On February 6, the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup championship in the 3-2 reversal war of the Korean women's football team, returning to the peak of Asia after 16 years and lifting the championship trophy again.
It was a reversal battle that began with a 0-2 lag. The women's football team is still tenacious and tenacious in the face of inferior conditions, and the moment Xiao Yuyi's last kick hit the Korean goal, everyone's enthusiasm was ignited. The moment when the Chinese women's football team won the victory, many people were moved to tears.
Everyone knows that the growth environment of Chinese women's football is not very good. All along, "national football" refers to men's football, and the salary and benefits of women's football cannot be compared with male athletes. For a long time, women's sports have often been evaluated because of factors such as physical strength or competition confrontation, "not as ornamental as men's sports". Ai Tingting, a CCTV reporter who follows and reports on women's football news, also said on social platforms that the public has been "concerned about women's football for more than ten days and has been snubbed for more than half a year." ”
Why is women's football not valued? Why is it so difficult for female athletes to survive? The answer to this question seems like a closed loop that is difficult to unravel: because the viewing is not high, the game is not watched, so it is not taken seriously. And because it is not taken seriously, there are few games, low prize money, and the prejudice of "what kind of ball girls play" in society, it is difficult to produce wonderful games - unless it wins, unless it wins, unless it creates such a miracle.
This hard-won victory is very meaningful, the Chinese women's ability to contribute a wonderful game has greatly increased the public's attention to women's football, after winning the championship, # This is what Chinese football should look like # on Weibo hot search, many sports people began to call for increased women's football salaries and bonuses. At present, 2 companies have announced that they will reward women's football teams with a total of 23 million yuan - which is a rare large sum in the history of women's football development. It is expected that these brave girls will receive more commercial endorsements in the future.
In addition to women's football, other women's sports also face similar dilemmas, and even the development of women's sports in history is long and difficult. Earlier on the mainland, women were mostly trapped in cramped family spaces, and they didn't have much access to the playing fields. Until the modern Penghu Reform Movement, advocating equality between men and women and criticizing the constraints on women's sports, laid the foundation for the development of women's sports in the mainland. Nowadays, although the time for domestic women to participate in the Olympic Games is not long, the effect is remarkable, and more and more female athletes have achieved good results in the international arena and won glory for the country.
As a relatively young e-sports industry in mainland sports, its female professional players are still in a very serious survival dilemma. The reason is similar to the previously described, but the development of female e-sports players seems to be more confused.
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Because there is no competition to play, no prize money to take, and the public opinion environment is poor, most of the female professional players have finally become "idols" or "anchors". Many industry insiders also said in interviews that when some women's teams recruit players, their appearance and figure will also be used as criteria for selection. There are also active female professional players sharing on the online platform, even if the technically very good female players, the public is still concerned about her face and body. This series of frustrating status quos also shuts out many women who are truly skilled and want to become esports players, and the esports dream is such a luxury for them.
This is again a similar unsolvable closed loop as the previous article. In short, because the game is not good, there is no game to play, so the play is getting worse and worse, and the female e-sports ecology is getting worse and worse. Although there is no scientific research to prove it, from the current situation of the e-sports industry, there is indeed a gap in the strength of the top professional players of men and women. If we leave aside for a moment whether there are innate causes, we will find that there are many social factors worth paying attention to.
For example, even for the younger generation, games will still be considered a hobby of boys, with fewer female players and a weak game base. For example, girls are more stressed from society and even from the family than boys. The decision to become an esports player is not an easy task for young girls. After making a decision, you will find that without the women's league and the promotion mechanism, the entire professional ecology is not healthy - it is too difficult to change the status quo by love.
The awkward situation of women's esports has persisted for many years, but in recent years we may see some light. Since 2020, Tencent has held a number of women's e-sports competitions ("Glory Girl", TGA Women's Competition, etc.) starting with the Glory of Kings Project. Although there has been no significant effect at present, it has been a huge progress to initially reach a career promotion channel for women's e-sports.
Nowadays, there are still many idealistic female esports players sticking to their career paths, let us give them a little time and opportunity, or give them some eyes, waiting for the day when the women's esports ecology will get better and they will stand on the field.
Allowing people from different countries, different races and different genders to participate in a sport is the care and tolerance of modern sports, and it is also one of the reasons for the long-term prosperity of sports.