Respect for the game way to save Chinese soccer

In a surprising turn of events on Nov 17, Jingchuan Wenhui FC, a soccer team founded last year in Jingchuan county of China's northwestern Gansu province, knocked out Chinese Super League Beijing Guoan FC in the Chinese Football Association Cup, raising questions about Chinese professional soccer teams' capabilities, including the age-old question of how Chinese soccer teams can bring themselves together and present Chinese people with a decent game.

According to a popular saying among Chinese soccer practitioners there are two kinds of soccer in the world: soccer and Chinese professional soccer. Evidently, professional soccer in China has deviated from development norms and the sport's original track.

From the management down to those training the youth, measures taken in many cases run against the laws of soccer development.