Anger, scorn from Chinese football fans after Japan thrashes China 7-0 in record World Cup qualifier loss - CNA
Anger, scorn from Chinese football fans after Japan thrashes China 7-0 in record World Cup qualifier loss - CNA
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git gud
a humiliating 7-0 loss to World Cup rivals Japan
Uuuh. Maybe China considers Japan a rival, but Japan wouldn’t consider China at all. If an actual world-class team like Japan has a rival, it would be Korea. Both teams obviously well above China in rankings.
Japan are not world-class. They’re a solid team, but despite being ranked in the top 20 they’re probably still considered weaker than many of the teams below them.
With that said, I always have a soft spot for countries that push players that play domestic football outside of Europe and in their own country. I’ve been on a Japan kick since Yu Hirakawa joined Bristol City on loan.
Since the 1900 dictatorship governments have invested and relied on sports to distract their oppressed citizens that they are cows eating cowshit for living and have no human rights. You see these governments even pay out of their pockets and glorify national unity and pride in these sports and leagues.
Dear Chinese cows citizens, no one gives a fuck you lost 7-0 in soccer. You live in an oppressive dictatorship which oppresses, jails, organ harvests, enslaves, and commit genocide agaisnt its own people and strip them from all their rights and freedoms. They also unstabilize the reigon with aggressive coorporation with the worst of the worst and most corrupt dictatorship governments in every contenent around the world.
No, but governments with authoritarian tendencies, especially those with a nationalist streak, put a hard focus on international sports competitions as a matter of national pride. Starting with the Nazi German Olympics being the first televised event in human history, look at the Russian doping scandals, or how the Hungarian prime minister has a gigantic stadium in his tiny home village.
Competing in sports is okay. So is being an obsessed fan. When the government becomes an obsessed fan, that’s when the weirdness starts.
President Xi Jinping, reportedly a big football fan, once expressed his hopes to turn China into a “global football superpower”.
It is not okay to say this in an official capacity.
No I didn’t imply neither of those. Please read these articles because its a global phenomena and have been going forever:
news.ku.dk/…/dictatorships-use-sporting-events-as…
hrf.org/a-history-of-sports-dictators-part-3-post…
Russia, North Korea, Eygpt, Saudi Arabia, China, and many more to name but a few. These democratically-elected human-right-loving governments heavily invest and spend out of their own pockets into national sports for two reasons: 1- Force ALL their athletes to spread national propagonda and pride of how amazing their country is. 2- Distract the oppressed confused angry youth to watch and criticize sports and athletes to distract them from the country’s corruption and human right records.
Russia waged several wars and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Dagestani people, and controlled Chechniya and all it governments, yet we see Khabib and other Dagestani UFC fighters cuddle up to Putin and Ramazan Kadyrov, when they know inside how much harm they did to their own people, but they were bought with millions of dollars. I can provide several examples showing the same exact thing with every country I mentioned. These governments intentional involvments in sporting leages have been documemted and have been happening since ever.