On April 13th, China's women's football team broke out in adversity and beat South Korea's women's football team by 4-3 through two rounds of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament play-offs, thrillingly advancing to the main round of the Tokyo Olympics. The end of the Olympic qualifying tournament, like a flash of light in the dark night, heralding the next challenge of China's women's soccer team - World Cup qualifiers Asian region of the top 40 matches of the footsteps are approaching. On the morning of that day, the business cooperation and exchange meeting for the 40-team tournament in China kicked off in Suzhou.
At the meeting, He Xiaofeng, deputy secretary-general of the China Football Association, took the lead in unveiling the basic situation of the 40-team tournament in China. It is reported that the group match where our team is located will adopt the tournament system and is scheduled to be held from May 30 to June 15, with the home stadium located at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center, where our team will face strong rivals such as Guam, Maldives, the Philippines and Syria in turn.
The appeal of our Football Association and World Cup qualifiers in the country cannot be overstated. Looking back at the first few rounds of the 2019 Top 40 tournament, our men's soccer team's performance was equally highly regarded. Among the matches, our team's home match against Guam saw an audience of up to 40,000, and CCTV Channel 5's ratings reached 0.91%, with a market share of 10.36%, making it the most watched of all the live programs that day.
Similarly, the just-concluded women's Olympic preliminaries also attracted great attention. 13, China's women's soccer team faced 13,533 cheering fans at home in Suzhou, and tenaciously advanced to the Tokyo Olympics. This is the first international tournament held in China after the epidemic, and our women's soccer team's spirit of struggle and never give up fighting spirit, so that all walks of life in the country for the excitement. After the match, the media and people's attention to our women's soccer team reached its peak, and related news and information instantly hit the screen. The microblog topic #China's women's soccer team advances to the Tokyo Olympics# quickly reached the top of the hot search list, with a total of 11 "women's soccer" related topics on the hot search list. In terms of TV broadcasting, the game became the most watched program on CCTV, and hit a peak in the last two years. According to statistics, as of 12 hours after the game, the number of news reports about China's women's soccer reached more than 350,000, the influence of China's women's soccer can be seen.
At the end of the exchange, Au Chuliang, a member of the coaching staff of China's national men's soccer team, also appeared on the scene. Different from his previous sportswear on the field and training ground, Au Chuliang appeared in the formal dress tailored by Helan House for the national team and interacted with the guests. He not only recalled the national soccer team's glorious moment when they stormed into the 2002 World Cup, but also shared his experience from the national team goalkeeper to the goalkeeper coach. As for the preparation of the national team, he said with confidence that the whole team is now full of high morale and is confident of achieving the desired results.
