In the culture and history of Europe, there are two things that are particularly important, one is the country, the other is the city, and European football is based on the country and the city, forming the famous European international competition system and the European national league system. In China's culture and history, there are also two things that are particularly important, one is the province, and the other is the county.

If Chinese football wants to 'copycat European football', if Chinese football wants to use football to reinterpret the past culture and history like European football, it must pay attention to the development of football at the provincial and county levels, each province must form its own provincial team system and league system, and each county with a population of more than 100,000 must also form its own professional team.

People in the world often say that China's provinces are similar to European countries, European countries are equivalent to ununified provinces, and China's provinces are equivalent to unified countries. European countries, on the other hand, are based on their own abilities, so the geographical strength of European countries varies greatly.

In Europe, there are giant countries like Russia, small countries like Andorra, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Monaco and, of course, Monaco blends its football with France. Nevertheless, the size and geographical strength of most countries in Europe can be matched by the typical provinces of central and eastern China.

For example, England, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Sweden and Bulgaria, these countries, and China's Henan, Shandong, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Guangxi and other provinces, in terms of area and geographical strength, there is not much difference, even Germany, France and Spain, in terms of area and geographical strength, is only equivalent to the two typical provinces in the central and eastern part of China, while the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, the former Yugoslav countries - Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, etc., Combined, their geographical strength is equivalent to the typical provinces of central and eastern China.

However, due to historical reasons, these were originally one 'European province', but they were divided into many countries, and because of the split, their football strength has been seriously affected. What kind of terrifying force should the united Qianyugoslav basketball and Qianyugoslav volleyball be?

When developing football in China, if we really want to carry out 'copycat European football', then, in the field of football, we can also merge some provincial-level political regions with weak geographical strength or small area into neighboring provinces: for example, Beijing and Tianjin, in football, they can work with Hebei Province to follow the 'Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei football integration model', and the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is also what these three provincial-level political regions have been advocating; The two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, as well as Hainan Province, can also carry out 'Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao football integration' with Guangdong Province, or even 'Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Qiong Football Integration'; Shanghai can also integrate football with Jiangsu Province, Qinghai Province and Ningxia District can integrate football with Gansu Province; Tibet can integrate football with Sichuan Province, and can also join Chongqing Municipality.

Of course, the above text is only the author's personal imagination, and the author just thinks that Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Xiang. Although Hong Kong is a megacity and a super city, they are just a city, and they cannot make a football league of the five major European leagues on their own, but the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Jiangsu-Shanghai, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao can become a region with huge football potential that can compete with any country in the world in terms of geographical strength.

In the chapter "Football is like a play 1", the author has mentioned that European countries do not like each other, and there are "epic historical grievances" between European countries, and the historical grievances between European countries have played a great role in promoting the development of European football, and it is also a major attraction of European footballMatches between Romania and Hungary, Russia and Turkey, Russia and Poland, England and Scotland, etc., can also give people a sense of 'history repeated'.

Since China is a country with a history of great unification that lasts for more than 2,200 years, the grievances and contradictions between China's provinces are far less great than those between European countries. The European epidemic in 2020 is a good example, Germany, France and Italy took turns to rob the epidemic prevention materials imported from Switzerland, making the Swiss want to cry without tears.

In times of peace, China's provinces are at best fighting each other, but when disaster strikes, all provinces in China are in trouble and all sides are able to help each other as much as they can, so that they can get through the disaster more quickly and get on the right track.

Do you want to say that there are any grievances and contradictions between the provinces of China? For example, the 'war' between Hubei and Hunan provinces in tobacco is a typical representative of the small grievances and small contradictions in China's provinces, and China's provinces have not made a fuss about each other's ridicule, let alone in the competition between the open and the dark.

When the European countries completely ushered in peace after the end of World War II, and the all-round competition and unpleasantness of the European countries continued, how to make the European countries compete more than one under the premise of peace? Then play a European Cup, whoever can win the championship will be the 'boss of Europe' for a certain period of time.

In the same way, when China ushers in complete peace, and the all-out competition and mutual ridicule between the Chinese provinces continues, how can the Chinese provinces compete with each other under the premise of peace? Then also play a 'Oriental Cup' or 'Chinese provincial football into the competition', just like the European Cup, whoever can win the championship will be the 'boss of the East' for a certain period of time.

Although each troubled era in China is different, and each troubled era has its own heroes and stories, but in every troubled era, the various forces that run rampant on the land of China are mostly based on provinces, or have the shadow of provinces.

From the initial Chu and Han disputes at the end of the Qin Dynasty to the final turmoil of the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, every time the world is in turmoil, the provinces and regions rise together, taking the world as a chessboard and the world as a chess piece. Mongolian Group of the Grassland, Zhu Yuanzhang Group of Huaixi......

Isn't this time and again the struggle for hegemony and the unification of the world exactly like the 'Oriental Cup' or the 'Chinese Provincial Football Championship' envisioned by the author? Isn't it exactly like the copycat object advocated by the author - the European Cup?

Although Europe and even the entire West have traced their cultural history back to ancient Greece and Rome, the first all-European war in the real sense was the Thirty Years' War that took place from 1618 to 1648, the Thirty Years' War can be said to be a very important node in European history, and it is also a sign of the real rise of Europe, in contrast, the Ming and Qing wars of the same era are a sign of China's weakness.

After the Thirty Years' War, there were many Europe-wide wars in Europe - the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Europeans fought seven European-scale large-scale melee in three hundred years, which is different from the Chinese fighting a large-scale China-scale melee every two or three hundred years in thousands of years of history, which is also caused by the difference between China's great unification system and the European great division model.

Although Europe has never been unified, this does not prevent Europeans from interpreting the unity of Europe through the European Cup, in terms of culture, geography and football, South America can be considered an extension of Europe, in the current situation that Chinese football is better than nothing, the football of the whole world can also be considered an extension of European football, therefore, the World Cup can also be regarded as 'Europe in the broadest sense' through the big drama of football, to interpret the unity of Europe and the unity of the West.

The author believes that if we 'copy European football', imitate European countries in China's provinces, hand over football to each province for independent development, and then imitate the European Cup to form the 'Oriental Cup' or 'Chinese Provincial Football Championship', and imitate the Champions League to form the 'Oriental Football Champions League' or 'Chinese Football Champions League', then we will be able to better use football to interpret China's culture and history, and we will be able to better use football to reproduce the wonderful world chaos and the rise of heroes in Chinese historyIn the process of competing for the Central Plains and unifying the world, we will be able to better use football to reproduce the process of 'the general trend of the world, and the division will be combined for a long time'.

The author's favorite song is "Love the country and love the beauty more", and the favorite martial arts novel to read is "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", although in this novel, a generation of emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is described as a sinister and cunning usurper, but the author still likes the background of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" very much, because the author's favorite troubled era is the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was like a gamer who opened the hanging, his start was a broken bowl begging, however, he relied on this extremely humble beginning, and played the most gorgeous data, almost recovering all the Chinese homeland that had been lost for hundreds of years in the Tang and Song dynasties.

And the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was also like an 'inter-provincial football match', this 'game' can be divided into two halves of the north and south, at first Zhu Yuanzhang has been fighting in the 'southern half', in this half of the district, Zhu Yuanzhang has 'eliminated' Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen, Mingsheng, Yuanliang Wang. In the 'northern semi-region', there are also groups of heroes competing for deer and strong teams gathering, here are Liu Futong, Han Lin'er, Sesame Li, Mao Gui, Chahan Timur and Wang Baobao father and son, Li Siqi, Polo Timur and other forces.

If the struggle between Zhu Yuanzhang's forces and Chen Youliang's forces is regarded as the semi-finals in the southern half of the region, then the struggle between the Chakhan Timur-Wang Baobao forces and Liu Futong's forces is the 'semi-finals' in the northern half of the region.

The chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty are typical representatives of more than a dozen large-scale turmoil times in Chinese history, and if you want to reproduce the dazzling turmoil in Chinese history, in addition to making movies and TV series, imitating the European Cup, the Champions League and the league system of European countries, forming the 'Oriental Cup', 'Eastern Champion League' and 'Provincial League System', is undoubtedly the best way.

In previous chapters, the author has mentioned that in every era of Chinese history, there is always a 'popular national culture' that belongs to that era, for example, in the Middle Ages and early modern periods, drama and storytelling can be called China's 'popular national culture', and in the early modern period until 2010, martial arts novels can be called China' Popular national culture', in this period, we ushered in Jin Gu Liang Wen and other martial arts novel masters;And when history entered the 2010s, the influence of martial arts novels gradually declined, as the post-80s who had read all the masterpieces of the masters, the author of the decline of martial arts novels is also quite emotional, but the author also has to admit that with the development of the times, the 'historical mission' of martial arts novels has ended.

So, now, after the 2010s, what can become China's new 'popular national culture'? The author argues that only football can take on this responsibility. Football is the perfect combination of the present and the past, the yearning for peace and the memories of war, the most perfect combination of the present era and all the cultural histories of the country and the nation, the perfect connection between people of different ages, different classes, different occupations and different interests, and the most suitable and extensive common language for the whole society.

Although we should not learn too much from others in everything we do, let alone look at the eyes of others, we should have enough confidence in ourselves, and we should find a way that conforms to the characteristics of our country, but in many things, we must learn from the advanced experience of Europe, the United States and Japan, especially in football, the football culture of Europe and South America, and there are too many places worth learning from us, and there are too many places worth learning from the sports culture of the United States.

Someone once joked that in China, when friends who are familiar or unfamiliar meet each other, the topic always starts with 'Have you eaten?', while in Europe, South America and the United States, when friends who are familiar or unfamiliar meet each other, the topic always starts with 'Did you watch yesterday's game?' Of course, Europeans and South Americans are talking about yesterday's football game, while Americans are talking about yesterday's football game.

It is no exaggeration to say that football is the 'popular national culture' of Europeans and South Americans, and football is the 'popular national culture' of Americans, and friends who are familiar with rugby often joke that 'in the United States, the annual NFL Finals are almost equivalent to China's Spring Festival Gala', and the annual NFL Finals-Super Bowl is also known as the 'American Spring Festival Gala'.

The author very much hopes that one day, football will be in the Chinese's mind, like football in the minds of Americans, and can also be like football in the minds of Europeans and South Americans, of course, the author believes that this is only a matter of time, because a country or a nation's pursuit of sports, the pursuit of football (American football can be said to be a variant of football), is the inevitable product of the development of the times to a certain extent.

Football is like a play, now, the whole world football is also like a big drama, there are all kinds of roles in the play, but there is no role in Chinese football, because it doesn't matter whether there is Chinese football in the current world football, the current world football, all kinds of roles have been fully compiled, and Chinese football is added to it, which is nothing more than to get some more shameful records.

Of course, the author absolutely does not advocate that Chinese football is completely decoupled from the world like American football, but advocates that Chinese football can be like American basketball, after taking its own football path through 'copycat European football', and then control the entire world's football market like American basketball controls world basketball.

Football is like a play, in the world football drama, Chinese football should not become a dispensable role, but should become a role that can rival the entire European and American football, only after a deep understanding of this, Chinese football can really develop.