At the beginning of the book, the author wrote, 'When it comes to Chinese football, people are always puzzled: "Why, we have a population of 1.4 billion, but we can't find 11 people who can play football?" In fact, the answer lies in the question: it is precisely because we are looking for 11 people who can play football from 1.4 billion people that we can't find 11 people who can play football. ’

In fact, this passage is used to explain that Asian football is also applicable - 'When it comes to Asian football, people will always be puzzled: "Why is it that Asia accounts for 55% of the world's population, but the strength of Asian football is weak?" In fact, the answer lies in the question: it is precisely because of the fact that Asia accounts for 55% of the world's population that the strength of Asian football is weak. ’

If the reader wants to ask - 'Why is football weaker the bigger the population?' Then, please re-read some of the previous chapters, Asian football is weak, and Chinese football is weak, there are many similar reasons: Asia has been ravaged by European and American (including Japan) powers in modern times, resulting in the weak comprehensive strength of Asian countries and ethnic groups and the serious national inferiority mentality, which is the fundamental reason for the weakness of Asian football; The overpopulation of Asia, but the low demand for professional teams and professional players, is the key reason for Asian football.

So, how to solve the dilemma of Asian football? The same road to simplicity, Asia is originally composed of several cultural circles that can be called continents, then, let each country go back to its own cultural circle, in the cultural circle for football skills training, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central and Western Asia (can add North Africa), these four cultural circles, all have the strength to form their own football league system.

If you think that there are too few countries in Southeast Asia and too few people to form a football system, in fact, the number of countries in Southeast Asia is similar to that of South America, and the total population is similar to that of South America, and South America (plus a Mexico) can form its own football system, why can't Southeast Asia?

Of course, the above concept is only an idea of the author, we can't decide what other countries think, if the rest of Asia still maintains the status quo in football as it is now, then China can also decouple from Asia in football, and then go to copycat European football.

To a certain extent, we can even think that Europe is a continent that is decoupled from the 'Eurasian continent', and European football is also a football system that is decoupled from the 'Eurasian football'. Since Europe can develop such a powerful football system with the strength of one continent alone, why can't China, which is at the same level as Europe?

There may be many people who will say that our country's football strength is already weak, and then we decouple from the rest of Asia and close our doors to build our own cars, so that our country's football will not become weaker and weaker? Shouldn't football be completely open to communicate with other countries and continents? What is the difference between decoupling from the rest of Asia and building its own cars behind closed doors in the Manchu era?

But in fact, in the past few decades, in terms of football development, our country has been actively seeking exchanges with other countries and other continents, and we have also learned from others seriously, and we have often communicated with strong teams, but what is the result? The result is that football in our country is getting weaker and weaker, and it is degrading to the end. So, can I say that it is precisely because we learn too much from others that our country's football is getting weaker and weaker?

Although you can say that the author's point of view is a bit anti-scientific and anti-human, but in fact it is true, many things are not as simple as we think, if you are on the wrong path, then, the harder you work, the worse your grades will be, the more you communicate with others, the more you learn from others, the worse your grades will be.

We are always taught that 'communication and learning make people progress', in fact, sometimes, communication and learning will make us regress, and to a certain extent, closing the door and closing the country will get better development in a certain industry.

Of course, the author is definitely not against exchange and learning, the author also believes that communication and learning are absolutely necessary, the author just believes that in football: taking Europe as an example, the mutual exchange and learning between European countries is the most important, and then the exchange and learning between Europe and other continents and regions of the world; Similarly, for China, the most important thing is the exchange and learning between China's provinces, and then the exchange and learning between China and other continents and regions of the world.

Decoupling from the rest of Asia in certain sports does not mean that it is decoupled from the world in terms of these sports, and exchanges with other countries or regions in the world are also very, very necessary, but the premise of communicating with other countries or regions in football is to first develop football well in the cultural circle, and then communicate or learn from others. If football develops in this cultural circle, it is necessary to communicate or learn from others, and the result is just more shameful records.

In addition, even if it is 10,000 steps back, it is really decoupled from the world in some sports, for a country of China's size, China can still build a real sports power and sports empire by itself, in fact, the United States does this.

American football in the United States is unique in the world, American football is the product of decoupling from English football, except for the United States and Canada, almost no other country plays American football, but what does it matter? The NFL (National Football League) in the United States is still one of the hottest and most profitable sports leagues in the world.

As a football fan, you may think that the Champions League is very popular and profitable; As a basketball fan, you may think that the NBA is hot and profitable; But when you understand the NFL league, you will find that in front of the NFL, it is a real sense of the gods and horses are floating clouds.

The NFL is the most successful sports league in the world in the absolute sense, the Champions League and the NBA are tired of making money all over the world, but in the end they are not as good as the NFL, and the total annual income of the NFL is beyond the reach of the Champions League and the NBA league. Moreover, in the ranking of the world's top 50 sports clubs every year, NFL teams generally get about 30 places, you know, the NFL is a total of 32 teams, and the regular season of the NFL is only 16 rounds per year (it is said that the new season will add 1-2 rounds), and it can be seen how strong the NFL league is.

Judging from the fact that the NFL only operates in the U.S. and Canadian markets, it has such a huge economic scale, for countries of the size of China and the United States, the development of a certain kind of sports does not care about other people's eyes, what they should do, as long as they can run their own markets well, even if the global market is combined, it may not be able to compare with the market of China and the United States, which is the benefit of a unified country and a huge single market.

Of course, the author absolutely does not advocate completely closing the door and closing the country in football, the author believes that after Chinese football does a good job in the domestic market through 'copycat European football', it can further develop the world football market, and then even be able to completely control the world football market.

Take American basketball as an example, the United States through the NBA league, basically able to control the entire world's basketball market, NBA basketball rules, in many ways different from the World Basketball Federation, but the NBA still does its own thing, FIBA has no way to take the NBA, after all, just in terms of economic strength, the NBA can beat all the basketball leagues of all other countries, in most of the world's events, in the final analysis, it is still determined by money, money is not omnipotent, but at least it is 'thousand-powered'.

It's good that Americans don't play football, and if Americans play football – and in the right way – then American soccer can dominate the world's soccer like American basketball, and that's the power of a giant unified state and a huge single market.

In addition to football, which no one else plays, there is baseball in the United States that no one cares about in most countries. The American Baseball League - M.LB is also a miracle, after the NFL and the NBA have shared most of the cake of the American team sports league, M.LB only rely on the market of a few countries such as the United States and Canada, its scale can be comparable to the NBA, the reason why the NBA's economic scale is larger than M.LB, is only because the NBA is facing basketball fans around the world, and M.LB only has spectators in a few countries such as the United States and Canada, even so, the overall strength of the M.LB team is not much worse than the overall strength of the Champions League team.

Therefore, the author believes that even if China really decouples from Asia in terms of football, and then 'copycat European football' behind closed doors and communicates with the rest of the world appropriately, then, in time, Chinese football will be able to control the world's football market in the same way that American basketball dominates the world basketball market, which is the power of a giant unified country and a huge single market.

Countries of the size of China and the United States really don't care about the eyes of other countries and continents in the world when developing sports, imagine if Americans develop football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey if everything is consistent with other countries, then the United States can still develop the world's invincible 'North American four major leagues'?

In the annual ranking of the world's top 50 sports clubs, except for the six or seven giants in European football, the other clubs are basically all teams from the four major sports leagues in North America, and the four major sports leagues in North America - NFL, NBA, M.LB and NHL, they are basically all products of decoupling from the world and making their own cars behind closed doors.

It can be seen that as long as a country is large enough, the population is large enough, the economy is strong enough, and the people are obsessed with a certain sport enough, even if the country is decoupled from the world in terms of certain sports, it is not a problem. Of course, after training your own level, you can easily control the entire global market if you go to explore the global market.

After so much verbosity, in fact, the author's intention is to supplement the ninth chapter of this book "Shanzhai European Football", East Asia, is also a continent, even if Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Mongolia are excluded, we China alone, it can be called a 'continent-level country', and then refer to the Americans' disregard for the world's vision to develop the strange North American four major leagues, I think that if China imitates Europe's 'copycat European football', then, with China's unified system and huge single market, China is very likely to copycat out' European Football 2.0 is coming, after all, we have the world's number one copycat ability.

The author has said in the previous text of this chapter that in the European zone, the national teams 'you kill me once, I kill you once', in this 'blood and fire contest', the football strength of European countries has been rapidly and hugely improved, if China 'copycat European football', the football of Chinese provinces will also be like this.

Moreover, the strength of China's provinces is closer, China is a unified country, China can also be the population of the municipalities and small provinces and regions that are not large enough, into the neighboring provinces to integrate, for example, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is the most suitable for integration to develop football, Jiangsu-Shanghai, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, is also very suitable for integration to develop football, if our country really wants to 'copycat European football', then, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Jiangsu-Shanghai and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao The top league in the three major regions is equivalent to the Premier League in Europe. Serie A and La Liga too.

If we can merge the weak provinces and small provinces with the neighboring provinces in football, so that the strength of each region in China is relatively close, so that the teams between any two regions can play each other more painfully, and the football strength of all regions can be improved more rapidly and greatly.

When the football strength of China's provinces and regions is improved, and it is no less than that of the national teams of Japan and South Korea, it will naturally attract countries such as Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia and even Vietnam, and attract them to join the Chinese football circle of 'copycat European football'.

Moreover, even before we can copy the 'European Football 2.0 version', even if we can copy the 'European Football 1.0 version', or even the 'European Football 0.5 version', Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Mongolia will try their best to integrate into us, because East Asia is originally a 'big cultural circle', and East Asia is also a continent. In terms of geographical strength, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia are all equivalent to a province of China, and even Vietnam, which is part of Southeast Asia, is equivalent to a province of China in terms of geographical strength.

And having taken control of the football market in East Asia as a whole, we are also able to properly expand the football market to Southeast Asia, and even further to South Asia and the whole world. Although this is just the author's wishful thinking, the author believes that it is only a matter of time before the Chinese realize the necessity of 'copycat European football', and once the Chinese realize the necessity of 'copycat European football' and put it into practice, then what will be done next will basically be in line with the author's prediction.

The author wrote in the previous chapter "Self-confidence and inferiority" that national inferiority and lack of self-confidence are the fundamental reasons for the degeneration of Chinese football, it is precisely because of national inferiority and lack of self-confidence that we must first see how Europeans and Americans do everything, and we must do everything based on the precedents of Europeans and Americans. Handan toddler', in the end, will only learn to be stupid and disabled.

In short, East Asia is also a continent, even if other countries and regions in East Asia are not considered, China alone can be comparable to Europe in terms of geographical strength, Europe at the westernmost tip of the Eurasian continent can form a huge football system alone, and China and East Asia, which are at the easternmost point of the Eurasian continent, why can't they form a huge football system alone?

As long as you have enough self-confidence – the self-confidence that comes with recognizing your true potential and setting goals that match your true potential strength, there is nothing that cannot be done.