2013年10月4日星期五

Chinese soccer

        These days many soccer fans in China talk about the news that a Chinese soccer club went into the final of the  Asian Champions League. It is a big news, because Chinese soccer team seems haven't achieve any good result for about 9 years, after the national team won the second prize in the Asian Cup in 2004.
        In China, soccer is always a big topic,a focus of controversy, and sometimes a joke. China has the most soccer fans in the world. But all of them is wondering why although we have a population of 1.3 billion, we can't find just 11 people who play soccer well. During last 9 years, both of the national team and the soccer club lose so many games. But it is strange that the last decade is the time soccer become the most popular game in China, because of the  rapid spread of the television and Internet. So the fans become more and the players become fewer, which really confuse us. And that is the reason that soccer club come to be a focus. We get good grade again, People want to know why and what should we do. 
        This time is a special phenomenon, Chinese soccer team become powerful again, not because we really have a good environment. It because of the development of the economy of China. We build bigger sports center, buy high-tech equipment, have better foreign soccer players, and invite professional coach. All of these do improve the ability of local players, but not really work. The main reason we won a lot of games again is we invest more money to soccer. 
       On the other hand, it is undeniable that it obviously a great chance for our soccer. We won the game, and attract fans, soccer come back to the headline of the newspaper. And we have enough money, we have enough population. It is a chance for us to expand the market of soccer, to hold more different grade leagues, to establish more soccer school. We need to catch this chance to solve the fundamental problem, the best way to develop is to increase the population of soccer players, just like Brazil and Spain, they have millions of young players so that when they grow up, the best of them will combine a strong soccer team. And other people also can join teams in different grade league to make money. We should learn the model of healthy soccer market. 

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  1. Its crazy to realize that China does have a million people living there which is probably why it's so hard to find the best soccer players. I myself love watching soccer.

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