Yesterday (April 17) afternoon, the fourth round of the Women's Super League Guangdong Meizhou Hakka team and Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic team match occurred in the "goal line suspense case". In the 29th minute of the game, a direct free kick from Shaanxi's Xie Ting was saved by Guangdong goalkeeper Peng Shimeng, but the limited broadcast footage of the scene could not fully reflect whether the ball was over the line, and finally the referee on duty determined that the goal was valid. Shaanxi team beat Guangdong team 1-0.
After the game, Guangdong goalkeeper and former national goalkeeper Peng Shimeng expressed his dissatisfaction on his personal social platform. But it didn't take long for Peng Shimeng to dynamically delete the article.
Peng Shimeng's unbearable emotional outburst is also a reason, just in the third round of the Women's Super League Guangdong women's football team and Changchun women's football match, there was also a "goal line suspense case". In the first half, a corner kick opportunity of Changchun women's football team caused chaos in front of the goal, and the ball crashed into the body of Guangdong women's football player Chen Qiaozhu and bounced into the door, and Changchun women's football team led by one goal. In the second half, the Guangdong women's football team launched an onslaught, Vera's header was hanging on the goal of the "goal line suspense case", the broadcast camera could not confirm whether the ball had crossed the goal line as a whole, the referee determined that the goal was invalid, and the Guangdong women's football team swallowed the first defeat of the season.
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Two consecutive games have been dominated by controversial goals, resulting in two consecutive defeats for the Guangzhou women's football team, and it is no wonder that Peng Shimeng wants to play for the team.
The end of Peng Shimeng's dynamic fell on the lack of VAR and bottom-line referees in women's football matches. When the discussion of VAR in the men's football arena has come to how to use it better, the women's football field is still stuck on the question of whether it can have VAR, or even just whether it can have a bottom-line referee.
Tournament technology upgrades require money, and money needs to attract high attention to investment, which is a simple, straightforward and cruel game rule. The domestic women's football competition in the "game" obviously failed to "break through the level successfully".
The regular events of the Chinese Super League have at least 11 camera positions, the focus battle generally has 16 camera positions, and the VAR is not absent. And the broadcast camera position of the Women's Super League, it is not difficult to see from the live broadcast of the event, even if it is a focus war, the number of camera positions can not catch up with an ordinary Chinese Super League, not to mention the expected broadcast shot to clearly review when there is a disputed penalty.
Looking back at the beginning of this year, the night when Shui Qingxia led the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup, there was really a feeling that there was a feeling of being surrounded by Chinese women's football fans, and the unprecedented huge group sang the spirit of women's football and pursued the "sonorous rose". Athletes and the sports media have taken the opportunity to call on everyone to continue to pay attention to women's football matches.
The live broadcast of the opening ceremony and opening match of the women's super league this season has a cumulative number of viewers on the whole network exceeded 500,000, but after that it is difficult to get sustained high attention, take the just-concluded 4th round of matches as an example, Changchun women's football team vs Shanghai women's football team, Shandong women's football team vs Jiangsu women's football team The cumulative number of viewers reached 40,000, which is already a relatively high number of broadcasts.
Sun Wen, vice president of the Chinese Football Association and a famous chinese women's football player, once analyzed the positive case of women's football development with Spanish women's football as a typical example: "Men's and women's football teams are together, and many resources can be shared, such as hardware facilities resources, coaching resources, technical resources, etc. (After the men's football giants built women's football) the entire resources are completely different. Europe is the same problem, parents do not support is very important, parents see that there is such a good professional club, may be the balance of the heart tilted. ”
In the early morning of March 31, Beijing time, the women's champions league quarterfinals, the Spanish women's national derby is the best confirmation of Sun Wen's analysis. The match, staged at the Camp Nou, ended with Barca women's 5-2 defeat by Real Madrid women to advance to the final four. In addition to the breathtaking performance of the two teams combining a total of 7 goals, the match attracted 91,553 spectators to the scene, setting a new world record for the number of spectators in women's football matches.
Camp Nou is usually the home of the Barça men's football team, and the Barça women's home game is more in the Gamber Sports City. Ahead of the move to Camp Nou, Barça women's captain Putras said: "Camp Nou can be a key factor, we play at home and camp Nou fans will bring a lot of trouble to the opponents with us. ”
Among the nearly 100,000 spectators on the scene, the fans who usually continue to pay attention to women's football may not account for the vast majority. But because at Camp Nou, they were willing to come, and their arrival also made the players ignite more energy. The prototype of a virtuous circle is gradually born.
According to most cases, when comparing Chinese football and European football, it is always concluded with "we should refer more to European football". Happily, this time it is not needed, because the method of "men's football clubs with women's football" has been implemented in Chinese football for some time. At present, it is only because the overall economic environment of the domestic league is not good, and most of the men's football clubs are difficult to survive, so they have not been able to show better results for the time being. Insist on surviving this period, after the economic recovery of the football world, continue to "men's football clubs with women's football", coupled with the results of women's football itself, the 40,000 people who watched the game online entered the stadium, which is also a big step forward for the Chinese women's football league.