In the distant history, the battlefield was filled with smoke and soldiers occasionally kicked the decapitated heads of their enemies in the heat of battle, which gradually evolved into a primitive impulse. As early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Cuju was born, the Han Dynasty became a way to strengthen the body, and the Song Dynasty had Cuju organization and professional actors. Sculptures and murals from the ancient Greek and Inca civilizations also record scenes of people kicking round objects with their feet. It wasn't until 1863, when England's first soccer association (the FA) was formed, that the rules of the game were standardized and soccer became a national sport.
Sports, all of them, require the investment of social resources. With limited national resources, how can we achieve good results in competitions? It is necessary to concentrate resources and find some cold and niche programs to make breakthroughs, such as table tennis and diving in China; archery in South Korea; and weightlifting in Iran and North Korea. When there is a mature system, train a group of high-level athletes, and then cultivate sports culture and mass base. The sports, culture and entertainment industries are not separated, they are all determined by the economic base.
When it comes to soccer, we have to mention the source that brings us joy and trouble - our men's soccer team. China
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The ball has not always been so, at least a few decades ago, China's men's football in Asia is still at the top level, even Chairman Mao is very optimistic. However, after so many years, but even Syria, Iraq, Thailand are playing hard, not from their own reasons really can not be said. On the contrary, China's national women's soccer team, founded in 1983, nicknamed the "Clanging Roses", has given our fans many surprises and touches.
our country
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At the beginning of the team's construction, the women's volleyball team swept the international stage. Although the training conditions were exceptionally difficult and few people paid attention to them, they shocked the international community when they took the field.In 1986, China's
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For the first time, it won the Asian Cup with a clean sweep; seven consecutive titles in the Women's Asian Cup from 1986 to 1999; three consecutive titles in the Women's Asian Games in 1990, 1994 and 1998; and our women's soccer team was recognized as the best sports team in Asia for three consecutive years in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
At the end of the 1980s, Liu Ailing, Sun Wen, Zhao Lihong and Gao Hong joined one after another, and China's
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The main lineup of the Glorious Decade takes shape. In the nineties, our
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Standing out on the international stage. runner-up in the 1994 U.S. Women's International Cup, runner-up in the 1996 Olympic Women's Soccer Games in Atlanta, and runner-up in the 1999 Women's International Cup in France.
Entering the new century, our country
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The players are not young enough and their strength is rapidly declining. Low attention, poor training conditions, low income, and lack of reserves have seriously hindered the
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sustainable development. After that, the country
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After being swept 8-0 by Germany in the Olympics, the country languished in the doldrums for more than a decade. won the Women's Asian Cup again in 2006. third place in the Women's Asian Cup in April 2018. Seriously, our country
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It's not easy to hold on to the current level of competition. Just look at the soccer population reserve.
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Youth training is inching up. Our economy has gone up, but the children are sleeping later and later. There is no time to play soccer between classes, and they continue to pick the light to do their homework after school. Even if there are no classes on the weekends, and parents are frantically enrolling their children in tutorials to learn to dance and play the piano, how many parents are willing to train their children (especially girls) to play soccer?
America's "soccer moms."
The sport of women's soccer has been expanding at a rapid rate in the United States since 1991, when the U.S. team won the first Women's International Cup. Currently there are 18 million soccer players, 7.5 million of whom are women. The U.S. women's soccer population is as high as 3 million, a number that is beyond the reach of our women's soccer team, which has only 1,000 registered players.
With the rise of the middle class in the United States after World War II, sports (especially team sports) were emphasized in the education of children as a way of learning the competitive beginnings of their future lives. The children played soccer, and the mothers were willing to go to the front and back, and there were "soccer moms". These mothers, most of whom are between 35 and 45 years old, dress casually, do not wear makeup, and drive their children to the stadium for practice after school in minivans or SUVs.
In terms of professional soccer, the current U.S. women's soccer league is called the "National Women's Soccer League (nwsl)", with nine teams that play at U.S. colleges and universities. Each year the U.S. Soccer Federation publishes a 52-player national team roster. The U.S. Soccer Federation pays the salaries of the players on the roster. Major League Soccer for women has a salary limit of up to $200,000 per year. In the general income of female athletes is not high in the soccer international, the United States women's soccer rely on strong commercial packaging and the support of the federation, to become an "anomaly".
Japanese "Yamato Nadeshiko"
In 1991, the Japanese women's soccer team participated in the first Women's World Championship. In Foshan, Guangdong Province, they lost to Brazil, Sweden, and the United States in the group stage without winning a single game or scoring a single goal, netting 12 goals, and thus ended their first trip to the World Championships in disgrace.
Japanese women's soccer was started in schools, and in 1981, the Japanese women's national team was established. At the end of the 80's, the "Japan Women's Football League" was established, which was a very amateur league. 91 World Championships, the Japanese women's football team lost all the three matches, realized that there was a huge gap between themselves and the top level of the international community, which became the starting point for the development of the Japanese women's football team. 1994, the women's football league short name was changed to "L League", which corresponded to the newly established men's football league "J League". In 1994, the short name of the women's soccer league was changed to "L-League", which corresponded to the newly established men's soccer league J-League, with L being the first letter of the English word lady.
At that time, Japanese women's soccer clubs were basically relying on corporate funding to survive, and during the economic boom, a women's soccer club was nothing to corporations, but in 1998, when Japan's economic bubble burst and the country entered the "disappearing 30 years", women's soccer clubs became a burden to corporations, and in 2003, women's soccer clubs hit their lowest point in history. In 2003, Japanese women's soccer was at its lowest point in history. The Japan Football Association (JFA) joined forces with prefectural associations to bring women's soccer back to schools, establishing women's soccer clubs and interest classes in schools, and high school women's soccer tournaments between schools.
"Nadeshiko (なでしこ) is an herb that describes the gentleness of Japanese women in Japanese. In order to expand the influence of Japanese women's soccer, the Japanese women's soccer team, which had a good performance in the Athens Olympics, was also named "Yamato Nadeshiko", and the L-League was renamed the Nadeshiko League.
The average height of Japanese women is only about 160cm, and the strength of confrontation is far inferior to that of European and American players. At the individual level, Japanese female soccer players can hardly find any hardware advantage. The JFA decided to put women's soccer on the same passing path as men's soccer. From the national team to the club, from the adult team to the ladder team, we follow the same set of training syllabus for tactical training. By logging in to the JFA, you can find detailed data on the Japanese women's soccer team's various matches. This includes information on the women's high school league in the school soccer category, and even tournaments at the 30 and 40+ levels. In addition to the intention of the professionalization of the women's soccer league, the Japanese women's soccer team also encourages its own players to stay in the world, to the United States or Europe, these high-level leagues to train their own "Overseas Strengthening Designation Guidelines", where the women's soccer team to go to the top ten international rankings of the national league football players in Japan, you can get 200,000 yen of the first reserve and 10,000 yen per day of living Subsidies. Since the league is not professionalized, the vast majority of Japanese women's soccer players have another job. A life of working during the day and training at night is basically their normal state.
In the 2011 Women's International Cup in Germany, the Japanese women's soccer team, who were not favored to make it all the way to the final, faced their old rivals, the United States, who they had never beaten before, and fell behind twice and then equalized twice, and finally beat the United States in the penalty kicks, and finally won the International Cup title.
On March 22, 2021, bbc and sky announced earlier that they had reached an agreement with the FA: they decided to buy the broadcasting rights for the Women's Premier League for a three-year contract from 2021 to 2024 worth a total of 24 million pounds (210 million yuan). This is the largest television broadcast contract in the history of women's soccer. The Women's Premier League is on its way to becoming the number one international women's league level, following the example of men's soccer.
Put in 20 years ago, both the league and the national team, our women's football are "hanging" England women's football. As a long-term Asian women's football first league, women's football Super League television broadcasting rights, originally hoped to sell a good price in 2015 after the soccer reform. The result of the ambitious LeTV, won the title sponsorship, commercial development and signal production rights of the Women's Super League for five seasons from 2015-2019, and then there is no more. 2019 Women's Super League kicked off in July, and ended in September. 2020 Women's Super League kicked off in August, and ended in October. The Women's Premier League has a very low televised value and does not contribute much revenue to the clubs. With the European soccer giants, began to pay attention to the women's soccer "blood transfusion", China's women's soccer this ball will be more and more difficult to play.
There are usually about 40,000 people at a Beijing Guoan game, but it's not uncommon for a Beijing women's soccer game to be watched by a hundred or so people. China's women's soccer team has participated in the International Cup 8 times and entered the Olympic Games 5 times. According to the latest international rankings, China's women's soccer team is ranked 14, China's men's soccer team is ranked 77. Until 2015, most of the women's players were paid 3,000 yuan per month; the training ground is often a withered and overgrown land; to go out to the game, the food is a three-vegetable and one-vegetable; to live in a small room with moldy floors, but also three or four people to squeeze a squeeze, and sometimes even the most basic hot water can't be supplied.
Competitive sport is, to put it bluntly, still a resource to be funded. 2019 champions Jiangsu Suning women's soccer team are expected to return to the Sports Bureau with Suning's divestment, while 2016-18 triple champions Dalian Quanjian have been disbanded. With no broadcast revenue, and the tournament system since the outbreak costing clubs ticket revenue, and on-site advertising revenue, how do clubs go about making a profit? How can the club make a profit? How can it ensure the stability of the team and the normal training of the players, and how can it attract more fresh blood to join the soccer business? It's really hard for our "Clanging Roses", I'm rooting for you!
Our women's soccer group stage matches are scheduled as follows:
July 21 vs. Brazil (Miyagi, Japan)
July 24 vs. Zambia (Miyagi, Japan)
July 27 vs. Netherlands (Yokohama, Japan)
