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The Argentine women's football team made history.

At the women's World Cup group match, which ended in the early morning of June 11, Beijing time, Argentina drew 0-0 with Japan. After the game, the Argentine players were ecstatic as if they had won.

Because this draw has been a milestone in the history of Argentine women's football - it is the first time they have scored in the group stage since participating in the women's World Cup, let alone the world women's football team Japan.

Although Argentina's men's football team has a reputation abroad, the development of Argentina's women's football career has been stagnant for many years due to domestic social prejudice and other reasons.

In this World Cup year, Argentina finally began to set up a professional women's Football League and received official support. In the women's football world, Argentina will catch up.

Argentina drew 0-0 with Japan. Picture vision China

Make history on the world champion

After the match between the Japanese women's football team and the Argentine women's football team, the loss of the Japanese players was evident, and the 19-year-old player Baotian Shazhi also shed tears.

The draw caught this team, which had won the world cup in 2011, off guard. After all, before the game, people all agreed that the former world champion could win.

On the Argentine side, the players hugged and celebrated frantically, as if it was not a group draw, but a knockout victory.

The reason behind it is understandable - for them, it is a draw to make history.

In the history of the team, the Argentine women's football team has only participated in the women's world cup for three times. In addition to this year's session, it was held in 2003 and 2007 respectively.

But on those two occasions, the team lost all the group matches and got out hastily, and some of the scores were even more 'scary': 0-6 loss to Japan, 1-6 loss to England and 0-11 loss to Germany (the record of the largest difference in the world cup) & hellip& hellip;

After the 2011 and 2015 World Cup, the Argentine women's football team failed to get tickets. It was not until the 2019 world cup that Panama was defeated in the qualifying playoffs and returned to the World Cup stage.

Although the whole game was suppressed by the opponent and the ball control rate was less than 40%, Argentina showed tenacious defense and stubbornly withstood the attack wave of the former world champion.

Finally, the best player of the game was won by Argentine captain Barney. This valuable point ignited the confidence of Argentina to qualify in the impact group.

The Argentine women's football team is in the game.

'female eagle' living in the crevice

The Argentine men's football team has always been known as the 'pampas Eagle'. They have Maradona, Messi and countless fans all over the world.

In contrast, the Argentine women's football team is much weaker in strength. The reason behind this is the difference in attention and social resource investment.

Over the years, the Argentine women's football team has not had professional competitions, only 'semi professional' domestic competitions. Many people are still full of prejudice that women should not be a part of professional football.

This makes it impossible for players to meet their food and clothing by playing football. Even the players of the team that won the championship of Argentina's domestic women's Football League last year can only get a subsidy of about 400 pesos (about 62 yuan) a month from the team, which is almost no different from playing free football.

At the same time, players sometimes have to spend money inversely in order to play football, because many teams will not even provide some basic expenses, such as training equipment, diet, injury treatment and so on. Many of them have to be paid by the players themselves.

Compared with the Argentine men's football team, even the third level league players can play full-time, the 'tragedy' of the Argentine women's football team is obvious. Both teams and management organizations have not regarded female football players as' professional players' for a long time.

Many Argentine female football players have to go abroad to 'make a living', for example, Peng saikundo, No. 11 of the national team, is one of them.

In 2018, she went abroad to join the Spanish women's Football League. For her, the women's football environment here is very different from that in China.

"My life has changed a lot this year. Before, I had to go to school and work at the same time. Now I suddenly have the opportunity to devote all my time to football."

'playing here is like a dream. You can play against strong teams every week, which makes me grow up faster.'

The players hugged each other to celebrate the draw.

They are used to fighting prejudice

What makes the players of this Argentine team happy is that while the Argentine women's football team returns to the world cup, the backwardness of the Argentine women's football career also shows signs of change.

One of the most interesting is undoubtedly the establishment of the Argentine women's football professional league.

In March this year, the Argentine Football Association officially announced that it was about to open the Argentine women's professional league. According to the plan of the Argentine Football Association, 16 clubs will become the first professional women's football clubs in Argentina, and each club will provide professional contracts to 8 players.

At the same time, the Argentine Football Association will provide funds to help these clubs pay the salaries of professional players.

It is reported that the Argentine Football Association is prepared to pay 120000 pesos (about 18500 yuan) to each club every month to help the team pay wages. Although the average amount to a single athlete is not much, which is only a little higher than Argentina's national minimum wage standard, it is also a milestone progress compared with the previous almost "zero income".

In addition, the Argentine Football Association will help the development of women's football from other aspects. For example, provide better training conditions for the women's national team, help clubs obtain standard training facilities, further formulate relevant regulations, send men's football personnel to guide and help the operation and development of women's football, etc.

In fact, among the countries competing for the right to host the 2023 women's World Cup, Argentina will undoubtedly promote the development of its women's football team if Argentina can finally bid successfully.

For the current players of this national team, they hope to help the development of women's football career through their excellent performance.

"In Argentina, women's football and social concepts are changing. This is only the beginning. The players of our generation should make more people pay attention to us. " Peng saikunduo said in an interview with FIFA.

Captain Barney admitted, 'we are used to fighting against lack of resources and prejudice, which makes us stronger and motivates us.'