These supplementary reading responses were mostly written spontaneously in 2021, and the transcription of Bai Yansong’s speech was done when the pandemic had just begun. Don’t talk about twenty years later, even a year or two later—the changes in the world always exceed people’s expectations. Now the pandemic in China is nearing its end, but overseas it continues to rage on. Regarding soccer, the national team has been playing quite well in recent years, and the coach dares to play offensively. Compared to those clueless days of old, watching the games with my grandfather is actually a bit interesting now. What kind of experience is it that you’re so bored by a national team game that even an elderly person wants to change channels?
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Script
Are you still curious about Chinese football? Curious, very curious. How could it have gotten so bad? So you find there are many reasons why Chinese football doesn’t play well, and one of the reasons is that everyone is afraid to lose the ball on their own side, pass it to someone else – they don’t even do that.
Of course, this is just one of many reasons. Talking about 20 years of football, after 20 years, Chinese football feels so distant. The first expansion brought the number to 48. China might go, but it still might not. The best age for a national team is 26~30 – that’s today’s 6-10 year olds. Twenty years will make you feel very optimistic; in 20 years, it will definitely work. But when I mention today’s 6-10 year olds, your expression immediately becomes serious. So, cause and effect are intertwined. What are we planting today? We almost planted soybeans to have the national team play in a league – what will grow from that? Whoever initiates this action needs to prepare for dismissal; it violates the rules, so I haven’t thought about it too much.
But we really should think about today’s children, aged 6-10 – are they playing soccer? Then you’ll know what Chinese football will be like in 20 years