It was the first time in the history of sports in China that the impressive sports team that created the "100 wins" in international competitions was not a baseball team or a basketball team, but the Chinese Mulan women's soccer team of the 1970s spanning the 1990s. This past November 21st, this Chinese maiden team that once threatened international soccer had a very special and glorious anniversary for them. However, I'm afraid that even the soccer community would have forgotten about this historical anniversary if Fat hadn't deliberately reminded everyone about it.
This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the Mulan Women's Football Team's unique record of reaching the World Cup, but who remembers that November 21st was the anniversary of the Chinese Mulan Women's Football Team's victory in the World Cup's Elite Eight?
It was in 1121, in the final game of the 1991 Canton Women's World Preliminary Round, that our Magnolia team squeezed out the Brazilian women's soccer team (who are now the second strongest team in the world) by beating Nigeria by two goals. We managed to get into the top 8 of the world women's soccer team.
In today's world mainstream soccer playing field, reaching the World Conference is a global dream. Our men's soccer strength is very different, the dream construction is still far away. When the world of women's soccer is still emerging, women's soccer only seized an opportunity, fortunate enough to break into the first women's soccer world in Guangdong that year, also entered the semi-finals. However, the performance of our women's soccer team fell straight down, and we had no chance to stand on the stage of the Women's World Cup again.
The Chinese Mulan Women's Soccer Team, which pioneered the proud record of "100 wins", has had a glorious vicissitudes of history, creating numerous achievements for the country. As early as 1975, the Taiwan Provincial Women's Football Team pioneered the training of the Asian Pioneer Team, which was named China Mulan Women's Football Team by the late General Cheng Wei-Yuan, the former chairman of the Football Association. Since then, "Mulan" has become synonymous with Chinese women's soccer. From 1977, when the team started to participate in international soccer matches, to the East Asia Women's Soccer Qualifying Tournament, after 52 important international matches both at home and abroad, the Mulan Women's Soccer Team has participated in 244 international matches, winning 136, 29 and 79 victories, scoring 608 goals, and conceding 357 goals.
In the 1999 Asian women's football preliminaries in the last game, China defeated India, created in the international competition to go up the record of "100 wins" mark, in the process of the national women's football team, before and after the 52 times of Mulan international football combination, there have been 215 women's international football team to play for the country.
Mulan's glory days were from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s, when the team won three Asian championships, two Oceania championships, and one Taipei World Invitational Women's Soccer Championship. And the scenery during the period has been across Asia and Oceania two continents international women's soccer world, only Zhou Taiying (see below), Luo Juyin and Li Meiqin three people, at the same time through the Asian tournament and Oceania tournament to win the standard of the history of witness, the two continents between the tournament, our country has eight years due to the membership of the relationship, once out of the Asian tournament.
Women's football competition environment has changed, so that Mulan returned to Asia, it is difficult to create a championship record, fans must recognize that the early Asian women's football, due to our earlier development, at that time, other parts of the foreign team training women's football team is not yet common, the face of only Thailand, India, Hong Kong and other rivals at that time, Mulan a little bit of training will be able to win in the year's international matches, but nowadays it's very different, the mainland China, Japan, North and South Korea and Australia, But nowadays, the soccer environment in mainland China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Australia is much better than ours, and the intensity to achieve good results has been greatly increased.
Since the 1991 Women's World Cup, Magnolia's record has gone way down. For starters, they are ranked fourth in Asia. Only in the top three in the South, South Korea and Japan could they be ranked in the top three without playing in a tournament. It wasn't until 1999 when the new Asian women's soccer team, New Magnolia, took over (see below) that they returned to the Asian double. However, in recent years, we may not even be able to win against Vietnam, Thailand or even Myanmar or Jordan, apart from the original top five. In recent years, we have qualified for back-to-back Asian Cups and Olympics, and have even lost our top eight Asian women's soccer ranking.
The first generation of Mulan female international footballers such as Wu Zhaorong, Huang Yingxue, Zhuang Xiuri, etc., has long been retired to serve the crowd, the most famous Mulan female international footballers, "Asian women's football shooting foot" Zhou Taiying is a member of the second generation, Mulan injection of aboriginal women's international footballers began in 1980 when the East Businessmen dominated the country, only Blue Meihui, Ma Xiongqiu, Liu Yuju, and so on a number of excellent aboriginal girls to become a key to the Mulan team, Huang Chunlan, He Menghua, and other later generation of international footballers Excellent, is the first batch of Hualien A-beauty international footballers.
The most memorable win in the history of Chinese women's soccer was in 1991 when the team entered the inaugural Women's World Cup, and had to win by two goals in the last match of the preliminary round against Nigeria in order to qualify for the world's top eight; as a result, only five minutes into the match, Chinese goalkeeper Lin Huifang was sent off for a foul for rushing out of the penalty area to stop the opposing team from taking a one-goal shot, and she was given a red card. With one player missing, the Chinese team played with great fighting spirit and won the match by two goals with Lin Meijun and Zhou Taiying breaking the net, and successfully entered into the final eight of the World Cup.
