When you want to cry, do not cry. What does it mean to play football in Chinese

In China, as elsewhere, football is the most popular sport. Over the past ten years, over 70 thousand (!) Football fields and 24 thousand football schools have been created in the country, only more than 200 million people registered in fan clubs of football fans, Madrid Real Madrid 127 million. But! The country failed to approach the world football level. We will figure out why - in the first of the articles planned in our journal about Chinese football and sports life in general.

Alan is a Brazilian and Chinese footballer, striker of the Guangzhou Evergrand club. Photo: Liu Dawei / Xinhua / Zuma / Global Look Press

Tonight, September 7, in Doha (Qatar), the capital of the upcoming mundial, the “Death Match” will be held: in the third round of the qualifying tournament of the Asian zone in group B, football teams of China and Japan will play. No, this is not a decisive match: in the group (there are only six teams and ahead of today's fight, each team will have 8 more games. And nevertheless, to lose the Japanese on the eve of the 76th anniversary of China’s victory in the war with Japan (celebrated on September 9-on this day in 1945, the commander of the Japanese expeditionary army in China, Okamur, signed the act of Okamur about the act of Okamur. surrender)-in the opinion of the Chinese near-football “wolf warriors”, equivalent to an absolute “loss of face”.

However, the Japanese have nowhere to retreat: the team of the rising sun in the FIFA ranking in the FIFA ranking in his first match on September 2 in Tokyo “shocking”, according to the definition of the Japanese media, lost the national team of Oman 0: 1 (79th place in the same rating).

Subscribe to read the whole

Make a subscription Redefine.media to read Republic

Subscribe [you can pay for a Russian or foreign card. The subscription is extended automatically. You can unsubscribe at any time.]

Where are the money subscribers going

Most Republic materials are available by paid subscription. We believe that this is a good way to finance media. After all, as you know, if you have not paid for reading it, then someone else paid for you to read it. In our case, everything is honest: from your money, salaries and fees are paid to journalists, and they write about important and interesting topics for you.

The key feature of our subscription: your money is distributed between Republic magazines depending on how you read it. If you read the materials of one magazine, then your money will go only to him, while others will not go. That is, you finance only what you are interested in.

Republic uses the Redefine.media subscription. For design, we will redirect you to the Redefine.media website, where you will need to register and pay for the subscription. Authorization on the Redefine.Media website will allow you to read Republic materials from the same device.

A year subscription is more profitable than a month. And if you want to unsubscribe, this can always be done in your personal account.