Why is China so shite at Soccer?

[David48atTD]

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When Xi Jinping came to power, he had three football dreams for China. Here's why he failed

Shuhang Li may be one of China's football team's biggest fans.
But when asked about their recent performance at World Cup Qualifiers, his smile immediately vanished and he started to grumble.
"Of course I'm not happy," said the 23-year-old university student, who has been following the team since age 14.


"No football fans — wherever they are from — would accept that their national football team had such a dreadful performance."
On March 30, after losing to
Japan 0-2 and
Vietnam 0-3,
China's national football team was defeated by Oman 0-2, ending its run for the upcoming FIFA World Cup finals.


It has been 20 years since China last qualified for the tournament.

How did it go so wrong for China?

After failing to qualify for the World Cup this year, former captain of the national football team Xiaoting Feng said China would still struggle to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, and maybe even for 2030.

"The youth are not good enough," he said.


Chinese education does not necessarily teach children the skills they would need on the pitch.

"It's widely acknowledged that great footballers are creative thinkers and very independent people, and they're very good at making personal decisions and personal judgements," said Professor Chadwick.

"So I simply don't think that the Chinese education system is necessarily set up to facilitate the development of the kind of soft skills that successful footballers need to have."

More HERE


The China national football team is currently ranked (FIFA) 77th in the World

[helge]

"It's widely acknowledged that great footballers are creative thinkers and very independent people, and they're very good at making personal decisions and personal judgements," said Professor Chadwick.

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"why is Burkino Faso shite at curling ?"

"Snooker in Greenland ?"

Keep them coming, David

[harrybarracuda]

Perhaps a detailed analysis of why they are shit at American Football or Aussie rules would be in order.

Snubby? Headworx? Do your stuff.

[Cujo]

From what I've observed they want to hog the glory. each player wants to be the one to score the goal so rather than pass they keep possession and try to score themselves.
Not team players. No face in that.

[bsnub]

Soccer sucks, it is for pooves. I guess they have one thing right, I guess.

[sabang]

Does anyone want to massacre the bastards at rugger?

[DrWilly]

Facetious examples from Helge and Slobang, soccer is considered a world game. The OP is a good one.

From what I've observed they want to hog the glory. each player wants to be the one to score the goal so rather than pass they keep possession and try to score themselves.
Not team players.

I suspect it's more than that. Is China a like Thailand in that the selection of players is based on favours and family rather than merit?

[Cujo]

Facetious examples from Helge and Slobang, soccer is considered a world game. The OP is a good one.





I suspect it's more than that. Is China a like Thailand in that the selection of players is based on favours and family rather than merit?

No idea how they choose the national team.

[Switch]

“Soccer” is a game imported from American hobbyists. The professional game of Association football is quite different.

The Chinese and other backward countries simply don’t have the long development history of the professional game in the west. The cultural differences, as Cujo pointed out, will always have a greater effect if people insist on comparing an amateur hobby to a professional sport.

[Joe 90]

Does anyone want to massacre the bastards at rugger?

Now that would be interesting.

[Joe 90]

Soccer sucks, it is for pooves. I guess they have one thing right, I guess.

Fvck off wanker.

[Joe 90]

Perhaps a detailed analysis of why they are shit at American Football or Aussie rules would be in order.

Snubby? Headworx? Do your stuff.

How about an eating contest?

[harrybarracuda]

Soccer sucks, it is for pooves. I guess they have one thing right, I guess.

Rugby for pooves
Netball for boys
Rounders


Yes, these are the sports snubby loves.

[harrybarracuda]

The answer to the OP is of course that the chinkies are all midgets and any team just needs to lob a ball in the box to nigh on guarantee a goal, most teams being a foot taller.

[Headworx]

Soccer sucks, it is for pooves.

Totally correct, though I can understand why it's so popular among kids around the world as boys can play the girls on the same level and there's no chance of anyone getting hurt. As adults though? Yeah fuck off with the overpaid poofs and their pretend-acting shite...

[harrybarracuda]

Totally correct, though I can understand why it's so popular among kids around the world as boys can play the girls on the same level and there's no chance of anyone getting hurt. As adults though? Yeah fuck off with the overpaid poofs and their pretend-acting shite...

Reminder: Headworx gets a semi watching grown men run around in wife beaters.

[Headworx]

^Where if one of them goes down in agony clutching a knee, there's every chance it's an ACL and they're gone for the season or if they're lucky it's an MCL and they'll be back about 6 to 8 weeks after surgery. Same thing happens in soccer, as it will at least 10+ times per game, and they're at a full sprint 10 seconds later.

You do realise they're only play-acting to fool the refs and fans, and they aren't really hurt at all right?

[harrybarracuda]

[Headworx]

So you do realise they're acting, well who couldn't, yet you still follow the girlie fucking poofs game and their theatrics? What do you watch in the off-seasons, pro wrestling?

[TTraveler]

I read China had invented it...so shouldn't they have had the most time to perfect it?

[Seekingasylum]

While it is true cheating in the form of simulation is prevalent within the game of football, it is also true that the chance of sustaining lower limb injury preventing play is significant and in a 2002 BMJ study it was found that the risk of acute injury in professional football was three orders of magnitude greater than in the construction and manufacturing industrial sector according to HSE data. In the same study it was found that of the professional footballers sampled 46% had retired through sustaining either an acute or chronic injury - the average age on retirement was 32 and the most common injury sites were knee and and ankle ( the single greatest acute injury sustained in play was to a hamstring ). Incidentally, out of all those sampled, some 32% developed osteoarthritis.

Just a bit of perspective balancing out the moron element expressed by our resident knuckle draggers.

[Norton]

How about an eating contest?

My money is on the Chinkies.

[harrybarracuda]

I read China had invented it...so shouldn't they have had the most time to perfect it?

I seem to remember it was the Mongols.

[Headworx]

^Well the Poms are certainly shit enough at it to have invented it just like with Cricket and Rugby Union and Rugby League and Tennis for example, so there's that...

...and in a 2002 BMJ study it was found that the risk of acute injury in professional football was three orders of magnitude greater than in the construction and manufacturing industrial sector according to HSE data.

WTAF has a 20 year old study comparing leg injuries of professional soccer players who run around a park for a living and industrial sector workers who don't run anywhere got to do with anything you blithering idiot? Why not compare long term hand injuries between professional boxers and pastry chefs while you're at it.

[harrybarracuda]

Christ he's still banging on.