News from January 3, Beijing time, the prospect of Chinese football in 2022 is still unclear. At the moment when many teams are facing survival crisis and the hope of qualifying for the national football team is still slim, there are still many problems to be solved in the future. The Football News wrote an article to analyze Chinese football in 2022 and listed 7 major suspenses to be solved. Only time can give answers to these suspenses.
The first suspense listed by the Football News is next year’s AFC Champions League, whether the Chinese Super League teams will send players to participate. The Football News said that in 2022, only 6 teams in the Chinese Super League will initially meet the AFC competition standards, and they will participate this year. The AFC Super League team may have to wait until the fate of the Guangzhou team is determined before it becomes clear. However, the draw ceremony of the AFC Champions League group stage will begin on January 17, which also means that there is a high probability of determining the specific teams participating in the AFC Champions League group stage.
Because of the Qatar World Cup that will begin in November, the AFC intends to compress the AFC this season to be completed between April and April, and the venue of the tournament system is still in the Middle East. The Super League will face earth-shaking changes this year. Many teams, including the Guangzhou team, are facing a crisis of survival in the share reform. It is likely that the final team will not be confirmed until April, just like last year. This is the same as last year, the AFC and the Super League schedule conflict. Of course, Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Haigang, which are currently financially better in the Chinese Super League, still have the opportunity to seek breakthroughs in the AFC group stage, but the other two teams, whether it is Guangzhou or Changchun Yatai, or the qualified Shenzhen team, will participate in the Asian Championship. The will of the crown may not be strong.
It is unknown whether the Chinese Super League clubs participating in the AFC are willing to travel to and from the Middle East and have to isolate 14+7 when returning home. Abandoning the AFC as it did last year is the most direct and easiest way to ensure the smooth progress of the Chinese Super League, but the AFC results of the Chinese Super League can be imagined.
The second suspense reported by the Football News is equity reform. Share reform or mixed reform has become the direction of reform of Chinese professional clubs. So, is it really a life-saving straw?
In the 2021 Super League, many clubs are in the dilemma of arrears of wages. The current news shows that there are only about 4 clubs in the Super League that do not owe salaries, mainly Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Haigang, Henan Songshan Longmen and Dalian people.
A one-size-fits-all share reform or mixed reform will not make Chinese football last forever. There are three main problems in it: one is that the current share reform mainly seeks help from the local government, but the local government is also facing difficulties; the second is the historical debt of some clubs. Seriously, whether it can be effectively divested is actually unknown; the third point is that even the clubs that have completed the reform of mixed ownership currently have various problems in their operation.
In the long run, the focus of club development is not to seek government relief, but to establish a modern corporate system and improve its own management level. The first criterion is to live within our means, and then we will strive to improve the club’s business model, reverse the current thinking of “demanding money” and change to a “make money” thinking. Even if it is not profitable, it is necessary to increase the club’s actual operating income as much as possible year by year to reduce The burden of shareholders, so that the Chinese professional league clubs can truly return to normal.
How many players can stay abroad?
In the new year, Li Lei, the first international player to stay abroad, is about to fly to Switzerland to formally join the Grasshopper Club. The Football News revealed that the Football Association is likely to set up a guarantee team to coordinate the affairs of staying abroad, including seeking sponsorships to subsidize overseas players, as well as for players. Players provide other aspects of protection, such as regular communication, helping overseas players and the national team to establish a communication mechanism and so on.
At present, some players have plans to stay abroad, and related work is also being promoted. However, how many players can stay abroad needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, because a very important principle of staying abroad is: not only to stay abroad, but to have the initiative to stay abroad, but also specific analysis of specific players in order to reach Europe. The main purpose is to be able to play.
Will the National Football Team improve?
The new national football team led by Li Xiaopeng is about to usher in the test of the top 12 at the end of January. Whether the Chinese team, who has already qualified, can bring some expectations to the fans in the next game is worthy of attention.
The Football News stated that in 2022, Li Xiaopeng’s primary task is to “pass the four barriers”, that is, leading his team to participate in the final 4 games of the top 12 matches, namely, the away game against Japan on January 27, and the away game against Vietnam on February 1. At home against Saudi Arabia on March 24, and Oman away on March 29.
If you pass these four tests, Li Xiaopeng’s subsequent work will still be arduous, and there will be three more problems: one is that the national football needs to be reorganized, updated, and the problems of naturalized players need to be resolved one by one. The second problem is the rest of the internationals. At present, after the return of Vietnam from the away game on February 1, the team needs to be closed and isolated. When the ban is lifted, it is already at the end of February, and the national team will play in the top 12 at the end of March. The national team will have up to 10 to 15 days. Rest time. The last problem is the warm-up match, whether to go abroad for training or continue to play warm-up matches with domestic teams?
Will Evergrande really withdraw from the Guangzhou team?
The Guangzhou team is currently ranked second. If they do not lose to Shanghai Haigang in the final round, they will win the Chinese Super League runner-up. This can be regarded as a good ending for the team in a critical moment. After all, it is naturalizing with the crowd. After the players cancel the contract, the Guangzhou team can only send young players to the game. Fortunately, these young people played well.
At the turn of the new year, the Guangzhou team also reported some good news. Recently, the players received half a month’s living expenses, which cost nearly 20 million yuan. Although it is temporarily unable to solve the problem of the team’s arrears, at least these expenses have made the players feel cared and warm.
It was previously reported that Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group intends to re-invest in Guangzhou Football, but the report did not specify whether it is the Guangzhou team or the Guangzhou City. For the next Guangzhou team, the first thing to do is to solve the club’s debt problem, and then the access problem of the Super League next season, regardless of whether the Guangzhou team’s parent company will let go of all the club’s shares, the equity distribution of the participating units, and how the club will operate in the future. These need to be completed step by step in accordance with the rules of football.
Will the team disband?
The Football News said that at present, the basic situation of the Super League is relatively stable. The teams currently exposed to more problems are mainly Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic, Hebei, Guangzhou and Qingdao. In addition, other teams have also experienced some problems, but the club did not take the initiative to expose, or the problem is not too serious, these teams are unlikely to withdraw.
In general, although the situation of the clubs in the Super League is generally not so good, the possibility of club withdrawal cannot be ruled out, but the probability is not too high at present.
As for China A and China B, it is the Guizhou team of China A that is obviously experiencing problems. On the contrary, it is more likely to withdraw. Other clubs in China A and China B have not shown signs of withdrawing. However, considering the survival of some clubs It is indeed difficult, and it is still not possible to rule out the withdrawal or dissolution of the club.
Can the new management method of Guozihao improve performance?
According to the analysis of the Football News, in 2021, starting from the Chinese women’s football team, the new management model of Guozihao has undergone major changes. Generally speaking, a large part of the management authority of the Chinese women’s football and the Chinese men’s football association must be handed over. The former management has become now probably only responsible for guarantee work.
Regarding the issue of Chinese women’s football and Chinese men’s football, in fact, it has never been a matter of single-country brand management. The problem with the Chinese women’s football team is that the original first mover advantage is gradually disappearing, and the women’s football infrastructure has been stagnant for a long time, which in turn affected the record of the Chinese women’s national team.
As for the problem of Chinese men’s football, it can be traced back to the faulty youth training in the gloomy stage of Chinese football 15 years ago. At that time, it caused the decline of the professional league and the failure of the green and yellow. It is not just a problem of the Football Association itself, but the cancellation and relegation of various airbornes. , Olympic strategy and other chaotic politics, it is precisely the untimely intervention that led to the decline of the professional league and the decline of the youth training, so that no one is available for the national team.
Therefore, it is difficult to say whether the transfer of management authority is a good thing or a bad thing, but one thing is certain, this does not fundamentally change the overall situation. (DD)Return to Sohu to see more
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