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Opinion / Commentary
By Qin Xiaoying (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-28 06:53
College students in Beijing got extremely excited on an autumn day in 1981 when China's women volleyball players beat the Japanese team and won the world championship. They paraded around the campus, shouting patriotic slogans about China's "revival."
Some suggested that this day be named the "Day of China's National Game." The case was later made to veteran Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Thinking over the matter for some moments, Deng said: "National game? It should be football," meaning that no specific date should be named the "Day of China's National Game" until China won a place among the world's top football teams. This signifies that, in the eyes of Deng Xiaoping and millions of Chinese as well, only football could be regarded as the country's national game.
Deng was a true "football fan." As early as the 1920s, when he was studying in France, he traded his jacket for a ticket to a football match. Not by coincidence, his first public appearance, after being rehabilitated politically in 1977, was at a football match.
Recounting these old stories is not simply nostalgia, but rather to point out that many Chinese expected the nation to emerge as a major football power.
While they enjoyed the thrills and spills of the recent World Cup, many Chinese people have been trying to understand what exactly is blocking the development of Chinese football.
Many attempts and many errors have already been made to try to crack this extremely hard nut.
One theory claims that a country's sporting prowess is dictated by its economic strength. This theory has been proven to be patent nonsense by China's more than two decades of rapid economic growth.
Another school of thought then got the upper hand. It claimed that the average Chinese person is physically weaker than, say, their Western and African counterparts.
The root cause, the proponents of this theory believed, lay in the average Chinese person's low-calorie diet. As a result, young football trainees consumed vastly increased quantities of milk, meat and eggs.
Still later, a new theory became predominant football training should start as early as possible. This led to batches of promising teenage players being shipped off to South America.
Then we turned from exports to imports, with many foreign players and coaches appearing on football grounds across the country. But some soon left, owing probably to their failure to adapt to China's "football climate" or the inability of some Chinese people to accept foreign things.
Later, the answer seemed to have been found institutional defects. So institutional changes were introduced to the sector. A number of large State-owned enterprises lavished money on various football clubs. This, among other things, largely raised the income of Chinese footballers, star players in particular. "Millionaire footballers" became commonplace. At the same time, a handful of really good players went to European clubs. As a result, China's football market became increasingly hot.
All this led many people to believe that the good times were just around the corner for Chinese football.
But their dreams were soon shattered.
Foul play on the part of referees and players was repeatedly exposed. Corruption arising from a defective managerial system and lax enforcement of rules stunned fans. All attempts at scientific management and tactical reform were rendered useless by some players' indecent behaviour and deep-rooted bad habits. The amazing largesse of investors and patrons made some people suspect that massive amounts of State assets were simply being pocketed.
The consistent record of failure of China's national football team only served to make matters worse, tarnishing its image in the eyes of millions of Chinese.
Chinese football is now in the grip of a very cold and bleak winter the number of fans has haemorrhaged and the nation's football market is in a state of terminal decline. While China's strength and standing as a nation are constantly being enhanced, China's national football team has hit rock bottom.
The poor performance of Asian teams at the recently concluded World Cup has only served to increase the pessimism of Chinese football fans. The theory that "Chinese people are not suitable for sports which require fierce physical confrontation" has now raised its head.
Blind optimism, which was prominent in the previous rounds of changes taking place in the Chinese football arena, is unfounded. But this does not necessarily mean that a sense of deep pessimism is preferable.
It is clear that our efforts have managed to bear some fruit, but these positive results have all been far too short-lived.
In which direction should Chinese football move in the future? How can we get the game out of the doldrums?
We should stick to reform and adhere to previously introduced innovative measures. Past measures failed to make an impact as a desire to see quick results made it hard to correctly assess any progress achieved.
The experience acquired by China's world-class table tennis and badminton teams offers food for thought in terms of management, tactics and competitive spirit.
The handful of "bad elements" among players, referees, patrons and football officials should be weeded out. Otherwise, irregularities and corruption will go unchecked or run rampant.
Tough training needs to be enforced. The German team offers a good example in this regard.
Young people who cherish high moral standards and are well educated ought to be picked to form a new national team.
Coaches, most of whom are ex-players, are generally poorly educated. This situation should be redressed.
Football ought to be widely promoted in primary and middle schools, and factories and army units across the country, while amateur matches of different age groups should be regularly organized.
Football is a sport that requires wisdom based on culture and education, a strong physique and fine moral qualities.
We look forward to the appearance of Chinese players at future World Cup matches. And we look forward to the birth of the "Day of China's National Game" as soon as possible.
The author is a researcher from the China Foundation for International & Strategic Studies.
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