Volume 1: Theory Chapter 26: Who Gave Me Courage 1

In chapters such as "Shanzhai European Football", the author has written - "If we start copycat European football at the right time, then we will be able to build Chinese football into a football empire, a football empire, with football strength equivalent to Europe and America." ’

So, when will China start the 'copycat European football sport'? No one can make the most accurate prediction about the future, and when will Chinese be able to recognize the inevitability of copycat European football and start copycat European football, maybe in 2021, maybe in 2025, maybe in 2030, or even in 2035 and beyond.

According to the author's calculations, if we press the start button of 'copycat European football' in 2021, then we are equivalent to planting a seed, and by 2035, this 'seed' will bloom 'the most beautiful flower'. After all, flowers are still flowers, flowers are beautiful, but it is not yet time to harvest, and by 2050, we will harvest the 'sweetest fruits'.

So how sweet will this 'sweetest fruit' be?

This 'sweetest fruit' will look like this:

By 2050, if world football is divided into two parts: Chinese football and other countries, then the strength of China's provincial teams will be able to match the strength of the top 24 in the rest of the world, and may even surpass it.

By 2050, the author's envisioned 'Eastern Champions League' will be on par with the UEFA Champions League, and may even surpass it.

By 2050, the author's vision of China's provincial football leagues will be on the same level as the top 24 national football leagues in world football, while the 'five major leagues' of Chinese football – Guangdong League, Wu Jia Love, Ji League, Qi League and Zhejiang League – will be on the same level as the five major European leagues – the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A, and may even surpass them.

By 2050, the total output value of China's football industry will be able to account for 40% of the total output value of the world's football industry, or even more.

By 2050, the authors envision that the finals of the Eastern Cup and the Champions League will attract more than 800 million or even more than 1 billion domestic viewers, and China's provincial teams will be the top three favorites to win the World Cup......

Seeing this, many readers may ask: 'Author, who gave you such great courage and made you so fantasizing, is it Liang Jingru?' ’

My answer was: 'It's really not Liang Jingru who gave me courage, so who gave me courage?' The answer is - mathematics. ’

Yes, all the ideas in this book are based on mathematical calculations.

It is often said that mathematics is the most universal language of the universe, and indeed, mathematics is the only discipline that can be understood by human beings that can describe all phenomena and all things in the universe in a unified manner. The author believes that the development of football can also be described mathematically, and all the factors that affect the development of football can be quantified into data, and then the data analysis of the football history that has occurred can be carried out, and the future direction of football development can be mathematically predicted.

At the time of writing this book, the author did a great deal of work to calculate all sorts of calculations: to calculate the population of each country, to calculate the population of each country's provinces and cities, to calculate the overall strength of each country, to calculate the economic strength of each country, to calculate the economic strength of each country's provinces and cities, to calculate the evolution of each country and its provinces and cities in terms of population numbers, to calculate the evolution of each country and its provinces and cities in terms of economic power, to calculate the influence of each country's national attribute on football (this national attribute includes many, many aspectsFor example, the often mentioned Chinese is not physically fit to play football), calculate the impact of football policies in various countries on football, calculate the impact of communication with teams of different levels on football, calculate the impact of various factors on the progress of football strength, calculate the impact of various common football policies on the future development of Chinese football......

The author also calculates in detail the development trend of Chinese football under the model of 'copycat European football', calculates the potential football strength of China's provinces, counties and cities, calculates the feasibility of China's opening of 'copycat European football' in different years for football development, calculates the development trend of China in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 50 years and even 100 years after China opens 'copycat European football' in a certain year, and calculates the probability of the inevitability of Chinese football to start 'copycat European football'......

Of course, most of these calculations made by the author are calculated by hand, and then recorded on the computer, and then at most it is a simple calculation with a scientific calculator, and then a certain degree of deduction, and finally, the author quantifies all the calculation results into a unified format of data, and then deduces various results, in fact, the work "Football Game Theory", all the main ideas, are the result of the author's long-term and rigorous calculations.

In this book, there is a crucial statistic, that is, the author mentioned in the chapter "All Nations Are Completely Equal in the Face of Football" - 'For any country or region, as long as the comprehensive strength and social development level of this country or region reaches a certain level, then for all countries and all nations of mankind, one out of every 20,000 people is suitable to play professional football. ’

This 'one in 20,000' is not only the author's feeling, but also the result of the author's years of research and calculations, and this result is also the greatest mathematical basis for all the arguments made by the author in this article. The source of evidence for the author's '1 in 20,000' result is mainly the analysis of the football powers in Europe and South America, such as England, Spain and Argentina, which can be called the template for the development of professional football leagues for human beings, with a population of about 50 million, and their economic strength and public interest in supporting the development of football are also standards. It is through the research and calculation of the football career of the three countries of England, Spain and Argentina, as well as the research and calculation of the football industry of Baho, France, Italy, Portugal and Belgium, as well as the football industry of Japan, South Korea, Iran and Australia, that the author finally came up with the crucial figure of "1 in 20,000".

There is also a data that is more important, that is, the author believes that 50 million population is the most suitable population to carry out a single football league system, for this data, the author has also made a lot of calculations, when the population of a country or region reaches 50 million and its economic development reaches a certain level, the 50 million population, will have about 70-80% of the urban population, and will form a nearly perfect large, medium and small city system - '1 megacity, 5 or so million people, 15 or so medium-sized cities with a population of 500,000, and about 50 cities with a population of 100,000+', and this 'near-perfect system of large, medium and small cities', coupled with the appropriate economic scale, will be able to produce the most reasonable economic benefits in the development of football.

As for the other assertions, they are also the result of careful study and calculation by the author, and the process of calculation is too monotonous and tedious, so the author will not list them one by one.