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Wen | Lin Sen
Sports big business reporter
In the early morning of the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, the Chinese women's football team, which is thousands of miles away, played in the 2022 Women's Asian Cup in India, and in the case of two settlements, reversed the Japanese women's football team with a 120-minute battle + penalty shootout, sending a generous gift to the people of the whole country.
Under the pre-match situation of not being optimistic about the outside world and the whole game was in a passive situation, the women's football girls not only finally advanced to the final of the Asian Cup of women's football with their tenacious perseverance and fighting spirit, but also broke the curse of six years of defeat against Japan since March 2016 (China women's football team 2-1 Japanese women's football team). Once again, sonorous roses bloom in the face of adversity!
In addition to tasting the joy of this victory, we should face up to the obvious gap between the current women's football team and the top Asian teams represented by Japan, and also need to rationally think about how to create better basic conditions and atmosphere for the development of women's football in order to accelerate the pace of catching up with the top teams.
The big movie reviews the Sino-Japanese war in the intestines
From the selection of the coach to the competition, the spirit of "sonorous roses" set sail again
From the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games to the 1999 U.S. Women's World Cup, the golden generation of international footballers represented by Sun Wen, Liu Ailing and others has dedicated a number of classic battles to the Chinese people with the spirit of daring to fight and never give up in the face of strong hands, and the exclusive women's football vocabulary such as sonorous roses has also been named.
However, with the successive retirement of the older generation of women's football internationals, due to multiple reasons such as talent breaks, the competitive level of Chinese women's football has plummeted, and the stage of international mainstream events has gradually drifted away. Since 2008, the women's soccer team has not reached the final of the Women's Asian Cup for 14 years. In the just-concluded group stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's football team scored 6 goals and conceded 17 goals in 1 draw, 2 losses, and was beaten out of the group stage, which directly led to the then coach Jia Xiuquan being pushed onto the cusp of public opinion.
Former women's football coach Jia Xiuquan
The current women's football coach Shui Qingxia officially took charge of the women's football coaching whip can be described as a twist and turn. Although in September last year, Shui Qingxia once led the team to win the National Games championship as the manager of the Chinese women's football team, and clearly expressed her desire to become the manager of the Chinese women's football team after the game.
However, on September 30, 2021, when Jia Xiuquan's contract expired and the Chinese Football Association officially released the notice of the selection of the manager of the women's national football team, Shui Qingxia's name was not included in the shortlist for the new coach of women's football. On November 13 of the same year, the Football Newspaper reported that the women's football coach selection was urgently stopped, and the new coach selection reappeared. It was not until November 18, 2021, when the Chinese Football Association officially announced Shui Qingxia as the manager of the Chinese women's football team, that everything was settled.
Also looking back at the journey of this women's asian cup, although the women's football girls had a smooth ride in the group stage, they defeated Chinese Taipei and Iranian women's football teams with large scores, but they were tested one after another in the knockout stage. Facing the Vietnamese women's football team in the quarterfinals, the Chinese women's football team fell behind 0-1 in the opening 11 minutes, relying on Wang Shuang's 1 shot and 2 passes to finally reverse the opponent 3-1. You must know that at the end of the game, the Vietnam women's football team also wasted a penalty opportunity.
In the semi-finals, facing the Japanese women's football team, which ranked first in Asia, the Chinese women's football team, in the absence of the number one star Wang Shuang due to injury, twice lagged behind the opponent and stubbornly equalized. In the final penalty shootout, 24-year-old goalkeeper Zhu Yu shut out the opponent's shot in the fifth round to ensure that the Chinese women's football team could reach the final.
Veteran Wang Shanshan was named the best player in the Sino-Japanese war
At the post-match press conference, when asked about her vision for re-entering the final of the Asian Cup after 14 years, women's football coach Shui Qingxia responded, "Through so many years of hard work, we have found the spirit of 'sonorous roses', for us, this is to start again." ”
Media people appeal: men's football wins 6 million The Football Association should reward women's football equally
The post-match technical statistics of the Sino-Japanese battle show that the Chinese team's possession rate is only 33%. Objectively speaking, in such a passive situation, being able to convert the only two shots into goals is also a good luck in addition to the portrayal of strength and willpower.
According to the technical statistics of the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese women's football team is in the overall inferior position
When facing the gap between the top class in Asia represented by the Japanese women's football team, we should think about how to shorten the gap with our opponents in a short period of time. The author believes that in addition to those illusory long-term planning and talent training construction, what is more realistic is to fully stimulate and retain the subjective initiative of girls through material rewards. As the saying goes, under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.
Huang Jianxiang, Su Dong, Li Xuan and many other football media people have spoken out on their social media, calling on the Football Association to issue bonuses to women's football teams in accordance with the standard of 6 million yuan of winnings in the men's top 12 matches. "Football News" reporter Li Xuan even said that the winning prize of the men's top 12 matches is even higher than the figure of 6 million. If the women's Asian Cup wins, it is recommended that the prize money be directly doubled.
According to australian media ABC, although this Asian Cup will achieve the first prize money award, compared to the men's football team, the women's football team's prize money is still huge. Previously, an AFC spokesperson had said, "The women's Asian Cup winner will receive $1 million in prize money, the runner-up $500,000, and the other two teams that reach the semi-finals also have $150,000 in prize money." Australian media also pointed out that the total prize money of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France is 30 million US dollars, while the total prize money of the 2018 World Cup in Russia is as high as 400 million US dollars.
Compared with the annual salary of men's football players at often tens of millions, the income of women's football international football players is really insignificant. For the Chinese women's football team, which has reached the final of the Asian Cup, how much it will share from the million-dollar championship prize money once it finally wins the championship is quite interesting.
According to the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Bonuses for National Team Athletes with Prizes" issued by the State General Administration of Sport in March 2010, it is clearly stipulated that if it belongs to a collective ball project, 70% of the total prize money can be withdrawn to reward the winning athletes themselves, the relevant coaches of the national team who cultivate the award-winning athletes and the relevant personnel who have been with the team for a long time; 20% are reserved for the establishment of an athlete and coach reward fund by a single association, which is mainly used to reward the local transportation units and sparring athletes where the winning athletes are located; 10% Donated to the All-China Sports Foundation to establish a guarantee fund for athletes and coaches. According to this calculation, if the women's football team can finally win the championship, it will theoretically receive a prize of 700,000 US dollars.
Ai Tingting, a CCTV reporter who has been with the team for 10 years, said on her personal social media that she had long been accustomed to the days when the Chinese women's football team was "concerned for more than ten days and snubbed for more than half a year" after the women's football team reached the final of the Asian Cup, and called on everyone to give the Chinese women's football team more attention and support.
CCTV reporter Ai Tingting spoke out in personal social media
Refuse to be a foil! Chinese women's football should not exist to satirize men's football
The reversal of the Sino-Japanese war has also made topics such as "women's football spirit" on the Weibo hot search list. However, under the background of the men's football team losing to Japan and Vietnam in the final 12 matches, and the women's football team just won against Vietnam and Japan in succession, the two inevitably became the object of comparison by public opinion, media and fans. Some fans even issued the absurd argument that "Shanglian: Men's Football Loses Japan, Loses Vietnam Lower League: Women's Football Wins Vietnam, Wins Japan Horizontal Criticism: Revenge of the Mother", which makes people cry and laugh.
Wang Shuang, a female footballer who missed the Sino-Japanese battle due to injury, previously expressed his feelings on personal social media about the unyielding support of paris women's football fans for the team. At the same time, Wang Shuang said that when the starting point of fans supporting women's football is no longer to satirize men's football, then The Chinese women's football team will be really strong.
To be fair, the spirit of women's football represented by the sonorous rose is certainly worth learning from the Chinese men's football team, but because the international football pattern in which the two are located is very different, and the degree of development of men's and women's football is not the same, it is simple to confuse the two, and there is no comparison of safety. Taking the Asian scope as an example, in addition to the Japanese women's football team that has flourished in recent years, the Chinese women's football team is in the first echelon of Asian women's football with South Korea, North Korea and Australia. But at the Asian men's level, the situation of Chinese men's football is completely different today.
For many years, under the guidance of the idea of consequentialism, Chinese women's football has long been used to squeeze or ridicule men's football, but the outside world has rarely really cared about the development of women's football. And only when the Chinese women's football team achieves good results in the world competition, or when the Chinese men's football team fails miserably and needs to be a national spittoon, the Chinese women's football team will be put on the table as a men's football textbook. As for how the Chinese women's football team should develop better and the survival of the women's football team itself, few people ask about it every day.
In the eyes of the big sports business, the women's football team has entered the final of the Asian Cup after 14 years, which is certainly worth cheering. But the meaning and value of women's football should never just be a reflection or ridicule of men's football! The real concern for the Chinese women's football team should be reflected in the practical actions such as going to the professional league scene to cheer for the women's super league and the women's first league. As the famous Ma Dexing said, if the women's football team is only a tool to ridicule the men's football team, then the women's football team will sooner or later fall into the same situation as the men's football team.
At 19:00 on the sixth day of the Chinese New Year on February 6, the Chinese women's football team will usher in the challenge of the Korean women's football team in the final of this Asian Cup. Facing this opponent who has won 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 7 encounters, the sonorous roses will once again launch an attack on the top of Asia. Let's cheer for the women's soccer girls together!
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