China News Service, Tokyo, July 28 (Bian Liqun) Yokohama has been raining and sunny, but the Chinese women's football girls playing here failed to usher in their own sunny days, but it was a storm.
Lost to Brazil at 0:5, tied Zambia at 4:4, lost to Holland at 2:8... In the group stage, with 1 draw and 2 losses, as many as 17 goals were lost.
Yokohama International Arena, Japan.
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The depressed female football player hurriedly walked through the interview area after the game. I called out a few players, some of them turned down with embarrassment, while others waved their hands and turned their heads aside to avoid the reporter's gaze.
After all the Chinese female football players passed by, Oh and the staff in the interview area looked at each other with a bit of awkward smile and turned to the press conference hall.
Exterior view of Yokohama International Arena, Japan.
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Jia Xiuquan at the press conference after the game also had some emotions.
In addition to what he said in every game after the Olympic group game: "It is my head coach's responsibility to play bad games." He also added: "I played six goal posts in two games, and it was also my head coach's responsibility. Responsibility."
After the short message was sent, the expected anger, doubt and even abuse filled the comment area.
It's hard to accept being out of the game in this humiliating way, whether it is players, coaches or fans.
In fact, in the game, the women's football girls are very hard, "Quick pass, forward pass, grab up..." Under the empty field, the shouts of the players on the field are very clear, and even the anxious mood can be clearly felt. arrive.
The dazzling score on the big screen.
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Coach Jia Xiu stood on the sidelines and commanded the whole game. After losing the eighth ball, he did not give up shouting to the court to arrange tactics, and from time to time he discussed with the assistant coach behind him.
However, football is not about shouting and rushing out, after all, it depends on strength to speak.
Since the Chinese women's football team lost to Brazil 0:5 and drew 4:4 with Zambia in a must-win game, they must defeat the world's fourth-ranked Dutch women's football team if they want to qualify.
In the game that opened earlier on the 27th, the American women's football team drew 0:0 with the Australian women's football team, which meant that the Chinese women's football team had to beat the Dutch women's football team by at least 5 goals to qualify.
When I heard the news, I had just arrived at the game field. Although I didn't have any hope of qualifying, I still couldn't help but shook my head.
Even more shocking is the warm-up session before the game. The Dutch women's football and the Chinese women's football warm-up for passing and shooting in their respective halves, sitting in the press box with excellent viewing angles, and the two teams' warm-up process is almost synchronized. Next, you can clearly feel the level difference in many aspects such as passing and receiving, shooting level, foot technique, physical fitness and so on.
My expectations for the game were immediately reduced to the point that I would not lose by a big score.
But after 90 minutes, the dazzling Dutch 8:2 China appeared on the big screen.
Remembering that after the results of the Olympic women's football lottery were released, I used the word "successful" in my analysis. Now I can't help but feel a bit ironic.
However, the group stage encountered Brazil, the lowest ranked team in the second tier, Zambia, the lowest ranked among all Olympic teams, and avoided the world’s number one American women’s football team. It is indeed no longer possible to draw a more favorable position than this. .
Under this "sign up", the Chinese women's football team lost a terrible defeat.
The venue for the last group match of the Chinese women's football team was the Yokohama International Arena. In 1998, the national football team defeated the Japanese team 2-0 in the East Asian Cup held here. Since then, the national football team has never won an opponent.
Over the past 20 years, the Chinese and Japanese men's football team has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the Chinese women's football team is the same. It is no longer the world-class team that can win consecutive runners-up in the Olympics and World Cup.
At present, the "male football" of women's football is a major trend, emphasizing fast-paced and physical confrontation, thus greatly improving the appreciation.
Chinese women's football is also improving, but the pace of progress compared with the world's women's football is still too slow, so that in this competition, there will be such a big gap.
After the game, Jia Xiuquan said: "Before (the Olympic preliminaries), I tried to qualify so hard that the Chinese women's football team can participate in the competition and not be left behind by the world trend. The revival of Chinese women's football team cannot be changed by my coach and coaching staff. It may stop the decline in a big competition, but from a regular perspective, it will take the efforts of several generations."
Perhaps as the outside world said, this sentence is shirking responsibility, and it is undeniable that the current Chinese women’s football team is not in an ideal state, but even if the state and roster are optimized, I am afraid that the Chinese women’s football team will only lose a few goals. Or it can beat Zambia.
The signing of the Olympic Games will not change the cruel reality of the extremely poor soil of Chinese women's football.
There were about 6 Chinese journalists at the competition site, including me. Compared with the gymnastics, diving, women's volleyball and other events that day, this is a poor number.
Although the Chinese women's football belongs to the category of the "three big balls" with high attention and strong mass base, under the Olympic system, without the blessing of gold medals and medals, it can only exist in a very "small".
Since there are usually many reports on football, I have had many times in-depth understanding of the current situation of domestic women's football with people in the women's football industry, players, and parents of young players.
When a traditional sports school women's football team has only 42 people in one age group, and most ordinary female football players have a monthly salary of only more than 5,000, the performance of the Chinese women's football in the Olympics is not surprising.
Thinking in another way, would you be willing to take a not-high income and devote yourself to such a profession of "eating youth"? Are you willing to let your children become professional female football players?
Even, would you like to watch a domestic women's football league on the spot?
I was very impressed by the scene in the Tokyo Olympic Weightlifting Gym. The green plants in the aisle twice were decorated with cards drawn by Japanese elementary school students. The sports elements that appeared most frequently were football and baseball. Many children His dream is to grow up to become a professional player...
On the returning media bus, the Dutch reporters sitting in the same row on the other side were humming and working all the way. When they got out of the car, they couldn't bear the excitement and shouted a few times to celebrate.
I don't know if I will be lucky enough to participate in the live coverage of the Paris Olympics three years later, but it is foreseeable that it will be difficult for Chinese women's football to appear in the Paris Olympics.
The work of the day ended in the middle of the night, and after waking up, he returned to the weightlifting arena.
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