Why isn't there a football match at the Universiade when everyone is here? What you don't know about the "cold knowledge" basketball of the Universiade | event | Universiade
The Chengdu Universiade is in full swing, but observant viewers have noticed that basketball and volleyball matches are exciting and intense. In the schedule of the Universiade, there is no football competition. Although it is known as the "Little Olympics," the event settings are different.
You need to know these "cold knowledge" about the Universiade.
There is no football event in the 1. Chengdu Universiade.
Yes, the Chengdu Universiade does not have football events, men's and women's football are not. After the last Naples Universiade, football is no longer the official event of the Universiade. The International Sports Federation has also added a college student football World Cup, which is also the reform move of the International Sports Federation to "reduce the burden and slim down" for the Universiade.
The first FIFA World Cup was held in November 2019 in Jinjiang, Fujian. After 11 days of fierce competition, the University of Ottawa in Canada and the University of the Republic of Uruguay won the men's and women's championships respectively.
In fact, the football project did not enter the Universiade for a long time. Football became the official sport at the 1985 Kobe Universiade. In the women's football final of the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, the Chinese women's football team, led by Beijing Normal University, equalized the score in the second half after conceding one goal. In regular time, they drew 1-1 with the Japanese team, and in extra time, they defeated the Japanese team 2-1. After 18 years, they won the gold medal at the Universiade again. At that time, this women's football team included well-known players such as Bi Yan, Qu Shanshan, Pang Fengyue, and Wang Fei.
The other two of the "Three Balls" - basketball and volleyball - were both official events of the 1959 First Universiade, along with athletics, swimming, water polo, fencing, tennis, and other events.
2. Universiade events can be "optional"
There are necessary options for the Universiade, and the host city of the Universiade can also add a number of "optional projects".
Previously, the total number of events at the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, the 2013 Kazan Universiade, and the 2015 Guangzhou Universiade reached 24, 27, and 21, respectively.
This year's Chengdu Universiade will feature 18 major events and 269 minor events, resulting in 269 gold medals. Among them, athletics, gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, diving, swimming, archery, fencing, badminton, table tennis, tennis, judo, taekwondo, basketball, volleyball, and water polo are 15 mandatory events, while martial arts, rowing, and shooting are 3 optional events.
Among all events, athletics is the gold medalist, producing a total of 50 gold medals. Swimming will determine 42 gold medals, and taekwondo will produce 23 gold medals.
3. are not college students can participate
The organization of the World University Games is the International University Sports Federation, referred to as the International University Sports Federation, which was established in September 1949. It is an independent and comprehensive international sports organization with its headquarters in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, and currently has 162 members.
According to the competition regulations of the International University Sports Federation, university students aged between 18 and 25, as well as previous university students who graduated in the academic year before the Universiade, are eligible to represent their respective countries or regions in this year's Universiade.
The Chengdu Universiade is an exception: due to the epidemic, the Universiade has been postponed twice. In order to minimize the impact of the epidemic on student athletes, the International Federation of Athletes has expanded the eligibility of athletes to participate, allowing college students aged 18 to 27 and graduates from previous academic years from 2020 to 2022 to participate in the Chengdu Universiade. This decision has increased the selection space for athletes from member countries and regions, and also created opportunities for college athletes who missed out on the Chengdu Universiade due to the impact of the epidemic to return to the field.
