A social media video shot while crying at the site of Japan’s occupation of Germany became a hot topic
Although soccer is popular in China, the influence of Chinese leagues is gradually waning.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chan = A video of a Chinese soccer fan, who is very popular in soccer but only qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, cried out on social media Weibo.
Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on the 25th an article titled “Weibo’s influencer cries and asks ‘why can’t we win'”.
Through this article, this media dealt with a video taken by a netizen with the ID of ‘山羊君Goat’, who has more than 200,000 followers on Weibo, visiting the stadium where the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar.
This influencer visited the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar on the 23rd to watch the match between Japan and Germany, and in this match, Japan defeated Germany 2-1, crying, “Japan is a neighboring country, and their physique is similar to ours. Why? Can we not win (at the World Cup)?” he asked.
While Japan advanced to the World Cup round of 16 three times and Korea twice, China was the only team to qualify for the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, but failed to score a single goal and was eliminated from the group stage with nine runs and three losses.
Chinese netizens expressed their sympathy in the comments, saying, “Perhaps anyone in that stadium would have felt the same way” or “We have no choice but to watch other countries’ games on TV.”
Also, comparing China’s large population, some comments asked, “Is it difficult to pick 14 people out of 1.4 billion people?”
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China did not appear in this tournament, but according to data from Global Data, a data analysis and consulting firm in the UK, Chinese companies are sponsoring a total of 1.395 billion dollars, or 1.8 trillion won in Korean money, for the Qatar World Cup. .
This is more than the $1.1 billion of US companies and ranks first when classified by country.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying recently posted on social media that “China built the Lusail Stadium (where the Qatar World Cup final will be held)” and that “70% of World Cup souvenirs are made in China.”
The South China Morning Post said, “On Weibo, posts with the World Cup hashtag exceeded 600 million on the 24th, and hashtag posts related to the conflict between Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United are uploaded more than 140 million times a day alone.” World Cup popularity.
In 2011, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his wish for the Chinese national team to advance to the World Cup and to host and win the World Cup.
In the 2026 World Cup, the number of participating countries in the finals will increase from 32 in this tournament to 48, so there is a high possibility that China will also have a chance.
However, the South China Morning Post said, “In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, prominent players such as Javier Mascherano (Argentina), John Obi Mikel (Nigeria), and Renato Augusto (Brazil) participated as Chinese clubs.” The number of players in the team also declined significantly,” he said.
A total of 8 players participated in the 2018 World Cup in Russia as a member of a Chinese club, but this was reduced to 2 players.
Son Jun-ho (Shandong Taishan) of our national team and Christian Basogog (Shanghai Shenhua) of Cameroon are members of the Chinese league who participated in the Qatar World Cup.
The media worried regarding the decline in the competitiveness of the Chinese league, saying, “At one time, there were many World Cup winning coaches and famous players in the Chinese Super League, but now it is not.”
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