For domestic fans, the biggest joy in the Spring Festival holiday is sent by the Chinese women's football team.
After unexpectedly eliminating Japan on the spot to enter the final, the women's football girls won the championship by 3 goals in the final of the final day of the Spring Festival holiday, which was a bad 7-day holiday for the men's football team and made up for a perfect ending.
As a home team veteran, I haven't experienced this sheer joy of winning in a long time – especially when victory comes unexpectedly.
At the time, the phrase I posted on social media was "I'm gone!" yes! ”
It's the less cultured way I express my emotions. That night on many social platforms, more cultured people expressed this: "You can always trust the Chinese women's football team." ”
I don't know how long "forever" is. But at least, 194 days is not a very long time.
At the Yokohama International Arena 194 days ago, the Chinese women's soccer team defeated the Dutch women's soccer team 2-8, setting the worst record in the history of the Olympic Games and outrageding - it is difficult to say whether those friends who always believe in the Chinese women's soccer team have watched the three games of this Olympic Games, but I watched it anyway.
If I had to say that competitive sports taught me something to do with "forever," it might be "never say forever."
Because competitive sports always change too quickly.
Nearly a year ago in Suzhou, when the women's football team barely defeated South Korea to get tickets to the Tokyo Olympic Games, many friends who have long followed the women's football team said that the Trip to Tokyo could be extremely dangerous.
Half a year ago in Tokyo, when the women's football team defeated Brazil and the Netherlands one after another, and even could not defeat Zambia, many friends who had long paid attention to women's football were saying that no matter how bad it was, it should not be so bad.
Just like now half a year later, when many friends who do not know much about the situation of domestic women's football are reveling and sneering at the men's football team that has been blocked by the Spring Festival, friends in the circle have prayed: praying that such a victory can really give a shot in the arm for the development of women's football.
After all, those who say "can always believe in the Chinese women's football team" may have also denounced Wang Xiaoxue half a year ago: she flew in the final of the Asian Cup to block the gun hole, and first sent points in the Olympic games with Zambia, and then caused her teammates to receive red cards.
There are many more people who "always believe in the Chinese women's football team" while knowing the team to a staggering degree. Many believers are completely unaware of the glorious history of this team and the decline of recent years, and do not know why women's football has fallen from the world's strongest team step by step to the altar.
There are many things they don't know. For example, our women's football team was the king of Asia when it first appeared on the international stage. If we can follow the rules and follow the rules, we should not be celebrating the first Asian championship in 16 years.
In the days when women's football teams win championships and the whole people are carnival, it takes a lot of courage to tell the truth - but fortunately, the national carnival only lasted for a day or two, and it was already covered by the stories of the Winter Olympics before the women's football girls returned to China.
No one cares, which is the norm for our women's football girls.
On the night of the championship, many friends are asking, where can I buy the jersey of the women's football team? The final answer is very poignant: at present, women's football uniforms that are basically the same as men's soccer jerseys are basically nowhere to be found, not to mention the number and armband, which are not commercially available at all.
This is true of the national team jersey, and even more so of the club shirt that women's football girls often wear. In addition to a few foreign leaders, domestic women's football clubs do not have commercially available jerseys at all. When they were not affected by the epidemic before, most of the team's home tickets were also half sold and half given away.
Many onlookers called for the men's football team to spit out the income to the women's football team. However, when we compare the attention of women's football and men's football, we will find that the income gap between the two sides is even relatively small.
The smallest gap between men's and women's feet is actually the management system of both sides. Pseudo-professionalization has become the biggest common denominator of Chinese men's and women's football.
Many onlookers called for men's football to learn the spirit of women's football, which is not necessary, and even very deserved. But more people say that they want to learn the management of women's football, and they also talk to themselves to divide the management system of the two sides into two categories, but it is not necessary - the essential logic of men's and women's football management is exactly the same, the performance of the national team and the dozens of athletes in the national team are always put first, and most of the remaining groups are insignificant groups that can make sacrifices.
The pseudo-professionalization of the men's football team has made the team more and more distant from the goal. The pseudo-professionalization of women's football is the root cause of our national team's decline from the world's first class.
The 19th place in the world before the Asian Cup is the lowest point in the history of Chinese women's football. From the 3rd of that year to the current 16 years without a crown, the starting point of the slide is after the large-scale professionalization of European and American women's football.
Of course, culture, market, and professionalization are all afterwords, and they are all consequences, not causes. In the current domestic football environment, it is still possible to breed a first-class women's football team with a strong family foundation, and it is indeed impossible to harvest a poor male football team.
In the final analysis, the national team that most people want does not exist.
For a long time, our attitude towards professional athletes was more like that of sports machines: in order to achieve results and national honor, we must abandon all interference in training, and we cannot have too much entertainment and enjoy life.
Although the voice of the merit-based theory and the gold medal theory has decreased slightly in recent years, the legacy of the brocade doctrine has remained in the public opinion environment. Except for some projects and teams that have low attention, low expectations and repeated publicity before the game, most of the losses in international competitions will eventually be attributed to "not training hard enough" and "not fighting hard enough on the field".
For example, the victory of the women's football team does have spiritual blessings, but the loss of the men's football team is so attributed to the lack of effort of the 11 people on the field, which is really not a fair thing. Attributing the problem to the individual is the simplest way to summarize.
What's more, there are too many rumors: Wu Xi's "dodging the ball" is actually making his teammates, and he has also sprinkled the field with blood in order to block it; the photo of the beer belly is fake, and his body fat rate is only 8%; "eating sea cucumber" is actually one of the requirements of many sponsors of the national team, and as for the old rumors such as "white chopping chicken", it is not worth refuting...
Let's say that the women's football girls suffered a tragic defeat in the Olympic Games half a year ago, although we know that there are various unfavorable factors such as coaches and teams, and there are many reasons for the decline in overall strength, but the individuals who have made mistakes are still viciously attacked by many onlookers: match-fixing, coaches are dry daddies, retired quickly, not worthy to represent China...
I don't know how many of them said on the night the women's football team won the championship, "You can always trust the Chinese women's football team." If so, then their "forever" seems to be very cheap.
So, let's not say "forever" yet. I still look forward to the completion of the women's national team game task and the hopelessness of the men's national team World Cup, and I can quickly resume the league and resume home and away games quickly. I don't say anything forever, I just want to be able to get back in the stands now, immediately, right away – instead of standing lonely outside the pitch.
I hope that all the friends I have met on various platforms during this time will see each other again in the stands in the future.
And to those who have not given any substantial support to our football for so many 4 years, but have recently scolded the men's football team and said that they will always believe in women's football, I just want to say to them that no matter how successful the women's football team is, no matter how miserable the men's football team loses, it has nothing to do with you.
Your 4-yearly "forever" is really cheap.
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