On September 6, 1978, Japanese women's soccer star Hotaru Sawa was born in Fuchu City, west of Tokyo, and she turned 42 yesterday, whether it is individual honor or collective honor, she is the first person in the history of Asian football.
In the 2011 Women's World Cup, it was Hotaru Sawa who received a corner kick from his teammate in the 117th minute of the game and scored a 2-2 draw. Encouraged by this final draw, the Japanese women's soccer team beat the United States team in a penalty shootout, becoming the first Asian adult national team to reach the top of the world.
As the captain of the Japanese team in the current World Cup, Sawa Hoshi performed well, scoring 5 goals in a single tournament and winning the World Cup Golden Boot as a midfielder. Against Mexico, she completed a hat-trick to help the team sweep 4-0.
And this World Cup, where the Japanese team shined, is precisely the first World Cup that was absent in the history of Chinese women's football. Coincidentally, it was also Sawaho Yuki who blocked the sonorous rose from the Door of the World Cup.
In the 2010 Women's Asian Cup Third and Fourth Finals, China and Japan competed for the last World Cup ticket. Sawa hit a free kick from his teammate in the second half to set the score at 2-0, helping Japan to finish third and directly qualify for the World Cup.
At the FIFA Awards ceremony in January 2012, Sawa was named Miss World Football 2011, the first time an Asian player has won this award (Sun Wen shared the title of "Best Female Footballer of the 20th Century" with American star Akols in 2000, and Sun Wen's best result in the Miss World Football awards was 2nd). At the award ceremony, Sawa Sui wore a traditional Japanese kimono and shared the two most important personal honors with Umeshi.
The experience of winning the World Cup has made the overall spirit of the Japanese women's football team look new. In fact, in the semi-finals of the 2015 World Cup, facing the more physically superior English women's football team, the Japanese team was fully inferior, but they still believed that they could win 2-1 and reached the final of the World Cup for two consecutive times.
In the final, the United States team was again encountered, and this time Sawaho Yoshi was no longer the main force, and it was difficult for the Japanese team to stage a miracle of defeating the strong with a weak victory again. In the opening 16 minutes, the defending champion fell behind 0-4, and Sawa sui appeared on the bench in the 33rd minute, only to witness the team's 2-5 defeat.
Six months after the end of the 2015 World Cup, Sawa announced his retirement on December 27. From 1993 to 2015, she played 173 games for her country and scored 80 goals, making her the most goalscoring in the history of the Japanese national team.
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