The literal translation of the title of this movie is: Five Tiger Generals.
This movie is the Chinese equivalent of USA movie Wildcats made in 1986 and started with Goldie Hawn. Unlike the latter, this Chinese version is a family movie instead of comedy, and the sport is table tennis instead of football because the former is a very popular sport in China but the latter is virtually unheard of when this movie was made.
The movie is an advocate of gender egalitarianism and it actually portrays the difficulties of female coach, who just like women in any other professions traditionally dominated by men, women had to work much harder to earn their proper acceptance.