With the bell ringing on August 17th, the flame of the Women's World Cup was gradually extinguished. China's women's soccer team only achieved one win and two losses in the group stage, ranked third in the group, and unfortunately stopped, writing the bleakest page in the team's history. After this game, two international players have spoken out, questioned the national team selection mechanism, the Chinese women's soccer team once again pushed to the public opinion of the wave of public opinion.
On August 16th, Zhao Yujie, who is far away from home, made a post on social media in which she showed a series of weight data of world-class female soccer players, and bluntly said that these overweight players are difficult to meet the selection criteria of our national team, and that they are likely to be the ones who will be eliminated in the first round. The implication is that the selection criteria for our women's soccer team seems to be closely related to weight, and overweight players are difficult to play effectively. Zhao Yujie's comments are undoubtedly a public questioning of the women's soccer selection system.
On Aug. 3, Xiao Yuyi posted a message on social media, "I will be following the bright moon ......." As the winner of the Asia Cup, Xiao Yuyi has made few appearances in this World Cup. After the team's elimination, some voices questioned why head coach Shui Qingxia did not activate players such as Tang Jiali and Xiao Yuyi, who shone in the Asian Cup. According to Soccer News, because our team in this World Cup, the main defensive tactics, and Xiao Yuyi is more adept at attacking, so in the defensive end of the short board, so did not get the opportunity to play.
Xiao Yuyi's comments on social media have exposed the conflicts within the Chinese women's soccer team. As we all know, the conflict between her and her coach is almost publicized, which is rare in the history of women's soccer.
On August 8, a week after the women's soccer team went out of the tournament, Tianjin media outlet Daily News disclosed that a player had refused to take part in warm-ups during the World Cup, and was in a serious mood to confront the coaching staff. The player, who had trained abroad for a long time but was dropped from this World Cup, felt she was being ignored by the coaching staff and was so depressed that she even refused to warm up for the game, the report said.
China's women's soccer team bid farewell to the World Cup with the worst result in history, and internal problems gradually surfaced. Facing all kinds of difficulties, we can't help but ask: what happened to the Chinese women's soccer team? When summarizing the reasons for the failure of this World Cup, we mentioned the physical quality, technical and tactical level, the development of ecology and other aspects, but looking back, should we reflect on our own problems? Were we focused enough? Are we truly united?
Time is running out for the Chinese women's soccer team to solve these problems, as qualifying matches for the Asian Games and the Olympics are about to follow.
