Why is the Shanghai women's soccer team willing to commit itself to the training of "national champions", even in the face of a series of "costly" decisions?
Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain announced on September 13 that Chinese women's international soccer player Yang Lina will be loaned to the "Grand Paris" women's soccer team until June 2023, which is the first time a Chinese women's soccer player has studied abroad. Since last year, there have been 10 Chinese women's soccer players studying abroad, Shanghai Shengli Football Club Agricultural and Commercial Bank team contributed five players, occupying half of the territory.
Tang Jiali, Shen Mengyu, Yang Lina, Yang Shuhui, Zhao Yujie, etc., Shanghai women's soccer team released five main or new stars one after another, and another striker killer Xiao Yuyi, also expected to join the Australian club.
With the loss of several core players, the overall strength of the Shanghai women's soccer team has dropped significantly, and fluctuations in performance are inevitable. If only to improve the performance, Shanghai women's soccer team could have refused to release the players, but the team chose to fully support the players to go abroad for further study. Why is the Shanghai Women's Football Team willing to commit to the training of "national champions", even if it continuously makes "costly" decisions?
National interest is paramount to support players' expedition
Observing the wave of Chinese women's soccer team staying abroad, its short-term and long-term interests coexist. In the long run, staying abroad is an effective way to improve the comprehensive strength of the players, encourage players to bravely go abroad, and when they return from their studies, it is the Chinese women's national soccer team that will ultimately benefit. From a short-term perspective, the stay of these ten women's international soccer players is also closely related to the two major tournaments in which the Chinese women's soccer team will participate in 2023 - the Women's World Cup in Australia/New Zealand and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
This 10-player stay in the wind seems to focus more on short-term benefits: players after a year of overseas sharpening, to enhance the strength of China's women's soccer team, to ensure that the World Cup and the Asian Games to achieve good results. Wuhan women's soccer team, as the dominant Chinese women's soccer team, also released Wang Frost and Zhang Linyan, two ace players, the former in the United States to find the feeling of staying in the United States Louisville Athletic, the latter in the Chinese capital-controlled Grasshopper team in Switzerland to broaden their horizons.
Similarly, Shanghai Shengli Football Club Farmers and Merchants Bank team did not hesitate to release the players to stay in the ocean, the main reason is that this is related to the overall planning and operation of the Chinese women's national team. Chinese women's national team skipper Shui Qingxia is very supportive of staying in the ocean, "I hope that more players go out to see what the outside world is like, so that conceptually there will be a new understanding, whether it's for themselves or the Chinese women's soccer team, are beneficial."
Players period, water Qingxia is the leader of the Shanghai women's football team; coaching period, she is in the assistant coach, head coach position quietly plowing - now water Qingxia in charge of the Chinese women's football team, as the mother team of the Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank of China women's football team, naturally, will be in the level of the full support of the stay in the ocean.
Mechanisms to safeguard and relieve worries
In May 2021, FIFA Benchmarking report - Women's football released by FIFA showed that Chinese women's soccer clubs have an average annual income of 1.1 million dollars, which is the highest in the world.
In comparison, the average salary of women's soccer clubs in Germany is $615,000, in South Korea it is $675,000, and in Japan it is even only $145,000. Of all the women's soccer clubs in the world, the average income is 500,000 dollars, 66% of the clubs earn less than 300,000 dollars, and only 13% of the clubs earn more than 1 million dollars. Obviously, the income of Chinese female soccer players is at the forefront of the world.
Starting from 2018, the Chinese women's soccer team, with its outstanding performance, has been given great protection, not only funded by Alipay's 1 billion yuan fund for 10 years, but also training allowances and winning bonuses at the national team level, and the highest annual salary of Chinese women's soccer international players can reach 2 million yuan before tax. This figure, although with the Chinese men's football, the world men's football professional players income gap is large, but compared to the average income of the world women's football players, has been considered a high salary.
So why is it that Chinese women's international soccer players, who earn a lot of money at home, still have the incentive to stay in the ocean and make a name for themselves? It is important to know that the salary income of overseas clubs is mostly inferior to that at home. In addition to chasing the dream, the relevant mechanism is crucial to guarantee.
Taking only the example of the Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank team's players staying abroad, Liu Haiguang, the president of the Shanghai Football Association, has revealed, "In order to encourage the players to stay abroad, we do have a policy to protect them. Very few players whose ownership is still in Shanghai, we will give subsidies to ensure that the income does not fall, so that they feel at ease to stay in the ocean, bravely pursue their dreams." It is reported that only a very small number of players to enjoy this "treatment", the rest are still brave to go abroad to pursue their dreams, in terms of salary is not too much consideration.
Facilitating the transition between the old and the new to ensure the full mission of the Games
Overall, Shanghai Shengli Football Club Farmers and Merchants Bank women's football team dares to let go of the international players to stay in the ocean, but also has its own bottom line: let go of the exercise of newcomers, to achieve the replacement of the old and the new, the lineup is gradually rejuvenated.
On January 18, 2018, Shanghai Farmers and Merchants Bank signed a contract with the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and the Shanghai Football Association to formally establish the Shanghai Farmers and Merchants Bank Women's Football Team. According to the requirements of the neutralized name of the CFA, Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank Women's Football Team has been renamed Shanghai Shengli Football Club Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank Women's Football Team, and the club name is harmonic victory.
The title party of the club, Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank of China, invests 20 million yuan of real money every year to support the Shanghai Women's Football Club as an important carrier to support the development of Shanghai's sports industry and actively fulfill its social responsibilities and obligations. The title party does not participate in the specific affairs of the club, but upholds the concept of "professional people do professional things", "not as the proprietor of the Shanghai Women's Football Club, when the Shanghai Women's Football Club's mother's family".
The core decisions of Shanghai Shengli Football Club need to be reported to the Shanghai Football Association, which also means that when Shanghai women's football players stay in the world, the decision-makers will take more account of the social effect, relatively ignoring the economic benefits. At the same time, professional decision-making is generally more respect for the laws of soccer, after all, in addition to the national interest above all, quietly realized that the old and new replacement for the Shanghai women's football is good.
Although the short-term results of the Shanghai women's soccer team will inevitably fluctuate, the departure of a group of strong players also means that more powerful young people can get stable opportunities to play. Wang Linlin, just 22 years old, is a young defender for the Shanghai women's soccer team, but has already had an outstanding performance for the Chinese national team. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Wang Siqian, is gradually becoming a starter in the Shanghai women's soccer team.
Earlier this year, 12 young players in the 2003-2004 age group joined the first team of the Shanghai women's soccer team, all of whom were members of the Shanghai U18 women's soccer team that won the championship at the Shaanxi National Games. Among them, Yin Lihong, a striker at the age of 18, is the youngest batch of players in the first team, and is the youngest goal-scorer in this year's league, which is regarded as very promising. The addition of a large number of young blood to the first team reflects the results of the Shanghai women's soccer talent reserves, but they are still "semi-finished products", they still need to be practiced in the actual battle, the fans also need to give tolerance. In the long run, once the young players grow through the actual battle, after the Games, Tang Jiali and other core players return to play on behalf of Shanghai, the veteran's experience, newcomers will realize the perfect combination of impetus.
Shanghai Shengli Football Club, a person confessed that a number of absolute main force to leave, short-term certainly affect the team's performance, but in the long run, can also promote the new and old. Shanghai Football Association, a person is of the view that: "stay in the Shanghai players, by the time they have to come back to play the Games, which eliminates the worries of the local football association, and then the future of more support for players to stay in the ocean."
Chinese women's soccer "stay in the ocean" players at a glance:
Wang Frost Louisville Athletic USA
Jiali Tang CFF Madrid, Spain
Mengwen Li Paris Saint-Germain, France
Lena Yang Paris Saint-Germain, France
Zhang Linyan, Grasshopper Switzerland
Shen Mengyu Scottish Celtic
Monroe Shen Celtic Scotland
Zhao Yujie, Mackerel, Denmark
Yang Shuhui, Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia
Tu Linli Icelandic FHL (Icelandic Second Division)
