I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.

You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.

To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

China needs a table-tennis-like solidity in football.