Once upon a time, our women’s football team was proud of world football; once, our women’s football players faced the world and said, “As long as the Chinese women’s football team performs normally, no team in this world can beat us. "The heroic words of "; once upon a time, our women's football team was hailed as the "sonorous rose" by the Chinese... With pitiful income and pitiful attention, the women's football players who grew up in the cracks relied on their tenacious fighting spirit. It has created a legend of its own in the world of football. In the summer of 1999, when the Chinese women’s football team returned from the United States with great honors on the other side of the ocean, the four words “women’s football spirit” became the most popular words in China at that time. Loud words. The Chinese women's football team's fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardships and facing adversity was regarded by the people at that time as the spirit of the Chinese nation. The spirit of women’s football is the strength of the nation.

The Chinese women’s football team in 1999 was so powerful that it concealed all the deep-seated problems of the Chinese women’s football team. People are often attracted by the powerful appearance of the Chinese women's football team, but ignore the issue of the upgrading of the Chinese women's football team. At that time, the main players of our national team were basically close to or over 30 years old. When these players retire, who will attack the Chinese women's football team? While other countries have completed their upgrading, our national team can still only rely on veterans to conquer the world. When our players are getting older day by day, their opponents are still young and powerful European and American girls. In 2000 Before the match between China and Norway in the women's football group stage of the Sydney Olympic Games, the Norwegian head coach said, "Whether we can defeat China depends on our performance in the last 15 points." Yes, the Norwegians have grasped the lifeline of the serious aging of the Chinese women's football team. They knew that it would be difficult for the Chinese women's football team, with an average age of nearly 30 years old, to hold on to a 90-point game, and the final course of the game was just as the Norwegians had expected. Nearly 20 minutes into the second half, the Norwegian team's No. 15 scored When the go-ahead goal was scored, the physical fitness of the Chinese team members had reached its limit. At this time, the only thing that supported our women's football players to continue fighting was the never-say-die spirit of the women's football team. When Zhang Ouying kicked the door with the last kick and slid out, we knew that the Chinese women's football team's Olympic journey had ended early. The Chinese women's football team went to the Sydney Olympics with the goal of winning the championship and was eliminated after failing to qualify in the final group. This is also the first time that the Chinese women's football team has been eliminated from the group before participating in the World Series. The glory of the 1999 World Cup in the United States turned out to be the last glory of the Chinese women's football team, composed of world-class stars such as Sun Wen, Liu Ailing, and Gao Hong, participating in the World Series.

After the 2000 Olympic Games, a group of veteran players retired from the national team. Under this circumstance, the Chinese women's football team had to undergo an update. In 2001, when the new Chinese women's football team set sail in Guangzhou, the then head coach of the Chinese women's football team Ma Yuanan had to lament, "In the past, our opponents were only teams like the United States and Norway, but now, our opponents are all over the world!" In the same year! , when the reorganized Chinese women's football team follows in the footsteps of the old women's football team and goes to the world arena, we have to admit that this world no longer belongs to us. The old players retired and the new players couldn't hold up. The once glorious Chinese women's football team had to suffer the pain of defeat again and again. In the 2001 Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team missed the final for the first time in history; in the 2002 Asian Games, the Chinese women's football team missed the championship for the first time in history; in the 2003 Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team stopped in the top 8...

In this case, the leaders could not sit still. China's men's football team has been weak for a long time, while women's football is the only fig leaf for Chinese football and the only political achievement project of the Football Association leadership. Therefore, the officials of the Football Association simply cannot tolerate the women's football team losing. When football is linked to the selfish desires of some people, it means that all kinds of disgusting things can happen. From the 2003 World Cup to now in 2008, the Chinese women's football team has staged one world wonder after another under the interference of the leadership of the Football Association. First of all, there is an anecdote about coaching changes. In the five years from 2003 to 2008, the Chinese women's football team changed six head coaches, which does not include Wang Haiming serving as the acting head coach of the Chinese women's football team three times. If one coach is not good at leading the team, then another coach will be replaced. If it is not good, then another coach will be replaced... One coach has one style of play, and one coach has one set of lineup. In 2008, when the Chinese women's football team was about to compete in the Beijing Olympics, we were surprised to find that five years later, the Chinese women's football team still did not have a fixed lineup. The Olympic Games are about to begin, and the current head coach of the Chinese women's football team, Shang Ruihua, is still thinking about the personnel composition of individual positions. You know, at this time, the U.S. Women's Football Team had already announced the roster of the U.S. Women's Football Team to participate in the Beijing Olympics. Secondly, there is an anecdote about the leaders of the Football Association guiding players to play football. In the 2005 East Asian semi-finals in South Korea, Xie Yalong, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, actually instructed Han Duan, the main forward of the Chinese women's football team, how to play football. You must know that Chairman Xie is a track and field athlete, and Han Duan is the best forward in China after Sun Wen. Chairman Xie, who is born in track and field, actually guided the main forward of the national team how to play football. It is really a wonder in the world. Once again, the team leader bypassed the head coach and directly fired the players. In 2007, Li Feiyu, then the leader of the Chinese women's football team, fired the national team's main defender Yuan Fan without the knowledge of the then national team coach Ma Liangxing, which directly led to Ma Liangxing's retirement due to illness.

This left the Chinese women's football team in a dilemma without a head coach for more than 90 days. During these 90 days, the leaderless Chinese women's football team even set a shameful record of six consecutive defeats when they went to Europe to practice. In the end, the Football Association had to invite the Swede Domanski to serve as the head coach of the national team, which solved the 90-day civil strife in the Chinese women's football team. But Domanski is not a fairy. In the 2007 World Cup, Domanski, who took office for only four months, announced that he would no longer serve as the head coach of the Chinese women's football team after failing to bring the Chinese women's football team to the semi-finals. Later, the Frenchman Elisabeth took over as the head coach of the national women's football team. Unexpectedly, the Frenchman's entry into the Chinese women's football team turned out to be the beginning of another civil strife in the Chinese women's football team. In the end, the Football Association had to fire the Frenchman in advance and select Shang Ruihua, the veteran of the women's football team. Serving as the head coach of the national team has once again calmed down the civil strife in the national team.

From 2003 to 2008, the once glorious Chinese women's football team staged one farce after another due to the power struggle of Chinese Football Association officials. If the old women's football team attracted the attention of the Chinese people with its achievements, then the new women's football team attracted the attention of the Chinese people with one negative news after another. As the performance of the Chinese women's football team has plummeted in recent years, negative reports have emerged one after another. More and more people lament that women’s football is getting closer to men’s football step by step. But is that really the case? Are our current women's football players really so unsatisfactory, like the men's football team? Yeah? No, it's not. Although the Chinese women's football team is no longer the world-class team it once was, and its strength is no longer there, the spirit of the Chinese women's football team has always been there. No? I have been concerned about women's football for many years, but until now, our women's football team is still struggling in poverty. Look at how much we women’s football players earn! The income of the members of the national team is pretty good, at least they still get three to four thousand yuan a month. Never mind that there are still many people in China who don’t get three to four thousand yuan a month. You have to know that the women's football players have to undergo heavy training every day in the national team, and injuries are very common for our players. They are now in the national team, they are injured, and there are still people to treat them. What happens once they retire? Who cares about them? They are all injured. With the little money they get now from the national team, will they be able to treat their injuries in the future? After working hard for so many years playing football, in the end I didn’t even have the money to treat my injuries, and I had to endure the cynicism of so many people. Well, national team members still earn at least several thousand yuan every month. But what about the local team? The Hebei team is a long-established and powerful team in the domestic women's football team, but the members of the Hebei team only earn a few hundred yuan a month. The conditions of the Hebei team are bad enough, but there are many domestic teams whose conditions are not as good as the Hebei team. Like the Shandong team, the Shandong women's football team didn't even have a decent training ground at first. Later, when the Shandong men's football team got a new training ground, they gave the old training ground they used to the Shandong women's football team. In this way, the Shandong women's football team will have a more standard training ground to train. The Henan Women's Football Team was originally invested by Yutong Bus. Later, Yutong Bus stopped investing in the Henan Women's Football Team. However, a year later, when someone walked into the training ground of the Henan Women's Football Team again, they were surprised to find that the Henan team members were still wearing The reason for the team uniforms with the words "Yutong Bus" printed on them is simple. The Henan women's football team is poor and cannot afford team uniforms, so they have to train wearing the clothes sponsored by Yutong Bus in previous years. In 2002, women's football teams from all over the country were training in Kunming. When the women's football players were on vacation during the training camp and were going to play in the city of Kunming, we found that almost none of the women's football players took a taxi to go out. All the players were waiting for the bus. , the reason is simple. Taxis are too expensive for the women's football players to afford. This is nothing. During a certain national league, after a game, several young women's football players were found picking up mineral water bottles thrown away by others beside the court. Someone asked them why they picked up those mineral water bottles. Then Several team members said that they usually don't have much money, so they pick up mineral water bottles and sell them to make money. This is a fact that has happened in the National League in recent years. China's economy has been developing rapidly in recent years, but obviously, our women's football team, their conditions, and their income have not developed with the development of the national economy. After decades, the Chinese women’s football team is still poor. Originally, China's domestic women's football league was based on a home and away system. However, in 2004, the women's football league changed to a home and away system and became the most primitive tournament system. The reason was still lack of money. If the home and away system was still used, those local teams would be You have to take a train to play an away game, and those local teams really can't afford to take the train. So under this situation, the Chinese Football Association officially decided in 2004 to change the women's football league from a home and away system to a tournament system. This way, all the women's football teams will be concentrated in one place. They only need to take the train once, which saves money. money. The conditions for women's football in China are so bad. In addition, the top management of the Chinese Football Association has made mistakes in the past few years. The Chinese women's national team has been constantly messed up. Those who insist that the women's football team get good results, what do you want from our women's football team? ah? Win the world championship? The American women's football team is awesome. You keep them messing around like this for a few years, and you let them be awesome. Let's see what they can do. Don't be too harsh on our women's football team, it's really not easy for them! For those who say that women’s football is becoming more and more like men’s football, I want to ask you, what are the conditions for men’s football and what are the conditions for women’s football. Men's football players don't need to join the national team. As long as they join the second-tier team, they will have an income of tens of thousands of yuan every month. However, for our women's football players, even if they join the national team, they will only have an income of only 10,000 yuan a year at most. Income of tens of thousands of dollars.

The main players of the women's national football team earn at most a year's income similar to the monthly income of a member of a domestic second-division men's football team. The members of the second-division men's football team earn tens of thousands of yuan a month. How much do the players of the men's first-division football team and the men's Chinese Super League team earn each month? Even if the annual income of women's football players and coaches across the country is added up, it is far less than the annual income of a player of the men's Chinese Super League team. With such a disparity in income between men's and women's football teams, some people actually accuse the women's football team of becoming more and more like the men's football team. OK, you said that the women's football team is becoming more and more like the men's football team, right? Well, please give the women's football team the same attention as the men's football team. and income. If you can't give it, then please shut up.

For so many years, our women’s football players have been living in poverty. To put it bluntly, they just don’t play football. They can’t even open a small shop in front of their house for a month with only this little money. , not to mention getting injured. The little money earned from playing football is not even enough to treat one's own injuries. What are our players after? After all, isn't it still the love for football deep in their hearts? Although the performance of the national women's football team in recent years is not ideal, I really believe that our players really want to play well! When a national women's football player said that he felt sorry for the fans because he couldn't play well, I really had the urge to cry. Enough is enough. It's really enough. Our women's football players, in an environment like China, once a girl Choosing football is equivalent to choosing poverty. You are so miserable, how can real fans have the heart to accuse you? Your current results cannot be compared with the old women's football team, but your spirit has never been inferior to the old women's football team. No, to be precise, the spirit of the Chinese women's football team has always been there.

Youth is the most beautiful time in a person’s life. While girls of the same age are enjoying their youth, our female football players can only spend their youthful years day after day. spent in training. Little reward, a lot of effort. When anyone is accusing the world of being unfair to them, please look at our women's football players. No matter how hard you are, our women's football players are still suffering. No matter how tired you are, are our women's football players tired? I told others that I like women's football, but basically everyone's reaction was "You still watch women's football!" I was surprised, what happened to watching women's football? Do you think women shouldn't watch football, or do you think women's football is not worthy of others' attention? It is conceivable that a fan who says he loves women's football will receive such a questioning answer from others, but what about the girls who are actually engaged in football? How much criticism should they receive for playing football. Too little attention, too little income, too much criticism... our women's football team grew up in such an environment.

Sun Wen, the former captain of the Chinese women’s football team, wrote a song, which contains the sentence “Rose, roses grow in the wind and rain.” If you think about it carefully, don’t our women’s football players grow up in the wind and rain? ? The Beijing Olympics is about to begin. Regardless of the results of the women's football team this time, I will continue to support the women's football team, because our women's football team is really not easy.

Our female football girls are just people with flesh and blood and emotions! Please give our women’s football team more encouragement and less criticism! It’s really not easy for our women’s football team.

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