Unpopular opinion, but if the Chinese start taking football seriously, they have a decent chance at winning the competition. They have incredible world class athletes on pretty much every other sport, they collected 89 medals in the recent Olympics. Same goes for Americans, although I don’t think they care as much about “soccer”.
Realistically speaking, Japan or Morocco seem like the better teams outside of Europe and South America right now.
What makes you think China isn’t taking football seriously? They had a very serious plan, invested billions in training facilities, their league that bought players from abroad on inflated wages, and Chinese businesses invested heavily both locally and abroad. It’s just been a dismal failure, but not because they didn’t try or aren’t taking it seriously.
Unpopular opinion, but if the Chinese start taking football seriously, they have a decent chance at winning the competition. They have incredible world class athletes on pretty much every other sport, they collected 89 medals in the recent Olympics. Same goes for Americans, although I don’t think they care as much about “soccer”.
Realistically speaking, Japan or Morocco seem like the better teams outside of Europe and South America right now.
What makes you think China isn’t taking football seriously? They had a very serious plan, invested billions in training facilities, their league that bought players from abroad on inflated wages, and Chinese businesses invested heavily both locally and abroad. It’s just been a dismal failure, but not because they didn’t try or aren’t taking it seriously.
None of that matters if they don’t take it seriously for grassroots levels but I have no idea what they did with that
And now they have to clean up the debris.
Even if football was the number one sport in China they still wouln’t get even close to win the world cup