidong, the central leader who likes football, unlike Deng Gong in history, which is naturally beneficial to the development of Chinese football, after all, the establishment of New China is still short, and the poison of the official position is not so quickly cleared, so "there is something good at the top, and it will be very bad at the bottom." "It's inevitable, but it's a good thing to be able to help Chinese football develop better, in Hu Weidong's view
Because of the broken leg and inconvenient to go out, Hu Weidong gave the Politburo the work of science popularization class to Jia Zuzhang, a genuine science writer, but Taizu and Zhou Gong and other leaders who were close to each other would also come to the door in person when they were free, on the one hand to visit Hu Weidong's injury, and on the other hand, to talk to him about science and other topics of mutual interest to Hu at Hu's house. But one day, when Taizu came to Hu's house, Yu Guang immediately asked with surprise when he saw a book on the table, "Ancient Water Margin"? Which version is this? (To be continued......)