On October 17, Oriental Sports Daily published journalist Ma Dexing's comments on the current situation of Chinese men's and women's soccer. He pointed out that the current performance of women's soccer has declined, and outsiders no longer compare it with men's soccer.
Looking at soccer in China, on the whole, we have encountered difficulties in terms of development paths, models and roads. This is not a wholesale rejection of the sport of soccer, much less a wholesale rejection of years of reform. Men's national team is certainly problematic, but if you look at the 18 strong pre-match and national team training AFC Champions League, as well as women's national team and clubs of the AFC Champions League performance, the problem is more and more prominent.
In the past, women's soccer received a lot of attention because of its good performance, but it was often regarded as the "supporting role" of men's soccer. The outside world has the impression that only when men's soccer is under pressure will women's soccer come to mind. However, in recent years, the performance of women's soccer has plummeted, and the prospect of future performance is worrying. As a result, when men's soccer is in trouble again, women's soccer is seldom mentioned.
Nevertheless, the women's soccer team did not stop the downward trend. In the men's soccer match against Australia, Wuhan JDU women's soccer team, the five-time champion, lost to the UAE women's soccer team. Facing the South Korean women's soccer champion Incheon Women's Angels, the team was completely passive, and despite the score of only 0-2, it is not too much to call it a fiasco. The sixth place of the Women's Super League was invited to participate in the Four Nations Tournament in Vietnam, but lost to two Vietnamese women's soccer clubs consecutively.
A weak foundation is like the earth shaking, and this simple truth has not been truly valued in the Chinese soccer world for many years. Since the professionalization of soccer, the purpose and motives of the parties concerned are impure, professionalism is only a means rather than an end, the purpose is to achieve results - the World Cup line! The 2002 World Cup historic line, once regarded as the results of reform. However, more than 20 years later, the results have been deteriorating, and even decent talent has not been developed. More disappointing is that the outside world always hope that one or two "anti-gambling" to change the status quo.
