The sun shines on the earth.
However, there are still many "secret corners" in the world we live in.
After six years of suspension, the Chinese women's football microblog has been "open" again from May this year.
Compared with 6 or 7 years ago, the current "Chinese Women's Football" has become more detailed, professional, more grounded and humane.
Interactive data is not even as good as the previous generation.
At the opening ceremony of the Women's Super League, representatives of each team walked into the center of the venue one by one.
Image source: China Women's Football Official WeChat
In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed since the Chinese women's football team ended with regret in the World Cup in France.
The handsome Jia Xiuquan is still seriously leading the team, and his women's football players have changed a lot.
But compared with the turmoil that happened to the Chinese men's football team, the changes and changes in this team can only be described as little known.
Lippi, who entered the second palace angrily, resigned and Li Tie took office. This is a major event in the Chinese sports world; Zhang Yuning led the men’s football preliminaries to be out, which caused a lot of controversy on the Internet; even, the Chinese Football Association expressed a deviation after a game. , And also gave a new annotation to "Below Expectation"...
At this time, the Chinese women's football team completed a season of shrinking league in silence, and expedition to Australia under the threat of the epidemic, almost overturning the strong enemy at home.
During the Chinese women's football preliminaries for the Olympic Games, core player Wang Shuang could not join the team.
Screenshot of Wang Shuang's personal Weibo
Girls are hard.
Due to an epidemic, the Olympic preliminaries were postponed and the venue was changed from China to Australia.
After arriving in Australia after several setbacks, the team spent another 14 days of boring isolation in the hotel.
On the second day of standing back on the green field, the Chinese women's football team ushered in the first matchup of the Olympic preliminaries.
At that time, Wang Shuang who was trapped in Wuhan was missing.
A team that hasn't been systematically trained for a long time makes people sweat.
Even so, the performance of the girls is also very good, if it were not for the strong enemy Australia's countdown, the Chinese team would be able to lock an Olympic ticket in advance in February this year.
On the evening of February 13, Beijing time, the Chinese Women's Football Team drew with Australia 1:1 in the Olympic preliminaries.
The screenshot shows the moment when the Chinese women's football team broke.
Weibo screenshot
But on the Internet, the sound wave that belongs to the Chinese women's football team is not as strong as ever.
In a few comments, it is always dominated by a kind of "comparison."
When I saw the women's football team competing, the central idea of "praising" was probably-"Looking at our women's football team, is it embarrassing that the men's team leads so much money?"
Screenshot of Weibo comment area
Traditionally, the existence of women's football seems to be less independent.
However, the road at the feet of China's women's football team has been through generations of women's national football players.
Whether they prefer it or not, they seem to have become accustomed to being silent and quiet.
The new season of the Women's Super League, which is also long overdue, started almost a month later than the Chinese Super League, but the rounds have also caught up.
In the finished schedule, each round of the Super League is fixed at 5 days, and the Women's Super League has only 3 days.
The players arrive in the competition area.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Football Association
The intensity of the exercise brought by the intensive schedule can be imagined, and the "survival conditions" concentrated in the closed competition at the Yunnan Haigeng training base cannot be compared with men's football.
Compared with the venue environment and the pressure of the game, the problem that the women's football players playing in China really need to improve is that they are always "not paid attention".
Comparing the number of interactive participants in the live broadcast of the platform, the chat room of the defending champion Jiangsu Women's Football team showed less than 20,000 people online in real time. This number is obviously inferior to any Super League match.
To be more specific, the difference in numbers is hundreds of times.
The gate of Haigeng base where the women's super teams are located.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Football Association
The Women's Super League still has its own excitement.
Jiangsu Suning, who won the championship by absolute advantage last season, is facing a huge challenge.
Several teams in Shanghai, Wuhan, Changchun, and Beijing all pose a direct threat to their goal of continuing their rule.
And the charm of a league, to a large extent, comes from the suspense full of uncertainty.
From this point of view, the current women's superpower team has its own charm.
The growth of the team and players needs to be seen by the fans and then recognized.
This power from outside the green grass usually derives infinitely beautiful stories.
The Chinese women's football team, both in the league and the national team, are waiting for more external motivation to flow in.
At the beginning of the match, the Women's Super League has arranged strict epidemic prevention measures.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Football Association
In the league, the coach of Wuhan Chedujiang Club, Liu Lin, who has coached men's football, has been a coach of women's football for ten years.
In his eyes, women's football can achieve the same advantages as men's in some aspects.
"When I first coached women's football, I felt that girls shouldn't play football. The wind and sun might not even have enough income to buy cosmetics. I also felt that the sport of football should be exclusive to men. But now I find that thinking like this is very one-sided." Lin reflected in the interview.
"Although they are not as good as men's football in terms of physical fitness, some girls who play well are worse than men's football in some aspects, such as execution, stability, fineness, and awareness. These are not inferior to men's football at all. "
Liu Lin, head coach of Wuhan Chedujiang University.
Image source: China Women's Football Official WeChat
The development of world football in the past few decades has changed with each passing day.
From South America to Europe, the field of men's football has already formed regional characteristics, and the intensity of sports and viewing are constantly improving. It can be said that it has reached an unprecedented grand scene.
Perhaps, many people are just like Liu Lin, with a little "preconceptions" notion, and set their sights on the women's football arena.
And football is also a product of society, it shouldn't have only a monotonous form.
If men's football is rigid, then the softness of women's football can also interpret the power of sports.
Data map: Sun Wen, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, watched training on the stadium during the Olympic Games.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
Before the start of the season, Sun Wen, the representative of women's football in the position of vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, left this sentence in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency: "Many people asked me how to position women's football matches? I think we should not compare with men's football. Compare yourself with yourself. If you only look at others, you don’t work hard, reflect, and make progress, it will not benefit the development of women’s football."
Compared with myself, it shows the ambition and determination of women's football, and there is also an inexplicable bitterness hidden behind it.
Data map: On June 25, 2019 local time, the Chinese team players left the field after the game.
On the same day, in the 1/8 finals of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in Montpellier, France, the Chinese team lost 0-2 to the Italian team and missed the quarterfinals.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
According to information released by FIFA, a year ago, the Chinese women's football team stopped in the top 16 of the French World Cup. A total of 1.12 billion viewers watched official live reports on various platforms, setting a record.
In Brazil and England, where football is more popular, similar policies have been introduced in the first half of this year: women's football players who fight for the country can get the same salary as their male compatriots.
Australia, Norway and New Zealand have all made similar commitments before.
FIFA will vote on the venue of the 2023 Women's World Cup through an online video conference on June 25, local time. In the end, Australia and New Zealand will jointly host the world's top women's football event.
To celebrate the successful bid for the 2023 World Cup in Sydney, the Sydney Opera House was lit up with lights.
If you don’t advance, you will retreat.
When women's football gradually embarks on a brighter stage around the world, the once proud "Clang Rose" is bound to face more challenges.
"China is so big, there should be more little girls playing football. For parents in China, the pressure on their children to study is too great, and they may not want their children to suffer so much, but in fact it is not just football, sports It is a kind of education, with frustration and pleasure. This kind of education cannot be given by parents."
The women's Super League leader Shui Qingxia, the coach of Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank, said that it was a pain point.
A poster for the new season of the Chinese League.
Image source: China Women's Football Official WeChat
Tomorrow, the Women's League will start.
I hope that every new starting point in women's football can bring greater hope.
Please cheer girls; please cheer for them.
(Reporter Wang Sishuo)