Women's international apologizes for questioning World Cup selection: hope coach opens up! Weight is not everything
Three days after publicly questioning the selection criteria for the National Team World Cup, on August 19, Beijing time, Chinese women's football international Zhao Yujie posted a clarification on her personal social media and apologized for the many negative influences and unnecessary public opinion her behavior brought to the Chinese women's team.
On the evening of the 16th, Zhao Yujie posted the weight of many outstanding female footballers in today's international football, and with the text "These players will be the first batch of eliminated lists in our country", Zhao Yujie's move implied that she was not selected for the Chinese women's football team to participate in the World Cup because of weight problems. Not only that, Zhao Yujie also continued to speak out since then, and interacted with a number of unsuccessful women's football internationals, publicly scolded the big V, and even bluntly said that "if you don't get to the national team in the future because you dare to speak out, you won't regret it." Zhao Yujie's series of behaviors have caused a lot of controversy.
However, after 3 days of reflection, Zhao Yujie also seemed to realize her impulse. She first said that because her behavior has brought a lot of negative influence and unnecessary public opinion to the Chinese women's football team, she sincerely apologizes. In the future, I will abide by my professional ethics, words and deeds.
Later, Zhao Yujie also explained that the reason why she made such a statement was that she was really shocked by these world-class players and teams, but the purest admiration between one player and another player. But regret did not express his original intention from the beginning, but because of his sarcastic tone, many media misunderstood and interpreted it incorrectly, so I apologize like the fans and media who have argued with me in the past few days.
After apologizing, Zhao Yujie also hoped that coaches could "open up" to specific data issues on the issue of weight. Data can tell the story, but it doesn't tell the whole story. Every player is a special existence, and it is only by continuing to nurture and pay attention to different candidates can the women's football team continue to survive. Obviously, Zhao Yujie still hopes that the future selection of the national team can not judge whether a player is worthy of playing for the country based on specific weight issues. Finally, Zhao Yujie also hopes that the future of Chinese women's football will be better and better, and she will do her best to achieve this.
Zhao Yujie, 24, plays as a striker for the Danish Women's League. Although she followed the Chinese women's national team in a series of pre-World Cup warm-up preparations, she was not included in the 23-man squad. Zhao Yujie's defeat has also caused confusion and doubts from the Danish women's football coach in the same group.