Original title: Opinion-The Chinese Super League starts with great significance after excluding all difficulties
The 2022 Chinese Super League season will kick off on June 3. Judging from the twists and turns of the competition preparations such as repeated selection of the competition area and the withdrawal of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, the Chinese Super League will face unprecedented challenges and difficulties this season, which is about to kick off. In the context of the Chinese team’s 5 consecutive defeats in the preliminaries of the World Cup, the serious business difficulties in the “post-Jinyuan football era” industry, and the difficult situation, all event participants, whether active or passive, must adhere to “doing a good job in the Chinese Super League”. This is the bottom line, so as to strive for the hope of a turnaround for Chinese professional football and even Chinese football.
On May 24, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club officially announced that it would withdraw from the Chinese Super League and stop operating the team. Only 10 days before the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League, such a change caught the organizers somewhat by surprise. As the so-called “involvement of the whole body”, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory groups were once entangled in “whether or not to supplement one team to ensure the scale of 18 teams participating in the event”. However, considering the interests of all parties such as maintaining the competition quality of the competition, the viewing of the league, the brand image, fans and sponsors, the organizers finally adopted the “replenishment plan”.
After only “relegation” for half a year, the Dalian team returned to the Chinese Super League camp through replacement. After Tianjin Tianhai Team, Jiangsu Team, and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team retired for some reason in the past three seasons, “pre-season supplementary” has become a certain practice before the start of the Chinese Super League. And this embarrassment just projects the unprecedented business dilemma faced by Chinese professional football. “Tomorrow or accident, which comes first” has become the spoken word of many club members nowadays. It is no wonder that when the news of the Guangzhou City team’s delay in going to the competition area due to the overdue nucleic acid test results came out, many people in the industry agreed to “think the worst”, whether the Chinese Super League can start and finish the game with a complete lineup, and the parties involved in the crisis club are worried. Uneasy, and the hearts of the event managers could not help but hang.
In fact, there are still many difficulties in the preparations for the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League. For example, it was not until about 10 days before the start of the game that the final approval of the start plan was obtained. Behind it is the extraordinary difficulty of the selection work in the competition area.
Affected by the epidemic, many cities in the candidate competition areas had to show repeated attitudes on the issue of “hosting the competition or not” due to the huge pressure of territorial epidemic prevention and control, and even declined the invitation to host the competition. Among the 3 cities in the competition area that were finally confirmed to host the Chinese Super League in the new season, in addition to Meizhou City’s early confirmation of hosting the competition, Dalian and Haikou were able to take over the competition, not only thanks to the strong support of the governments and relevant departments of the two places, but also It is inseparable from the “hotline public relations” of the main leaders of the event organizer.
Compared with the 2020 season’s “burning hearts” and the 2021 season’s “new debut”, the slogan of the Chinese Super League’s “create the future together” in the new season seems to be more unpretentious, but the slogan has always been “new”, which all reflects It shows the infinite yearning of the tournament organizers for the new attitude, new look and new vitality of the league. More importantly, the Chinese Super League in the new season has returned to the eyes of the fans after eliminating all difficulties, giving the players and coaches the direction and motivation to work hard. The “resumption of work and production” of the Chinese Super League in the 2022 season is unprecedentedly difficult, but every participant and follower knows that the start of the competition itself is of great significance.
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