The sports of China is like her GDP, competing in the very top level. But China's national football team is still in the same level of GDP per capita, wandering outside top 100.
Recently, several politburo members met with veteran football stars and FA officials. They intelligently noticed the terrible status and demanded them to spare no efforts to satisfy the numerous football fans in China. Yesteryda, Hu also stepped into this campaign.
Football is beautiful because its diversity. People from different countries have their own advantages. However poor a country is, its national team could never be written off easily. Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup, and North Korea qualified for 2010 World Cup.
But why can't China do well? The government has already spent plenty of resources into it. The obstacles are the corrupt professional league and lack of support for youth training. However well Chinese athletes do in the Olympics, without a national support for basic sports facitilies for general population, those results are useless. And football, is just a parometer of this.
Without a reformed league, Chinese football will never have a bright future. Corrupt and bureaucratic as the political system is, please leave football alone.
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