Last Sunday, in the fourth round of the new season of the Women's Super League, there was a goal line suspense case between Guangdong women's football team and Shaanxi women's football team, which once again triggered a discussion about how to continue the attention of women's football.
In the match between Guangzhou and Shaanxi, the only goal occurred in the 28th minute, when The Shaanxi women's football team Xie Ting scored a direct free kick, and the broadcast screen showed that the goal was saved by Peng Shimeng on the goal line, but onlookers could not accurately judge whether the goal was valid based on the unclear broadcast footage. At the same time, due to the broadcast conditions of the Women's Super League, the controversial goal of the Guangdong women's football team could not be effectively confirmed, but in the end, the referee still ruled that the goal was valid, and the Guangdong women's football team also lost the game. However, as a party who directly saved the ball, Peng Shimeng insisted that the goal was invalid. After the game, she spoke out through social media, expressing her dissatisfaction and doubts. "Men's football has VAR, women's football can't have it?" Can there be a bottom-line referee? Although peng Shimeng has since worried about the impact, Peng Shimeng deleted her statement on social media, but the women's Super League software and hardware are not fully equipped, the women's Super League broadcast camera is small, there is no video referee auxiliary system, and there is a big gap with the men's football game.
It is understood that the regular broadcast of the Chinese Super League usually has at least 11 camera positions, and the focus battle is increased to 16 camera positions, and VAR auxiliary referees are provided to review the disputed penalties. However, the broadcast slot of the Women's Super League is far from enough, even if it is a focus battle, the slot is not even as much as an ordinary Chinese Super League game. In fact, as the first Chinese professional football league to start the 2022 season, the Women's Super League reached a wave of attention peak on the opening day, with a cumulative platform viewership of more than 500,000 and an overall exposure of 120 million times. However, after the high-profile opening, the Women's Super League is difficult to get sustained high attention, and even when the team encounters a controversial goal in the goal line, it is difficult to restore the truth of the matter through a clearer and more directional perspective. In stark contrast to the current situation in China's top women's football league, a month ago, barca and Real Madrid, a total of 91,553 spectators poured into the Camp Nou stadium, which also set a new world record for the number of spectators in women's football matches.
More than 20 years ago, the competitive level and development level of Chinese women's football was in the leading position in the world, but in the past 20 years, people have seen that europe and the United States and other developed countries in football have caught up and replaced, and what kind of problems China's women's football is facing are clear to everyone, but in a word, what they need is not only the attention of the whole society, but also the care and fair treatment of sports authorities and project authorities.