No good players from bad league

CHINA'S UNDER-23 MEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM, or the national Olympic soccer team, lost to Syria, all but ending its hopes off competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. People's Daily attributes the failure to the domestic Super League, in which players are well-paid without having to work hard:

A motto says: Never repeat your mistakes. However, the national Olympic soccer team has decided to do just that - by losing first to Qatar, then to war-torn Syria, even though the latter has had no training since October and has suffered much travails.

Actually, the Chinese team scored a goal five minutes before half time, yet the team's risky offense granted their opponents an opportunity to strike back. In the second half, the team turned to the other extreme by giving up offense and hoping to limit the damage to a score that would not bring too much shame. It was bad tactics that made them lose.