08 Analysis of the national youth controversy: the exemplary significance of "Kenichi Uemura".

Text/Commentator Liu Xiaoxin The exposure of Kenichi Uemura's contradiction with the Chinese side of the national youth is very consistent with his characteristics of turning around quickly when he was a player. From the accusation, to the refuting of the rumors of gambling and vows, to the echo of familiar foreign media, to the withdrawal of apologies, and finally to the rapid appointment in China, the amazing turn again and again is completely a super blockbuster that is constantly reversed, or a big melon with rich slots and full of imagination in Chinese football, which has lacked talk for a long time.

However, we are not the melon-eating masses. We just hope that more people will understand that for Chinese football, which is re-embarking on the road, rebuilding a new national system, and is fully opening up and trying to return to the international cycle, Kenichi Uemura may have done a good thing, putting some unconscious things and some phenomena of new wine in old bottles to a level that needs to be seriously re-explored. In Feng Xiaogang's "A Sigh" back then, Liang Yaya's embarrassed situation, how many men in the world didn't meet, or almost ran into it? Therefore, Uemura's sigh is just a common thing for parents to touch the edge of the pot, but if you think about it, it may have long-term exemplary significance.

First of all, what happened to the national youth team was not an accident. Kenichi Uemura confided in many versions, and the subtext was nothing more than to prove that the team's failure to qualify from the group was not due to a problem with his coaching ability, but because of a lot of interference from the Chinese side, which made him actually lose his command. Such a plot satisfies the conditions for most of the events that can continue to ferment in the public eye and rush to the hot search, but what is really worth thinking about is Uemura's motivation for expressing this. When a person goes around explaining "it's not my fault", he must think that he has caused trouble, but what kind of trouble did Kenichi Uemura do? How much trouble did this team suffer from losing to Uzi and Saudi Arabia and not qualifying from the group?

I'm afraid not too many people have thought about such a question. On the one hand, whether it was the super platinum generation or the Dongfanghong generation, Chinese football has never lacked the ability to create amazing performances during the youth team period, but it has reverted to mediocrity in the process of rising; On the other hand, the team, which is basically a makeshift patchwork of two football schools, had already whetted everyone's appetite with their magical performance in the East Asian Cup, and it turned out that even Uemura and his coaching staff had overestimated the true ability of this team.

On the other hand, if the teams of the two football schools are already able to get ahead in Asia, wouldn't our professional league be very successful? Isn't our youth football system perfect? If you don't understand these problems, no amount of policy support is just a piece of paper, while shouting to start from scratch to pay attention to youth football, while staring at the iconic achievements of some teams, isn't this the same old thing in Chinese football? Kenichi Uemura has become another sister-in-law of Xianglin who has repeatedly complained in the face of failure in Chinese football, which is really a very boring result.

Secondly, the Kamimura incident is not an inside story, let alone a shady scene, objectively speaking, this is a common phenomenon of sports internationalization. When it comes to football, countries like England, Germany and Brazil, which are advanced countries in world football, have always been an unavoidable and important issue for their own management and foreign coaches. Yang Shuai, as simple as a general manager hired by an enterprise, has never been absolutely decentralized, and the combination of advanced concepts and the actual situation of the enterprise is the real purpose of opening up and introduction.

In this regard, Chinese sports have rich experience and a large number of mature cases. South Korean short track speed skating coach Kim Sun-dae, American coach Randy Henditon who helped Su Shen run a time of 9.83 seconds, and Russian and Spanish coaches who helped China achieve a historic breakthrough in rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming, the list goes on. The mastery of Yi is probably a very successful experience in Chinese sports. Under the rule of the General Administration of Sports, even if Chinese football is no longer competitive, a large number of successful experiences and rules of the General Administration, and even a large number of normative documents that have formed a system, I am afraid that the Chinese Football Association will not be allowed to do too outrageous things at will. Therefore, it is very important to look at the Uemura incident objectively and calmly, whether Uemura Kenichi is arrogant, whether his remarks are professional, and whether he violated the contract are not the root of the problem now.

The key is that the metaphysical blindly attribution of it to Chinese characteristics, and the mediocrity and ignorance of blindly putting it on the platform as a manager, are indeed happy on the lips, but for the later executors, it must be a pit of the rat trap. Compared with other Olympic sports, the opening up and introduction of Chinese football is undoubtedly a more difficult process, because unsatisfactory results are often easier for us to lose the objective evaluation dimension and summary standards.

Finally, in Uemura's expression, we see a different position, not absolute right and wrong. After the 2001 Top 10 matches, the author wrote an article entitled "The Mysterious 19 Days" in the newspaper "Football", which should be the most concentrated attention to this kind of problem.

If there is any successful experience left by the top 10 matches in Chinese football, the cooperation between Milu and the Chinese management team must be the most important part. Regarding the use of Qi Hong, Yu Genwei, Li Xiaopeng, Jiang Jin and a series of positions of personnel, it has become a focus between Mi Lu and the Chinese management team headed by Nan Yong, constantly disagreeing, constantly insisting on their own opinions and constantly seeking common ground while reserving differences, the collision and integration of personality and commonality, the coordination and run-in of professionalism and management, the tug of war and emotional intelligence, a multi-act drama 25 years ago, if there was no qualifying that year, what would we be left with?

Therefore, this is the exemplary significance brought by Kenichi Uemura, if the vast majority of people have been paying attention to the bloody plots and the so-called right and wrong, then by the side of Kenichi Uemura, there are Djurdjevic, Ukishima Toshi, or a large number of youth training directors from various countries in key football development cities, how will they continue to write their own stories?

Even if it is the story of a part-time worker emperor and his boss, it should bring real experience and reflection to the self-help of the enterprise. Opening up and introducing is the only choice for Chinese football at this stage, and this is a problem that Kenichi Uemura, every coach, and every leader must face.