The shortcut of Southeast Asian women's football, all roads lead to Rome, where should the Chinese women's football team go?

Cool Horse West Wild

2024-05-27 18:30Published in Beijing

Today, I saw a piece of news that the Indonesian women's football team is trying to take the path of naturalization, which may be a shortcut for some Southeast Asian countries to improve the level of women's football in the short term.

As we all know, the rapid improvement of the level of Philippine women's football is due to this, and the Philippine women's football team can see the clues from the trend of the Philippine women's football team in the last six years of the FIFA world rankings, at the end of 2018, the Philippine women's football team ranked 74th, by the end of 2020 it rose to 65th, at the end of 2022 it rose to 53rd, and the latest ranking they have reached 39th. Their progress has also been reflected in the Asian Cup, where the Philippines finished sixth in the 2018 Women's Asian Cup in Jordan but are now tied for third with Japan at the 2022 Women's Asian Cup in India.

The performance of the Philippine U17 women's team at the recent Women's Asian Cup in Bali, Indonesia, is also worth watching, and if it wasn't for the controversial second-half foul goal of the South Korean women's team, it is likely that they will end up playing against the Chinese U17 women's team in the third-place match, and in this U17 Philippine women's team, it is well documented that at least eight players of Filipino descent are from the United States and Australia.

Indonesia and the Philippines have the same unique resources in terms of naturalized players, as we saw at the Qatar Men's Football Asian Cup earlier this year, the Indonesian men's national football team has as many as nine naturalized players born in the Netherlands alone, and the Indonesian women's football team has also focused on the Netherlands, at least eight of the players I have seen with Indonesian blood are playing in the Dutch Women's Football League, for example, 22-year-old Nikita Tromp, a striker, She has been selected for the Dutch women's national football team at all levels, currently plays for Ajax in the Dutch Women's Football League, and in 2021 she won the European Women's Football Golden Boy Award, and her nationality in the media is marked with the Netherlands and Indonesia.

In addition to Indonesia and the Philippines, naturalized players can also be seen in the Thai women's team at the U17 Women's Asian Cup, and Thailand's No.10 Madison Castin, who caused a lot of problems for our U17 women's backline in the group stage, is a Thai-born player who was born in the United States and plays in the United States. Even the Vietnamese women's football team, which is very resistant to naturalized players, has been trying to naturalize Alexandra Hoang, a Vietnamese player who plays in the Australian Women's Super League, and her Vietnamese name is Hoang Bao Zhen.

For those Southeast Asian countries where the women's professional league is not perfect, since they have a way to naturalize players, it is not a good way to take this shortcut, and for our Chinese women's football team, this road is not suitable for us, in addition to improving the quality of our women's football league, so that more young players can stay abroad for experience, maybe it is our shortcut and the best choice.

If we continue to stay the same, we will be challenged by more and more opponents in the near future.

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