The two matchups between the Chinese women's football team and the United States women's football team ended with two consecutive defeats. There are joys and regrets, and there are losses and improvements. crossed the ocean and lost in a row, but why continue to go to foreign wars?
As we all know, today's Chinese football will stay away from world football for nearly 4 years after missing the Paris Olympics. Now only the men's team has plans to prepare for the World Qualifiers and the Asian Cup, while the women's team has few world-class matches to play.
In fact, not only the women's football team, but also the men's football team has almost zero recent international matches. The earliest match will not be until the second leg of the World Preliminary Tournament in March and April next year. Therefore, today's Chinese football can be described as the darkest moment, and it has encountered a gap period, such an embarrassing situation makes Chinese football feel at risk of being on the edge of the cliff again.
On the one hand, today's players are getting old, and at the moment of their first generation, there are no more opportunities to represent the national team in world competitions, and when they are on the verge of the end of their careers, there will be a new round of world competition cycle, and if they are really far away from world football, let alone improving, I am afraid that it will be farther and farther away.
The gap is obvious, as can be seen from the men's football team facing South Korea in the World Preliminary Tournament. In the previous battle between China and South Korea, it was more or less able to play against each other, especially the national team led by Mr. Lippi, which once defeated the South Korean men's football team led by Son Xingmin 1-0, but time has passed, and the current men's football team and the South Korean team are worlds apart.
In the face of the world-class South Korean team, all the Chinese team can do is to shrink their defense, find an opportunity to play a defensive counterattack, there is no way to fight, and finally lose 0-3 to the opponent. The pre-game prediction of "sending flower baskets" style ridicule did not appear.
The gentle and calm loss of the whole game, without even the basic smell of gunpowder, was interpreted by many football celebrities as a convincing admission of defeat. Mr. Huang Jianxiang, a well-known football commentator, also expressed his own opinions, and he also believed that it was the all-round backward performance of Chinese football in the face of world football that made today's national team uncompetitive.
Coincidentally, women's football is also being abandoned by world football. In many rounds against world-class teams, they have not been able to play a pleasing women's football offensive, and even on the field and the men's football team have fallen to a point, only defensive counterattacks, and no technical tactics and tactics can be seen.
If you don't take the initiative to integrate into the world arena, four years will be unimaginable for Chinese football. So some people asked, is it worth it to run so far to be a sparring partner for others?In the long run, the answer is undoubtedly yes.
Constantly playing against the world's strongest teams, discovering shortcomings, and making up for deficiencies is of great significance to the current women's football players. In the past, we always liked to laugh at the vulnerability of the men's football team with the proud record of the women's football team. But the wheel of time has come to the current intersection, and the women's football team we are proud of has gradually lost its halo.
How can we not be heartbroken. Therefore, there is a gap period, but the players and the sport cannot be empty, and they still need to fight. At this time, the players may wish to send more abroad, there are not enough foreign players, the league is not strong enough, and the training and literacy of the players are not strong enough.
Then you might as well take this opportunity to let the players really go out and feel the forefront of world football, which will be a clear choice of practical significance for Chinese players.