"Let's talk about your research work, I'm curious, are you doing research for the Football Association?"
After talking and laughing for a while, Shui Junyi led the topic to work: "Is the focus of the Football Association's next work on the construction of football culture?"
”"Then I don't know, after all, I'm just an external expert."
Wang Ai said with a smile: "But this research is indeed entrusted to me by the leader." ”"Is it football and culture?
Interdisciplinary?
”Wang Ai nodded and shook his head: "Of course, it belongs to interdisciplinary in theory, but we don't think so far, it's not a two-way approach, a combination in the middle, or an outward extension from football."
Because I don't know much about culture, I may invite cultural experts to do follow-up work when I have some results in the future, but I can't talk about it yet. ”"So what is its purpose?
Is it enriching the football system?
”"Simply put, put it down roots."
Wang Ai said in a sunny voice: "In fact, many of us have been doing it in terms of culture in the past, for example, our club will inspect the fan organizations, fan activities, and peripheral product development of European giants, which are actually part of football culture.The Football Association has also issued a lot of documents in this regard, and the social development department has also carried out some explorations, but it is not a very important position on the whole.For example, we don't pay much attention to this in society as a whole, and you rarely hear about football culture. ”"yes, that's a bit unfamiliar.""
The reason why it was put forward this time is mainly because some phenomena have been found in practice, that is, Chinese football currently mainly relies on two large, one small and three forces."
Wang Aya paused: "The two major forces are the power of the country and the power of the masses to love the country, and a small force is a small number of fans, that is, those who really understand the ball, love to watch the ball, and the purely technical level, such a force."
This situation is far from what is native to Europe, or what we once pursued.I just said that European football is a social event, a weekly temple fair, and a kind of carnival.Our league also has this nature, but it's not strong.You see that the main body of Chinese fans is always the national team, and the situation of the professional team can be known by looking at the number of Internet searches, and it is not as good as a fraction of the national team.This shows that most of our football lovers place their patriotism on the national team, hoping that the national team can win glory for the country.Of course, this is also a common phenomenon in the national team, I call the national team event an honor event, and that's what it is.But the difference between us and Europe is that we are too big, and the foundation of the national team is that the professional team is too small. ”"In other words, the forces of non-pure football are mainly driving the growth of football?""
Yes, that's what it means.At that time, when our country's strength was not good, sports were entrusted with the function of taking off the hat of the sick man of East Asia, and we ordinary people could not see that the country was as strong as the developed countries for a while, but at least we had to see that our people were not bad.And through what way is it possible to directly observe people?
Sports?
The face-to-face competition is clear at a glance. ”Wang Ai made a gesture: "We are a 5,000-year-old civilization, the common people are very simple and have a sense of national pride and cultural pride, although the reality is a little bad, but we still think that we can go up in reality sooner or later, we are not bad because we can't do it, but we didn't go the right way for a while, such as the middle and late Qing Dynasty closed off the country, blind and arrogant."
We're not arrogant now, we know we can't do it, but we don't think it will never work.This kind of power supports the private foundation of sports, so of course, football, the world's largest sport, is pinned on more. ”"But what does that have to do with the Football Association giving you the task of studying football culture?""
It matters."
Wang Ai smiled: "Because sooner or later our country will become stronger, sooner or later our people will see that the gap between us and the developed countries has been shortened, and even flattened and surpassed in some areas."
So what about football then?
The common people no longer have a strong need for sports to confirm their national pride, football is no longer pinned on strong patriotic feelings, and the force that has always supported and nurtured our football will gradually leave, but at the same time, our football ecology based on football itself has not been fully established.The result is likely to be a baby who has left the nutrient-rich womb and is not fed with milk. ”Shui Junyi thought about it and nodded frequently, and only then remembered after a while and asked: "Use football culture to create a football ecology, and then take over the function of football development and breeding in reality, after the situation changes?"
Let Chinese football have its own motivation?
”"Yes.""
But it will take a long time, maybe decades, for our country to catch up with the developed countries, especially in terms of per capita?
That said, this pro-football force is not going away anytime soon, and it seems that this study is somewhat ......
I'm not saying it's unnecessary, but maybe it'll be solved naturally when the time comes?
”"Well......
Wang Ai thought for a while: "This is going to explain the development of this research." ”"At first, I didn't pay attention to the aspect of football culture, at that time, maybe many of my colleagues thought that it was relatively simple, culture is not very important, because football is a competition, it is a decision on the field, and what does it have to do with culture off the field?
It's actually the club that focuses on culture, because the club wants to make money, there is economic pressure, and if you create a culture, there will be consumption, peripheral products, such as souvenirs or something, recognize you as a thing.At that time, I thought about this kind of appeal to the club, and I thought about it from a macro perspective, that is, after our per capita income reaches a certain level, after the proportion of basic subsistence needs is reduced to a certain level, the people will increase their consumption in entertainment, so it will naturally be dispersed to various fields, and we will definitely be able to eat the biggest piece of football by virtue of our own influence, what is there to worry about?
Is it a matter of course?
”Seeing that Shui Junyi nodded frequently, Wang Ai continued: "So I focused on personal aspects and personal growth at the beginning.Later, after becoming the captain of the national team, he paid attention to team building, such as strategy and tactics, training system, organization and cooperation, which still focused on football competition.Later, the Football Association hired me as an expert in the youth department, and I noticed the problem of youth training.The most concerned about professional reform is the league, but the most profound is actually youth training.Our generation of players has grown up in this process, it is our roots, we know it very well and, of course, we are worried. ”