Taiwan / Chinese Taipei is playing their play-off game for the 2023 World Cup qualification against Paraguay right now, so I thought I'd share this write-up:
Inspired by an ancient folktale and the success of generations past, Chinese Taipei's women's football team is hoping to make the 2023 Women
A point of note:
Chinese Taipei [was] one of the unheralded giants of Asian women's football from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.
And especially:
Chinese Taipei didn't just compete in major women's football tournaments, though. In fact, the team is arguably the reason the Women's World Cup exists at all.
In 1978, the Chinese Taipei federation organised the first Women's World Invitational Tournament, known as the Chunghua Cup. It took place every three years and brought together many of the women's game's earliest pioneers — including teams from Australia, New Zealand, West Germany, France, Norway, and the USA — until folding in 1987.
And this conclusion, a quote from midfielder Michelle Pao:
"The past is more like a goal. If they could do it in the past, we can do it now. Or maybe even better."