Chinese netizens shout “Why can’t Chinese football win?”

▲ Goat, a Weibo influencer, laments the reality of Chinese football at the scene of Japan’s victory

A social media Weibo video in which a Chinese football fan visited the site of the World Cup in Qatar and shouted: “Why can’t Chinese football win?” it is attracting attention.

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post published an article entitled “Weibo influencer cries and asks ‘why can’t we win'” on the 25th.

According to the article, an influencer with the ID of ‘山羊君Goat’, who has more than 200,000 followers on Weibo, watched the 2022 Qatar World Cup match between Japan and Germany and posted a related video on Weibo.

After Japan defeated Germany 2-1 in the match, the influencer cried and asked, ‘Japan is a neighboring country and has a similar physique to our (Chinese) so why can’t we win (at the World Cup) ?”

China fortunately only made it to the final once during the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, as Korea and Japan progressed to the finals as hosts, but failed to score a single goal and were knocked out of the finals. groups with 9 runs and 3 defeats.

Chinese netizens expressed 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’ matches on TV.”

Also, there was a comment that said, “Is it hard to pick 14 people out of 1.4 billion people?”

Although China did not appear in this tournament, Chinese companies are spending a total of 1.4 billion dollars, or more than 1.8 trillion won in Korean money, on advertising costs for this World Cup in Qatar.

The South China Morning Post said, “On Weibo, the number of hashtag posts from the World Cup exceeded 600 million on the 24th, and more than 140 million hashtag posts related to the conflict between Ronaldo and Ronaldo are uploaded every day.” Manchester United”. spread my popularity at the World Cup.

In 2011, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his wish for the Chinese national team to advance to the World Cup and be able to host and win the World Cup.

In the 2026 World Cup, the number of countries participating in the final tournament will increase from 32 to 48 in this tournament, so there is a chance that China will also have a chance.

(Photo = Weibo video screen capture, social media spokesperson Hua Chunying, Yonhap news)