In fact, the causes and solutions of many problems are very simple.

Why can't there be 11 people in China who can play football out of a population of 1.4 billion? It is precisely because we have to find 11 out of 1.4 billion people who can play football that we can't find 11 who can play football.

Why is it that while China's comprehensive strength has made unprecedented progress in the universe, Chinese football has fallen to this point at the same time? It is precisely because of China's comprehensive strength that it has made rare progress in the universe that Chinese football has had a rare regression in the universe. Because China has been popularizing football, promoting football, and trying to promote football to all young people, but at the same time, the number of professional football teams and the demand for professional players in China have stagnated for decades.

So, what are the factors that have led to the extremely low number of professional teams and the demand for professional players in the Chinese football market? There are only more than 40 professional teams and 1,400 professional players in demand in China. And who is responsible? Is it the Chinese Football Association?

The Chinese Football Association just learned too well from European football powers, and learned from European football powers to engage in league systems, and the result could only be learned from more than 40 professional football teams and 1,400 professional players. So, who stipulates that Chinese football must learn from others? Can't Chinese football take a path with its own characteristics?

This question will be discussed in detail in Chapter 11, but in short, the author argues that the fundamental cause that leads most people to think that we must learn from Europe is the history of decline and shame in the modern century, and the resulting inferiority and lack of self-confidence. Football, more precisely, is a culture, and if something goes wrong with football, first of all, you have to find the cause in the culture, not in the sports.

Now back to the main point of this chapter - how to solve the problem. So, how should we solve the vicious circle of dilemmas encountered by Chinese football?

Again, it's just a matter of increasing the number of professional teams and the demand for professional players.

In the second chapter of this work, the author has calculated that there are 70,000 people in China who are suitable for professional football, of course, this is only talking about professional players who are suitable for playing professional football leagues, and if China can produce 70,000 professional players, then there will be more than 3.5 million new jobs in China around these 70,000 professional players.

If there really are 70,000 professional players in China, how many professional teams should there be in China? The answer is, about 2,500 sticks. In fact, for a country of China's size, China has more than 2,860 county-level administrative units, and China's county-level units have an average population of about 500,000, and the establishment of a professional football team for every 500,000 population is actually very reasonable, and the economic scale of these 500,000 people can support.

Uruguay's population is only 3.45 million, and there are 16 teams in the Uruguayan Football League, that is to say, only in the First Division, Uruguay has an average of 110,000 people in every 210,000 people, and Uruguay's per capita GDP is 16,000 US dollars, and China's per capita income in Xiamen alone has exceeded 20,000 US dollars, and the permanent population of Xiamen City is more than that of Uruguay.

Although the economy is not the only factor that determines the strength of football, the economy is the most critical factor, unless a country or region does not like football itself like the Americans, and in general, the more economically developed the country, the stronger the football will generally be.

Of course, some people will say that Japan's economic strength ranks third in the world, and the world's top ten football powers, Baad, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, are weaker than Japan's, but the football strength of these top ten football powers is no problem to beat the Japanese team, and even Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Russia, ...... The football strength of these countries is not weaker than Japan's, so why hasn't Japan's football strength risen because of its very developed economy and love football?

What we need to see is that Japanese football has been improving, and in recent years Japan has produced a lot of stars who can play in Europe's top five leagues, and Japanese football has set ambitious goals - to become one of the world's eight football powers by 2030 and win the World Cup in 2050. Judging by the progress of Japanese football in the last 20 years, the ambitious goals they have set are likely to be achieved by 2050.

South Korean football has also benefited from the influence of economic development, with a large number of players playing in Europe's top five leagues in the last decade, and the country has produced first-class stars such as Son Heung-min, so the future of Korean football is also very promising.

Japan and South Korea, and Chinese in culture and physique, quite similar, we often say that Japan and South Korea are just equivalent to China's two provinces, in terms of geographical size and population, Japan and South Korea are indeed equivalent to China's two provinces, since Japan and South Korea can develop football so well, then, when the economic strength of China's provinces to a higher level, I think that if China's provinces are like Japan and South Korea, or like Brazil's Sao Paulo and Rio states to develop football, it is also very good to develop football.

Back to the topic just now, there are 70,000 people in China who are suitable for professional football, and these 70,000 people can form about 2,500 professional teams, so how should the professional league be carried out with such a large number of professional teams? Of course, when a country has more than 2,500 professional teams, it can no longer form a league system like the benchmark of the professional league - the English football league system, and even if the data of 2,500 is narrowed down to 1,200, or even reduced to 600, a single league system cannot be formed, because even if a country has 600 professional teams, it must be divided into divisions, states and provinces to carry out professional leagues.

With more than 2,500 professional teams, how to form a professional league system?

At this time, an answer is about to come out, and this is - copycat European football.

Can European football also be copycats?

Of course you can, our country has been a 'cottage kingdom' for decades, there is nothing we can't copy, European football, we can also copy, we can not only copycat European football, we can even copycat a 'European football 2.0 version'.