China’s Soccer Experiment Was a Flop. Now It May Be Over

[beijingwalker]

the communist top down model emphasizing centralized decision making has proven to be inflexible and ineffective on the battlefield (the Russia army with its soviet era doctrine is currently demonstrating this) as well as the sporting field.

Actually the opposite is true, Russia is not a communist country now, when it was, its army was unbeatable.

 

[Leishangthem]

In fact, this failure was caused by a disagreement between China's education and sports departments.

Commercializing football, similar to the NBA in USA, can actually improve the level of football, but we must also establish a college football league and establish a sufficient number of young football player training systems.

The Chinese sports department understands this truth and they also want to do so. But China's education department does not allow it. The strategy of the Chinese education department is to focus on STEAM education, and they cannot tolerate the birth of football stars among high school or college students.

So China's sports department can only let commercial training institutions build a training system for young football players. This has led to a very high cost of learning football, which only a few families can afford.

The lack of a sufficient number of young football players almost doomed the failure of Chinese football reform.

the stem students are way more important for china than football players.atleast for now.

 

[Get Ya Wig Split]

Other than soccer, China does fairly well in almost all other team sports at least in Asia. Chinese basketball and volleyball teams are Asian champions, Sports are sports, if you talk about military sports, Chinese PLA team actually is the best in the world. and you have to associate Chinese soccer team with PLA? In you logic, Argentina army should be the best in the world. US and Chinese army could get nowhere close to top 30, lol..

Chinese basketball and volleyball teams are Asian champions - Beijingwalker

The United States outscored China by 38 points in the paint in route to a 106-57 victory tonight in Los Angeles. Kevin Durant led all scorers, for the United States, with 19 points (4-5 3pt FG) and 5 assists as Klay Thompson finished with an additional 17 points. China was led by Yi Jianlian with 18 points and 7 rebounds in the losing effort.

That was a really close game...it was 0-0 at one point @F-22Raptor @Hamartia Antidote

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese basketball and volleyball teams are Asian champions - Beijingwalker

The United States outscored China by 38 points in the paint in route to a 106-57 victory tonight in Los Angeles. Kevin Durant led all scorers, for the United States, with 19 points (4-5 3pt FG) and 5 assists as Klay Thompson finished with an additional 17 points. China was led by Yi Jianlian with 18 points and 7 rebounds in the losing effort.

That was a really close game...it was 0-0 at one point @F-22Raptor @Hamartia Antidote

I said the team in Asia is not that bad, China doesn't have the luxury like US which can select talents from all human races, some races do better in certain sports than others, it's a known fact. most US basketballers are black while most US swimmers are white, as a single race nation, Generally speaking China is doing fairly OK in sports.

 

[gambit]

It's football, not soccer.

It is soccer. Blame the Brits.

Why Do Americans Call It Soccer Instead of Football? Blame England

Many people don't realize that “soccer” is not in fact an American invention

time.com

In the early 1800s in England, football and rugby existed as different variations of the same game. But in 1863, the Football Association was formed to codify the rules of football so that aristocratic boys from different schools could play against one another. In 1871, the Rugby Football Union followed suit. The two sports officially became known as Rugby Football and Association Football. (Those new rules were slow to spread to America, where another version of the game was evolving — one that the rest of the world now knows as “American football,” and is played in the NFL.)​

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In England, Szymanski writes, aristocratic boys came up with the shortened terms “rugger” and “soccer” to differentiate between Rugby Football and Association Football. To support this argument, he cites a letter to The New York Times, published in 1905: “It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use “er” at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an “er” easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer.”​

 

[MH.Yang]

The reason why the Chinese football team underperforms is the same reason China underperforms in all team sports, they are overcoached and do not learn how to think for themselves on the field. That same inability to adapt quickly and adjust without direction from coaches/superiors is evident in the PLA, the communist top down model emphasizing centralized decision making has proven to be inflexible and ineffective on the battlefield (the Russia army with its soviet era doctrine is currently demonstrating this) as well as the sporting field.

Just the opposite. When Chinese football followed the Soviet model (selecting talents from very young children to enter football schools and conducting concentrated training from an early age), we were Asian champions. The failure of Chinese football is precisely that we no longer adopt the Soviet model. Now our football has undergone commercial reforms similar to the NBA in the United States, but our education department does not allow Chinese schools to cultivate talents for football. This led to the failure of the reform.

 

[StraightEdge]

It is soccer. Blame the Brits.

Just because 4% of world calls it soccer doesn't make it right.