Over the years, I've been hoping for a chance to talk to everyone, but I've never had the courage.

Today on a whim, it took a morning, and the writing was a bit messy, and I thought of writing wherever I wanted, and I hope you don't feel weird.

The things in this article are all really happening to me, and at the same time, they are my truest thoughts.

Frankly speaking, I really had the courage to write such an article, because I didn't know what kind of feelings it would bring to everyone after I sent it out, and I was quite scared.

But in the end I decided to write it.

This is the first time I have been honest with my book friends, and I hope you will be patient.

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I was a kid from the countryside, I played football for the first time in junior high school, I first learned about the World Cup from the newspaper in '98, I knew Zinedine Zidane, I knew Ronaldo, I knew a star who jumped over people......

When I was in high school, the Chinese team was impacting the South Korea-Japan World Cup in 02, and I stayed up late with many of my classmates who played football to catch up on the game.

Since I was in high school, I saved my living expenses every week to do two things, one was renting, and the other was to buy football-related newspapers and magazines.

In those years, like many people, I kept scolding the national football team, feeling that it was rotten to the end and hopeless.

There were a lot of things that happened that I can't tell you all about them, but I didn't subscribe to the newspapers and magazines.

Because of the need to write books, now I often go back to check some information, in addition to using Baidu search, I also often go to [Sina.com-Competitive Storm-Past News], here you can find a lot of old news more than ten years ago, interested book friends can go to see, it will really make everyone have a different discovery.

I'll just mention a few recent media reports that have left a deep impression on me, and you can tell for yourself, and I can guarantee that what I say is the truth, and you can see the reports in the news of the past, with newspaper signatures in them.

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The first article, on July 25, 2004, before the Asian Cup knockout match against Iraq, an authoritative domestic sports media reported that before the third round of the Asian Cup group stage against Qatar, on the evening of the 23rd, seven international players disliked the hotel buffet was not delicious, went out to fight tooth sacrifices, and accidentally had collective poisoning and diarrhea.

On July 26, Zhu Heyuan, the leader of the national team, came forward to clarify that all the food and accommodation of the national team were in the Kunlun Hotel in Beijing, and there was no incident of the international players going out to fight for teeth.

(Please note that this news has been reported repeatedly in the following years, but the time has been changed)

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The second article, on October 9, 2004, the national youth team lost 0:2 to South Korea in the final of the Asian Youth Championship, which was the fourth time in a year to encounter South Korea, the first three times the Chinese team won, and the fourth and most critical one, the Asian Youth Championship final, lost.

After the game, a well-known football reporter in China wrote an article [Not losing is not enough to make the people angry, and the national youth buns are finally exposed].

It would be a mistake to think that it was just a headline party.

The reporter said at the beginning of the article that the youth team could not win the championship, because after winning the championship, the leaders of the Football Association would collectively jump.

He thinks that God is fair, and does not give any speculators a chance to survive, Zhongqing got lucky all the way to the finals, and in front of the Koreans who are not afraid of fire refining real gold, the big bun of Zhongqing is finally exposed.

The defeat of the youth team fulfilled the saying "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of mice will make holes", in the case of chaos in domestic football because of the national security strike, the youth team did not make straws, faithfully inherited all the bad habits of the big brothers, firmly chose a road that will never fight, and went further and further.

At the end of the article, he also said that a few days later, the national football team played Kuwait away, the national team should not win, and winning is to save the Football Association.

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Third, before China played Kuwait away in the World Preliminaries, some domestic media suddenly exposed the news that the head coach of the national team, Alihan, received black money, Alihan had a fierce conflict with the Chinese coaching staff, and the international players were involved in the Chinese Super League boycott and club revolution.

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Here are a few words from my heart.

Since I recently wrote about the Asian Cup, I was particularly impressed by these events.

How so?

I can't remember how I felt when I first bought newspapers and magazines and saw these reports, but I believe that I must have been scolding, but now that I look back, I have a few questions.

First, those seven international players have to be bold, during the Asian Cup competition, in full view of everyone, went out to fight tooth sacrifices without permission, and also caused diarrhea incidents? Don't they know that fans and media across the country were staring at the Asian Cup at the time? Staring at The Kunlun Hotel Beijing?

Second, and most hateful, even disgusting, I feel ashamed that I ever liked such a journalist.

The Football Association is bad, but that doesn't mean that the national team can't compete.

Just because the Football Association is rotten, so the national football team must be rotten? Don't deserve to win?

Even the bastard that a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and the son of a mouse can make a hole?

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These are just a few pieces of news about the national team that I personally collected around the 2004 Asian Cup, but what about before? What about later?

How much truth is there in the news reported by these media, the columns written? How much is neutral and objective?

If I'm not mistaken, an authoritative domestic sports media asked reporters to pretend to be fans to take pictures with Figo, and came back to sit at home to concoct Figo's interview, so what is the truth about the international player's diarrhea incident? What about the truth of other national football scandals?

To be honest, it's so messy, I can't tell the difference at all, I really can't tell the difference.

Therefore, now I have reservations about the so-called facts and truths reported by any media, unless I can come up with solid evidence, and even nowadays, in many cases, there may not be the truth if there is a picture.

And what I don't understand is that before the knockout round against Iraq and the World Preliminary Tournament against Kuwait, these important matches, is it appropriate to spread such news all over the world?

At that time, the domestic league boycott, the club revolution, and all kinds of rumors were in the dust, and these media exposed these news, in order to vent their personal anger, bring rhythm, and incite emotions? Or is it really to report the truth?

And how much of their reports are true?

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The main reason why I listed the above is to share my feelings over the years as a person who has come before.

If you are a book friend who has been chasing my books all the way, I believe you will be able to understand this change in me.

Chinese football is very bad, the Chinese Football Association is very poor, like it or not, support it or not, it is understandable.

But many domestic media are not as tall as they advertise, and they are also rotten.

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Not long ago, during the World Cup, the live broadcast bar made a special program to recall the 2002 World Cup, everyone who is interested can go and take a look, which touched me the most was the words of Zhu Heyuan, the leader of the national team, which was very profound.

There are a few details that stand out to me the most.

One is that he mentioned that after the World Cup, domestic public opinion was overwhelmingly scolded, and some international players asked him, did we make a mistake in this World Cup? If you don't enter, they scold, and if you enter, they still scold?

Team leader Zhu said that before leaving, Milu told him that Chinese football lacks a football philosophy, cannot look at gains and losses dialectically, and can easily amplify certain aspects of emotions, and then elevate the players' performance on the field to ideology, such as being unpatriotic and unwilling to do their best.

Another detail is that Zhu Heyuan said that he led the team to Spain to play, and he saw the huge gap between domestic and foreign football.

This shows how weak the foundation of Chinese football is.

And there are many reasons for this weakness, some can be said, some can't be said, then we won't talk about it.

But things have been getting better in recent years.

My child's school has held intramural football tournaments for three consecutive years, and the same is true for other schools, and out-of-school football training classes have sprung up like mushrooms, and more and more parents are changing their traditional concepts and sending their children to play football for the purpose of physical exercise, which is a good phenomenon.

Over the years, China has become rich, the club has begun to increase investment, the introduction of famous coaches, the introduction of stars, the club's training level, the level of youth training is getting higher and higher, I believe that there is still hope for Chinese football, and I am willing to continue to go forward with this expectation, even if he may disappoint me tomorrow.

But I'm willing to wait.

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Now I'm going to talk about the national team in this book.

In this book, I will not mention the Chinese Football Association, I will not talk about reform, I will write about the national team.

Alihan's level is not very high, but he definitely has his own things, and he has a lot of things that we didn't understand at the time, for example, he put Zheng Zhi on the back line as a central defender, and now looking back, do you think it's quite ahead?

still remembers that he was once criticized by the media for letting Yan Song kick on the right side, but Yan Song played very poorly.

I think that's the difference between Chinese and Dutch football, because in the Netherlands, wide players like Arjen Robben and Donny van der Meyde are basically left and right.

There is a saying that the comprehensiveness of technology determines the richness of tactics.

The way to develop players in Europe is to be comprehensive, and Arsene Wenger likes to put young players in different positions for a period of time, hoping that they can be more comprehensive, and then focus on developing advantages on a comprehensive basis.

And that's what I often talk about in my book, the bucket theory.

This is also a significant gap between Chinese football and European football.

Alihan uses European thinking to lead the Chinese team, which will definitely not be suitable in this regard.

In the past few years, I think that on the one hand, Chinese football has not improved, but has regressed, and there has been a gap in the players, and on the other hand, our opponents have improved too quickly.

Learning is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.

In the 2004 Asian Cup, the biggest star was the Japanese team's substitute midfielder in Serie A Regina, Shunsuke Nakamura.

As you can imagine, the level of football in Asia was not high at that time, and there was a gap between the strength of our China and our opponents, but it was not big, and anyone we met had the strength to fight, even South Korea and Iran.

However, in the past ten years, we have had too many problems ourselves, talent training has not kept up, and we have been absent from high-level competitions for a long time, which has led to a sharp decline in our entire football technical and tactical level.

This is the difference between the other, so the gap is getting wider and wider.

Another example is the Premier League, which was still called League One at the time, because of the Heysel tragedy in the eighties of the last century, it was banned from participating in European competitions for a long time, which directly led to the plummeting of the entire technical and tactical level of the Premier League team.

It can be seen that the long-term lack of training in high-level competitions has a great impact on the technical and tactical level of a country's football.

The high-level events I am talking about here are not only the World Cup, for Chinese football, the top 10 matches are high-level events.

I'm thinking that if we start from 04, Zheng Zhi and Zhao Junzhe can stay in the United States smoothly, and in 05 years, Chen Tao, Zhou Haibin, Feng Xiaoting, Gao Lin, and Hao Junmin can also stay in the United States, then at least they can support the foundation of Chinese football without corruption.

In fact, these players do have the quality to play in the European League, but they have been delayed for various reasons, resulting in only staying in the country.

If this group of players develops smoothly, we dare not say what good results they have, but it is not too much to play in the top 10 matches and enter the World Cup, right?

As long as there is a high level of competition, our players, our football level will not be pulled bigger and bigger by the opponent.

After surviving this dark period, Chinese football can at least maintain its competitiveness in Asia.

That keeps a hope, doesn't it?

And that's what I want to write about the Chinese national team.

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Finally, here, I would like to say that as an author, I have no way to sway the minds of any one of my readers.

It's like a chef who can't make a dish that satisfies everyone.

But as a Chinese, I can only accept the players I write about playing for the Chinese national team.

As the saying goes, the son is not ugly, and the mother is not poor the child, this is my truest thought.

As I said earlier, I don't write about the Football Association, I don't write about the miasma, I only write about the national team.

Over the years, my writing experience has taught me that I can only write according to my own ideas, make this dish, serve it on the table, and let everyone judge whether they like it or not, and I respect everyone's choice.

Here, I would like to say to the two or three thousand book lovers who have subscribed to the genuine edition, it is my greatest honor to have your support, thank you for subscribing to my book, thank you!

For your sake, I will definitely try to write this book down with my heart.

As for the book review area, to be honest, I have never been in the habit of deleting book reviews, and until now, I have deleted several posts that are attacking book friends, even those who scolded me so badly, I kept them, and I didn't delete any of them.

But there are limits to human patience and restraint.

Even if you want to scold me, at least you have to order, read it, scold me again, tell me where and where I don't write well, I can't enjoy reading it, I feel like I'm losing, I have nothing to say about scolding me in this situation.

But if you watch pirated copies, and then scold them in the book review area, or even want to use this as an excuse to show that you are justified in watching pirated copies, then it's not kind, isn't it?

Also, I didn't write it in the book, so please don't speculate, don't add drama, don't put up a target over there and hit it yourself, so that I was scolded for no reason, and in the end I was still confused, and I didn't know where I should go to reflect.

In the future, please don't do this kind of thing again, okay?

In the chapters of the genuine subscription, many book friends have discussed, but everyone is calm, and many things are very reasonable, and many of them I feel benefited a lot from reading them, but why is it another situation in the book review area?

I believe that everyone knows the answer.

In the past few days, the subscription has not dropped, and I believe that my way of writing is acceptable to everyone, and I will continue to insist on following this line of thought.

Finally, once again, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the book lovers who support the genuine subscription!

You are the motivation for me to keep working hard!

I love you!

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