How China Will Win the World Cup in 2050 

Hi lads, Chinese here. It won't happen. The plan sounds great, and China is known to be successful in major projects. But this particular project is different from building the longest bridge or the largest crane. Football training takes talent, consistentcy, and mentality. The plans to build a building doesn’t involve the building's consent, but training footballers has so many other factors you need to consider. In China, people see education as the best way to prosperity. We don't have a social safety net like Western Europe where failed players can take blue collar jobs and still live a good life. Blue collar jobs in China sucks, period. Football training takes time, time that parents would usually expect their kid to spend on schoolwork or reading. There are tens of millions of white collar or skilled labor jobs in China, but only 23 can be on the National Team's roaster, only ~500 in the top league, and only thousands in all levels of professional leagues. Consider the opportunity cost, of course the parents would want their kids to study harder than to train harder. Another point that I want to mention is that the local officials may not entirely follow Xi's grand plan. Before 2021, we have already seen some versions of "playing football" without playing football. There was a picture of pupils doing exercises with footballs-- holding the ball with their hands. This is by all means a "football-related exercise", however, how can this contribute to their football skills? I wish my national team to be successful. But ultimately, we need a system that can guarantee a child’s prosperity even if they fail to become a professional footballer. And the key to that is more economic development and a stronger social safety net-- NOT a top-down grand plan that exclusively focuses on football.

When I was at university in England we had Chinese football coaches come over and learn how to best coach football both on field and in strength and conditioning and numerous other things. then we sent our lecturers over there this was in 2017

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As a Chinese, I think it would be super hard. Maybe harder than landing mars for us.

"China will conquer football" Meanwhile me doesn't even know if we would ever play World Cup 😂 Edit:- we just drawn with 205th ranked Sri Lanka.

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Its so unbelievable to say this right now when Chinese clubs are disappearing in the blink of an eye and the National team can't win even if their lives depended on it.

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I just love how the whole editing fits the topic of the video. On a recent video of Bayern's YT channel you can see their academy in China, it's insane how present these clubs are there.

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Amazing and inspiring channel. Nevertheless, as someone who lived in China for many years as a sport manager, tennis coach and football lover, I can say that the market in China is totally different as people believe it is in the western world. Chinese children are actually getting less and less physically talent each year since playing sports or doing any extra curricular activity in this country means a lot of cost to cover from the family, also because the Chinese school demand a lot from the students, and the kids spend so much time everyday in electronic devices. I don't intent to judge the great job done by Athletic interest, but actually this video refers more about the business opportunities that football entrepreneurs, football federations and football clubs have now in the Asian market. The same is happening to others sports in China, but a smaller scale of course. I don't see how is that actually is going to make China win a World Cup, maybe it's a similar case to Emirat Arab United.

Great video as always! Excited to see what kind of subjects this new series will cover in the future!

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Love how most of the comments are compliments about the video editing / graphics / and animation as apposed to the topic - your videos are THAT good!

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That Avatar Last Airbending style of presenting the chapters is so good, excelent video, keep the good work

Love the channel and love this series. Looking forward to the next in line. Maybe one about UCI making moves into gravel cycling would be a valid case study.

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absolutely love your videos. Being a sports management student it really helps to see the inside of sports. I would love to see a case study on Formula 1 (Sponsorship).

Next.. how India will conquer World football in 3010 😪

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The problem with Chinese football today is the lack of a good youth training program in the early 2000s, so the bad result in 2021 is a consequence of it. The only trusted way to become better at football is to get more people play, and have a well funded youth football program that can cultivate the talents. So the effort China does today, won't have much of an effect until 2030s or 40s.

Those videos are truly world-class! Someone knows by any chance on which program you can edit like this? Would love to work myself into it 🤗

9:50 the German flag shown here, is actually the 'Bundesdienstflagge' only used by administration/ authorities and is not supposed to be used by non-governmental organizations. The simple black, red and gold would be the correct flag to represent the German people and the football club. Thank you for your time :)

You know China influence is inevitable when he said "Douyin" instead of "TikTok".

I think the trend for fans following players instead of clubs with continue to increase, not just in China, but globally (including within the UK).

Love the academic partnership. I'm trying to do the same but I'm definitely not at the same level in terms of graphics

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India uses a similar top down approach. They had stars like Diego Forlan and all when the ISL was inaugurated, youth structure and league was ignored. Infrastructure wise China is way ahead and plans to build more while there are not many plans other than building cricket stadiums here in India (we already have like 50 of those with international standards)

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LOL, I like that Winnih the pooh showing in the background when Xi Jinping is said at 0:11

Sadly, India will never take such strict measures for developing football. Politicians busy with corruption and riots. I think of legends like Chuni Goswami, Gostopaal, Bhaichung Bhutia, etc. will feel extremely bad for such neglect to this beautiful game. We Indians really love playing football and play it with passion, but won't make it much further in World stage with the current programmes and infrastructures. Barely any parent will want their kid to play football as it has so low income and high risk or injuries.

That song at the end is 👏 great content as always

3:00 that was an Avatar (Last Airbender) reference. Well played. Also nice case study. looking forward to a time where another continent wins the world cup, not just Europe or South America.

Please do a video on the impact of Newcastle fc take over. I heard they are about to have the richest owners in football.

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Great video, was intriguing.

Thanks for this great content!

To be honest i don’t see them conquering football as they do not have a deep culture and love of football unlike the Brazilians and English

football isn't like table tenis, that's what winnie the pooh over there haven't realise yet.

As always you did a great job! #China is a huge market and you made it clear to all the viewers! Super Thumbs up for #Athletic Interest!

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China can't even qualify WC from asia lol

In Chinese community, a lot of people more care about getting high salary jobs like lawyer,doctor and among others.Instead u having passion and become professional athletes on sports like football, parents weren't that optimistic, they care more about their kids has/must to be excelled at education,make their family proud and showing off to others families how good their kids even though themselves doesn't like study after all. And talk about sport they don't care that much about process,development and other things to improve anything,result talk first which is the most saddest part. As a Chinese myself, If I have option and money,I rather spend more money to go another country like US or Europe top football/basketball leagues than staying and watching own league cause the sport atmosphere differences are too much

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As a Chinese, I have to say Chinese football team is hopeless. Everyone knows it in China. Xi jingping is an avid football fan. He can deal with corruption by arresting more than 1M corrupted officers, but he is also powerless with football. Here is a real joke. There is a jail named "Yanjiao Prison" locked many corrupted Chinese Football Association officer. Sometimes It opens tour for educational purposes A football fan lucky participated it, He asked the prisoner: Can you watch the football game on TV? The prisoner said: Yes, I especially like watching the national football game. They always loses. Their failures are not related with corruption at all.

Even though they will (probably) have the best players from other countries to join them... the most important thing is TEAMWORK! Even Messi and Ronaldo cannot win the world cup even though they are one of the all time GREATS! That is why I love football, because of the concept of teamwork!

Very interesting, the opening bgm was good by the way

These videos are just… amazing

the transition at 7:45 blew my mind. I have been saying this for years: you guys are seriously one the best in this business. about the video: as much as developing good players are important, China needs good coaches too. I believe the latter could be as important, if not more important. maybe the next Jose Mourinho or Pep Guardiola is from China

1:44 China's economy ($14.72bn) is actually still massively smaller than the USA's economy ($20.94bn)

Very educative! Thank you. It will be really nice to see China in the world cup

Very nice video!

So Winnie the Pooh is interested in football now.

This plan reeks of arrogance. The Japanese were humble enough to recognize that they needed a 100-year plan (from the inception of the J league) to maybe win a world cup. The reason why the Japanese were so successful was because they did not neglect youth development and grassroots football (among other things). In addition to working hard, they plan long term and know that there is no short cut to success. Contrast this with the Chinese "short cut" approach of just throwing money around and hoping to win the world cup within a span of less than 50 years. The contrast between the Japanese and Chinese mindset is indeed worlds apart.

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The sad fact that China is using Brazilian players who plays in their league as their national team players, so their own players don't get many chances.

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Very insightful content.

China invented football, so this could happen

Chinese rise to super power status is not unprecedented. Historically they’ve always been at about 20-30% of world output followed by India. The last 4-500 years were an anomaly which is now being corrected. Other than that, good video 👍🏽

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This video should have been released in 2019 tbh. Things have changed in the last 18 months. You'll notice that more and more countries are becoming suspicious of the way that China does business. If China decided overnight to cancel football in its borders (as it has done with Private tutoring and Online gaming to name two recent examples) football in China would cease to exist.

Can this really be possible🙊.

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England has the best league in the world, the best managers work there. Football has been the most popular sport there for over 100 years. Nevertheless, the English do not manage to win the WC again. It's been 56 years and frankly, I don't see England winning the next WC either. Unlike all the other technical sports where China is the world's best, you can't plan to win a football WC. Even though South America is a football-mad continent, they've been waiting 20 years to win another Cup. It's all about Europe, that's where the heart of football is and it's going to be incredibly difficult for other countries outside Europe to win the WC. In the past 4 WC there were 7 European teams and only one team from South America in the final, 3 of the 4 finals were all-European, 13 of the 16 semi-finalists as well. In the history of the WC, only 1 country outside the football superpowers has made it to a semi-final. China is only third class and the construction of a hundred centres will not change that much. These already exist in Europe and development will not stop there either.

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I can see something like this working. Japan in Rugby was really bad 20 to 30 years ago. In the last Rugby World Cup they made the Quarter Finals. The way they improved was by getting players from outside of the country to join the team. Maybe something similar might happen. haha

Excellent video. Thank you.