China’s men’s soccer team is preparing for the World Cup. According to the mainland media, all members of the men’s soccer team also visited the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China during their training in Shanghai recently to learn the history of the party. The foreign media asked: Can studying the history of the Party help the Chinese team break out of Asia and go global? A source said that the Chinese Communist Party requires athletes to receive ideological education before every major tournament, in order to prevent athletes from fleeing.
The 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifying round of 40 will be held in Suzhou from May 30 to June 15. The Beijing Youth Daily reported that the Chinese men’s soccer team completed four days of training in Shanghai and then went to receive education on the history of the Party, along with three naturalized players of Brazilian descent and two players of English descent, a move that the CFA and the team’s coaching staff insisted would strengthen the national players’ “sense of mission, responsibility and honor.
However, the Chinese men’s soccer team has only reached the World Cup finals in 2002 and two other Asian Cup finals since the 1970s, and has not advanced beyond that.
Teng Biao, a Chinese legal scholar who has long followed sports events, was quoted by Radio Free Asia as saying that patriotic education for athletes is meaningless for improving their business skills: “Sports like soccer and basketball, where physical confrontation is fierce, require imagination, creativity and a free spirit, and this kind of team sports (to improve business skills) cannot be solved at all by patriotic learning. . This kind of ideological learning is increasingly imprisoning people’s creativity, the more lack of innovative spirit that dares to break through tradition.”
Yang Weidong’s mother, Xue Yinxian, a Chinese shot putter and sports medicine expert, was persecuted for her family’s resistance to doping when she was the national gymnastics team’s team doctor in the 1980s.
Yang told Radio Free Asia that it is a long-standing fact that athletes receive ideological education before major events in order to prevent them from fleeing: “Since the 1960s, whenever there is an international event, there is very strict ideological control. There are leaders and head coaches in (a team), and there are heads and translators abroad, and these translators are basically from the security bureau.”
Xi Jinping has made the “soccer dream” part of the “Chinese dream,” hoping to expand the Communist Party’s influence by having the Chinese soccer team “in the World Cup final round in the near future.” However, after five years of national soccer development, China’s men’s soccer team has yet to make any progress. And the Chinese Super League (CSL) has seen a series of disbandments in recent years. Some time ago the land media also commented on the news that Jiangsu Suning’s team might be disbanded, saying, “If even the defending champions of the top league can’t save Chinese soccer, then it’s better to disband ……”
Yang Weidong said that it is difficult to save the Chinese men’s soccer team by strengthening the party history education, “(athletes) ideological level is too hard to the championship? This is not possible. Sports is a technology, sports level and ideological level are two different things”, the Chinese men’s national team professional level is low, from the beginning of the athlete screening mechanism is problematic.
Also worth mentioning is the former starter Hao Haidong who took a place in the history of Chinese men’s football. He has led the national team many times to play excellent results and is internationally recognized as the “No. 1 striker in Asia”. In recent years, however, he has been banned and exiled overseas for his frequent criticism of the Chinese Communist Party system on social media platforms. On June 4 of last year, Hao once again took aim at the Chinese Communist Party, and his Weibo account was immediately blocked and related searches were taken down.
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