Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 550 We want to expand the army

Do you know how the Chinese national team, which has created the best record in history and won No.3 in the World Cup, has been treated after returning home?

In the past, the army won great victories, expelled the Tartars, and expanded its territories. The Chinese national team received the same treatment as the Chinese national team. It's not a football team, but the national heroes returning home collectively.

Whether it is the head coach Milu who is strategizing and leading the team, or the two assistant coaches Tang Pengju and Chu Guanghu who are by Milu's side and do their best to assist, they have become god-like existences in the hearts of fans, not to mention It is said that those international players who have long been idols in the hearts of all fans, even if they have not played, they can also pave their future into a golden road because of this World Cup journey.

But among these people, there is no Pei Wei.

After the World Cup, Pei Wei left the national team and hurried back to BJ in front of everyone. The national team slowly returned home in a way of cruising around, but Pei Wei couldn't enjoy leisurely with them. Back to BJ's.

After Pei Wei returned to BJ, the Chinese Football Association held a plenary meeting, and Pei Wei made a summary of the process of the national team's participation in the World Cup.

"This World Cup, on the surface, is enough to prove the rise of Asian football in the world. Of the four Asian teams participating in the World Cup, except for Saudi Arabia, the Japanese team has entered the top [-], China is third, and South Korea is third. [-]. This result is not too bad for any continent. Even South America, which has Brazil and Argentina, it is impossible for them to have a team enter the final of every World Cup. Just from this World Cup In terms of achievements, we in Asia can become the third force besides Europe and South America."

Pei Wei used the following passage as his opening remarks: "But we must pay attention to one thing, this World Cup is held in Asia, and Asian teams have more or less been helped by some off-court factors, so our achievements There is also a discount on the results. I think everyone should know the method used by the Korean team to enter the semi-finals. If the referees were not so biased towards them, let alone the semi-finals, they would not be able to pass even the Italian one. .Although our results are solid, the schedule still gave us a lot of help. Among our seven opponents, except for Brazil, which we met twice, which is the world's super team, other teams are not counted. It is very strong. Costa Rica and Turkey in the group stage are only entering the World Cup for the second time, just like us. Needless to say, the Japanese team has only entered the World Cup twice. Although Uruguay was once the champion of the two World Cups, their current Their strength is no longer comparable to before. In South America, they only ranked No.5. In the end, they eliminated Australia in the play-offs to enter the World Cup. The opponents we defeated were actually at the same level as ours or even worse. According to my inference, the current strength of our national team should be above the second-tier in Europe, and we can compete with the first-class teams, but the hope of victory is very small.”

"This is already a very good improvement." Wan Junsheng nodded and said: "You know, even eight years ago, we couldn't even pass the Asian qualifiers, which means that in the past few years, Our strength has improved a lot.”

"Then I have to thank Pei Wei for recommending Adriano and Deco to become Chinese nationals!" Xu Bing said with a smile: "Without them, I am afraid we would not have achieved such results, especially Adriano. Jarno, he is only 20 years old, and he can play in three more World Cups! This is a valuable asset for the Chinese national team!"

Others also congratulated Pei Wei one after another. Anyone with eyes can see how important Adriano is in the offense of the Chinese team. Opportunities, there are not many good forwards in China, but there are basically no players like Adriano who can carry most of the offense alone.

Pei Wei smiled and waved his hands: "I'm just doing my duty...Brazil doesn't want such a good player, we can't. Our family foundation is still very weak. how many."

Pei Wei's words caused another burst of laughter. After laughing, Pei Wei continued: "Actually, this is also the second question I want to talk about. We have no shortage of good players now, but there are not enough world-class players. Many, in the entire national team, apart from the two foreign aids Adriano and Deco, only Nie Fei and Sun Chenghai can fight against any superstar in Europe. Now the problem we are facing is that the Chinese players There are quite a few capable players in China, but there are very few superstars. Although this is enough for us to maintain a relatively high leading level in Asia, it is still far from enough to challenge the world."

"Then what should we do?" Zhang Long asked.

"Think about it, everyone. It has been less than ten years since we lost to Kuala Lumpur in 1992 and Irbid in 1993. What made us go from a team that couldn't even get out of the Asian region? Become a strong team that can win the No.3 World Cup?" Pei Wei did not answer Zhang Long's question directly, but threw out another question.

"Of course it's the league!" Everyone answered without thinking—isn't this obvious?After the start of the professional league in 94, as the income of players increased, more and more people started to play football. In 97, it failed to show any good results, but since 97, Chinese football seems to have won the first prize, one by one, the ideals that Chinese fans have longed for but did not dare to expect too much Achieved one by one, entered the World Cup in 98, won the World Cup in 99, entered the Olympics in 2000, won the Olympic silver medal in 2001, won the Asian Cup champion, entered the World Cup in 2002, entered the World Youth Championship, and won the World Youth Championship in 3. World Cup No.[-]...

These things that never happened in the era of planned economy and professional teams were all realized in just a few years. Although there is also a part of luck, it is absolutely inseparable from the development of professional leagues!
"That's right, it's the league." Pei Wei nodded: "Football also requires money, why the five major European leagues are the most exciting football leagues in the world is because these leagues gather the world's largest giants! Every giant is able to spend countless sums of money to attract the best stars, so their games are exciting! Why couldn’t Chinese football succeed in the past? It’s because of lack of money! Without money, there is no motivation, and players can’t just shout A few slogans can do wonders, because the era of the 'spiritual atomic bomb' is over! After the professionalization of our league, the players are paid well, so that they can have more motivation to play football, and the children parents would be willing to let their children learn to play football because of the huge income they can get from playing football! The more people involved, the more players will increase, and the number of stars depends entirely on the solid foundation! Why is Brazil the most football player? A strong country, because there are tens of millions of people playing football in the country, even if there is only one star out of 1 people, they can produce thousands of stars! The more people who work in football, the more they can hone. The more skills you have, the faster the growth of young players will be, and after long-term development, the football level of a country can be greatly improved!"

Pei Wei said loudly: "Taking this World Cup again as an example, China, Japan, and South Korea, which have achieved good results, are the best countries in Asian professional leagues, while West Asia football, which was originally the hegemony of Asia, has made them even less successful because of their population disadvantage. If we have money, we don’t have good seedlings to cultivate, so if we want our football to develop steadily, doing well in the league is the most important thing!”

"Actually, our results in this World Cup are not a reflection of the true level of Chinese football. We can achieve results that exceed our own strength because we have several superstar figures who are ranked high in the world. Among them are Two were poached from Brazil, but this kind of thing cannot be done too much. If it is done too much, it will hurt the enthusiasm of domestic players. However, the scale of our league is still a bit small. The number of teams in the second division is too small. This will cause many young players who come out of football schools to stop their football career without playing. This is also a great harm. Therefore, the expansion of the league is imperative. !"

"Is this necessary?" Wan Junsheng asked suspiciously: "Now our league is booming, won't rashly expanding the army lower the level?"

"Let me give you another example." Pei Wei said dryly, and took a sip from his teacup: "Now there are 3000 football schools under the name of Tianyu Fund, and the number of graduates is about 50 every year. Go to some academies that are not suitable for playing football and are eliminated, at least there will be thousands of young players every year, these players, can the existing more than [-] teams absorb them?"

Everyone shook their heads. Anyone can do such a simple calculation. Divide one thousand by fifty. On average, a club has twenty players. You must know that the average first team only has about 30 players.

"And after winning No.3 in this year's World Cup, it can be expected that the number of children who want to play football will increase to a considerable number. Even if they can go abroad and play football in other Asian countries, there will still be at least half of them. What a waste that young players with the potential to be professional players can’t find the ball to play? Among them, the next Nie Fei will probably appear. You know, if I hadn’t established the Yunjia Tianyu Club at that time, Nie Fei He might be a wage earner now."

"So, we want to expand the army!" Pei Wei said loudly.

PS: Update for ticket 190.

(End of this chapter)