Few play. People only watch. As #1 sports in the world, the successful experience on other sports for China hardly apply to football .

What ever excuses fans like to point out, corruption, ethics, education obsession, coaching, one can easily find counter arguments from nations much worse in those.

However, China football does play a crucial role: maintenance of stability, ccp top goal. It is one of the rare issues for every Chinese to say the most negative stuff without worrying about consequences, instead got applauses and attentions. And good for econ0my too.

Let it be, kind of safety vents. So Chinese, keep mocking football without actual participations, someday enough people are really into it and start devoting to it, that,s the time we are going to see real progress.

Once again, deng was right, need to start with kids, except he didn’t,t know without parents cooperations, it,s just a nonstarter