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Finally acknowledging there are no Chinese players in Sinkie football team

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Singaporean Chinese – Population Majority, Footballing Minority


By Zaixiang | Asia361.com – Thu, Oct 29, 2015 8:03 AM SGT

Singapore has a Chinese population of more than 70% and yet according to figures from the S-League, only a paltry 16 out of 151 registered first-team players are Singaporean Chinese. This is a worrying sign, showing that Singapore is not fully utilising its resources. When a nation of five million people only draws its football talent from one third of its population, there’s only so far a country can go. Singapore, currently ranked 155th in the latest FIFA world rankings, has been struggling to make a significant impact on the Asian stage for years.

The year 2010 has come and gone. Goal 2010 which had the aim of reaching Singapore’s first ever World Cup finals is now nothing more than a mere pipe dream. It’s currently the year 2015 and not only has the Republic not qualified for the World Cup (no surprises there), they also seem to be losing their dominance of the ASEAN region. Being embarrassingly knocked out of two of South-East Asia’s most prestigious tournaments, the AFF Suzuki Cup and the Sea Games, at the group stages as hosts are all that Singapore has got to show for in recent years. Something needs to be done to stop the rot and tackling the problem of a dearth of Chinese talent coming through the ranks has got to be on the priority list.


Lack of Quality

In order to find a notable Singaporean-born Chinese player playing for the national team, one would have to go about 10 years back when Goh Tat Chuan was still plying his trade in the middle of the park as a holding midfielder for Singapore. These days, Chinese footballers in the national team are few and far between, with only LionsXII winger Gabriel Quak being called up for recent national squads. There are still Chinese players in Singapore.

According to the recent report about Chinese footballers in The New Paper, there are just about enough Chinese players in the S-League to form a starting 11 complemented with some substitutes. However, the quality is just not there. Only two of these local born Chinese players have made a senior appearance for the Lions. This is a serious case of a lack of both quantity and quality.


Gabriel Quak (in red) is currently the only Chinese player to get regular call-ups to the senior national team. Photo Credit: Wikipedia

Pragmatism

Pragmatism rules over passion for many Chinese footballers and their families. Playing for leisure is strongly encouraged but when it comes to down to the crunch decision of whether to go pro, the answer is mostly no. A football career in Singapore does not pay financially. Stories of millionaire footballers are unheard of on our shores since Fandi Ahmad. Only Singapore’s finest players can claim to command salaries significantly better than what jobs in other industries provide. Also, footballers have a short career and what will await life after football is a period of uncertainty and instability. As such, conservative and pragmatic Chinese parents are often not willing to give their blessings to their child for a career in football.

Balancing Act

However, all is not lost. The onus to pursue a professional career without jeopardising one’s future will be on the individual and it depends on how much he wants it. It is possible to balance studies and football or even work and football. Goh Tat Chuan holds a degree holder from Nanyang Technological University and had a career as a commercial engineer after his retirement.

Another example is former S-League player Jeremy Chiang who ventured into business. His latest venture is a shop selling Spanish snack churros. He is doing pretty well and has shown that there is indeed life after football for Chinese players as long as a certain level of commitment is shown. S-League clubs can also do their part by showing flexibility and allowing their players to pursue whatever they want in their free time outside of football. With such increased flexibility, players will have more time pursuing their “backup plans” for football and this will give reason for more to join the football bandwagon as a professional.

Chinese players are known for their hard work and grit in football. These are qualities that could serve Singapore very well and it would be a waste if this vast amount of talent is not tapped on. A small talent pool hinders progress. For Singapore, it is not a problem of a lack of talent but rather a lack of the ability to retain talent in the system. Solve that and we could well be on our way to our first World Cup, Goal 2030, anyone?

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i remember Goh Tat Chuan was not from the usual setup. He played club football few years before earning his first cap. His international career very short as his first cap quite late, then was throw out of national team when he around 30yo because of some rules infringement. He played well under Sundram while at Jurong F.C.
 

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The Chinese would perform very well in a public excretion competition.

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barking up the wrong tree-the Chinese are simply not good at football.

When was the last time China beat Korea or Japan in football?
How many ethnic chinese are playing as professional footballers in Europe?
 

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Hate to say it but the Sinkie football team suck.

This month, I went to the national stadium to watch the Sinkie team play for the first time since the early 90s. The Sinkie team was terrible and was very lucky to win Afghanistan 1-0. The amateur Afghanistan team played better football than the "pros" Sinkie team.

The new national stadium was 3/4 empty, not many spectators. In the early 90s, the old national stadium was always full house when the Sinkie team played. Looks like many Sinkies are no longer interested in the Sinkie team anymore.
 

yellowarse

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barking up the wrong tree-the Chinese are simply not good at football.

When was the last time China beat Korea or Japan in football?
How many ethnic chinese are playing as professional footballers in Europe?

That's where you're wrong. At the league level, China has already surpassed Korea and Japan in attendance and standards. The national team has underachieved primarily because of endemic corruption among players and officials.


China gearing up to overtake Japan in battle for Asian football supremacy

John Duerden

Cynicism and disappointment have dampened Chinese hopes for the sport but there are signs that, with the domestic league in rude health, the tide is turning.

In the past, bright new dawns in Chinese football have been as common as clubs suddenly relocating hundreds of miles away and questions as to why a nation of 1.3 billion can’t produce 11 world-class players. Yet, this time, just maybe, things are different.

The national team are improving, the league is booming and, most importantly, the government is investing to ensure that the youth of the world’s most populous country takes up its most popular game in its tens of millions. If this plan comes together, Japan, Asia’s premier power, should watch out.

In terms of league football, the Middle Kingdom is on the march. In 2011 the Chinese Super League overtook the J-league in terms of average attendance. In 2015 in terms of continental club competitions, it is living La Liga loca, while Japan’s clubs are outdoing even their English equivalents in ineptitude. After three games of the 2015 Asian Champions League group stage Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan have more individual points than all four Japanese teams combined. Of the J-League quartet, only Kashiwa Reysol have won a game. Urawa Reds, Gamba Osaka and Kashima Antlers – perhaps the three biggest teams in Japan – have, between them, lost eight and drawn one of their nine.

Foreign players are playing a major part in closing the gap. China is now the go-to Asian market for the best overseas talent thanks to the money invested in a number of clubs, often by flush real estate companies. J-League teams can’t compete. Guangzhou, winner of the past four titles and the 2013 Asian crown, were the first and are the best. A 4-3 win over Kashima last week showed once again the difference that top-class imports can make, with the Brazil international Ricardo Goulart, signed for €15m in the close season, grabbing a hat-trick. Other clubs are spending in an attempt to catch up.

Jang Hyun-soo is a South Korean international who was signed from FC Tokyo by Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2014 at Guangzhou R&F. The Swede left at the end of last season, tempted by the even greater riches at Shanghai SIPG, but Jang remains and has high hopes for the game in China. “The Chinese Super League is improving all the time,” he says. “There are good players and good coaches with lots of clubs investing. In terms of individual talent, there is not much difference between [Chinese players and] Korean and Japanese players, it’s similar. The understanding of tactics is not as good, however, and the same can be said of their reading of in-game situations,” adds Jang, who believes this aspect will improve over time, helped by the influence of foreign coaches and players. “Chinese football has its own style and atmosphere, it’s like Europe. The games never stop. I am much more tired after a game in China than I was in Korea or Japan.”

Japan produce better players but the best tend not to tarry, heading to Europe in increasing numbers whereas Chinese clubs are able to keep hold of their top local talent. This makes the east Asian scene, according to Urawa’s coach, Mihailo Petrovic, more equal. Some Chinese clubs are starting to discuss the possibility of looking at the top end of the J-League as a new market to go with the growing number of Korea internationals active in the CSL. Few players/clubs would be able to resist the salaries/fees.

Tim Cahill is an Asian star inspiring Shanghai Shenhua to unusually good form. The fact that the Australian’s two goals knocked China out of the Asian Cup in January at the quarter-final stage has not dimmed his popularity. The Red Dragons were pleased at the progress made after years of disappointment. In Australian press rooms, the sight of Chinese scribes smiling was, after years of frustration and chain-smoking, as strange and refreshing as the Japanese sports drink Pocari Sweat.
Buying the best foreigners offers rapid improvement but the real path to the top is built upon youth development, an area where Japan are light years ahead. Finally though, there are concrete and coordinated moves to improve the quantity and quality of young players produced in China. The population is there but the players are not. There’s no mystery. Chinese youth just don’t play the game in big numbers.

President Xi Jinping, a football fan, wants to change this. The ministry of education has introduced a compulsory programme that will be in 20,000 schools by 2017. It all means that, soon, approximately eight million kids will be playing regular football and that’s just the start. Last week Chengdu announced it will build 300 football pitches and Shandong’s schools will stop volleyball and basketball to focus on football. Other cities are following suit to create extensive local leagues.

Public cynicism about Chinese football, formed by years of disappointment, incompetence and scandals, may hardly be easier to break down than an Italian defence marshalled by the new Guangzhou Evergrande coach, Fabio Cannavaro, but it is starting to erode. Having the World Cup would help – last week the Chinese government announced plans to bid and Fifa is unlikely to refuse. The tournament should happen some time in the 2030s.

Two decades or so from now, a new generation of players should be ready. The 2002 World Cup was a major milestone in the development of Japanese football. By the 2030s China’s league should be established as one of the world’s best, with the national team an Asian power. Hosting the event could take everything to the next level.

There is no debate that one day China’s economy will become the biggest in the world. The only question is when. In football, there is no such sense of inevitably but for the first time perhaps, China is starting to look like it can not only overtake Japan to become Asia’s best but can join the ranks of the football superpowers.





 

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Its the only thing left for Malays to progress. By playing football.other places? No chance due to discrimination. Thanks to global warming, local Chinese will suffer heat stroke if they play the game.
 

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Mr yahoo55, while football standard was terrible, the main issue of low attendance is the cost. $38 plus time wasted just to support the Lions? I won't go lor. At $38, even the hardcore Malays fans also won't go.

The current kraut coach had privately said the Lions is the most lousy team he even coached. Bloody FTrash bite the hands that feed him. I won't attend any matches till fas appoint Richard Bok as head coach.
 

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Its the only thing left for Malays to progress. By playing football.other places? No chance due to discrimination. Thanks to global warming, local Chinese will suffer heat stroke if they play the game.

i agree sinkie chinese should cultivate themselves in sports that suit their stature and temperament and their natural environment and their skill level,like bowling,fencing or disco skating.
 

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barking up the wrong tree-the Chinese are simply not good at football.

When was the last time China beat Korea or Japan in football?
How many ethnic chinese are playing as professional footballers in Europe?

So chinese being lousy in football is due to genetics? Aren't koreans and japanese chinese in so many ways too? Your comparison doesn't make sense.

That's where you're wrong. At the league level, China has already surpassed Korea and Japan in attendance and standards. The national team has underachieved primarily because of endemic corruption among players and officials.








It is this BS that pisses me off whereby people don't judge it based on their actions or skill level but rather who they are. Suffice to say all because they come from china they are supposed to be inferior compared to say japan and what is even worse it translates to sinkie chinese being lousy football players all because they are chinese which is untrue it is because FAS is a racist m&d organization whereby they discriminate chinese just for being chinese nothing to do with skill.


Its the only thing left for Malays to progress. By playing football.other places? No chance due to discrimination. Thanks to global warming, local Chinese will suffer heat stroke if they play the game.

WTF are you ranting on nigger? m&ds cannot make it in other places due to their own incompetence. m&d cannot go uni cos he is m&d or cos of poor results? So m&ds won't suffer heat stroke if they play football?
 

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Japanese and Koreans discarded Chinese culture so obviously, they will be successful.

what does that have to do with playing football and you sure they discarded chinese culture when koreans celebrate chinese new year and japs write chinese characters. You moron.
 

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Japanese and Koreans discarded Chinese culture so obviously, they will be successful.

Wrong again. Everything in Korean and Japanese culture came from China, be it writing, food, dress, customs, religion. Naturally after many centuries there were modifications.

To this day, the Japs still look down on people who can't write kanji (Chinese characters). And they still revere scholars who are well versed in the Chinese classics. Okinawa still celebrates Chinese New Year, while the rest of Japan switched to the Gregorian calendar during the Meiji restoration. The cherry blossom festivals started as plum blossom festivals, a practice over from China by court officials paying obeisance to the Tang emperor and discovering the pleasures of appreciating beautiful flowers. Ditto for the tea ceremony.

As for Koreans, up till the 16th century Korea was still using hanja. Today, despite having their own alphabet, all Korean babies are still named in Chinese characters, and all Korean students have to acquire a minimum number of Chinese characters in grade school. Chinese medicine is practised all over the country and is actually more popular than Western clinics. Zen Buddhism started in China, went to Korea, and hence to Japan. Both Koreas still observe the Chinese lunar calendar and celebrate Chinese New Year.

If Korean culture is so unique and original, why do you have so many Korean scholars today making ridiculous claims that Confucius was Korean, that the Chinese language was invented in Korea, that Chinese medicine was invented in Korea, that Sun Yat-Sen was part Korean, blah blah? If that's not a sign of racial inferiority complex, what is?
 
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