If I had to measure my frustration with women's football in time, it would be 360 minutes, 21,600 seconds.
Originally, I didn't have much hope for the Chinese women's football team's Asian Cup journey, because the current soil and environment of Chinese football are difficult to produce results. However, we are encouraged by the fact that the girls beat their opponents cleanly 3-0 in their opening game against Australia. The Australian team was the fourth place in the last Asian Cup, and its strength should not be underestimated. The head coach made a vow before the game to win the championship of this women's football team. Coupled with the big win over Australia in the first game, we mistakenly thought that the women's football team would take off from then on, regain the sonorous roses of the past, and start the dream of winning the championship.
I'm starting to optimistically predict how the women's team will win the championship. Beat Japan in the final game of the group stage and avoid North Korea in the quarter-finals against South Korea. Successfully passed the hurdle of South Korea and entered the finals. Won the championship in one fell swoop and realized the dream of the women's football championship. I excitedly fantasized about the scene after the women's football team won the championship, and the people of the country were excited and rejoicing. I am even more dreaming of the women's football team winning the championship to inspire the national football team to catch up and set sail from then on.
In the second game, although the women's football team still beat Thailand 3-0, the performance on the field has already made us doubt the women's football team's championship. The fighting power shown by the women's football team on the field does not have the strength to win the championship. In the third game, the women's football team lost 0:4 to Japan, which made us soberly aware of the huge gap between the women's football team and the top teams in Asia. We have to marvel at the speed of progress of the Japanese women's football team over the years, they are the team that has won the World Cup. And we have to be sad that women's football, like men's football, cannot avoid the embarrassment of declining strength. What makes us even more sad is that even the Chinese women's football team in its heyday has not reached the heights of today's Japanese women's football team.
The results of the three games in the group stage have made us sober up a lot, and the road to the championship of the Chinese women's football team is still very long, and it is difficult for the Chinese women's football team to reproduce the sonorous roses of the past. In the semifinals, the women's football team unsurprisingly lost 0:1 to North Korea and missed the championship. We have to face the cruel reality that in the next few years, North Korea and Japan will be two mountains that will be difficult for the Chinese women's football team to overcome.
Looking back at the coach's pre-match oath, it was more like a formal mobilization order. From the wonderful fantasy of winning the championship to the cruel reality of missing the final, the Chinese women's football team has experienced 4 games and 360 minutes.
The Chinese women's football team has spent 360 minutes telling us that Chinese football has been left far behind by the top Asian teams, especially Japanese football. Perhaps a few decades ago, Japanese football was looking at us as a target to catch up. Now they have done it, and they are no longer looking at us and are aiming for a higher goal – the World Cup title.
360 minutes brings us a lot of thinking, and if 360 minutes can be transformed into action to catch up, it will also be our greatest wealth. #春日生活打卡季 ##记录我的2024#