On April 13th, the Chinese women's football team drew 2:2 at home, and finally got a ticket to advance to the Tokyo Olympics with a total score of 4-3. The girls' tenacious struggle has inspired people's hearts, forcing people to admire the Chinese women's football team to survive in adversity.
However, compared with the performance of the women's football team, the men's football team really has no outstanding results. Also in the Olympic qualifiers (U23 Asian Cup), the men's football team lost all three games and failed to score one goal, setting an embarrassing record of zero points and zero goals, becoming the team with the worst record in the history of the U23 Asian Cup. Even in the top 40 Asian qualifiers in 2022, the men's football team has been stumbling all the way, drawing the Philippines first and then losing to Syria, and the situation of qualifying is still unclear.
Therefore, the victory of the women's football team in this game is very valuable. Many netizens commented that the women's football team is really the last face of Chinese football, and many fans even criticized the Chinese football team for lacking the spirit of the women's football team, which forced the men's football team to be on the hot search.
Weibo comments while praising the women's football team, they do not forget to spur the men's football team.
, and in other comment sections such as Douyin, the men's football team is still forced to "open business"
This makes us wonder why women's football team compete better than men's football team!
1. The Chinese women's football started earlier
The professionalization of the world women's football started late. In the 1980s, women's football was able to be initially launched worldwide. In 1991, a experimental " women's football " was first launched in Guangzhou, China, which was 61 years later than the men's football World Cup. The successful holding of the World Cup allowed the Chinese women's football team to quickly develop rapidly, far exceeding the speed of developing women's football events in other countries; in 1996, the women's football team became an Olympic competition event, which also reflected the unique advantages of the national system in the emerging sports event of . In the 1996 Olympics and 1999 World Cup, we just lost to the United States and ranked second, but at that time, the women's football team had become our pride.
Men's football team is completely backward at the beginning stage, and a large population base does not mean that the total number of football people will be large, let alone the issue of commission rate. While European and American countries have already made football into a mature industrial chain, Chinese men's football is mixed with too many non-football factors, focusing on short-term interests can only be called "false prosperity", and the foothold is not the football itself at all.
2. The opponents have different strengths
2023 Women's World Cup Asia has 6 places, and 2022 Men's World Cup Asia has 4.5 places.
The World Football Federation has a total of 142 women's teams and 210 men's football teams.
19 Women's World Cup, the 29th team at the time lost 0-13 to the number one team in the United States.
18 Men's Football World Cup, the 57th-ranked South Korea team defeated the No. 1 German team 2:0.
The teams that can enter the men's World Cup finals are basically no weak teams, while the women's World Cup is still clearly distinguished.
In addition, Western Asian strong teams such as Saudi , Iran , Qatar , Iraq , etc. often become obstacles for Chinese men's football, and these Islamic countries have almost no professional women's football players.
Therefore, the women's football team is still a regular visitor to the World Cup today, while the men's football team is often the first team to prepare for the next World Cup.
3. Different development focus
Even if it is stable at the top five levels in the Olympics, it is hard to hide the fact that China is a weak country in sports. Among the top events in the world's sports industries such as football, rugby , baseball , racing, basketball, ice hockey, and tennis, none of China can maintain a stable third-rate level in the world. In short, the higher the commercial level of sports events, the worse the level.
htmlChina only won 5 gold medals in the 088 Seoul Olympics, and even the news titles angrily criticized "The Seoul is so shameful that the Chinese people are heartbroken." In order to save glory, the Sports Bureau has formulated the main policy of "small, clever, difficult, female, and few", with the purpose of long-term development of niche projects, women's projects and other projects with the highest efficiency in winning gold medals.Since then, table tennis, badminton, gymnastics, diving, and weightlifting have become the key gold-grabbing events.These projects are projects with extremely low commercial value and competition. Women's football has also become the key development direction of football.
However, what many people don’t know is that The General Administration of Sports also relies on the money earned by the men’s football team to support other Olympic gold medal events, while the people who don’t care about football at all “heart-wrenchingly” hit the keyboard and demand the disbandment of the men’s football team. The money given to the national football team is worse than donating to the Hope Project and the Red Cross.
Finally, the author hopes that the women's football team will achieve gratifying results, so that more people can pay attention to these not-popular sports events, and more people can participate. Instead of using the achievements of the women's football team to criticize the national football team, this is neither caring about the men's football team nor loving the women's football team, but just enjoying the cheap pleasure of venting emotions. So since you don’t even pay attention to Chinese football, what qualifications do you have to ask for Chinese football!
