The Zhejiang Provincial Games women's football match was shocked at 44:0 follow-up

　　Xinhua Xinhua

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Xia Liang

　　A football game that no one cared about before became a hot spot on the Internet for a while because of a score similar to a basketball game.

Is this a match-fix?

If not, why is there such a huge difference?

With these questions in mind, the reporter tracked this "bizarre" game.

　　On the morning of September 1, the second round of the Women's Football Team B match of the 17th Zhejiang Provincial Games kicked off in Pujiang County. The two teams were Huzhou and Lishui.

Although there was no live broadcast, a 44-0 scoreboard photo and a 25-second video of the game after the game quickly made the game a hot topic.

　　The reporter found the results of the game on the official website of the 17th Zhejiang Provincial Games. The Lishui team defeated the Huzhou team 44:0, which means that this game is real.

　　Judging from the video streamed from the scene, the Lishui team in the red jersey was in a state of no one in front of the defense of the Huzhou team in the white jersey.

This 25-second video records the entire process of the Huzhou team losing the last goal.

In the video, the Lishui team sent the ball into the penalty area of ​​the Huzhou team after three passes and two falls.

Although the Huzhou team has a back defense, it appears to be very amateur in the way of defense, and many netizens have also observed this.

The netizen "Low-key Yizai" said: "Looking at the score, I thought it was a story of a negative game. After watching the last goal, I suddenly felt that they did their best."

　　This is a football match in the Provincial Games. As usual, both participating teams represent the highest level of women's football in their respective cities. However, during the interview, the reporter found that the real situation seems to be different.

　　The reporter learned from the Huzhou Municipal Sports Bureau that the players who represented the Huzhou team in the Women's Group B of the Provincial Games were all from Deqing County.

"There are not many local units that develop women's football. We entrusted Deqing County to form a team to participate." The insider said.

　　The reporter then found an old news about the women's football match in the Zhejiang Provincial Games.

During the 2010 Zhejiang Provincial Games, Ningbo Daily published an article titled "Provincial Games: Women's Football, How "Lonely" Is Amazing". There is a paragraph in it that states: China's football environment is not good. It is even worse for women's football, which has been paid little attention to.

Although the National Games set up women's football competitions for all age groups, the Provincial Games followed suit and exchanged gold medals for attention from various places, but the effect was not very good, because fewer and fewer girls were willing to play football.

　　"The Provincial Games stipulates that each team can sign up for 18 players, but no team can sign up for the full number. The most signed up is 15, and Huzhou gave up the competition because they could not gather 11 players." Zhou Zhipeng, the head coach of the Ningbo team, proved that women's football is not very popular in Huzhou.

　　So why is the Huzhou team formed by Deqing County so vulnerable?

　　In an interview, the relevant person in charge of the Deqing County Sports Bureau denied the possibility of match-fixing.

According to the person in charge, Deqing County's team this time is mainly composed of ordinary students in the school, and the training time is relatively limited. In addition, the team is relatively rushed, and the opponent Lishui team is a sports school student, so there is a clear gap between the two teams on the field.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Lishui Sports Bureau later confirmed that the Lishui women's football team usually conducts professional training, and the local women's football level is relatively top-notch in the province, so it is reasonable to achieve a big victory.

The person in charge also said that the strength of the Lishui women's football team is not unique in Zhejiang. They lost to Taizhou in the first round of the game. This time they can win a big victory. It is really a lack of strength for the Huzhou team.

As for why the Lishui team did not stop even though they had already secured their victory, which eventually resulted in a 44-ball "tragedy", the person in charge said: "Generally speaking, in competitive sports, you won't be soft-hearted, you can basically play as much as you can. , that's it."

　　When things got here, the situation was basically clear. This was a football contest between sports school students who had undergone professional football training and pure amateur ordinary school students. the match of.

　　Is the confrontation between professional and amateur in line with the regulations of the Provincial Games?

　　The reporter learned that since the 14th Provincial Games in 2010, Zhejiang has "rejected" professional athletes. All athletes above the provincial team's trial training level, including those from higher vocational colleges, are not allowed to participate in the Provincial Games.

The original intention of this move is to allow more ordinary people to participate in it and make the Provincial Games a veritable mass sports event.

　　But the reality is that local cities will focus on the development of different projects according to their own actual conditions. Therefore, even if professional athletes are excluded, in some projects, the development level of local cities is still uneven.

In Huzhou, for example, women's football has apparently been neglected for a long time.

　　After the "tragedy" such as 44:0, the relevant departments in Huzhou and Deqing immediately provided psychological counseling to the team members.

For a group of ordinary school students, losing such a game with such a score will undoubtedly be unforgettable. However, if this can attract the attention of the relevant local departments and inspire more children to participate in this sport, it may not be an unforgettable event. This is a bad thing. After all, being able to participate is also an improvement compared to the time when I couldn't make up a team and missed the women's football game at the Provincial Games.

　　The score of 44:0 is dazzling, but we can't stop eating because of choking.

Since the Provincial Games has the original intention of returning the stage to ordinary people, why not participate in more amateurs?

Taking football as an example, the ongoing first China Youth Football League is the first time that teams from schools, sports schools, club youth training echelons, and social youth training institutions compete on the same field.

It is foreseeable that when campus football encounters sports schools or club youth training echelons, there will be many losses by big scores, but we cannot deny the significance of this reform.

　　At present, the integration of sports and education has formed a consensus in the whole society.

If such a fiasco can become a footnote for the dissolution of the barriers to physical education in the future, from a longer time perspective, such a failure may not be worth it.