On the night of March 31st, the fifth China Golden Ball Award ceremony opened in grand style. Wu Lei and Wang Frost were honored to win the Golden Ball Award for men's and women's football respectively, while Zhu Chenjie and Hao Wei were honored with the Golden Boy Award and Golden Marshal Award for the best young player and the best coach respectively. Du Liang of Hebei Shijiazhuang team was lucky enough to take the futsal trophy; Shui Qingxia, the head coach who just led the women's football team to win the Asian Cup, was also awarded the special prize of the organizing committee of this year's Golden Ball Award.
However, when the results were announced, it was a great irony for the national soccer team of the year. The men's soccer team took four of the five major awards, which was clearly far from the expectations of the fans. In contrast, the women's soccer team has reaped more honors in the past year, but in this selection, apart from Wang Frost, who won the Women's Golden Ball Award, players such as Shui Qingxia, Wang Shanshan, and Tang Jiali all failed to win.
Some fans have pointed out that Wang Frost's winning the Women's Golden Ball Award is well deserved, because I am afraid that women's soccer will get nothing if this award is given to men's soccer. This reflects that our women's football has not been duly recognized.
Fan Buzz: Ballon d'Or Selection Criteria Disappointing
The Ballon d'Or, the country's first annual best-of-the-best selection award organized by a media initiative, has been officially selected since 2017, and has been fairly smooth in previous years. But against the backdrop of our men's soccer team suffering a total collapse, this year's selection seems particularly ironic. Especially on February 1, China's men's football team lost to Vietnam in the Asian Cup and defeated Oman in the final match of the 12-team tournament, so the selection is even more disgraceful.
Many fans believe that this award should be more in favor of women's football rather than men's football. The performance of our men's soccer team has long been disappointing to the fans, and actually give so many awards to the men's soccer team, which is really hard for people to accept. After all, the women's soccer team won the Asian Cup, whether it is Shui Qingxia, Wang Frost, Wang Shanshan, Tang Jiali or young players Zhang Linyan, should have the opportunity to compete for the award, and should not only give Wang Frost a women's Golden Ball Award.
Some fans have said that if the Women's Golden Globe hadn't been awarded only to female soccer players, perhaps the award wouldn't even have been given to women's soccer. This makes people feel very cold. It is important to know who fights for the honor of Chinese soccer in the world game, but the women's football is ignored in the evaluation of the award. In the Asian Cup final, Zhang Linyan scored the equalizing goal for the women's soccer team, and she deserves the Golden Boy Award more than Zhu Chenjie.
Last season, Hao Wei led Shandong Luneng to win the "Double Crown" in the Chinese Super League and the FA Cup, which was also Hao Wei's personal success in defending the award. However, fans believe that it would be more convincing if Shui Qingxia won the award, as she led the team to the National Games Women's Football Championship and led the girls back to the top of Asia after 16 years during the Chinese New Year, which is even more exciting.
There should have been three awards for women's soccer, but only one was given to Shui Qingxia, and the organizing committee temporarily added a special Golden Globe organizing committee award, probably due to public controversy. Obviously, this award does not live up to its name and has no practical significance, and is more like a consolation prize for Shui Qingxia. In this regard, many fans believe that the criteria of the selection committee of the Golden Globe Award is disappointing, and Shui Qingxia can't win the award even though she has led the team with excellent results. If we are so deceitful in this kind of award, it is really disappointing and sad, and also makes us feel a bit self-deceived.
China's women's soccer team wins the Asian Cup. AFP photo
Fan Buzz: Ballon d'Or Selection Criteria Disappointing
Wang Frost calls on fans to give the same attention to China's men's soccer team
After the award, Wang Frost accepted the interview, said that can be the fourth time to win the Women's Golden Ball Award, very happy, thanks to the fans and friends of the support and concern, as well as the media people to her recognition, they will work harder for the women's soccer team to win more honors, as a way to return the support of the fans.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Frost also called on fans to promote women's football as a sport, so that people from all walks of life can recognize female football players and expect us to get more attention.
It is not difficult to see that Wang Frost does not care what kind of awards she personally won, she would like to see female soccer players can get the same attention and treatment as male soccer players, because the female soccer results are excellent but only a small award, while the male soccer team took a breath to take away the four awards, which is not fair to the female soccer girls.
