China News Agency, Beijing, October 22. On the 22nd, Beijing time, the results of the 2023 Women's World Cup group draw were officially released. The Chinese women's football team fell into Group D, where the European Cup champion England team is located. The other two teams in the same group are Denmark and World preliminaries play-off group B winner.
At the drawing ceremony that day, the Chinese women's football team, as the second team, fell into Group D, where the first team, England, was located, and the third team, Denmark, also fell into this group.
Another opponent of the Chinese team has not yet been determined. It will be generated from Group B of the World Qualifiers play-offs, that is, the winner between Senegal, Haiti and Chile.
From the perspective of signing, the Chinese women's football team is sandwiched between the top two European teams. England has just won the European Cup and is currently ranked fourth in the world. Denmark ranks the highest among the third-tier teams and ranks second in the world. 18, which is close to the Chinese women's football team, which is currently ranked 15th in the world.
The strong England team has little suspense to lock a qualifying spot, so the result of the match between the Chinese team and the Danish team will determine the other qualifying spot in this group with a high probability.
According to the schedule, the Chinese women's football team will face Denmark in the first match and England in the final match.
At present, the competition of women's football in the world is fierce. The US women's football team is still strong, and European teams are also rising strongly.
In the 2019 Women's World Cup in France, the Chinese team lost 0:1 to Germany in the first group match, defeated South Africa 1:0 in the second game, and drew with Spain 0:0 in the final game. 2 lost to the Italian team, and finally ended in the top 16.
This also shows that the Chinese team is at a disadvantage in the face of European teams.
However, in the Women's Asian Cup earlier this year, the Chinese women's football team reversed the South Korean team to win the championship, which surprised the outside world.
Not long ago, the Chinese women's football team went to the United States for training and played 9 warm-up matches with local teams, achieving 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. 4 of them were played against the 15- to 17-year-old men's football team. Improve the player's personal ability.
There will be more preparation time in the second half of the year, and the Chinese women's football team will also conduct targeted training.
The 2023 Women's World Cup, jointly hosted by New Zealand and Australia, is scheduled to run from July 20 to August 20 next year.
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