Football News: In the last three Olympic Games, there has only been one semi-final, and the overall status of Asian women's football continues to decline

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2024-08-04 11:26Posted on the official account of Live Bar in United States

Live broadcast on August 4 After the Japan women's football team stopped in the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics, the "Football News" published an article commenting on the status of Asian women's football in world football, believing that the first-mover advantage of Asian women's football has been difficult to maintain, and the overall status of Asian women's football continues to decline.

The Japan women's football team lost 0-1 to the United States women's football team after a hard-fought overtime match. Although the Japan women's football team has overwhelming possession of the ball, it is as difficult as the Japan men's football team to create absolute killing opportunities. In the 107th minute, Triniti Rodman, the daughter of NBA "rebounding king" Rodman, scored the winning goal. This is the third consecutive Olympic Games in which the Japan women's football team has missed the semi-finals after finishing runner-up at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Including the Women's World Cup, after finishing runner-up in the 2015 Women's World Cup, it has missed the semi-finals of the fifth consecutive tournament. It was also the closest Japan women's football team came to the final four of a tournament in nine years, and unfortunately held on for 107 minutes, but still failed to do so.

For the Japan women's football team, it was a nine-year low period. Japan women's football team reached the semifinals for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and until the 2015 Women's World Cup runner-up, the Japan women's football team experienced an eight-year golden era. During this period, the champion and runner-up of the two World Cups were each once, and the Olympic Games were runner-up and semi-final. But after 2015, Asian women's football as a whole has fallen into a trough. In the last three Olympic Games, only the Asian women's football team at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics Australia women's football team has successfully entered the semi-finals, and the overall status of world football has continued to decline. At the Paris Olympics, Australia did not qualify for the women's football group, and the Japan women's football team also stopped in the quarterfinals.

"Sports News" lamented that the Japan women's football team has stopped in the quarterfinals for two consecutive Olympic Games, which has dealt a great blow to the Japan women's football team. Japan's women's pre-Olympic world ranking has dropped to seventh, and with the explosion of women's football in Europe and the Americas in the past 10 years, it is difficult to maintain the first-mover advantage of Asian women's football. In particular, the rise of European women's football, which is backed by the four major leagues, has quickly become a new and powerful opponent of Asian women's football. In the future, it will be more difficult for Asian women's football teams to reach the semi-finals or even medals in the Olympic Games and World Cup.

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