Wake up! In fact, Chinese players were not good when they were young! Take a look at the results of the previous editions!

The national football team relied on Wang Yudong's stunner and won 1-0 against Bahrain.

ended the cycle of hitting the United States, Canada and Mexico with a winning attitude, and the results of the game did not disappoint the friends who went to Chongqing to buy tickets to watch the game.

But the big result is obviously cold.

On this night, Wang Yudong, who scored the goal, smiled, and at the age of 18, he was hailed as the hope of the future.

This night, 36-year-old Wang Dalei cried, 36-year-old him, there is a high probability that he has fought to the end...

What to write today? I don't want to sigh and regret anymore.

I don't want to remember those days.

When a person frequently recalls the good things of the past, it can only mean one thing: the present is not going well.

Today, I want to correct a misunderstanding that many Chinese fans have always had.

Whether you're a basketball fan or a football fan, we often hear something like that:"Our players, when they are young, can do it, but when they are older, they can't."

I don't know if the self-media gave everyone a false impression that young players could.

Really? NO !

We didn't work when we were kids.

Let's start with football:

The last time the national youth participated in the World Junior Championship (World Cup) was in 2005, when 1 win and 2 draws qualified for the group stage, but stopped in the top 8, and the players included Wang Dalei, Yu Dabao, Deng Zhuoxiang, and Yang Xu.

The U17 World Cup has been held annually since this year.It has expanded from 24 teams to 48 teams, with 9 places in Asia (including the host Qatar).

Narrow down, Asian Junior Competition.

In 2004, he won the Asian championship, and the representatives of the 88 age group, Yang Xu, Deng Zhuoxiang, and Wang Dalei.

But since finishing 6th in 2006, he hasn't qualified in Asia...

In 2025, it will lose to Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan... Failed to qualify for the U17 World Cup.

How's it going to be if you're older?

U20, the last time I played the World Youth Championship was in 2005, brought by German Krauchen.

The most classic picture is, of course, that Zhao Xuri blasted out a world wave and defeated Turkey 2-1, which has since been named "Zhao Yijiao". Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Zhao Xuri, and those main players are also known as the "85 Golden Generation" by fans, and of course, Hao Junmin, who was born in 87.

This wave of people later became the stars of the Chinese Super League, and the national football team hit the mainstay of the World Cup again and again.

Does the current national team have their level? No.

Narrowing it down, they were runners-up in 2004, but since then, either they haven't qualified from the group or they've stopped in the quarterfinals...

These facts are in front of us, "when I was a child", is it really okay?

Then, basketball.

The national youth U18 has not won the Asian championship for 4 times.

The last time he won the championship was in 2014, when he beat Iran in the final.

Who are those players? Zhou Qi, Sun Minghui, Zhao Rui, and Zou Yuchen are representatives.

These are all national team players.

Then, the U19 World Cup.

In the 2013 U19 Men's Basketball World Cup, 7th place, is the best record in our history, led by the assistant coach of the Guangdong team, Wang Huaiyu.

That batch of players are, Yuan Shuai, Zhou Qi, Zhao Jiwei, Zhao Rui, Wu Qian, Wu Guanxi...

Zhou Qi's title of Great Demon King, didn't it start at that time?

Although his career is full of controversy, now he is the best active player in the Chinese men's basketball team, which is not controversial, and if you don't approve of it, you can look at this year's CBA Finals.

But don't forget, he was a kid...

Since then, it was 15th in 2015, 2017 and didn't even qualify, in 2019 it was 16th, in 2021 it withdrew due to the epidemic, and in 2023, Yang Hansen, Wang Junjie, and Zhao Weilun won the 10th place in this wave.

One more thing, there is the U19 World Cup this year, and we are currently playing warm-up matches, and let's look at Zhu Zheng, Zhang Boyuan, Xun Sinan, and Yang Yi.

The 1,000 words typed above are all based on opinions and facts.

The core points to be said are:If our players are average when they're 17 or 20 years old, they haven't really won, and you've asked them to take us to the United States, Canada and Mexico when they're 25 or 30 years old, and we're going to the Olympics (men's basketball)?

In this world, there are not so many so-called ones that are born out of nowhere.

Competitive sports are very basic tests, so there are not so many inspirational cool articles.

If a player really has potential, he can probably see it when he is young. Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian, are they really cultivated in the later period? There's a word called talent.

But the realization of talent requires a good process.

In this year's World Cup Asian qualifiers, the team that impressed me the most was not the world-class Japan, but Uzbekistan.

It is not by chance that people stand up.

The achievements of the national youth and the national youth will always be the vane.

2023 U20 Asian Youth Champion, World Youth Championship Top 16; 2024 U23 Asian Cup runners-up (qualifying for the Olympic Games); 2025 U17 Asian Junior Champion.

This is called careful cultivation, flowering and fruiting and a bumper harvest.

Doing it when you are young does not necessarily mean that you will be able to do it when you grow up, and in the process of development, you will encounter various problems, tests, injuries, self-discipline, and so on.

However, your child has never done well in junior high school, and he barely went to high school, and he has pulled his crotch every time he mocks the test, expecting you to wear a cheongsam to send the test at the door, and he will be able to win?

Wake up in broad daylight!

Back to the topic, fans often only pay attention to the results of the senior national team.

butWhether it is Chinese football or men's basketball, in the past 20 years, the youth level has failed.

Asking the reason is inseparable from the policy, after all, our focus isVigorously develop small ball games, dexterous sports, women's sports and projects with a small foreign mass base.

Football and basketball are so desperate to develop, spend so much money, aren't the Olympics also a gold medal...

Diving, 8 gold medals in the Olympics...

Finally, one more heart-wrenching word for basketball fans:There are signs of improvement in the youth training of football.

A few days ago, U16 won 5-2 against Australia, Wan Xiang, Kuang Zhaolei and other players do have characteristics.

However, basketball...