At 20:00 Beijing time on the evening of July 22 (tonight), the first round of Group D of the group stage of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup kicked off at Perth Stadium, Australia, with China's women's national team taking on Denmark's women's football team from Europe.
The Chinese Super League was forced to make way as the CCTV sports channel (CCTV5) started its national TV broadcast 25 minutes earlier! Central Television Video (CCTV sports client CCTV5APP), Migu video and Aiki Sports live on the Internet and cell phones. It can fully meet the viewing needs of fans.
Like the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's basketball team, the Chinese women's soccer team usually receives little attention, with matches at all levels such as the Chinese Women's Super League going unattended, and attendance rates very different from those of the Chinese Super League. But every time a game is won, many so-called Chinese women's soccer fans suddenly appear. Of course, their attention is only to see the news of the victory and send it to their friends circle, and by the way to scold the national football team. When they lose, they turn a blind eye, not to mention paying attention to the lives of the Chinese women's soccer players.
Despite winning the Asian Cup in 2022, which was lost for 16 years, the overall standard of Chinese women's soccer has actually declined in tandem with that of Chinese men's soccer over the past two decades.
Currently, the Chinese women's soccer team is ranked 14th in the FIFA World Ranking, while their opponents, the Danish women's soccer team, is ranked 13th in the world. Among the other two opponents in the group, the new European Cup champion England women's soccer team is ranked fourth in the world, and the Haitian women's soccer team, which is advancing to the Women's World Cup for the first time, is only ranked 53rd. According to the schedule, the top two in the group advance to the round of 16, and the Chinese women's soccer team's goal before the tournament was to get out of the group. If you want to achieve this set goal, you can't afford to lose this game, or at least win a draw.
Historically, the Chinese women's soccer team and the Danish women's soccer team have met four times in official matches. The first match between the two teams took place on November 19, 1991. In the inaugural Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's soccer team drew 2-2 at home against the Danish women's soccer team.
In the second Women's World Cup in 1995, the Chinese women's soccer team beat their opponents 3-1 with goals from Sun Wen, Wei Haiying and Shi Guihong.Sun Qingmei scored two goals in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Fan Yunjie, Liu Ailing and Shi Guihong each scored a goal as the Chinese women beat Denmark 5-1. The most recent meeting between the two sides was on September 12, 2007, in the group stage of the Fifth Women's World Cup, where the Chinese women's soccer team narrowly beat their opponents 3-2 with goals from Bi Yan, Song Xiaoli and Li Jie.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Wen, who holds an important position in the CFA, will be on hand to supervise the game.
A record of 3 wins and 1 draw has become the only advantage for the Chinese women's soccer team. With the booming of women's soccer in Europe, the Danish women's soccer team is not what it used to be.
China's women's soccer team, coached by Shui Qingxia, has sent out almost all of its best players, with Wang Shanshan and Wang Shuang, the king-bomb duo, leading the way. Jia Xiuquan era captain Wu Haiyan and young player Zhang Linyan, who shone in the Asian Cup, are likely to be in the starting lineup. Women's Super League champions Lou Jiahui, Zhang Rui and Gu Yasha from Wuhan's Chegujiang Women's Football Club and Shen Mengyu, who plays in Europe, are also stalwarts of China's women's soccer team.
I hope the fighting spirit of the Clanging Roses will help the Chinese women's soccer team get off to a good start, Go China Women's Soccer!
