After the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup, it did not hide the dilemma of the development of domestic women's football.
Recently, Guangzhou Football Club issued a blockbuster announcement "Football Club Player Establishment and Salary Standards", which formulated the club player establishment and salary plan, from which it can be seen that the survival of female footballers in the club is still worrying compared with the men's football team.
What's more, due to the financial difficulties of the club, it brought a heavy blow to the women's football team, and Zhang Linyan, the "black sister" who shined in the Asian Cup, was affected and faced the dilemma of being forced to leave the team.
In the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team carried forward the sonorous rose spirit in the case of the overall collapse of the men's football team, and won the Asian Cup championship again after 16 years.
It was the Spring Festival holiday, and the whole country was excited by the women's football girls to win the championship, especially Zhang Linyan, a young guangzhou women's football team who made the first contribution to the Chinese women's football team.
After the match, she was named a Star of Hope by the AFC.
Zhang Linyan was born in 2001 at the age of 21.
In 2012, at the age of 11, Zhang Linyan was selected for Guangzhou Evergrande Real Madrid Football School, becoming the only Sichuan student admitted to the school for free.
After entering the football school, Zhang Linyan quickly stood out from 42 female students and was selected for the national women's football junior team the following year. Due to her dark skin color, Zhang Linyan was called "Black Sister" by her classmates.
In guangzhou women's football, Zhang Linyan gradually grew into the core of the team, performed well in leagues and championships many times, and was elected as the top scorer of the women's league. Last year, she was selected for the national team formed by Shui Qingxia and rose to fame in the Asian Cup.
After the Chinese women's football team won the championship, football superstar David Beckham also personally "went down", posting an old photo of Xiao Linyan looking for his signature on social media to congratulate the women's football player on his dream.
Zhang Linyan was also quite excited, replying to Beckham: "Thank you Uncle Bei for remembering me."
The joy of winning the championship has not completely faded, and the bad news is still coming.
After more than half a month, Guangzhou has reported the trouble of not being able to participate in the national championship due to operational difficulties.
According to the practice of previous years, the Chinese Football Association holds the National Women's Football Championship every spring, as one of the important women's football events in China, the National Championship is a big parade of women's football strength in various places, including the Chinese Women's Super League, women's League A club team and U17 women's national team and at least 18 teams will participate. Guangzhou women's football team was unable to compete smoothly due to financial difficulties.
According to the announcement recently released by the Guangzhou Club, the team has recently cut salaries sharply, and among the 30 people in the men's first team, the maximum annual salary of the cap is 600,000 yuan before tax, which is as low as 88% compared with the previous cap annual salary of 5 million yuan, and the maximum salary of the women's football team is 300,000, which makes many people shocked.
In this case, Zhang Linyan's application to leave the team is not unexpected.
After winning the Asian Cup, the young player expressed his desire to play abroad in an interview, hoping to align himself with the two sisters Tang Jiali and Wang Shuang.
"I played women's first division for a year last year, and I also hope to be able to go to a better league, a higher level of league play, because now Asian stars are going to Europe. I am sometimes very anxious in female A, I feel that I am 21 years old, how is it still here, and the gap with Sister Jiali and Sister Frost is getting bigger and bigger. ”
"I still want to go out and play football," she said, "I grew up in Evergrande (Football School), they did encounter difficulties, I understand them, I hope I can have a good attitude." ”
At present, the only international footballer of the Chinese women's football team staying in the West is Tang Jiali, who plays for the Women's Football Team of Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.