Chapter 74 Remarks on the launch This game, ugh, this novel will be on the shelves tomorrow at noon. It has been more than a month since the book was published. I have received a lot of support from book lovers and fans, but I have also been abused and slandered by many people. Many book friends scolded me, saying that I wrote science fiction. Haha, they are right. Judging from the current dismal performance of the Chinese national football team, the content of this novel is indeed science fiction. The Chinese national football team is a big mine in football articles. Many people dare not touch it. Only people like me with a screw loose in the head will take the initiative to step on the mine (laughing and crying)! Speaking of the performance, this book’s current performance is much worse than my previous book. Although I was admitted to Sanjiang, it was very reluctantly. I would like to express special thanks to my editor Qilin for getting me the opportunity to go to Sanjiang. If you want to write a novel, I suggest you submit it to Qilin. Let’s talk about the Chinese national football team! The motivation for writing this book was mainly due to watching a match of the Chinese national football team in the World Cup qualifiers, in which the team lost to South Korea away from home, but came back to life with the help of Singapore's assists. To be honest, after watching many games of the Chinese national football team, I have almost watched the team degenerate step by step to its current state. During this process, I have experienced disappointment and anger, and when I was young I also joined other fans in cursing.
As I got older, especially after Doudou fell ill, I gradually became more open-minded. It only has this much strength, so don't have unrealistic fantasies about it. The collapse of Chinese football is actually not surprising at all. Since the Hongshankou Conference, youth training as a whole has collapsed. The players of the 85 generation often play for the national team for more than ten years and are still on the field when they are or years old. The main reason is that the overall quality of the players after them has declined sharply due to the collapse of the youth training system, and there are no suitable players to replace them. With the collapse of youth training and a lack of successors, how could the Chinese team’s performance not decline? But this trend was reversed after the emergence of money-driven football. The false prosperity brought about by money-driven football has benefited youth training. The overall quality of players born after 05 has been qualitatively improved compared to their predecessors. If any fans have paid attention to the performance of U19, U16 and other echelons in major competitions, they can see that their performance in various competitions is improving. We even often see news about them defeating strong Asian teams such as Japan, South Korea, and Iran. When many fans heard that they beat these strong teams, they might subconsciously associate them with their age, and have a bad impression that they always won when they were young, but they can’t win anymore when they grow up. But in fact, the performance of the national team at all levels in various competitions over the past decade has been worse than that of the Chinese national team. The performance of the team from 90 to 01 in this age group in various competitions was simply disastrous. The national youth and junior teams did not always win when they were young, as fans imagine, but they lost when they grew up. In fact, they also lost when they were young. This situation did not change until the emergence of a generation of players trained by money-driven football. Money-driven football is indeed not a good thing, but it has brought a glimmer of hope for the resurgence of Chinese football. As these young players trained by the capital-intensive football training system gradually grow up, the national team's performance will rebound in the future. This time will be probably in 3-5 years. I hope Chinese football can seize this precious window of opportunity and try its best to make it to the World Cup again. There is a high probability that they will not be able to participate in the 2026 World Cup, but I hope they can make it to the 2030 World Cup. Once this window is missed and the money-driven football trend recedes, the youth training system, which has been severely affected by the broken capital chain, will probably find it difficult to produce so many outstanding players again. By then, Chinese football will be back to its original form!
Having strayed off topic, let’s get back to this book. The reason for choosing the World Youth Championship as the start is because Chinese football once had such a precious opportunity to change its destiny. That is the 85 super platinum generation! The strength of this group of players has been proven in the following ten years. They are the group of players who have played for the national team for the longest time in the history of Chinese football, no doubt about it. This is the result they achieved even though they have not yet fully realized the limits of their talents. But unfortunately, the failure in the 08 Olympics made Chinese football miss this precious opportunity to save itself! I have to say, this is very regrettable! Because the next opportunity will take 20 years! Therefore, the entry point and storyline of the book are clear at a glance. The protagonist leads the 85 super platinum generation to seize this precious opportunity to change their destiny and help the Chinese national football team achieve redemption. Let me talk about the updates on the shelves. Friends who have read old books should know my family situation. Doudou is autistic and will be five years old soon. I send him to kindergarten in the morning and to an intervention institution in the afternoon. Spend as much time as possible with him when he is at home, because after the age of six, the effectiveness of intervention is very poor. This means that I don’t have much time to write with peace of mind, and I don’t have many drafts saved. Uh, I played Black Myth for several hours today, and my plan to save my manuscripts has been ruined. I am guilty and I repent! (Fortunately, my computer is extremely bad and I can't play games, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.) If it goes on sale tomorrow, I can probably only update three chapters, each chapter is about 4000 words, and I'll probably make it chapters. There's really no room for more than that. When the time comes, please support us and place the first order! Xiao Pujie would like to express his gratitude here! (End of this chapter)