Having everything in the world, the Japanese women's team is only missing an Olympic gold medal: How difficult it is...
•20/10/2024
The Japanese women's football team will face the world's most successful team, the United States, in the quarterfinals. If they make it through the quarterfinals, there will still be many difficulties awaiting the representative of Asian football.
Japan is the only representative of Asian football, remaining in the knockout round, the women's football event of the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic gold medal is also the only major title that the Japanese women's football team is missing from their huge collection. The Japanese women's football team won the 2011 World Cup, the Asian championship in 2014 and 2018, and won the Asian Games gold medal in 2010, 2018 and 2022. However, the best achievement of the Japanese women's football team at the Olympics is only the silver medal in 2012.
The Japanese women's team is the only Asian representative remaining at this Olympics.
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Head coach of the Japanese women's team - Mr. Futoshi Ikeda
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The Japanese want to win the 2024 Paris Olympic gold medal, to complete their collection of major titles. However, the road to the Olympic championship title this year for Japanese women's football is too thorny, they have too many big opponents in front of them. First, in the quarterfinals, the Japanese women's football team must face the US team, the most successful team in women's football in the world. The US has won the World Cup 4 times (1991, 1999, 2005 and 2019), won the Olympic gold medal 4 times (1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012), won the CONCACAF championship 9 times (North, Central America and the Caribbean: 1991, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022).
Japan women's team won the Women's World Cup in 2011
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If they make it through the quarterfinals, Japan will have to face the winner of the match between the world's second most successful team, Germany, or reigning Olympic champion Canada. Of these, Germany has won the World Cup twice (2003 and 2007), won the Olympic gold medal once (2016), and won the EURO eight times (1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013). Canada has won the Olympic gold medal once (2020), and won the CONCACAF championship twice (1998, 2010). Notably, at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Canada started the tournament with a deduction of... 6 points, but in the end they won all 3 group stage matches, enough points to advance to the quarterfinals. This detail shows that the will of the Canadian women's team is very strong. If they continue to the semi-finals, Japan will likely face reigning World Cup champion Spain. The women's football team from the land of bullfighting is the strongest team in the remaining bracket, in the knockout round of women's football, at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The physique of Japanese female players does not really have an advantage over their Western opponents.
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Both the Japanese men's and women's teams have advanced past the group stage.
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Overall, Japan's path to the gold medal goal is very difficult. There are no more easy opponents and no more easy matches for them from now until the end of the tournament. Another notable thing is that the matches with difficult opponents follow each other, making it more difficult for the Japanese girls to control their power.
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