“Let’s go, play Frisbee.” It has become a fashionable phrase for many young people recently. This sport, which was originally a small minority, has suddenly exploded in many places across the country recently.
However, some netizens have exposed many conflicts between playing Frisbee and football on the Internet. Emerging sports do not have their own exclusive venues, and the requirements of Frisbee on the venue are highly overlapped with those of football, which will inevitably lead to venue conflicts. Frisbee and football fans have clashed in Beijing and Changde, Hunan.
Just as the dispute between Frisbee and football is increasingly intensifying, the Tmall flagship store of the Chinese Professional Football League Evergreen Beijing Guoan Club quietly launched a Beijing Guoan Frisbee with a logo this week, priced at 88 yuan. Some netizens said, “It looks ugly and loses the face of the football club.” Another netizen said, “It’s good for traditional football clubs to take the initiative to embrace emerging sports.”
“Let’s go, play Frisbee.” It has become a fashionable phrase for many young people recently. This sport, which was originally a small minority, has suddenly exploded in many places across the country recently.
However, some netizens have exposed many conflicts between playing Frisbee and football on the Internet. Emerging sports do not have their own exclusive venues, and the requirements of Frisbee on the venue are highly overlapped with those of football, which will inevitably lead to venue conflicts. Frisbee and football fans have clashed in Beijing and Changde, Hunan.
Just as the dispute between Frisbee and football is increasingly intensifying, the Tmall flagship store of the Chinese Professional Football League Evergreen Beijing Guoan Club quietly launched a Beijing Guoan Frisbee with a logo this week, priced at 88 yuan. Some netizens said, “It looks ugly and loses the face of the football club.” Another netizen said, “It’s good for traditional football clubs to take the initiative to embrace emerging sports.”
The price is 88 yuan,Much more expensive than ordinary commercial frisbees
Sales are not good
The Red Star News reporter found that this Frisbee named “Beijing Guoan Frisbee Official Authentic Outdoor Sports UFO Toy 175g Professional Fitness Competitive Sports” is indeed sold in the official flagship store of Beijing Guoan Tmall, priced at 88 yuan, without shipping.
This is a lot more expensive than ordinary commercial frisbees. Tmall’s current highest-selling frisbee is about 24 yuan, and the frisbee in a professional sports mall is 39 yuan to 59 yuan. Of course, it is normal for items with the team logo to be sold on the club’s official mall at a premium. The Red Star News reporter consulted the customer service of the Guoan Tmall flagship store. The other party said that this frisbee is a professional competitive frisbee with a net weight of 175g, which can be used for competition, training, leisure and entertainment. This Frisbee has Guoan Green Logo printing and is made of pp material. On the product introduction page, there are also pictures of Frisbee gameplay. Regarding why a football club launched Frisbee products, the customer service said that they needed feedback.
However, since the Frisbee hit the shelves this week, there have only been six sales records as of press time. Obviously, Guoan fans are not too interested in the club’s Frisbee, and some fans question whether this behavior is “ready to go to the enemy?”
As an imported product, Frisbee has been a niche sport for more than 30 years in my country. Many people still think that Frisbee is just a toy for dogs. Frisbee sports is easy to use, low threshold, strong sociality, superimposed on various variety shows, frequent appearances in various variety shows, grass-planting notes are recommended and other factors, from a niche sport to an internet celebrity sport. Sports that can be sought after by young people, in addition to their uniqueness and interest, often have a strong “social” attribute. No need for expensive equipment, relatively flexible and free venues, and less intense physical confrontation, which makes Frisbee a popular sport in modern cities. According to the “Top Ten Life Trends in 2022” released by Xiaohongshu, in the past year, the release volume of Frisbee-related content has increased by 6 times year-on-year.
Are football people going to reject or embrace Frisbee?
Both the commentator and the players take part in the debate
Emerging sports do not have their own exclusive venues, and the requirements of Frisbee on the venue are highly overlapped with those of football, which will inevitably lead to venue conflicts. Of course, fans can’t be as sure as they used to make reservations. Fans who love to play football will naturally feel “marginalized”, especially since they are regular visitors to these venues.
Even the well-known football commentator Huang Jianxiang wrote, “The real problem of the Chinese men’s football team is that the infrastructure is too poor, there are too few football fields, and there are too few people who really participate, especially young people. China has a population of 1.4 billion, and children who play football all year round. How many are there? Just these children, I am afraid there will be no place to play football in the future, because the football field is now occupied by players who play Frisbee.” In Beijing and Changde, Hunan, there have been conflicts between Frisbee and football fans. At that time, the “site dispute” between square dance and basketball was also the core of the competition for fitness venues.
It is precisely because of the contradiction between the two that Guoan’s move to play the Frisbee was not understood by the fans. Some netizens said, “Guoan looks ugly and loses the face of football clubs.” Some netizens said, “It’s good for traditional football clubs to take the initiative to embrace emerging sports.”
The battle of football and Frisbee is based on IC photo
But a more rational view is that whether it is social welfare or commercial sports venues, the “first come, first served” rule must be followed, and there is no such thing as other sports occupying football venues. Wang Dalei, a former national gatekeeper, has responded to some of the fans’ arguments on the Internet. Wang Dalei believes that since the players who play Frisbee have given money and set a venue, it is only natural for them to play, and there is no such thing as a Frisbee grabbing the football field. A person in the sports industry also said, “The original intention of those free sports fields is to serve the public, not just the football group. It’s just that the football field has strong applicability, so most of the fields are designed according to the specifications of the football field, which does not mean that Just play football.”
Football is a well-deserved number one sport in the world, but in fact football is not for everyone, and not everyone loves it. There are also many sports to choose from for groups of different ages and physical conditions.
Red Star News reporter Hu Minjuan
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