In the afternoon of April 8, China's women's soccer team challenged South Korea's women's soccer team away from home in the first match of the Tokyo Olympics women's soccer team's Asian qualifying round playoffs. In the first half, Zhang Xin broke the deadlock with a precise pad shot, while Jiang Qianlin quickly equalized the score; in the second half, Tang Jiali made a penalty kick, and Wang Frost calmly took the penalty, and finally China's women's football team defeated Korea's women's football team by a score of 2-1 on the road!
It was a valuable victory, and the winner will get a direct ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. It was extremely difficult for our women's soccer team to win on the road, but they did it. Next, the two sides will face each other in the second round on April 13 in Suzhou, and our women's soccer team is expected to continue the momentum of victory.
This victory has made our fans excited, the South Korean national football team has always been our rivals, especially the men's football team, seldom beat their opponents in major competitions. Remember the Panda Cup International Youth Football Championship held in Chengdu in 2019, our men's U18 team unfortunately lost to the South Korean men's U18 team and ranked at the bottom of the list, while the South Korean men's football team won the championship with a winning record. At the award ceremony, an unpleasant incident occurred, a South Korean player stepped on the Panda Cup trophy, making a disgraceful action.
This incident triggered an outcry from domestic fans, but due to the poor performance of our men's soccer team, we were only able to express our protests but were unable to salvage our dignity in the game. Although the Korean men's soccer team apologized afterwards, the slap in the face can no longer be erased.
Since our men's soccer team was unable to beat the Korean men's soccer team, the grievance was cleared by our women's soccer team. This time, our women's soccer team beat the Korean women's soccer team 2-1 in the first round of the Asian qualifying round for the Tokyo Olympics, which is a good way for us to get rid of our anger. Together with this victory, our women's soccer team has achieved a remarkable record of 5 wins and 1 draw in the last 6 times they faced the Korean women's soccer team, which is encouraging!
I hope that the men's soccer team will learn from this game, and maybe they should pay more attention to the women's game and think about why they are able to win and you can't. It's disappointing to think that men's soccer players, who are paid dozens of times more than women's soccer players, don't do as well as women's soccer players. When our men's soccer team can have the same spirit as our women's soccer team, maybe it's the time for them to rise, and we are looking forward to that day.
