World Cup of Great Powers

The women's football team is back with victory and pride.

At Beijing Airport, people from all walks of life came to pick them up, and the scene was unprecedentedly grand.

From the moment the women's football team won the championship, bamboo shoes set the tone for the women's football girls' schedule for the next half month.

First participate in this interview, then accept that interview.

The schedule is packed to the brim.

Reunion at home?

Let’s turn on the TV first and then talk about it!

Being on TV is such a glorious thing, so of course it should be a priority.

As soon as we got off the plane, reporters and editors rushed up.

Every move, word and deed of the women's football players was recorded by interested parties and made into a documentary, which will be included in the following program.

It can be said that a championship title has brought unprecedented attention to women's football in China.

Even RM Daily wrote an article that the world's women's football team will enter the Chinese era.

In just a few days, public opinion across the country has focused on women's football.

Flowers, honors, applause, encouragement, sponsorship... everything I thought of and everything I didn't expect were sent to the women's football team.

For the female football players, where have they seen this kind of scene? Have they ever been treated like this?

In an interview with a local TV station, the young Pu Wei even complained in front of reporters, saying that his biggest wish now is to go home.

In fact, the women's football players also know it very well.

After ten years of living in a cold window, no one asked about him, but once he became famous, he became famous all over the world.

This is nothing more than a false appearance of prosperity.

Bonuses were given, but there was basically no mention of remuneration, let alone future development.

After this wave of heat is over, they will still be small figures in local provincial teams and clubs working hard to play football.

Without much development, football can only be regarded as a hobby.

Taking care of their husbands, raising their children, and finding other ways to make a living is their final destination.

This is also true!

Compared with foreign countries, the Chinese women's football team started more than ten years later than others.

But because she met the standard of a "small and difficult girl", she had set her sights on a very high level since the day she was born.

For this reason, they have been living in a corner for more than ten years, starting from scratch, working hard and working hard.

Finally, on this day, I won the highest honor.

However, after reaching the top of the world, the women's football players discovered.

A championship is just that.

It can only satisfy some people's vanity.

For these women's football players who have worked hard for more than ten years, at this moment, they just want to go home and reunite with their families.

...

After the women's football team returned to China, Wang Junsheng took the lead in holding a conference on the women's football team again.

It is easy to conquer a country, but it is difficult to defend it.

Winning the championship is just the starting point.

The difficult thing is how to preserve and pass on this strength permanently.

After much discussion, there was only one prescription - professionalism.

But compared to the professional development of men's football, everyone is silent again.

Many people ignore a basic fact.

The level of men's football has not improved by leaps and bounds because of professionalization;

On the contrary, after the women's basketball team became professional, it lost the Asian championship and the right to participate in the Olympic Games;

The Chinese women's football team, which is not professional, actually won the World Cup!

Compared with men's football, women's football has a natural disadvantage.

The natural shortcomings of technology and physical confrontation have led to a significant decline in viewing pleasure.

In this society where women's beauty is considered frail, no matter how fierce or ruthless the women's football team is on the field, they will never gain recognition from the fans, let alone create star effect.

As a result, it would be difficult for a women's football team that has no attention to maintain itself, let alone attract external funds.

Judging from the current situation and prospects of women's football, it is simply impossible to create a football market.

As far as the purpose of establishing and retaining women's football is concerned, it is only to win Olympic gold medals.

Speaking of which, in the minds of some senior officials, this World Cup championship was really an unexpected move.

As far as winning Olympic gold medals is concerned, the Chinese team's experience over the years has long proven that women's football does not necessarily need a complete professional league as a foundation, nor does it have to have a huge reserve as a guarantee. As long as there are a few higher-level professional teams

The team is enough.

The women's volleyball team is like this, the women's softball team is like this, and the women's football team should be like this too.

"So, should we continue to train and select women's football players according to the previous model?"

Wang Junsheng stood up and looked around.

Not a single director in the audience said a word.

Since the old methods are effective and feasible, why should we change them?

Seeing everyone expressing their agreement in silence, Wang Junsheng snorted softly.

"In that case, tell me, how did you get the money?"

"Still relying on state subsidies as before?"

"At least let the women's football team be self-sufficient through this World Cup championship!"

It was deathly silent again.

These positive and negative bamboo mats, the positive and negative directors are all very shrewd.

What Wang Junsheng said today must be a mission from above.

It was okay in the past. The women's football team only had a few Asian Cup-level championships. It makes sense to continue investing in and cultivating them;

But now, the women's football team has won the championship, and they are still the World Cup champions!

After winning the World Cup, do we still need to support the country?

If this is still the case, then what is the use of winning this championship?

What's the purpose?

There are no short-term benefits, and just talking about the long-term is all nonsense!

Just when Wang Junsheng's brows were about to twist into knots, Xu Fang raised his hand.

"Wang Zhuxi, regarding this matter, I think Comrade Zeng Zheng has given us a direction?"

"What direction?"

Wang Junsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

At the critical moment, Lao Xu must give him a step forward.

"Early before the final, Zeng Zheng said in an interview that he believed that women's football could be classified as a public welfare undertaking."

"I think this is an excellent direction."

"First of all, the image of women's football heroes has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This World Cup championship has proved that our women's football team can become the number one in the world and bring glory to the country."

"Using the image of these female football players to develop public welfare undertakings can play a healthy and positive leading role in society."

"Secondly, today's entrepreneurs often imitate foreign countries and are keen on engaging in public welfare undertakings. Sponsoring the women's football team is a correct and smart choice."

"Thirdly, this is also an opportunity for enterprises and women's football to understand, understand and cooperate with each other."

"If the development trend of women's football around the world is still professionalization in the future, then we can definitely follow the trend and directly promote the Women's A League."

Xu Fang's words suddenly enlightened everyone including Wang Junsheng.

Some office directors’ eyes instantly lit up when they heard the word “public welfare”.

If women's football is developed into a public welfare project, the oil and water in it will be no less than that of a certain cross society.

Wang Junsheng also became interested instantly after hearing this.

"Comrade Xu Fang, please continue."

"You can't rush this matter, you have to do it step by step."

"First of all, local provincial teams and clubs will continue to use the previous methods to select, develop and train team members using local governments or funds."

"But the national team can be divided into red and yellow teams and arrange about ten commercially sponsored games every year."

"Part of the funds received will be used in impoverished mountainous areas, nursing homes, Hope Primary Schools, etc., and part will be used for the construction of the women's football team itself."

"If the effect is good, this model can be slowly transferred to local provincial teams and clubs, and Zhuxie will make overall arrangements and unified management."

"Of course, Bamboo Shoes only charges management, maintenance and other fees. The main purpose of the funds is to return to develop the local women's football youth training construction."

...

Zeng Zheng's simple idea, coupled with Xu Fang's in-depth exploration, inadvertently laid the economic and civil foundation for the professionalization of Chinese women's football.

Twenty years later, when women's football all over the world gradually became professional, the attendance of China's fifth East-West, South-North Women's Super Cup finals reached 100,000, setting a record for women's football in the world!

...

After returning from the United States, Zeng Zheng had a "crooked mind".

Is the Women's World Cup considered a World Cup?

It should be much easier to host the Women’s Football World Cup in China than the Men’s Football World Cup, right?

As a result, Zeng Zheng reversed course. Hosting the Women's World Cup is not the ultimate achievement.

It seems that the system does not want him to pick up such a loophole.

Wang Junsheng just responded casually.

The Olympic Games and Asian Cup have not been applied for yet.

Applying to host the Women's World Cup requires planning for at least three to five years.

After returning to China, Zeng Zheng finally stopped for a while.

Under the leadership of Gao Hongbo, the Jianglong team was not invincible, but it was smooth sailing.

Due to the special circumstances within the Jianglong team, Gao Hongbo also adopted a very fixed approach.

When the main players are present, no matter home or away, they will try their best to win;

When the main players are transferred to the Olympic training camp, they should focus on scoring points as much as possible.

In short, so far, A and B have played 11 rounds, and the Jianglong team has not lost a game.

With 25 points from 7 wins and 4 draws, the Jianglong team ranked first in League B just after the halfway point of the schedule.

It seems that as long as nothing goes wrong in the second half of the league and the main players are not injured, winning a place in Class A is just around the corner.

On July 17, the Jianglong team went south to challenge Pudong, the magical city.

Although Pudong has the momentum to win points in these rounds, with the return of Zeng Zheng, it is simply unable to withstand the fierce attack of the Jianglong team.

Deco scored a header in the first half, giving Jianglong the lead.

He scored twice after the second half to help the team beat their opponent away from home.

With 3 points in hand, Jianglong team continues to lead the standings.

Back at home, the Jianglong team once again faced the challenge of Guangdong Hongyuan.

But facing the Jianglong team with full firepower, Hongyuan didn't have the slightest ability to parry.

Deke and Sun Zhi discussed the three points and blossomed, and the trident was unstoppable.

Although foreign aid Carlos pulled a goal back for the visiting team due to a defensive error before the end, it was no longer relevant to the outcome of the game.

In early August, the Jianglong team challenged Chongqing Hongyan away from home.

Chongqing, which is fighting for relegation, seems to be trying to score points from Jianglong at its home court.

In order not to be relegated, the players played extra hard.

Attitude is attitude, the difference in strength is here!

Deco still took the lead, but before the end of the first half, Hongyan's foreign aid Bruno equalized the score for the team, leaving Baolun with a trace of suspense.

In the second half, the game was played again at another location, and foreign aid Wilder scored another goal for the team, leading the score.

Seeing the Jianglong team lagging behind, the Datianwan Stadium instantly erupted.

The home commentator even shouted at the top of his voice, threatening to let the Jianglong team taste defeat.

This angered all members of the Jianglong team.

The deputy squad leader leads the list at the top?

This is a great shame!

Deco took the lead and scored twice to equalize the score for Jianglong team.

Then Sun Zhi, Zheng Zhi, and Li Weifeng scored goals one after another, leaving Hongyan unable to counterattack and could only suffer another defeat at home.

After defeating Hongyan 5-2, Jianglong team has achieved three consecutive victories with the return of Zeng Zheng.

Counting the previous two victories when Gao Hongbo led the team, the Jianglong team has won five consecutive games in League B.

The exhaustion of traveling from north to south throughout the league began to subtly affect the players.

When facing Beijing Kuanli at home, the players were obviously out of shape.

After playing for nearly forty-five minutes, Sun Zhi relied on his speed to give Jianglong the lead before the end of the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Kuanli, who insisted on his own style of play, quickly pressed forward, and veteran national football player Cao Xiandong grabbed the early point and evened the score.

When the two teams were locked in a battle, it was Deco, a young foreign player, who stepped forward and scored the winning goal before the end of the game.

At this point, the Jianglong team's points have risen to 37 points, and they have seen the dawn of promotion.

August 14th, the 16th round of League A and B.

The Jianglong team visited Xi'an to challenge Shaanxi's national strength.

At this time, the national media was praising Zeng Zheng.

If you lead the national team, you will be great if you lead the club.

How can the Jianglong team, which has been predicted to win six consecutive games, stop?

In order to succeed in his tactics and advance ahead of schedule, Zeng Zheng also worked hard.

But in Xi'an, the Jianglong team encountered stubborn resistance from the home team.

The reason is also very simple, the national strength is also struggling in the relegation zone.

In order to protect themselves, they did everything they could to gain points from every opponent.

The whole game was unstoppable.

Guoli used foul tactics to prevent Jiang Long from attacking again and again.

Some Olympic players on the team did not dare to step forward easily when they saw this, for fear of being injured by their opponents before the top nine games.

In the 88th minute of the game, Maradona's old teammate Carrera stepped forward and contributed to the Jianglong team.

But just as everyone was cheering for Careca's first goal in League B, the referee blew the whistle, indicating offside, and the goal was invalid.

But from Zeng Zheng's perspective, Careca's last goal was not offside at all.

The same is true for locally broadcast game videos.

In other words, this is a misjudgment!

Because of this misjudgment, the Jianglong team ended their winning streak.

Zeng Zheng said the above after the game.

After review, the referee union fined the referee for enforcing the game.

It was not until many years after the incident that the referee at the time revealed the inside story - the Jianglong team had won too much, and someone did not want them to continue to win.

Although the winning streak was interrupted, Zeng Zheng's "myth" was also shattered.

But this does not affect Zeng Zheng's strategic layout.

In the three games from August 28 to September 11, neither Chengdu Wuniu, Bayi Jinsui, nor Jiangsu Jiajia scored a single goal against the Jianglong team.

Three consecutive victories of 3-0, 4-0, and 4-0 allowed the Jianglong team to reach 50 points after the 19th round of the league!

At this time, Yunnan Hongta, ranked third, could not even score 40 points.

With only 3 games left in the league, the Jianglong team advanced to Class A three rounds ahead of schedule!

At this point, in order to prepare for the top nine of the Olympic Games, the domestic league has given the green light all the way.

A and B have been suspended since September 11th, and the 20th round of conquest will not begin until November 20th.

Other team members and coaches can take the opportunity to enjoy the two-month vacation, while Zeng Zheng took the Olympic team members to the Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai for pre-match training.

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