Since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, China has become the envy of all countries in the 'Heavenly Empire', China has been the world's leader in comprehensive national strength, economy, culture, science and technology, military and many other aspects, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, China has been going downhill, during the Yapian War, China, which had been reduced for 200 years, was defeated by thousands of soldiers and horses in the face of the British Empire, which had experienced the storm of the European war and the baptism of the scientific and technological revolution.

In short, China's modern history is full of failures, sorrows, disasters and tragedies, and these have also made the Chinese realize that there is a huge gap between us and Europe, the United States and Japan, and as a result, the national inferiority mentality has arisen, and it has continued to this day, and it seems that it will continue to exist for some time.

It is precisely because we are miserable and useless in modern history, and precisely because we have not been able to make a contribution to mankind in the three scientific and technological revolutions and the construction of modern society, that many Chinese people have doubts about our cultural history and our national wisdom, believing that we are inherently inferior to Westerners (including the Japanese who have left Asia and joined Europe), and that we are inherently inferior to Westerners in all aspects.

Almost all sports of modern sports are invented by Westerners, the world's first sport football, also invented by the British and spread to the world, although Keju is also very popular in ancient China, to some extent it can be said that the hometown of football is in China, but it, the inventor of modern football, we really can't fight with the British, and there is no need to fight, after all, all kinds of rules and regulations of modern football are formulated by the British.

Because we believe that we are useless, that we are inferior to Westerners in all aspects, therefore, we are learning from Westerners in almost all aspects, and football is naturally learning from the West, when we first learned football from the West, it was the beginning of the 20th century, when we were poor and weak, and now it is 2020, and almost no one dares to believe that China can compete with the whole of Europe and the United States (or at least the whole of Europe) in terms of football potential, let alone in the early 20th century when we were the weakest.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when we learned how to play football with Westerners, we regarded China as an ordinary country in Europe, even after the founding of New China, even after our volunteer soldiers defeated the Sixteen-Nation Alliance on the Korean battlefield, this thinking setting has not been changed, and then to the reform and opening up until today, China's economic strength and ultimate strength have made great progress that is rare in the universe, in many ways, we are even leading the world, but in football, But we have fallen to the bottom.

Let me describe the process to the readers:

In the history of humiliation in the past century→ we think that we are inferior to Westerners in → of anything

Modern football was introduced to China→ we learned to play football → from Westerners

At the beginning of the 20th century, we saw ourselves as an ordinary country → Europe

The two world wars and the founding of New China→ after the founding of New China, the face of our country changed with each passing day→

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we still regarded ourselves as an ordinary country in Europe in terms of football, →

After the reform and opening up, our comprehensive strength and economic strength have become stronger and stronger→

After the reform and opening up, our football strength has become more and more degenerate →

The more football degenerates, the more suspicious we are that →Chinese can't play football in the first place

The more we doubt football, the more inferior we →

The more inferior we are, the more we think that China is at most comparable to a European country in terms →of football potential

Our comprehensive national and economic strength continues to grow rapidly→

We are trying harder and harder to learn from the → European football powers

We are working harder and harder to promote football to all young →

More and more Chinese are exposed to football, know football, and become familiar with football →

The number of professional teams and the demand for professional players in China have not increased for decades→

China's football-talented youth are increasingly afraid to devote themselves to the → of football

The strength of football in China is getting lower and lower→ the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority, the weaker the inferiority......

The generation of a nation's inferiority complex mentality is the same as that of a person's inferiority mentality, which is nothing more than composed of three reasons: one is that you are really weak, the second is that others say that you are weak, and the third is that you further identify yourself as weak.

Even if he (they) want to improve themselves, there will be countless people telling him (them): "You can't, you are very weak, you must not be self-reliant, you must always regard yourself as weak, you must always reflect on why you are weak, and reflect until the earth is desolate!" ”

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the modern century, China encountered the most humble and weak situation in history, we have repeatedly lost foreign wars in terms of war, and we have almost no achievements in culture and science and technology, which is 'we are really weak'; many wars with European, American and Japanese powers at the end of the Qing Dynasty ended in disastrous defeats, and the European, American and Japanese powers overlooked us as victors, and European, American and Japanese scholars have fabricated countless theories to deny the Chinese, Chinese culture and Chinese history, and determined that the Chinese belong to an 'inferior nation'. Chinese culture belongs to 'garbage culture', which is 'others say you are weak'; under the dual influence of repeated defeats in modern times and serious denial by foreigners, many scholars in China's modern history have further excavated the so-called 'inferiority' of Chinese and Chinese culture, and further denied Chinese and Chinese culture, which is 'further identifying themselves as weak'.

Today, although China's comprehensive national strength has made tremendous progress, there are still many cultural people and many citizens who cling to the self-belief that "China is still weak", for example, some cultural people have low self-esteem to such an extent - they spare no effort to show the so-called "inferior roots" of Chinese and Chinese culture to ask for credit and reward from the 'high-ranking Westerners' they worship from the heart.

People with low self-esteem will establish a whole set of thinking to make themselves feel at ease, and under the condition that the national inferiority mentality has become one of the mainstream ideas of the whole society, Chinese society has even formed some voices like this: all the practices of Europe, the United States and Japan, and all the routes chosen by Europe, the United States and Japan are all right; All the Chinese's approach, all the route chosen by the Chinese, is wrong; Chinese must learn from Europe, the United States and Japan in all aspects, and learn from Europe, America and Japan in any industry, and must not contradict Europe, America and Japan in the slightest; As long as it is different from Europe, the United States and Japan, Chinese must immediately change it, otherwise, Chinese society will fall into the abyss and cannot extricate itself......

Although the national inferiority mentality of the Chinese is especially a reasonable reason, the national inferiority mentality still seriously affects the further development of China and seriously damages the interests of everyone in the whole society, which is not alarmist: if a person has serious inferiority, he will definitely seriously damage his own interests, and inferiority will make this person not get what he deserves; In the same way, if a nation has serious inferiority, it will certainly seriously damage the interests of that nation, and then seriously damage the interests of everyone.

For example, now, in many industrial products and agricultural products, Chinese products are obviously better and better than European, American and Japanese products, but many Chinese are still very stubborn that foreign goods must be stronger than Chinese goods, and if you ask them why foreign goods are good, they will only give you this answer - 'I don't know why, anyway, in short, foreign goods are better than Chinese goods'.

The mentality of national inferiority has a deep impact on Chinese society not only in terms of products, but also in the field of culture, sports, education, scientific research, and even in the field of transnational marriage and love. The excellent talents that China's top universities have worked so hard to cultivate regard as temples in Europe, the United States, and Japan's universities and research institutes, and what is more, the endless negation and criticism have seriously distorted the image of Chinese as it should be, and some Chinese women have led some Chinese women to think that Chinese men are not attractive, and that Chinese men are far less attractive than European, American and Japanese men, and even less attractive than those in countries far behind China......

Although the inferiority mentality has its reasonable reasons, and negation and criticism can also play a role in promoting the development of a nation, the national inferiority mentality has brought great harm to Chinese society and seriously harmed the interests of every Chinese.

Nowadays, Chinese sports can be said to be the most seriously affected by the national inferiority mentality, the degeneration of Chinese football and Chinese basketball, the reasons are the same: the fundamental reason is because of inferiority, all because we dare not believe that in football and basketball, a Chinese and a European and American are completely equal, and then dare not open up a characteristic road in football and basketball that is truly in line with China's national conditions, but only completely blindly and mistakenly copy the experience of others; The key reason is that there are too few professional football clubs and professional basketball clubs in China, the demand for professional football players and professional basketball players in China is too small, and the heavy imbalance between the supply and demand of professional players has led to the strange situation that China's comprehensive national strength is stronger and the weaker football and basketball are. In fact, not only football and basketball, but all sports in China are more or less affected by the national inferiority complex and the lack of professional athletes.

In this chapter, the author focuses on criticizing the national inferiority mentality that exists in Chinese society, but this does not mean that the author thinks that Europe, the United States and Japan are not worthy of our learning, on the contrary, the author has always believed that we must be neither humble nor arrogant in everything we do, and Europe, America and Japan are worthy of our learning in many aspects, the most important chapter of this book is "Shanzhai European Football", the author has always believed: in football, in sports, Europe and the United States have too much to learn from us, and we must despise our opponents strategically, In terms of tactics, we must pay attention to the opponent, and self-confidence after recognizing our true potential strength is the biggest foundation for success.

In this world, there are many factors that are considered to be successful, such as 'failure is the mother of success', 'diligence is the mother of success', 'persistence is the mother of success', 'persistence, shamelessness and persistence are the three elements of success'......

But what the author wants to say is, 'failure', 'diligence', 'persistence', 'persistence'...... And so on, they are not the mother of success, they can only be regarded as 'successful godmothers', success can only have a mother, that is, self-confidence, self-confidence - self-confidence after recognizing their own potential strength, is the real source of success.

We all know that Brazil is known as the world's 'football kingdom', and now, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are considered to be the top ten football powers.

Although, in the history of world football, the above-mentioned football powers have created their own football myths and cultivated superstars that shook the past and the present, but the above-mentioned football powers can only be called 'football kingdoms' at most, and none of them can be called 'football empires'.

So what is a 'football empire'? The football strength of a 'football empire' can be equal to the sum of the above 16 football powers, or even greater than the sum of the above 16 football powers, and even be able to compete with the football strength of the whole of Europe and America.

So, globally, which countries have the potential to become 'football empires'?

The answer is three 'continental countries' – China, the United States and India.

When I see the word 'India', I hope readers will remain serious and don't laugh, according to the author's theory that 'football is equal to all nations', India does have the potential to become a 'football empire'. Of course, the United States also has the potential to become a 'football empire', but this will have to make Americans give up football and baseball to play football, and the United States needs to replenish its population to more than 1 billion, which is a bit difficult.

Whether or not you can do it and whether you can realize your potential is one thing, and whether you have that potential is another thing, and the author believes that China, the United States and India are the only countries that have the potential to become 'football empires' for no other reason, and only these three countries in the world are 'continental-level countries'. However, for practical reasons, the possibility of the United States and India becoming 'football empires' will not be discussed for the time being, and the author believes that only China can realize its great dream of becoming a 'football empire' in the foreseeable future.

Let's go back to the story told at the beginning of this chapter, a very, very good, but extremely low self-esteem and extremely unconfident boy, and a very, very beautiful girl, they have a crush on each other, but because of the boy's extreme inferiority and extreme lack of self-confidence, they can't get together. But fortunately, this very, very beautiful girl has not been chased away, because except for this very, very good boy, no one can be worthy of her for the time being, so she is still waiting, waiting for the day when the boy will get rid of his inferiority complex and regain his self-confidence, and waiting for the day when the boy will have the courage to confess to her.

In the same way, China has the best chance of realizing its potential to become a 'football empire' among the countries in the world, and a 'football empire' is strong enough to compete with the whole of Europe and the Americas. At present, no country has yet been able to meet the standard of the 'football empire', and the peerless beauty of the 'football empire' is still waiting for the Chinese football with which she is most destined to regain confidence and bravely pursue her.

In short, I can't believe that I can compete with the whole of Europe and America, and I only dare to take rushing out of Asia as the goal, which is the fundamental reason why Chinese football can't break out of Asia. And even if Chinese football aims to become the world's No. 1 football power, Chinese football will not develop well. If China wants to develop football well, the goal can only be 'every province in China with a population of more than 20 million can become the existence of the top ten football powers in Europe and the United States', and the goal can only be 'Chinese football can compete with the football of the whole of Europe and America', why?

This is because China has a population of 1.4 billion, which is the same number as the whole of Europe and America, and the United States and Canada in Europe and the United States are not interested in football, that is to say, those countries in Europe and Latin America that are interested in football (including Turkey and other countries that have left Asia and joined Europe) have a population that is not as large as China. How big the population is, you have to set a big goal, so that you can build a market size that matches the goal, and give all talented people enough opportunities to display their talents, and then you can achieve the 'football battle' strategy.

Unless the population of Europe or Latin America can catch up with China, otherwise, China must aim to 'be able to compete with the whole of Europe and America in football', a European and American is a person, a Chinese is also a person, since everyone has the same population, Europe and the United States and Canada are not interested in football, so why can't we have the confidence to compete with the whole of Europe and America in football? Do we have to think that we are inferior to Europeans and Americans? Do we have to think that we are inferior to Europeans and Americans in terms of football IQ and football talent?

According to the long-term goals for 2035 formulated by our country, as well as some further plans, in 2035, our country will be able to reach the level of a moderately developed country, in the future from 2050 to 2060 or beyond, our country will even be able to surpass the entire Europe and America in terms of economic aggregate, and our country will even be able to lead the world in the most criticized field of theoretical science. Do we have to be inferior forever when it comes to football?

In society, no one will pity a person with low self-esteem, and in the world, no one will pity a group with low self-esteem. Low self-esteem will not bring any benefit to a person or a group, but will only make a person or a group fall into a vicious circle of increasing inferiority. Therefore, no matter what we do, a person or a group must clearly recognize our true potential strength, and set goals that match our real potential strength, and then move forward and struggle towards this goal without giving up our promise, only in this way can we achieve real success.

When you obviously have the strength to be the first in the school, but you want to set your goal to be in the top 50 in the school, then you may not even be able to get in the top 100 in the school; When you obviously have the strength to chase the school flower, but you want to set the goal to catch the class flower, then, you may not even be able to catch up with the 'group flower' of a certain group in the class; similarly, when you have the strength to compete with the whole of Europe and the United States in football, you want to set the goal of rushing out of Asia, then you are likely to not even be able to rush out of the first group stage of the Asian region.

Low self-esteem can indeed bring such great harm to a person or a group, and when a person or a group removes inferiority complex and regains self-confidence, then, the first place in the school, chasing the American school flower, and competing with the entire European and American football, these goals can be achieved more easily and comfortably, when a person or a group establishes the greatest self-confidence, he or they will find that the things that were once difficult to get to the sky can be easily and comfortably solved after self-confidence.

On the battlefield, the more afraid of death, the easier it is to die, and the more afraid of death, the easier it is to survive and become the real king on the battlefield step by step. This is true of the battlefield, the same is true of the examination room, the same is true of the love field, the same is true of the court, in fact, this is true of any aspect of social life. Many times, you only set a goal that is far below your real potential strength, but you always fail to achieve it; And when you recognize your true potential strength, the more confident you are to pursue the most ambitious goals, the more you can achieve shocking results.

The author also believes very much that in the near future, we will be able to get rid of our inferiority, restore our self-confidence, launch a 'copycat European football movement', set up a provincial football league system and a provincial team system, establish more than 2,500 professional teams, train 70,000 professional players, cultivate superstars who have shocked the past and the present, and become a 'football empire' in the true sense.