AQ spirit

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When Cristiano Ronaldo cannot score against goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi, you can read on social networks that: "Quang Hai can still do it". Or when big teams lose to the Japanese team, you hear "The Vietnamese team can still draw"... Familiar? And it's humorous, funny?

But when it keeps repeating many times, that comparison is likened to living with "AQ spirit".

From a purely entertainment perspective, logical reasoning like that is completely harmless, even a spice for the joy of life. A few teacup jokes, a few humorous memes on social media are the way fans create gentle laughter. It is true that if only 1-2 times, humor is pleasant and... enough to use.

But tonics overdosed will become poison. The danger only really begins when that spiritual "selfie" overcomes cheerful laughter, and gradually becomes a perception for the crowd. When people abuse the bridge, the unconscious brain is lured to sleep in an imaginary safe zone. A lucky draw is elevated to a peer-to-peer level, a goal in the Second Division is turned into a guarantee of world level.

The repetition creates a harmful cognitive deception. It condones the disease of virtual achievements, causing the crowd to lose the ability to reasonably refute to look straight at the truth, that we still lack many things in our own professional playground to be able to put different value systems on the same scale.

More worryingly, the peak of illusion caused by the "AQ spirit" we think of ourselves may turn into extreme pressure weighing heavily on the shoulders of generations of players, and then, society is ready to turn them from heroes to villains after just one actual defeat.

Social networks are convenient, but their ability to manipulate perception is really scary. And the psychology of crowds in that virtual environment is even more scary. There are comparisons like to lull them to sleep, to evade reality - which many people believe and support - under the guise of humor. It is these thoughts, that "AQ spirit" that has been, is and will slow down the development of football in particular, and national sports in general.

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