Since the women's Asian Cup, the public opinion environment of women's football has been fundamentally changed, and the negative evaluation brought about by the previous poor performance of the Olympic Games has been swept away. Although most of the fans who touted women's football in a large number of votes were to pull on the men's football team, the women's football team did perform much better in the Asian Cup than at the Tokyo Olympics, and they also fully deserved praise. But if this is used to prove that the women's football team has returned to the peak, it seems too early, and Liu Jianhong recently poured cold water on these touted voices.
Liu Jianhong recently released a video about the current situation of women's football, and his view is that although women's football has successfully won the previous Asian Cup, in fact, the fundamental situation of women's football has not changed, and it is too early to talk about revival. He posted a set of data in the video, in 2018, the number of registered players in the Chinese women's football team was only 3,000, while the number of registered players in the United States women's football team reached 1.8 million in the same period, Australia also had 970,000 registered players, and even in Asia, the Japanese women's football team also had 80,000 registered players, and this is the fundamental problem.
Although the women's football team successfully won the Asian Cup this time, but in the current situation, there is still a long distance from the world top, and the discussion after the Olympic Games, although some are too harsh, are actually not worthless. In Asia, only five national teams can be regarded as professional teams, and before the Asian Cup, women's football ranked fifth in Asia, and FIFA's ranking is determined by the results of the past period of competition, which in itself represents the performance of women's football in the FIFA points competition for too long.
Of course, the performance of women's football in the Asian Cup is indeed much stronger than in the Olympic Games, the overall performance is more than a little stronger, and more players have stepped forward in addition to Wang Shuang. But the cup itself has a big contingency factor, and it is indeed too early to say that the strength of women's football has returned to the top of the world. In the final analysis, the fundamental problems of women's football and men's football are the same, the youth training level faces the same problems, and the situation of women's football is actually more difficult, although the audience is very good, but in fact, there are not many people who are willing to spend money for women's football, even ticket money, and the real fans of women's football in China belong to the minority in the minority.
The situation of the women's football team today is full of flowers and fires, but in today's pomp and circumstances, there is still the same crisis as in the past, which will not be fundamentally changed by an Asian Cup trophy. Of course, the good results of the women's football team in the Asian Cup can also inspire more young players to embark on the career path, which may receive more good news in the future, but at this stage, it is too early to talk about revival.