China News Service, Xiamen, November 11 (Reporter Hao Lingyu) In 1, the Chinese women's football team lost the ticket to the main match of the London Olympics at home; With the draw against the South Korean women's football team in the Paris Olympics qualifiers on the evening of November 2011, the Chinese women's football team once again missed the Paris Olympics at home. From the World Cup, the Asian Games to the Olympic preliminaries, the Chinese women's football team has achieved unsatisfactory results in the "three major tests" this year, what changes need to be made to "sonorous roses"?
12 years ago, the Chinese women's football team was at a low point. At that time, the team lineup did not complete the handover of the old and the new, and the frequent changes of coaches in the past few years made it difficult for the team to find its own positioning, coupled with the failure to grasp the key games, the Chinese women's football team finally failed to break into the main match of the London Olympics.
12 years later, when the Chinese women's football team missed the Olympic Games again, the Chinese women's football team needed to face not only its own problems, but also the gap caused by the rapid improvement of the strength of its competitors. In this year's Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team ended embarrassingly for the first time with failing to qualify from the group. Judging from the results of the World Cup and its pre-match European training, it is an indisputable fact that the Chinese women's football team has fallen into a comprehensive disadvantage when confronting European powerhouses. In the past, the "sonorous rose" could rely on teamwork and flexible tactics to "win big with a small one", but when the European women's football team learned from its men's football team's experience in player training and league system, the gap between the Chinese women's football team and it was rapidly widened.
Not only that, but the Chinese women's football team's opponents in Asia have also improved significantly. Judging from the performance of the Olympic preliminaries, there is a significant gap between the performance of the Chinese women's football team in the first two games and that of South Korea and North Korea. Also against the weakest Thai women's football team in Group B, South Korea and North Korea handed over a disparity of 10:1 and 7:0 respectively, while the Chinese women's football team only won 3:0. In the first two games, the Chinese women's football girls lacked rhythm in attack and lacked the ability to grasp opportunities in front of goal. North Korea failed to win their first match, Thailand was by no means perfect in the second game, and despite their best efforts, they were unable to defeat the young South Korean women's football team in the final game.
Thanks to the improvement of its men's football strength and the maturity of the domestic league competition system, the level of the Korean women's football team has improved rapidly in recent years. In the final of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, although the South Korean women's football team lost to the Chinese women's football team, the runner-up result also created the best result in the history of the team in the Asian Cup. From being powerless to playing back and forth against the Chinese women's football team, today's South Korean women's football team poses a threat to the Chinese women's football team.
In addition, Asian powerhouses Japan and Australia are even more capable of fighting against European powerhouses. In this year's Women's World Cup, the Japanese women's football team defeated the Spanish women's football team 4-0 and defeated the Norwegian women's football team in the knockout round, showing the trend of the Japanese women's football team returning to the top of world football. The Australian women's football team, playing at home, beat Denmark and France, and finally made history with a fourth-place finish.
In such a situation, how can the Chinese women's football team catch up? At the post-match press conference of the battle between China and South Korea on November 11, the head coach of the Chinese women's football team, Shui Qingxia, bluntly said that through the competition, it can be seen that the gap between the Chinese women's football team and the world's first-class level is mainly in youth training. She believes that youth training is the main direction of the future development of women's football. "If we really calm down and deal with some details, the Chinese women's football team can still go in the right direction."
As said, throughout this year's competition, the Chinese women's football team not only needs to keep up with the world-class level in the training quality of young players, but also has a lot of room for improvement in many aspects such as the training system, league foundation, and player career development. The construction of the football system is not an overnight effort, and the performance of the Chinese women's football team in the "three major tests" this year is enough to sound the alarm.
It must be noted that the fighting spirit of "Sonorous Rose" never giving up still exists, which is still the advantage of the Chinese women's football team to start again. In the Olympic preliminaries, Wu Chengshu, Zhang Linyan, Shen Mengyu and other foreign players also contributed outstanding performances, and "going out" will definitely be an important part of the restart of the Chinese women's football team.
After an early start to the Olympic Games, the girls will return to their respective clubs to continue playing. Although Paris has been missed, the flame of hope for the re-emergence of the Chinese women's football team should be pinned on every female football player who is buried in the future. (ENDS)