Even with 1.4 billion people, China can’t find 11 solid soccer players at last for this year’s FIFA World Cup that Qatar is hosting starting on November 21. Know more:
EVEN with 1.4 billion people, China can’t find 11 solid soccer players at last for this year’s FIFA World Cup that Qatar is hosting starting on November 21. again despite spending millions—probably billions—to develop the game, a reported priority of Xi Jinping, the all-powerful general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
China has played only once in the World Cup, and that was in 2002 when it lost all three games and failed to score a single goal. The appearance, however, was monumental. Bora Milutinovic, who coached the national team, was affectionately called “Milu” and treated like a national hero. A year ago on the website, Wilson wrote about China’s top-down bureaucratic system and how it has hindered soccer’s development—both for the national team and its failing domestic league, the Chinese Super League.
Wilson noted that countries like the United States, Japan and South Korea are also non-traditional soccer nations, but they have developed strong domestic leagues. China has not. The Super League has long been filled with corruption, splurges of spending, a carousel of changing coaches, and money interests and sponsors put ahead of the soccer.
Wilson noted that the Chinese soccer association—the body that runs the sport in China—is an arm of the government and does not operate independently as similar bodies do in England or elsewhere. It’s part of the General Administration of Sport, a government agency. “FIFA rules stipulate very clear that football associations should be run free of political interference,” Wilson said. “The people who are running football in China are not football people. They’re politicians and administrators who do not understand the ethos of the game.”
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