What is the difference between the Olympic men's and women's football teams and the five major leagues we usually watch, the World Cup, and the European Cup?
If you don't know anything about the Olympics, then today we will take the France Olympic Games against the United States Olympic Games as an example to tell you what factors need special attention in a competition like the Olympic Games? If you still agree with the content mentioned in the follow-up, please like and follow to support it.
First of all, to answer the previous question, the most important thing to watch the Olympic Games is actually three factors that need special attention:
First, age
A team is under the age of 23 except for a few overage players, and many players have never even played in the club's first team, so there is no seriousness in kicking the ball a lot of the time, to put it bluntly, it is a lack of experience in the competition, so the performance is very inconsistent. Sometimes if you play well, you may play how you can play, and when you don't play well, tens of millions of dollars worth of players are not as good as other players' hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Second, the degree of professionalism
In the early years of the Olympic Games, professional athletes were prohibited from participating in various sports, but as the attention of the Olympic Games has decreased year by year, the Olympic Games have also relaxed the requirements, and the definition of professional athletes has become more and more blurred. Women's football is facing a completely different situation from men's football in terms of professionalism, we take Asia as an example, at present, only 5 countries in Asia are developing professional women's football, including: Japan, Korea, China, Australia and North Korea, some women's football in the Philippines has a college level, and the rest are amateur.
To put it mildly, if all countries in the world take the attitude towards men's football to develop women's football, the ranking of the Chinese women's football team is not necessarily higher than that of the Chinese men's football team. You must know that the opponents of the Chinese men's football team are all professional players, and many of the opponents faced by the Chinese women's football team are not professional.
This will lead to a problem, once the opponent is found to be a soft persimmon in the game, then there is a ball to score, and it is not too much to score, this situation is especially obvious in women's football events, such as the last Olympic Games Netherlands Women's Football 8-2 China Women's Football Team, Zambia Women's Football Team 3-10 Netherlands Women's Football Team, New Zealand Women's Football Team 1-6 United States Women's Football Team. In the men's football team, there are also Korea U23 6-0 Honduras U23 and Spain U23 5-2 Ivory Coast U23. After all, men's football teams are all professional athletes, and no matter how big the gap is, there will be no big gap, and only a few athletes in women's football are professional players, and players from many countries are even only at the college level and amateur level, so especially when professional women's football plays college women's football, the gap is not ordinarily large.
Third, attention
There is a big gap in the attention of men's and women's football, so only the men's Olympic sports have an age limit, while the women's football team has no restrictions. Athletes can participate if they want to, and the vast majority of women's football players will actively participate in the Olympics in order to increase their exposure opportunities, so this makes the Olympic Games no less valuable and concerned than the Women's World Cup from the perspective of women's football players. After all, the women's football team can only receive big advertising endorsements when they get honors.
France Olympic vs United States Olympic Games
Take today's France Olympic Games and United States Olympic Games as an example, age and professionalism have a great impact on the direction of the battle, France's three overage players are center Lacazette, Mateta and central defender Bardet, of which Lacazette is already a 33-year-old veteran, although the physical fitness is not as good as that year, but he has been on the battlefield for a long time in this level of competition that can indeed be said to be adults beating children, which is completely a dimensionality reduction blow. What's more, he is still in the center forward position with the most obvious effect, and there is definitely no need to worry about shooting with him.
Although the United States Olympic Games also recruited overage players, there is a big gap in both competition experience and personal ability, not to mention that France Olympic Games are worth tens of millions of dollars at will, so the real gap between the two sides is definitely much larger than the friendly match at the beginning of the year. With these experienced veterans pressing the lineup, the host France opener will certainly not leave little affection for the opponent, although this year's European Championship in France is ugly, but I believe that the France Olympic Games led by Henry will make everyone's eyes shine.
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