If China's women's soccer team wants to revive, it must first play steadily and steadily, abandon impatience, and find out the right path in the long-term struggle.
At the break of dawn on December 3, the Chinese women's soccer team in the United States and the United States women's soccer team started a warm-up match. Unfortunately, the final score of 0-3 defeated the opponent. This year, the Chinese women's soccer team's performance in the World Cup, Asian Games and Olympic qualifying matches was unsatisfactory, and the head coach Shui Qingxia resigned as a result. However, the departure of the coach could not cover up the lack of overall strength of the team, and the distance between the Chinese women's soccer team and the advanced level of world soccer is gradually widening.
The U.S. women's soccer team scored goals in the 8th, 52nd and 77th minutes of the match to win 3-0 over the Chinese women's soccer team.
The official U.S. Soccer Federation website has the results of the match. The U.S. women's soccer team has a great record this year, with 13 wins and four draws, and is aiming to go undefeated in 2023. Three days later, on Dec. 6, the U.S. women's soccer team will face China again at Toyota Stadium in Texas.
Although friendly matches are not everything, the gap between the Chinese women's soccer team and the world's top teams is undoubtedly widening. Even if the U.S. women's soccer team did not go all out, the Chinese women's soccer team is still in a passive situation, which is more reflective of reality than the score. China's women's soccer team, once the pride of the "Clanging Roses", is facing the dilemma of "rowing against the current, not advancing is retreating" in the context of the development of women's soccer in soccer powerhouses.
Some people try to find excuses for the loss, such as jet lag, new coaches, and the absence of key players, but none of these can hide the decline in the overall strength of the Chinese women's soccer team. Chinese women's soccer's professional league audience is scarce, and it is difficult to increase the market value, compared with the soccer powerhouses, the gap is obvious.
On December 2, the Chinese women's soccer team greeted their fans after the match. On the same day, the Chinese women's soccer team once again lost 0-3 to the U.S. women's soccer team on the road in an international soccer friendly.
The glory of Chinese women's soccer stems from the struggles of generations, thanks to long-term training and the support of the national system. However, with the continuous development of professional leagues in soccer powerhouses, the development of Chinese women's soccer is relatively lagging behind. The domestic league audience is scarce, the market value is difficult to improve, and the gap with the soccer powerhouses is becoming increasingly obvious.
On December 2, Wang Jun, interim head coach of the Chinese women's soccer team, watched the game from the sidelines. Although the Chinese Football Association (CFA) encourages players to go to Europe to study, the players' determination to go abroad for development has been affected by the current situation of high domestic income and low income in European leagues.
Chinese women's soccer is an important part of Chinese soccer, and its development cannot be separated from the overall improvement of Chinese soccer. If China's women's soccer team wants to regain its former glory, it must expand its soccer population, encourage more girls in schools to participate in soccer, and send more potential young players to study in Europe, so as to enhance its own strength in the way of "borrowing chickens to produce eggs".
