Left behind by Japan and South Korea, the Chinese soccer is looking for a second wind. With the aim of building a competitive national team and so decently - one day - the FIFA World Cup. Without causing the usual mockery of a public disillusioned by his players.
In mid-March, the Chinese government announced the adoption of an ambitious plan to make the national football a continental reference or even global if more affinity. The principle? Develop football at a young age, so in schools in order to attract as many young people, more professional training and make the local league - Super League - more competitive than all its neighbors. Ultimately, the idea is to have an ambitious men's team and able to shine in the World Cup. This growing sports power is the sine qua non condition to fulfill the dream of one day President Xi Jinping: organize the great mass of world football in the Middle Kingdom.
"Smoking can ruin your health, but looking to play the Chinese national team can ruin your life"
Except that this time, the Chinese number one, as fans of football in the country, has not necessarily been a lot of joy to their teeth with his national team participating in the 2002 World Cup, two Cup finals Asia (1984, 2004) and two titles in Cup East Asia (2005, 2010), when Japan invoice five trips to the World Cup and four continental titles. Sad for Chinese football fans, strikeouts and scandals of the national team have been commonplace over the last two decades. When the football clubs was weighed down by corruption, international, they were public mockery of the target after their sporting exploits in chess or brothels revealed by the press.
By reaching the quarterfinals of the last Asian Cup, with three wins in chickens and an honorable defeat against eventual winners Australia, Alain Perrin - China coach for a year - has at least ensured to avoid valves for some time. Like those that followed the collapse of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese saw out the tail between the legs from the group stage. The reactions of the users? The most fun in the blogosphere conjured "a performance comparable to the ground in a tragic eunuch in a brothel," when the official song of the Olympiad, Beijing Welcomes You had turned into "Come to play with us, our goal posts are wide and always ouvert "(come play with us, our goals are broad and always open).
The comparison with the eunuchs is not necessarily about, Chinese paparazzi who immortalized the image several players from the national team with prostitutes during the Olympiad ... As for the diversion of Beijing Olympic anthem, it has more or less continued to illustrate the level of a team able to fall lower and lower: in June 2013, under the direction of the prestigious José Camacho, the national team seemed to reach a point of no return after a defeat home friendly against Thailand, 5-1. Thailand, supposed to be a much smaller nation than China ... resulted in a riot outside the hotel early players in Hefei, in a review of 100 injured. Hence, at the time, the now famous phrase of a surfer on a forum: "Smoking can ruin your health, but looking to play the Chinese national team can ruin your life."
Competitive in 15 to 20 years?
For Troussier, current coach of Hangzhou Greentown, these critics of the Chinese public in the national team reflects primarily a ras-le-bol vis-à-vis the local football leaders: "One would think the disenchantment is linked to results, but for me it's more a lack of love from the way of making the Federation, and by extension the Chinese government. " For the former Japan coach, there is "a gap between the expectations of the public and the media with what offer executives, especially men in place are not necessarily those who deserve it." One way to remember that two successive presidents of the Federation ended in jail for corruption - with many leaders of clubs, referees and players - in the post-Olympics anti-corruption campaign. For Chinese International, hard to shine when the whole system is seized by arrangements between friends, and must also endure a difficult comparison with Japanese and South Korean neighbors, good students of the Far Eastern football.
"The players do not have the level, because they are not trained enough and thus armed," said Troussier. The reason is societal he said, because "it does not exist in China a daily spontaneous and popular practice. The players are from wealthy families, as to the structured football, we must have the financial means. This gives players - if we add to this the effect of the one-child policy - which have often been over-protected and not subject to the responsibilities ... "In 2008, China has proved that it had known s' appropriating most Olympic sports, with the exception of the most prestigious, such as athletics - despite a gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the Athens Games in 2004 with Liu Xiang - the basketball and especially soccer. But "the President Xi Jinping has set the tone with this government plan that will empower football, including training and incorporate the practice in schools." Except that the results do not arrive immediately, so the prospect of a World Cup on Chinese soil will emerge in a fairly distant future. "15-20 years" understands Troussier. In the meantime, the national team will have to round back. Or bite the bullet to avoid being parodied.
"Smoking can ruin your health, but looking to play the Chinese national team can ruin your life"
Except that this time, the Chinese number one, as fans of football in the country, has not necessarily been a lot of joy to their teeth with his national team participating in the 2002 World Cup, two Cup finals Asia (1984, 2004) and two titles in Cup East Asia (2005, 2010), when Japan invoice five trips to the World Cup and four continental titles. Sad for Chinese football fans, strikeouts and scandals of the national team have been commonplace over the last two decades. When the football clubs was weighed down by corruption, international, they were public mockery of the target after their sporting exploits in chess or brothels revealed by the press.
By reaching the quarterfinals of the last Asian Cup, with three wins in chickens and an honorable defeat against eventual winners Australia, Alain Perrin - China coach for a year - has at least ensured to avoid valves for some time. Like those that followed the collapse of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese saw out the tail between the legs from the group stage. The reactions of the users? The most fun in the blogosphere conjured "a performance comparable to the ground in a tragic eunuch in a brothel," when the official song of the Olympiad, Beijing Welcomes You had turned into "Come to play with us, our goal posts are wide and always ouvert "(come play with us, our goals are broad and always open).
The comparison with the eunuchs is not necessarily about, Chinese paparazzi who immortalized the image several players from the national team with prostitutes during the Olympiad ... As for the diversion of Beijing Olympic anthem, it has more or less continued to illustrate the level of a team able to fall lower and lower: in June 2013, under the direction of the prestigious José Camacho, the national team seemed to reach a point of no return after a defeat home friendly against Thailand, 5-1. Thailand, supposed to be a much smaller nation than China ... resulted in a riot outside the hotel early players in Hefei, in a review of 100 injured. Hence, at the time, the now famous phrase of a surfer on a forum: "Smoking can ruin your health, but looking to play the Chinese national team can ruin your life."
Competitive in 15 to 20 years?
For Troussier, current coach of Hangzhou Greentown, these critics of the Chinese public in the national team reflects primarily a ras-le-bol vis-à-vis the local football leaders: "One would think the disenchantment is linked to results, but for me it's more a lack of love from the way of making the Federation, and by extension the Chinese government. " For the former Japan coach, there is "a gap between the expectations of the public and the media with what offer executives, especially men in place are not necessarily those who deserve it." One way to remember that two successive presidents of the Federation ended in jail for corruption - with many leaders of clubs, referees and players - in the post-Olympics anti-corruption campaign. For Chinese International, hard to shine when the whole system is seized by arrangements between friends, and must also endure a difficult comparison with Japanese and South Korean neighbors, good students of the Far Eastern football.
"The players do not have the level, because they are not trained enough and thus armed," said Troussier. The reason is societal he said, because "it does not exist in China a daily spontaneous and popular practice. The players are from wealthy families, as to the structured football, we must have the financial means. This gives players - if we add to this the effect of the one-child policy - which have often been over-protected and not subject to the responsibilities ... "In 2008, China has proved that it had known s' appropriating most Olympic sports, with the exception of the most prestigious, such as athletics - despite a gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the Athens Games in 2004 with Liu Xiang - the basketball and especially soccer. But "the President Xi Jinping has set the tone with this government plan that will empower football, including training and incorporate the practice in schools." Except that the results do not arrive immediately, so the prospect of a World Cup on Chinese soil will emerge in a fairly distant future. "15-20 years" understands Troussier. In the meantime, the national team will have to round back. Or bite the bullet to avoid being parodied.
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