At 23:00 on August 1, the temperature of Hindmarsh Stadium was less than 10 degrees. The dazzling 1 to 6 on the LED screen has reduced this blessing land of Chinese women’s football into the past.
For this fiasco, Shui Qingxia, the coach of the Chinese women’s football team, first thanked the players for their full efforts and expressed what they needed to summarize. At the same time, he repeatedly emphasized one sentence:
“I hope more little girls will participate in football in the future.”
A few short words revealed the truth behind the score.
Football population
8000 VS 1.8 million
After the game, a senior women’s football practitioner told us a set of data: “At present, the number of registered women’s football in China is about 8,000. Our opponent England is 1.8 million.”
In the final of the Women’s FA Cup held this year, the number of people watching the game reached 77390. Due to the competition system, the audience present in the final of the Chinese Women’s Football Association Cup was zero.
On the court, Chinese fans saw an equal battle of 11 people on both sides, but behind it stood the difference between the pyramid system of thousands of people and millions of people.
Choose 23 from 8,000 people and 23 from 1.8 million people. How fierce is the competition? How big is the talent pool left for domestic football? You can see it at a glance.
Before the start of the match, I interviewed England fans with the camera and asked them to predict the score. The fans in front of the camera hesitated for a long time. Instead, they shouted directly outside the camera: “Chinese women’s football is 0 to 7.”
Many Chinese professional women’s football players can take their career path almost from pure love and love. Most of the initial football enlightenment has nothing to do with their parents, which is often the opposite of men’s football players. On the contrary, after they like football and are determined to become professional players, their parents will occasionally dissuade them.
Everything is inferior, only reading high. If football can be linked to education and help in the future study, some parents will be willing to let their daughters participate, otherwise, we can only rely on the children’s subjective initiative or the Enlightenment coach to go to the vast vast ocean to fish out these unprocessed Jade that are about to sink to the bottom of the sea.
Therefore, the only way for Chinese women’s football team to return to the level of top-class teams in international competitions, Olympic Games and World Cup is to let more girls participate in football. This is what this industry insider said “.
Employment dispute
Data determines everything
Then what is “Ben” is naturally the big family of Chinese women’s football.
In another press conference, England coach Wigman talked about the tactics of Chinese women’s football. “They were forced to rob and oppressed, threatened but not persistent enough, and then returned to their usual style of play.”
At the scene of the game, many times we can see that the forecourt player of the Chinese women’s football team are desperately grabbing the ball, such as Lou Jiahui and Wu Chengshu. In contrast, England’s high-ranking grab is collective and lasts longer, which brings more mistakes and rights conversion of Chinese women’s football team. The moment of attack and defense conversion is often the peak period of goals and lost goals.
When I saw 32-year-old Lou Jiahui fight to double leg cramps in the 100th minute, no one was moved and no one was unsympathetic. This is the demonstration of women’s football spirit and the result of the accumulation of high-intensity running.
Unfortunately, there are too few players in the team who can continuously oppress the other side like director Lou and others.
So what is high-intensity running? According to the standard of women’s football industry, high-intensity running is when the speed exceeds 19 kilometers per hour. For the world’s top teams like England, the per capita high-intensity running is about 800 meters per game, and the height can reach more than 1,000 meters.
The average standard of high-intensity running of Chinese women’s football is about 600 meters. The best data in the team is left-back Chen Qiaozhu. Her high-intensity running can reach 900 meters, which is comparable to that of England. This is one of the reasons why she is not able to play in the World Cup in this position and can play 3 matches.
The level of high-intensity running data shows the change of competition rhythm on the court. On the premise of possessing technology, the women’s football team in England can run better. Naturally, they can control the competition and even change the rhythm as they like until their opponents can’t keep up with their pace. At this time, the defense rate of Chinese women’s football team will become lower and the score will be disappointing.
For this short board, as early as last winter’s training in Hainan, Shui Qingxia took 27 disciples to carry out harsh exercises. After tens of thousands of meters of training every day, the player finally couldn’t stand and collapsed to the ground. Some high-intensity runners usually only have tens of meters or even more than 100 meters, and later they gradually reached the level of 200 or 300 meters. The players who were originally at 200 or 300 can reach about 500 or 600 meters after these training sessions.
If the most basic average value of a player company cannot be reached, even if there is no better technology, can it still be played on the court? Like Ferrari, the engine is good, but if there is no oil, the car can’t run to share a bicycle.
For many coaches, players with the ability and attitude are always their favorites, such as Zhang Linyan and Wang Shanshan. Shui Qingxia is no exception. But if one person has the ability and no attitude, and the other person has the attitude and the tactical discipline is strong, how will you choose as a coach?
1 to 6 is not the end of the world. The work book that has been lying in the past is. Looking forward, winning is not arrogant, losing is not dismayed, and a better tomorrow for the Chinese women’s football team will come.
This is what this insider called “Ben”.
Xu Zexin/northwest grandstand
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