Putting aside the fact that the players of the national Olympic team entered the national team, in fact, the football grievances between China and Japan are very interesting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

More than 20 years ago, there was a popular saying among Chinese fans about the football romance of the three East Asian countries: China can't win against South Korea, South Korea can't beat Japan, and Japan can't win against China, forming a perfect endless circle.

Now it seems that this is simply ridiculous and generous - will the Japanese team not be able to win against the Chinese team?

But in the distant eighties, it was really like that. One of the most famous football matchups between China and Japan took place in the qualifiers for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. At that time, there was no such thing as FIFA restricting the age of players participating in the Olympics, so it was the national first team that qualified for the Olympics, not the national Olympic team or the national second team.

For the first time in history, the Chinese team reached the Olympic finals, beating Japan in that match.

And the Chinese team's invincibility against the South Korean team began in 1978, and later there was "Koreanophobia" after media rendering, but why haven't you heard of any "Japanese phobia"?

As early as the 90s, Chinese football is also an important force that cannot be ignored in Asia, and it is a well-known powerhouse in the East Asian circle, and they can't help it when they encounter the South Korean team that can run more and has more tenacious willpower, but they have the upper hand in the face of the Japanese team.

At that time, Japanese football was still uncivilized, and in 1964, the Japanese team participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in Tokyo, which was held on home soil, and set a new top eight. Four years later, they finished third in Mexico City, their best finish in Olympic history before London. However, although the Japanese team at that time had good results, it did not last long, because Japanese football at that time adopted an elite training program, which to put it bluntly, was to cultivate football as an elite sport at the grassroots level. But there were also historical reasons at the time, because there were so few people playing football in Japan that they had to do this to make a difference. Thirty or forty people were selected from all over the country, and these people usually did not do anything, did not need to work part-time, and only carried out professional training every day.

It's a bit like a nationwide system with Japanese characteristics.

Of course, the level of the players will improve very quickly, but it will not last long, because the country cannot always keep so many dozens of people in captivity for training and competition, and if this is the case, soccer will not be able to survive in Japan.

So later, after a brief period of glory, Japanese football fell back into the doldrums.

After losing to China and missing out on the finals of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Japanese Football Association ushered in a key figure, he is the former Japanese national team international Saburo Kawabuchi. He began to plan to promote professional soccer leagues in Japan, which is a novelty not only for Japan but also for many other Asian countries. At that time, baseball was the number one sport in Japan, and football was an inconspicuous minor role. But thanks to Saburo Kawabuchi's efforts, in 1993, Japan's professional league was born.

However, Japanese football, which has just established a professional league, has suffered a heavy blow at the beginning of its development - in the final match of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in the United States, Japan can enter the World Cup finals for the first time in history if they defeat Iraq. But unfortunately, before the end of the game, the Japanese team was tied by Iraq, and the score of 2:2 made them miss the World Cup in the United States.

This defeat gave Japanese football a big shock. Three years later, in 1996, Saburo Kawabuchi launched an ambitious plan, the famous "Centennial Plan for Japanese Football".

Since then, Japanese football has been gaining momentum, and in 1998 it reached the World Cup finals for the first time.

In 2005, the Japan Football Association (JFA) issued the "2005 Declaration" to create a sports culture and a healthy society through football. We will integrate sports into people's lives and create a good living environment for everyone by popularizing football, intensify efforts to strengthen football so that the Japanese national team can perform well in the world competitions and give people courage, hope, and emotion, and maintain the spirit of fair play and maintain good relations with other countries to contribute to the stability and peace of the international community.

The specific goals are to rank the Japanese national team in the top 10 in the world by 2015 and increase the football population to 5 million, and by 2050, the football population will increase to 10 million, and Japan will once again host the World Cup on its own, and the Japanese national team will win the World Cup.

These goals sounded fantastical, and even drew ridicule and ridicule when they were first released.

But now it seems that the goals of Japanese football are being achieved one by one. For example, winning the World Cup, the Japanese women's national football team has already achieved it - not to mention that the Japanese women's national football team is not a national team, and there is no limit in Japan's centennial goal, only the Japanese men's national football team has won the World Cup.

In fact, if China wants to improve their football level, they don't need to learn Brazil, Spain, or Germany at all, and there is a good object to learn from them, that is, Japan.

From the construction of the national team, to the maintenance of the league, to the all-important foundation of school football, Japan has a whole set of well-established and mature experiences to learn.

Japanese football has also ignored the laws of football and forcibly promoted it, and although it won the third place in the Olympic Games, it still fell into the depths in the end. All behaviors that do not develop football according to the laws of football, no matter how much money, manpower and material resources are consumed, will not have good results.

The Japanese began to develop their country's football in accordance with the laws of football, and after the whole society participated in it, the achievements of Japanese football were natural and natural.

When the Japanese team began to seriously engage in football construction, the balance of power between Chinese and Japanese football was reversed, and since the 90s of the last century, the Chinese team has lost more and won less when it meets the Japanese team.

Prior to the World Cup qualifiers, the last time China beat Japan was in the East Asian semifinals in 1998, when Li Bin's brace helped Houghton's Chinese team beat Takeshi Okada's Japan team 2-0.

After that game, the Chinese team has never been able to beat the Japanese team in the FIFA A-level competition, and the embarrassing record of "not beating Japan" has lasted for 14 years.

Originally, at the Asian Cup at the beginning of last year, the Chinese team had the hope of wrestling with the Japanese team, and maybe it could end the embarrassing 14-year record of not winning against Japan.

However, Zhou Yi was banned in the semi-finals for accumulating yellow cards and missed the Asian Cup final against Japan.

In the final, the Japanese team defeated the Chinese team and won the championship.

This is also a new feud between Chinese and Japanese football at the national team level, and now this World Cup qualifier is considered by the Chinese media to be a revenge battle for the national team.

Some people say that the national Olympic team defeated the Japanese team, yes, the national Olympic team did beat the Japanese team, but it was an Olympic competition. The Olympic Games are not in FIFA's A-level competitions and do not have a high status. Messi has won the Olympic gold medal in football, but his national team honour is still blank, because the Olympic gold medal is not a recognized national team honour.

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Every time China and Japan meet, there are many stories to tell, and the preliminaries of the 1988 Seoul Olympics are one of them.

At that time, the Chinese team led by Gao Fengwen unexpectedly lost 0:1 to Japan at home in the qualifiers, which made the Chinese team forced into a desperate situation. In the autumn rain in Tokyo, the Chinese team wore a red jersey to challenge the Japanese team in white, and the Chinese team presented the best game in 20 years, and the Japanese team had no way to fight back, and the Chinese team had 15 shots on goal in the first half alone. In the end, with the goals of Liu Haiguang and Tang Yaodong, the Chinese team defeated Japan 2:0 and marched into Seoul by stepping on the corpse of Japan.

The significance of this game for Chinese football is the first time to break out of Asia to the world, and the significance for Japanese football may be a little greater, because this failure directly gave birth to the later Japanese Football Association's courage and determination to reform, which is why there is now a brilliant and powerful Japanese football.

The match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team in the group stage of the 1996 Asian Cup was a representative of darkness and ugliness. At that time, the Chinese team lost 0:2 to Uzbekistan in the first game, and regained confidence in the second 3:0 victory over Syria. In the third group stage, the Japanese team that won all the games before and had the intention to release water to the Chinese team will squeeze out the other group third place South Korea team as long as the two sides draw. In this case, the Chinese team and the Japanese team played tacit balls, and they spent more than half of the 90-minute game on the back. Everyone thought that the game would end with a score of 0:0, but Japanese defender Naoki Soma volleyed in the upper left corner of the penalty area, and the football flew into the goal of the Chinese team. At that time, it was not only the Chinese who were stupid, but also the Japanese. In the end, the Chinese team relied on the results of the match between Syria and Uzbekistan, and even got the right to qualify from the group based on the faces of others.

That was the first and last time in the history of China and Japan. Later, the gap between Chinese and Japanese football became wider and wider, and the football of the two countries was no longer at the same level.

The 2004 Asian Cup was held in China. As the host, the Chinese team went all the way to the final and met their old rival Japan. The game was the first goal, but the Chinese team then stubbornly equalised. Originally, the game returned to the balance of power, but Koji Nakata of the Japanese team scored the football into the goal of the Chinese team with his hand in a corner kick, and the referee and linesman turned a blind eye to this and ruled the goal valid. This conceded goal greatly affected the mood of the Chinese players, and in the end, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to the Japanese team at home, allowing the Japanese team to successfully defend the title, and they lost the opportunity to win the Asian Cup for the first time.

In fact, although the Asian Cup was held in China, the Japanese team received more preferential referee treatment than the Chinese team. For example, the first time in history that a goal was changed in the middle of a penalty shootout happened to Japan, when the Japanese team missed consecutive penalties, so they protested, believing that there was a problem with the field where the penalty was taken, and asked to change it to the opposite half. What is unbelievable is that this completely unreasonable demand was approved by the referee team! After changing the venue, the Japanese team finally eliminated Jordan on penalties...... In addition, the ridiculous decision that throwing a throw-in is offside also came to Japan's opponents.

So when it comes to that Asian Cup, there will be many fans who have only used it and are not convinced.

In 2011, it was the Asian Cup again, and the Chinese team reached the final all the way to the final without being favored, but the core Zhou Yi was suspended due to the accumulation of yellow cards and missed the peak showdown with the Japanese team. Without Zhou Yi, the strength of the Chinese team was greatly reduced, and in the end, the Chinese team lost to Japan and missed the Asian Cup championship again.

This Asian Cup may make Chinese fans even more unconvinced. Everyone can't help but speculate - if Zhou Yi is not suspended, if he is in the final, will the Chinese team really be able to win against Japan and end the embarrassing record of the Chinese team not beating Japan in the international A-level competition?

Fortunately, this time, in the World Cup qualifiers, Zhou Yi was not absent again.

He will lead the Chinese national team to face Japan, China's old enemy.

On Weibo, enthusiastic netizens hand-painted a picture of the Chinese national team players wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and the leader was the most obvious, Zhou Yi, who brandished a big knife and shouted: "Comrades, rush with me!"

Obviously, this is pinning hopes on the success of Zhou Yi's "anti-Japanese".

After this picture came out, it still caused some controversy, but the controversy has nothing to do with football, but it is related to the history of the anti-Japanese war, which is nothing more than someone accusing the painter of letting the players pass the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, which is a distortion of history, because the main force of the Anti-Japanese War is ****, and if you want to wear it, you should wear a **** military uniform.

Such remarks attracted condemnation from some other people, and the two sides fought together, and they also affected Chiyu, so that fans could not cheer for the Chinese team.

In such a situation, Zhou Yi's real-name authentication Weibo suddenly reposted the Weibo of this picture.

And wrote: "Thank you, you must come on, and live up to your mission!"

Some of the debate continues, but more people can focus on football. (To be continued.) )