Unconsciously, 2023 has officially come to an end, and for the Chinese women's football team, 2023 is undoubtedly a year of failure. Not long ago, the Chinese women's football team in the downturn received two bad news one after another, and the future of women's football was also cast a thick shadow!
FIFA announced the latest world ranking of women's football teams not long ago, due to the early exit in the Olympic qualifiers, coupled with the defeat in the last two warm-up matches, the ranking of the Chinese women's football team fell again without suspense, from the previous 15th, slipped to 19th. However, in Asia, the Chinese women's football team does not have many competitors, so we are still in fourth place, behind Japan, North Korea and Australia. However, the Chinese women's football team has only 3 points ahead of the South Korean women's football team, and if the losing streak continues, it is only a matter of time before the Chinese women's football team is overtaken in the rankings.
The world ranking 19 has tied the lowest ranking of the Chinese women's football team in FIFA. The last time we fell to 19th place was in 2021, when Jia Xiuquan's Chinese women's football team suffered a crushing defeat at the Tokyo Olympics and fell all the way down the world rankings, setting a new low in team history. But in the past few years, the Chinese women's football team coached by Shui Qingxia won the Asian Cup in an upset, and the women's football ranking has successfully climbed to 14th. However, just one year later, the original meritorious coach has become the object of condemnation from countless fans. After the Chinese women's football team missed the Olympic Games, Shui Qingxia did not escape the fate of leaving class and became another victim of the Chinese women's football team.
In addition to the continued decline in the world rankings, the Chinese women's football team has also received another piece of bad news. In the group draw of the U20 Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team was unfortunately divided into the "Super Death Group", which included the Japanese women's football team, the North Korean women's football team and the Vietnamese women's football team. The Japanese women's football team and the North Korean women's football team have been playing the role of the "nemesis" of the Chinese women's football team in recent years. This time in the same group as the North Korean women's football team and the Japanese women's football team, the Chinese women's football team wants to qualify, I am afraid that it can only hope for a miracle!
It can be said that today's Chinese women's football team, like the men's football team, has fallen into a new trough. Coupled with the elimination of the Olympic qualifiers, they have no important games to play in the past two years, and their attention will also fall to the freezing point. If the sonorous rose wants to bloom again, I am afraid that I can only hope for the next generation.