To add to Bcheng’s article about Another Chinese Failure – Blame the Referees, Blame the Players, Blame the CFA, ‘s Smari has scanned the Chinese media and gathered some post-match responses from different football figures. Chinese journalists always has a habit of criticizing the national team. Whether the team won or lost, the media will often find excuses to downplay the team’s achievements. Some of the post-match responses are sympathetic to the Olympics team, but others are less favourable.
Hao Haidong, former Chinese striker and current top scorer of the national team:
“(We) should be proud of our Olympics lads! You guys are the true steel-blooded men!”
Bari Mamatil, who assisted the only goal in the 3-1 defeat to Oman:
“How come this is offside? The referee’s brain must have problem. When I saw the victory was whistled away, ah fuck his mom, I want to beat that referee up”
Yu Hongchen, the vice director of the Chinese Football Association:
“There is no point to appeal, it is pointless to write everything in English few hours after the match, then pay few hundred USD to appeal. The match result will not change, and we need to accept the reality.”
Bernd Schuster, former Real Madrid manager:
“Regarding the match, I think there are many mistakes in the game that includes the referees, and the Chinese. Of course, the referees might have mistake, but looking from the competitive angle, the Chinese team does not need to feel bad and look for excuse. Because judging from the ability and technique, the Chinese team is not even better than Oman.”
And lastly, this is my favourite, Jia Yanfeng, leading sports reporter in China:
“We can’t blame any players, they had already devoted 100% percent, from convulsions, to fighting rightaway after pitchside therapy. In recent years, how many of such devoted matches we see in Chinese football?”
by smari
Category: China National Team
Tags: Bali, Bari Mamatil, Bernd Schuster, China, Hao Haidong, Jia Yanfeng, Oman, Yu Hongchen
The first few comments made me think this was a parody, like what Yahoo’s Dirty Tackle football blog has sometimes, where the writer makes up stuff that real people say. Now that I know it’s all real, I don’t know what to think. I’m shocked that the team would give up 3 goals in extra time (were they really, really tired or just gave up after the first goal?) but I kind of see the merit in not laying into them too much, as some of the above figures suggest. The teams (men’s, Olympic) have gotten so much criticism over the years so even more isn’t really going to change anything now. Players do need to be held accountable more effective measures besides just criticism need to be taken. What though, I don’t know. How about you?
Its for real,,, drunk in ktv we are drunk
regarding players have been facing so much criticism over the years that it won’t change anything now, i would say the criticisms have been going too harsh.
of course, many people would argue that “chinese football” deserves to be condemned, especially of consistent corruption and dire results, but the level of insults have gone too high. so high that it actually affects the players’ morale, and soon, performance.
i remember wang dalei mentioned how difficult it is to please the fans now, even if he could offer a good match, he would still be criticized for few seconds of bad play.
this is an article that might interest you: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/930750/jamie-carragher:-england-suffer-from-fear-factor?cc=5901
it talks about how english players are scared to play for the national team, if they have one bad game, they would be haunted for few months because england international games don’t come frequently
if we transfer this to chinese football such as “CSL”, the players will get criticized for a bad play, good play, or even stunning play, and lastly, CSL matches are weekly, so think about the tormenting psychological aspects of the chinese footballers now..
Thanks for the link. Actually I agree with your view. I was saying that criticism can’t really be useful because the players have gotten so much. That’s why at the end I was asking there must be more effective ways to motivate and help the players besides criticism and insults.