The second thing: form a community with blocks or primary and secondary schools as the core and settle down. Because both the campus football league in Japan and the low-level leagues in Europe and Latin America are based on "I have been from this village, this town or this street for generations".
The third thing: entrance examination is no longer considered as a way to realize class mobility. Either let most people think that they should play football instead of doing problems in order to get out of the mountains, or let most people not go to college, and their lives will not be much worse than those of the last university.
Football can become the first sport in the world because of the essence of football community culture. Workers play football together after work, and students play football together after school. The projection of communities to different regions has different meanings. It is a community in Europe, a slum in South America, and a campus in Japan and South Korea. There used to be such a community in China, but now there is no such community. When I was in China, I lived in the teacher's family building, and many teachers' children played together and played football together. This is one of the few community cultures in China, and there are fewer and fewer such cultures. The national football in the 1980s and 1990s was not bad, because there was a strong community culture at that time, and it was fun to play football together in the yard. Now the community culture in China has almost disappeared, which is an irreversible influence.
To sum up, China football has no hope of rising. Regardless of continuing naturalization, you can surpass Southeast Asia and enter the World Cup with eight places. This is the ceiling. It remains to be seen whether young players after 2005 can completely suppress Southeast Asia when they grow up, but there is still a huge gap with Japan and South Korea. If I have to say it, I can only hope that the older generation of fans will have one more Zhang Yuning father today.