In the previous chapters, the author has mentioned many times that the key reason for the degeneration of Chinese football is that the number of professional teams and the demand for professional players are too low; The fundamental reason for the degeneration of Chinese football is the inferiority of the nation and the lack of self-confidence, precisely because we do not realize the real potential strength of our country in football, precisely because we dare not believe that we have all the basic conditions to compete with the whole of Europe in football, and it is precisely because of a series of wrong football policies formulated on the basis of our lack of self-confidence, therefore, the football level of our country has fallen to the current level.

So, what is the reason for the serious national inferiority complex that exists in China? In other words, who should be responsible for the national inferiority that has led to the degeneration of Chinese football? Is the Chinese Football Association to blame? But the work of the Football Association is only to develop football, and the Football Association cannot determine the strength of the country and the national culture. On the contrary, China's cultural circles have long been prevalent in 'national inferiority' for more than 100 years, and have carried out long-term pathological 'reflection and criticism' of Chinese culture and Chinese history, and some cultural people have even gone so far as to show China's 'ugliness and backwardness' to ask for credit and reward from the so-called mainstream Western cultural circles.

Everything in the world is interconnected, especially football, which can attract the attention of everyone in the whole society, can be called a cultural thing, and there are so many other things related to football that it is unimaginable, which is why football can become the most mainstream popular culture in Europe and South America and other countries.

The great German philosopher Hegel once said that 'existence is reason', and there have been countless interpretations of Hegel's famous sentence in the philosophical and 'folk philosophical circles', and here the author adopts the most common interpretation. If 'Chinese football is degenerate' as a kind of 'existence', then is this 'existence' reasonable?

From the perspective of China's geographical strength, population, comprehensive national strength and development prospects, this 'existence' is very unreasonable, but from the perspective of China's 400-year history and current situation, the 'existence' of Chinese football is 'reasonable'.

Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, China has begun to enter a state of weakness, after the Yapian War, China has entered the weakest and most humble era, although before the Yapian War, China has also been weakened and fallen many times, but Chinese history has never been like modern history, in terms of culture and national wisdom by the world questioned and despised, even the Chinese themselves, have a deep doubt about their own national culture and national wisdom.

However, we Chinese and Chinese culture will never succumb to difficulties and setbacks, and every time we encounter a national crisis, there are always countless people with lofty ideals who bravely stand up and shed their blood to help the country and the nation solve the crisis. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we finally braked the historical wheel of the century-old decline of Chinese civilization and began to stride forward on the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The word inertia, I believe everyone understands what it means, when you drive on the road, the speed reaches 100 kilometers per hour, when you are ready to brake and reverse the car, you brake the car, but your car still has to continue on the road for a certain distance. The same is true of the weakness of a country or nation, although the founding of the People's Republic of China braked the historical wheel of the century-old decline of Chinese civilization, the inertia of a century-old decline is still profoundly affecting the development of Chinese society in the past few decades.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese nation began a difficult great cause of rejuvenation under the condition that the inertia of weakness continued to exist: first, through a bloody and fiery War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, we swept away the humiliating situation of repeated defeats and bullying in the modern century; Then, we carried out the construction of the industrial base and the continuous innovation of the state system; Then, we succeeded in developing nuclear weapons and completely guaranteed our national security; After the reform and opening up, especially in the 21 st century, we have made tremendous progress in economic strength and scientific and technological strength, which is rare in the universe.

Due to the inertia of a hundred years of weakness, as well as the huge threat of many times of national extinction and near-extinction, so after the founding of New China, our development focus has always been to build a strong country that will not be invaded and slaughtered by others, in this case, sports and football have become secondary or even secondary things, whether sports and football can develop well, in the final analysis, is just the icing on the cake, not the most important thing.

It is precisely because of historical and practical reasons that it has led to the situation of Chinese football being weakened, so the 'existence' of Chinese football being weak is 'reasonable' compared to history and reality. In this chapter (in the first half of "Football is like a play"), the author has said that "football is an interpretation of the culture and history of a cultural circle, a country, a nation or a region", and the degeneration of Chinese football in recent decades is not exactly the interpretation of the tragic years of repeated defeats and bullying in China's modern history?

At this point, I would like to make a temporary summary of the history and current situation of Chinese football: since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the modern century, the humiliating history has led to a serious national inferiority mentality in Chinese society, and led to a general lack of confidence in Chinese in their own culture, history and future; The inferiority mentality and lack of national confidence lead us to believe that we have the strength to compete with the whole of Europe and the United States in football (unless Europe and the United States increase their population); The national inferiority complex mentality and lack of national confidence have led us to take European and American football powers as the standard in everything in football, and learn from European and American football powers everywhere; Taking others as the standard and learning from others everywhere has the consequence that there are only more than 40 professional football teams and about 1,400 professional players in the Chinese football circle. The extreme lack of demand for professional football teams and professional players, coupled with the rapid growth of China's comprehensive strength, especially its economic strength, eventually led to the deterioration and degeneration of Chinese football.

Football is like a play, drama, always composed of one scene after another, maybe the first scene is a tragedy of people bullying people, the next scene is a drama of catching up, and the next scene is a drama of seeing who bullies whom. The 'big drama' of Chinese football, which has been played until now, is still in the first act of being bullied, and no matter how tragic the scene is, it will always come to an end, and the scene of Chinese football being bullied by others will always come to an end, just like the scene of China's bullying in modern history, and finally ended in front of the 'new Great Wall forged by our flesh and blood'.

In the final analysis, the degeneration of Chinese football is caused by the miserable comprehensive strength of China in modern times, and the most fundamental solution to change the situation of Chinese football is degenerate, that is, to make our comprehensive strength stronger and stronger, strong to a certain extent, the situation of Chinese football degeneration will inevitably be changed, which is 'quantitative change leads to qualitative change'.

In the process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change, there are always several key time nodes, just like the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, which is the turning point of China's transformation from repeated defeats and bullying to defending against the enemy outside the country and standing on the forest of the world's nations, and it is also the general turning point of China's decline from hundreds of years to national rejuvenation, and where is the general turning point of Chinese football? The author believes that as recently as 2020, although at the time of writing this work, the year was not over.

The major events that happened in 2020, the author will not say more, after all, this book is about football. Football is affected by a country's comprehensive strength and national state, this influence process is hidden, intangible, invisible and intangible, but this influence is real, the relationship between comprehensive strength and national state, and football strength, just like gravity, although invisible and intangible, but plays a vital role.

Before 2020, although our country has been making rapid progress, but there has never been such a year before, our country's advantages in many aspects can be vividly displayed, everything that happened in 2020, for China's international prestige and national self-confidence, is also a leap to improve, and to solve the problem of Chinese football, the first thing to be solved is the problem of China's national self-confidence, only by solving the problem of national self-confidence, Chinese can believe that China can compete with the entire Europe and the United States in football ( Unless Europe and the United States increase their population), then China will be able to formulate the right football policy and increase the number of professional football teams and the demand for professional players to a level that matches the number of Chinese population and China's overall strength.

There is an idiom in China called 'neither humble nor arrogant', in the development of football, we should also not be humble or arrogant, we should not think that we are born noble than others, we should not think that we are born inferior to others, in football, we only realize that a Chinese, and a Brazilian, an Argentine, a German, an Italian, a Spaniard and a Spaniard, are completely equal, we can develop our football well.