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Recently, Tang Jiali, who traveled to the Tottenham Hotspur Women's Football Club in the English Premier League, has become the focus of attention. In the third round of the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Reading, Tang Jia Li came on as a substitute and made an assist in just two minutes. In her Tottenham debut, she played a friendly match against Shen Mengyu's Scottish Premier League side Celtic, where Tang scored a goal on her debut to help her team beat their opponents 6-1. Shen Mengyu also contributed an assist for Celtic in that game. Obviously, the Chinese women's soccer players' overseas trip was quite successful. So why is it easier for Chinese women's soccer players to become the mainstay of their teams than men's soccer? Why do they have a higher success rate in staying overseas?
In fact, Chinese women's soccer is still one of the top teams in Asia. The gap with European soccer powerhouses is minimal. There are two main reasons for the poor performance of the Chinese women's soccer team in this year's Women's Olympic Games regular season: first, the participating teams are not the strongest lineups; and second, the fate factor occupies a large portion of the Olympics.
Any strong soccer team will have losses and bad luck at times. We can't completely dismiss the progress of the Chinese women's soccer team just because they didn't achieve the desired results in the main round of the Tokyo Olympics. As a matter of fact, in this year's National Games, where teams featuring players from the Olympic Games competed with provincial and municipal teams, we found that there are still many outstanding soccer stars in China. For example, players such as Zhang Linyan, Ma Xiaoxu, and Gu Yasha were not selected for the Olympic regular team. And the excellent foreign players Shen Mengyu and Tang Jiali also did not play with the team in the Olympic Games.
China's women's soccer team scored the first goal in an away match against Australia in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and finally drew 1-1 with Australia's women's soccer team, which was ranked 7th in the world at that time. At that time, the Chinese women's soccer team was playing on the road and was quarantined after arriving in Australia due to the impact of the epidemic, and lacked of training with the ball, but still drew the opponent on the road, which fully demonstrated the strength of the Chinese women's soccer team.
The Chinese women's soccer team won the Olympic Games against South Korea with a score of 4-3, and won the ticket to the main round of the Olympic Games. We can't completely dismiss the strength of the Chinese women's soccer team just because they didn't perform well in the main round of the Olympics. Our Chinese women's soccer team is still one of the top teams in Asia.
It can even be said that the women's soccer lineup we formed in the Olympic qualifiers may not be the strongest lineup of Chinese women's soccer. This is because there are too many good domestic women's soccer players. We can see this from the National Games. Therefore, when our women's soccer players Tang Jiali and Shen Mengyu performed well in their stay in the ocean, they were warmly pursued by domestic fans. The overall strength of the Chinese men's soccer team has not reached such a high level in Asia as the Chinese women's soccer team, so it is not easy for Chinese men's soccer players to gain a firm foothold in the team on staying abroad.
The overall strength of the Chinese women's soccer team is still very strong. In the group of players from the 04 age group to the 05 age group, they are the first batch of players after the Football Association started to vigorously develop school soccer. We have developed both men's and women's soccer in terms of soccer development. In terms of international women's soccer development, although we started later than men's soccer, we did not start late in developing women's soccer. This is because we have kept up with the construction of our youth training system, which has made the overall strength and basic skills of Chinese women's soccer players stronger.
It can even be said that if we can select the best players in the country to form a team, then we are fully capable of competing with the world's top teams and the gap is not that big. Even if the players can get good training, we can fully reach the international top level.
We also hope that Shen Mengyu and Tang Jiali and other players who stay in the world can drive more Chinese women's soccer girls to Europe. We also hope that Chinese women's soccer is getting better and better.
Why do you think it is easier for Chinese women's soccer players to stay abroad successfully than men's soccer players? Where do you think China's women's soccer team could rank internationally if they formed the strongest squad? Please leave your views in the comments section below.
