Chapter 52 Chinese football

It is true that Chinese football has reached the limit of speechlessness, it is too disturbing, and it has been sad for so many years. It turns out that although Chinese football can't be the leader in Asia, at least it can touch the top two or three. Now it can't even make it to the top ten games, and winning Vietnam can become news.The AFC Champions League sent the so-called best four teams in the country, but they couldn't make it out of the group stage, and they were disgraced from top to bottom. In the 1980s, I once said that if the Chinese team can break out of Asia and participate in the World Cup, I will take the bottle of Moutai that Hu Yaobang gave me as a celebration for the Chinese team.This bottle of Maotai is said to have been preserved when the Red Army passed through Maotai Town. There are two bottles in total, one for Mr. Deng and one for Hu Yaobang.Later, Mr. Deng drank his bottle, and only my bottle was left, which became a veritable "solitary wine".

About twenty years later, the Chinese team finally entered the World Cup, and I fulfilled my promise: at the end of 2001, I called Qi Wusheng, Xu Genbao, Gao Fengwen and other famous football players together and opened this bottle of Moutai.When the mud seal is opened, a special aroma of wine is refreshing.After pouring it out, the wine has turned green, and after more than 70 years of volatilization, there is not much left.This wine cannot be drunk directly, it must be blended with other wines.At that time, the director of the Moutai distillery was specially invited. He brought some other Moutai wines and blended them for us before we drank them.

What happened after that made me very disappointed. The Chinese team did not score a goal or score a single point in the World Cup. Not to mention this, the development of Chinese football became more and more outrageous later, and it actually started "fake, gambling, black".When a football reporter told me at first, I didn't quite believe it, how could it be possible?"Burying people", "throwing into the lake", and "kidnapping" sounds like the plots in gangster movies. I have never heard of such black things in Chinese football before.Later, even a group of officials such as Nan Yong, chairman of the Football Association, and Yang Yimin, director of the competition department, were arrested. I was completely disappointed.So I felt that I was really taken advantage of by drinking that bottle of Moutai, and I was ridiculed by my friends, and I felt very regretful.

Of course, my love for football has not diminished in the slightest, but has only been transferred to international football, such as the European Championship, Champions League, and especially the World Cup.For example, something happened during the World Cup in Africa. Because I stayed up late to watch the match between Italy and Paraguay, it was already 5:00 in the morning when the match ended. A quick defeat, lost in only one hundred and sixty-one moves. To talk about my relationship with football, it was as early as 1959 when I was seven years old. My father took me to Gongti to watch the national team and the Soviet team play. At that time, I had a deep impression on football.The second time was when the Chinese team played against the Chilean team. Qi Wusheng, Gao Fengwen and Xu Genbao won the victory with a score of 2-0.In the 1980s, I watched a game between the Chinese national team and Watford, and was beaten 0-5 and lost.A British third-rate team, or even a low-rate team, can beat us like this, which makes me feel strongly shocked and stimulated.It is worth mentioning that this game was watched with Xi Jinping, which we call a "disgraceful education".

Chinese football has reached this point, but I still believe that Chinese football will still qualify, but it may not be in my lifetime.