Women's football fiasco： the fighting spirit is valuable, but it is also urgent to make up the gap.

　　Original title: Women's football fiasco: The fighting spirit is very valuable, but it is also urgent to make up the gap.

　　After a 6-1 defeat to England, China women's football team bid farewell to the 2023 Women's World Cup, which is the first time in history that China women's football team failed to qualify for the group.

　　In an interview after the game, team member Wang Shuang couldn't help but sob: "We are not a particularly good role model." Shoupeng Wang said with tears, "I still hope that future children can play more exciting football." "I also hope that domestic coaches can train more children who can really play football, so that they will not be so embarrassed in future competitions representing the national team."

　　Sonorous roses, rainbows. China women's football team used to be the pride of Chinese people, but the cruel reality shattered the illusions of all people in the most decisive way. The choked Shoupeng Wang is heartbreaking, and her words are even more heartbreaking.

　　Throughout the game, although the women's football girls tried their best, they didn't give up when the score was behind. They once suppressed their opponents and pulled back a city. However, in the face of the huge strength gap of all-round backwardness, it is useless to rely solely on hard work. Statistics after the game show that the English women's football team has "crushed" the China women's football team-the ball control rate is 67% to 20% (another 13% is contested by the two teams), the number of shots is 17 to 7, and the number of shots is 7 to 3 ... Our players usually practice hard, even harder than those of any national team. This result is really sad.

　　A cruel game showed us the real gap between China women's football team and the top teams in the world, and we were convinced of the loss. Winning or losing is a common occurrence for military strategists, but if we want to regain our glory and catch up with the peak in the long-term competition, deep changes are indispensable. In addition to promoting more high-level players to study abroad, it is more necessary to vigorously develop domestic leagues and youth training to lay a solid foundation for domestic football.

　　Regrettably, although China has a professional women's football league at present, it has not reached the requirements of "professionalization" due to various factors. What is even more worrying is that there are not many girls playing football, which seriously restricts the development stamina of women's football.

　　Last year, Lishui team beat Huzhou team with an astonishing score of 44:0 in the second round of the Women's Football Group B Competition in the 17th Provincial Games of Zhejiang Province, which once caused heated public opinion. The reason for this disparity is that there are not many women's football units in Huzhou. The players who represent Huzhou team are all from Deqing County, and the team is hasty and mainly composed of ordinary students, while the rival Lishui team is a sports school student. The football contest of "real knife and real gun" between sports school students trained by professional football and pure amateur ordinary students finally kicked out a seemingly "fake ball" game.

　　It is a shame that a decent women's football team can't be formed in a city. Looking at a leopard in a tube, the problems reflected by it cannot be taken lightly. If this situation is not effectively reversed, can future children play more exciting football?

　　It has long been a consensus that we should start with dolls to revitalize football in China. Based on a deep understanding of developing sports for all, in 2015, the State Council issued the Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Football in China, proposing that there will be 20,000 schools with football characteristics in primary and secondary schools nationwide in 2020, 50,000 in 2025 and 50 million students. Although the development of campus football has been promoted to the height of "national policy", how to implement it still has a long way to go because of the lack of professional teachers and insufficient venues.

　　In the face of fiasco, we need to arouse deep reflection, but we should not sell ourselves short. China women's football team is not a person, not just a team, but a spirit, which is not so easy to be defeated. Many netizens said that although they lost the game, they could see that the women's football girls did their best and still loved to support women's football. Shoupeng Wang's choked words reflect the precious self-criticism spirit of women's football girls. This also enlightens public figures such as stars, what kind of example should they set, and whether they have "example consciousness", so they need to ask themselves frequently. Not only winning is a good example, but losing is not necessarily a bad thing. As long as we face up to the reality and face the difficulties, the sonorous rose will bloom again in the future. (Hu Xinhong)

　　Source: Dongfang.com.