In the final of the Women's 2022-2023 FA Cup held on the evening of May 14, British time, Chelsea Women's football team won the FA Cup for three consecutive times with Cole's supernatural performance. Wembley Stadium, England's national football stadium, was packed, with 77,390 spectators officially announcing it, breaking the record for the highest number of spectators for a women's club.
Interestingly, in China, whether it is Weibo, forums, or the comment area of various football news, there is also a large group of fans who claim to be "Chinese women's football", but most of them have not even watched a full match of women's football on TV, let alone watched it live. These people tout the Chinese women's football team, but they only use them as a tool to vent their own opinion.
Some of these fake fans of the Chinese women's football team were originally fans of the men's team, who were simply dissatisfied with the achievements of the Chinese men's football team over the years, and lifted the women's football team out and stepped on it, wanting to prove that the Chinese men's football team is not playing well and is not a problem of Chinese race. But there are also some women who are not even fans at all, and they do not have even the slightest interest in football, they simply initiate gender confrontation "boxing", to "prove" that Chinese women are stronger than Chinese men through the results of women's football, so as to degrade "Cannan".
When the Chinese women's football team lacks spectators and income, and can only rely on the appropriations of the General Administration of Sports, such fake fans will never spend dozens of yuan to buy tickets to support their own keyboard-supported women's football, or even spend a few yuan to open a sports membership to support it. And when Western countries have successfully commercialized men's football, economic dividends feed back women's football, so that their own women's football team can also thrive; The Chinese women's football team, which once relied on the Olympic-style national system to reach the World Cup finals, is no longer dominant, and the Asian ranking has fallen behind Japan, North Korea and Australia, not to mention the traditional giants of Britain, France and the United States, the Olympic Games 0-5 Brazil, 2-8 Netherlands, plus the previous 0-8 Germany, which is a fiasco that the men's football team has never had.
The "sonorous roses" who have fought to the extreme than the Chinese men's football team (at least the fans generally believe that this is the case), have not eaten sea cucumbers, have no fat belly, do not play match-fixing, do not have sky-high naturalized foreign players but do not play a game, and no head coach has been caught for corruption, so why are the results worse and worse than they were back then?
In fact, from this perspective, the dilemma of men's and women's football is the same. The lack of spectators is only reflected in the surface "effect", the real "cause" is still our lack of football soil, lack of people who really love football. Although there are only a few tens of millions of people in total, there are 6.3 million registered football players, many of whom play amateur football outside of their own jobs, and many excellent seedlings are selected in this way. In China, there are 1.4 billion people, there are only more than 50,000 registered players, and the number of female football players can only be counted in thousands.
In the end, I still hope that there are more people around us who really love football, whether they love men's or women's football, they hope to really love football and pay attention to football, instead of using football or hard-working football players as a tool for your mouth.