Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 10th the official website of FIFA recently published an article entitled “new impetus for China women soccer development”, praising the new policy launched by the Chinese Football Association in promoting the development of women’s football.
The article published on the 8th local time in Switzerland said: “. As this Chinese proverb says, the Chinese Football Association has recently issued a new policy aimed at promoting the development of women’s football in the near future and beyond.”
The “new deal” mentioned in the article refers to the latest adjustment made by the Chinese Football Association to the entry regulations of Chinese Football Association professional clubs.
On January 3, the Chinese Football Association issued a notice on adding and adjusting part of the content of “professional clubs support the development of women’s football. According to relevant documents, all clubs applying for the qualification of Chinese Super League should have a women’s football team. In the entry regulations of 2019, the construction of women’s football team was the “C standard” advocacy standard, and the club prepared for team formation. In the next year’s admission review, this standard will be upgraded to the mandatory standard of “standard A”, and clubs without women’s football will not be eligible for admission to the Chinese Super League.
This article on the official website of FIFA quoted Du Zhaocai, deputy director of the General Administration of Sport of China and secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association, saying: “The Chinese women’s football team has a glorious history and a glorious tradition, the spirit of ‘beautiful and energetic policewoman inspired a generation. In order to revive the glory of women’s football, Chinese Football Association will plus-sized support for women’s football from the aspects of organization and management system, youth training, competition, coach training, etc. Among them, promoting the development of professional clubs is one of the important measures.”
Du zhaicai said in the interview that many top clubs in the world also have women’s teams. Driven by their men’s team, their women’s team has also achieved rapid development and great success. In the process of developing women’s football, China can learn from this model. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association decided that before 2020, every Chinese Super League team must have a women’s football team, so as to realize the development strategy of “Men’s back-feeding women’s football. In addition to professional clubs, China will learn from the development experience of American women’s football, further strengthen cooperation with education departments, and vigorously develop campus women’s football, especially college women’s football, jointly run the campus league with the university team as the main body.
Du zhaicai also said: “At the national team level, we have introduced a competition mechanism and established the red and yellow teams. The athletes will compete for the opportunity to represent the country. The women’s national team will take the red team as the leader, the yellow team as the competition and supplement, the U20 Women’s national team as the connection, and the U17 Women’s national team as the basis to build a large national team system with unified technical and tactical style.”
The French women’s football World Cup will be held this year. Du Zhaocai said in an interview with FIFA’s official website that the Chinese Football Association hopes to use this opportunity to comprehensively promote the overall development of the Chinese women’s football team. He said: “All eyes are focused on France in 2019. The Chinese Football Association hopes to take advantage of this World Cup to attract more attention to our women’s football team and better promote women’s football. The Chinese women’s football team once set a brilliant record in history and won the second place in the 1999 World Cup. In this women’s football World Cup, I place my expectations on the Chinese women’s football team. I hope that women’s football girls can perform well on the World Cup stage, continue to carry forward the spirit of “beautiful and energetic policewoman” of Chinese women’s football team, and further highlight the spirit of Chinese sports, inject new vitality into the development of Chinese football and bring positive football energy to the whole society.”