The Chinese women's soccer players have now returned to their respective clubs to prepare for the upcoming Chinese Super League. The players will regroup in early September to prepare for two very important matches. One is the Asian Games match and the other is the second stage of the Asian Qualifying Tournament for the Olympic Games. This stage of the tournament will determine the qualification for the Paris Olympics next year. Therefore, the Chinese women's soccer team doesn't have much time to heal the wounds after the tragic loss in the World Cup. We need to pick ourselves up and get ready for these two matches. This will have a very important impact on what kind of report card the Chinese women's soccer team can achieve in this Olympic cycle.
The overall performance of the Chinese women's soccer team has been relatively poor in this Olympic cycle, with the exception of the Asian Cup, which was won early last year. Head coach Shui Qingxia has also been under tremendous pressure. However, that pressure seems to be continuing. It is because of her poor performance at the World Cup and some of her hires that do not fit the mainstream public view that she has suffered the same kind of online violence as Jia Xiuquan. It's a helpless thing to do. After all, very few fans actually pay attention to the Chinese women's soccer team. As our Chinese women's soccer player Wang Frost said, most women's soccer fans are there to berate the man of the match, so they simply don't understand the situation. They also speculate and freely criticize the hiring of the head coach. This is a major public opinion environment in Chinese soccer. The level of Chinese soccer is poor, the level of Chinese fans is not as good as our national team, and Chinese fans simply don't deserve a good team.
Now, when the Chinese women's soccer team is in the same situation, one of our failed international women's soccer players recently posted a public document on social media that makes this public pressure even more detrimental to our team. This is Zhao Yujie, a women's international soccer player who was eliminated before the World Cup. She posted a set of photos on her personal social media account of the main players of the European and American women's national soccer teams. Why publish their weight? Precisely because the selection criteria for the Chinese women's soccer team has been exposed before, and one of the reasons is that overweight people are not allowed to be selected. Zhao Yujie seems to have been eliminated for this reason.
Zhao Yujie previously selected for the Chinese women's football training list, follow the Chinese women's football team to Europe to train, but also as the starting identity of the warm-up matches, to be honest, her warm-up performance is relatively good, but eventually brushed down, it seems that she is not satisfied with the system, the selection of the Chinese women's football team, the standard of employment is also a great suspicion of these European and American women's football team is also a major European and American women's football team's body weight, proving that weight can not be used as a measure of the whether to enter the national team's only standard.
One of the players who still draws attention to the fact that he is doing very well in this World Cup. James, a winger from the England women's soccer team, is nearly 10 kilograms overweight. According to the standard of the Chinese women's soccer team, such a good player cannot enter the national team.
The release of this document also caught the attention of fans. Many fans even suspected that the Chinese women's soccer team had infighting over hiring during the World Cup. We don't know if the infighting existed, but it's clear that this criterion did cause dissatisfaction among many women soccer players. Weight can indeed be used as a measurement, but using it as the only measurement is a bit much. It's acceptable to ask for a house and a car when talking about getting married these days, but the point is not to make that the only criteria. You can't choose to marry someone just because they have a big house or a nice car, that's obviously wrong. The same is true for women's soccer. Weight can be used as an important reference index to measure entry into the national team, but it is inappropriate to exclude a portion of athletes from the national team just by using a uniform method.
