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

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.

Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

Without a healthy team spirit you won't get anywhere in football.

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.