Comments on: Why Chinese People Are Not Good at Football

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:36:03 +0000

that is a stupid, racist theory

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:15:39 +0000

RE: But isn’t pretty stupid to associate a lack of footballing success with a country’s intrinsic character?

Yup, it’s an interesting talking point though
I heard recently that it’s a giant mess of sportsmanship & money that’s holding Chinese football back.

By: Xiao Zhu

Xiao Zhu — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:32:28 +0000

I recently translated a passage from Sanlian Life Week that reports about Chinese football commentator Huang Jianxiang’s thoughts on why Chinese football hasn’t been successful. He believes that it has to do with China’s lack of a collective spirit - http://www.whitepage.com.au/chinamachete/22847/Huang_Jianxiang_becomes_a_coverboy.html

But isn’t pretty stupid to associate a lack of footballing success with a country’s intrinsic character? Isn’t it more to do with a faulty system? If China can develop its professional league to the level of Spain or England, then it would also be producing footballers of high quality. And I doubt whether much player development is happening at a grassroots level.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:58:25 +0000

I thought you would say more about chinese soccer….

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:27:34 +0000

I agree with Alvin — stop with the bullshit limiting beliefs.

Perhaps she should read some Anthony Robbins, lol.

By: Jason Li

Jason Li — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:34:06 +0000

alvin,

Please notice that I was translating a post from a known scholar. So it is not “my” theory; I merely put it out there as something I found interesting.

By: alvin

alvin — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:18:46 +0000

This is a ridiculous *Excuse* for not making it into the world cup. I am chinese myself and I am offended by this theory of yours. I definately do not see soccer as an “attack intensive sport” at all (I’ll admit it’s the most tiring sport). People like you who make up excuses saying “Oh we weren’t built for this” is the reason why China did not succeed into the world cup. How do you explain how Korea and Japan (Korea may be even more bookish in my opinion) made in? The answer is simply years of hard work, training, love and devotion to the sport. this does not apply just in soccer, but is necessary to succeed in every sport.

**I believe that your statement is impeding the progress of our athletes. We should be hard at work for next year’s world cup not taking it easy because we are “scholarly people” and go play mahjong. Please delete your post, it’s repulsive to look at.

By: Shanghaiist

Shanghaiist — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:43:27 +0000

Would the refs have appeared better on a bigger screen?

Shanghaiist went to Big Bamboo early this morning to watch a ref from Uruguay dominate the World Cup match between the U.S. and Italy. Shortly before the 3 a.m. match time, we plopped ourselves down on stools upstairs with a prime view of the bar’s onl…

By: Lyn

Lyn — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:40:50 +0000

I don’t see what sexuality or sexiness has to do with soccer. There’s a wide range of attitudes and ideas about sexuality in all of the countries currently fielding teams in the World Cup.

By: mahathir_fan

mahathir_fan — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:36:05 +0000

The professor is just ranting nonsense.

China held France to a 1-1 draw last week until the 90th minute.

The reason why China is not good at football is exactly because people think like the professor. An emphasis on individual skills.

Soccer is a game of strategy. It is like chess. Its about how to pass balls to create openings in opponents defense. Individual skills do come into play but it does not give much advantage and is often unrealiable and unpredictable.