Milk and beef key to beating Westerns, Chinese told
BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - Chinese footballers need to eat beef and drink milk if they are to play, and fight, with Westerners on a level playing field, according to a member of the advisory body to China's parliament.Last month's brawl between China's under-21 team and English club Queens Park Rangers proved that Chinese athletes did not have enough brawn, according to Zhang Xinshi, a biology researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
'You can't just say you aren't used to eating beef and drinking milk and leave it at that,' Zhang said during a discussion of Chinese agriculture at this week's meeting of the advisory body CPPCC.
'Our football can't reach a higher level. We are only good at skilful sports. Running for two 45 minute halves on such a large pitch at speeds like 100m, how can (our) bodies do that?
'We all saw the recent fight in England and they (the players) were beaten to a pulp.
'Sounds tragic? But if you are as strong as a buffalo how can they beat you up? Therefore I don't think we should advocate the Chinese grain-eating tradition.'
Chinese defender Zheng Tao was taken to hospital with a fractured jaw after the 30-man fight during an ill-tempered friendly at QPR's training ground, which provoked a media storm in China.
QPR assistant manager Richard Hill was interviewed by police for his part in the fracas but English media reported on Monday that no charges would be brought against him.
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中科院士為中國球員支招：多吃牛肉有助整體水平提高
http://sports.sina.com.cn 2007年03月06日20:50新浪體育
新浪體育訊 吃牛肉可以改變中國足球目前的低迷現狀？在不久前的一次人大政治協商會議上，著名中科院院士張新時提出了這一觀點。在會上張新時院士講到，中國足協如果想改變這種低迷的現狀，則必須要改變中國傳統的飲食結構，應該向歐洲人那樣平日以多吃肉質食品和牛奶為主。
在最近的一次的人大政治協商會議上，中國科學院院士，主要從事植物科學研究的張新時院士在會議上針對中國足球的現狀談到了自己獨特的見解，在會上張新時院士表示，中國足球如果要想提高目前這種低迷的現狀，首先球員就要從飲食結構上進行改變，為此張新時院士表示，中國球員應該向歐洲球員那樣，平日食品應以牛肉為主，這樣有助於球員的身體素質提高。
為此，張新時院士特別提到了不久前國奧隊發生的那場群毆，他表示，之所以在群毆中導致多名中國球員受傷，而對方球員卻沒有遭到太大受傷，其中主要的原因就是與中國球員相比，英國球員明顯要更為健壯，而之所以英國球員比較健壯，很大程度上是因為中國球員與英國球員的飲食結構不同。
「我的球員如果向英國球員一樣健壯，又怎麼可能在群毆中處於被挨打的對象呢？因此我個人認為我們不應該再提倡中國傳統的穀類飲食。」
「因此我認為中國球員在平日更應該多吃牛肉以及多喝牛奶，我們的足球為什麼至今都無法達到世界水平，而且我們的體育項目為什麼一直只是在技巧性運動中佔優勢，這與我們運動員的飲食結構有很大原因，試想下，在90分鐘的比賽中，我們的球員都在以非常高的節奏進行奔跑，球員的身體怎麼能夠承受這樣的負荷呢。」
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