Grandpa Mo blew the foam in the beer like drinking tea, and drank half of the glass with his mouth. The mustache on his upper lip was covered with white foam.
"Do you think the development of football will be challenged by the times?" Zhuo Yang asked him.
Grandpa did not wipe off his white beard and said like a Santa Claus: "In fact, football has always been challenged by the times, from its birth to this day."
Zhuo Yang shook his head: "But football is still the first sport."
Grandpa: "It's not in the United States."
Zhuo Yang curled his lips: "Americans do not talk about martial ethics."
Grandpa: "It's not in India, either."
Zhuo Yang curled his lips again: "Sooner or later, it will be."
Grandpa: "From a woman's perspective, football is not the first sport."
"No, right? There have never been few female fans in the stands."
"If you go to the university campus, you will find that girls prefer to cheer for boys around the basketball court. There are really fewer girls on the football court, and there are fewer and fewer girls."
"I don't go to the college basketball court, I don't know... I don't go to the college football court."
"Zhuo Yang, football needs change and needs to adapt to the times again."
"How to change?"
"I don't know, I need to explore a little bit."
Grandpa Mo took a few more sips of beer and white foam was hung on his lips again.
Zhuo Yang looked at his mouth. "The tree-lined path you yearn for is actually covered with white frost every morning and night."
Grandpa wiped off the mozi in one hand. "Get out!"
"Brother, the Internet is a good thing, but the Internet era has had too much impact on traditional society, so football is inevitable." Grandpa said: "A variety of entertainment and entertainment in the Internet era have been overwhelming, which has changed people's lifestyles and entertainment methods."
"Finally, football is just a kind of sports entertainment. The so-called beliefs and feelings are nothing more than meanings that have been artificially given over time."
"Time can build faith and destroy faith. The relevant institutions have done statistics - I also participated. In the live stands of the five major leagues, the average age of the audience is 4.7 years older than ten years ago. This is the power of time."
Zhuo Yang asked: "What does this mean?"
"Showing that a new generation of young people are moving away from the football stands."
Grandpa Mo used wine instead of tea, but this time he forgot to wipe off the white frost on his mouth.
"Young people prefer short, flat and fast stimulating methods, such as various jokes and short videos, and like fast-paced entertainment. Compared to these, the pace of football is too slow."
"At least the pace of the Premier League is very fast... the Bundesliga is also very fast now," said Zhuo Yang.
"It's not the same thing." Grandpa said: "You are talking about the rhythm of the game, and I am referring to the excitement."
"Ask a thousand words and ten thousand, the excitement of football is ultimately about scoring goals, and there are too few goals in football. To score three in ninety minutes, it is already a big score."
"So the number of young people who come to watch the game on site is gradually decreasing, and to be honest, the number of people who can watch live TV and watch full games is also decreasing. This has also been counted."
"Spectators and fans need to score the same goal highlights so that they can meet their increasing excitement threshold."
"Like basketball?"
"Yes, like basketball."
“This is impossible.”
"That's why change is needed. Zhuo Yang, you Chinese people say that people without long-term plans will have immediate worries..."
"We Chinese still say we are worried about nothing."
"You Chinese also say that you should prevent problems before they happen."
"We Chinese also say the ball is up."
"You Chinese also said that you had a big scar on your head."
"Grandpa, I have to say that you are more like a Chinese than Song Xiaobao."
"Who is Song Xiaobao?"
“It doesn’t matter.”
"...Okay. Then the topic just now. Zhuo Yang, your recent game has created a global ratings record, and you should know why."
"Because I'm handsome."
"More handsome than Song Xiaobao?"
Zhuo Yang: “…”
"Because you scored more goals in the game, because you had a hat trick." Grandpa said: "There are more goals and gimmicks. These are two very important points, for the future of football."
"But people's energy is limited. Your recent popularity has once again raised the appreciation threshold of the football population. As a result, your game's ratings are rising steadily, while other games are quietly declining."
"Blame me?"
"Of course not, football should be thanked. But you can't live forever, and you can't keep playing football so popular all the time."
"Zhuo Yang, FIFA and UEFA have been trying to impact the North American sports market for so many years. Although it is effective, it is not ideal. It has always been the world of the four major leagues, and football ranks less than fifth."
"Americans have become accustomed to the stimulation of fast-paced games, used to uninterrupted scoring and uninterrupted physical confrontation. This is probably the future of football audiences all over the world."
"What should I do?"
"Capital is profit-seeking. The reason why the four major American leagues and the five major European leagues are sought after by capital is because they can make money, and the fundamental reason why they can make money is because the audience likes it."
“Can guide and cultivate the audience.”
"That must also be based on profitability. Nowadays, many small teams have a very difficult survival and cannot withstand any trouble. This is actually a wake-up call."
"The Premier League has done a good job. The giants and big balls will give subsidies to small teams under the framework, but they are only limited to the Premier League and the Championship, so you can't take care of it any further."
"The cake must continue to grow bigger and compete with the Internet for audiences. The opponents of football are short videos, cool articles, and e-sports. In fact, if e-sports is considered sport, football is no longer the best in the world."
"Wipe your mouth again, I look lewd."
"Football should not refuse change. Compared to when it was founded, it has actually become unrecognizable. Football a hundred years ago is completely different from now."
Zhuo Yang remembered the legendary Tang Dynasty Chang'an League, and often fought and even fought. It was normal to die two people every day and was very lively.
"I'm still doing statistics and research, trying to find a new direction for football." Grandpa said: "But there are two clear points. One is that we must improve the excitement output rhythm of football, and the other is to use new ideas to improve football packaging and constantly launch new gimmicks, such as you."
"Zhuo Yang, what do you think of dividing the football game into four quarters?"
"casual."
"What about an elite league? It's more elite than the current Champions League, all competitions participated by giant superstars."
"Continue as you please."
"As the number one star in football history, don't you care about the future of football?"
"Grandpa, the Mongols care about the former Mongol Empire, the British care about the empire that never sets in the past, the Italians and the Greeks were competing for the orthodox of ancient Rome, and the Koreans said that they invented the kimchi."
"Is it useful? Is it useful to care about these things? Grandpa, you are still young and have experienced too little things. If you live long enough, you will understand that everything is the choice of the times."
"Ancient Egypt disappeared, and our glorious Tang Dynasty in China only exists in historical books. Mayan civilization and dinosaurs, aren't these more regrettable than football?"
"So, football is like everything, just like a river, which will wind along the terrain of the times. If the resistance cannot be broken, it will inevitably dry up or even disappear. If it can break out of the shackles of the times, it will gather into a surging river."
"Don't worry about the future of football. In the future, you will become the president of UEFA and find ways to keep football up with the times. If you can't do it, it means that the times have abandoned football. You can become the president of the European E-sports League."
Grandpa: "..."
"In the face of the torrent of the times, everyone and everything are small, don't force it."
"Living in the present moment, I don't want to be that far. If football doesn't become popular in the future, then it won't become popular. If the piano becomes degenerate in the future, then let it degenerate."
"I just want to beat Tottenham tomorrow. Grandpa, you should also think about how to defeat Manchester City tomorrow and why don't I score three goals."
Chapter completed!