Although the sky was gloomy, but on the day when the National Games preliminaries ended and returned to Beijing, the Beijing women's football coach Yu Yun's heart was relaxed a lot.
This is the third time he has brought his team back to Beijing this year. Because of preparations for the National Games preliminaries and the Women’s Super League, in the first half of the year, Yu Yun and his team only spent more than a month in Beijing, and even spent the Spring Festival in Guangdong. .
The Beijing Women's Football celebrates the New Year at the Sanshui Base in Guangdong.
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It's not just the hard work of preparing for matches and matches outside. In the past six months, the soldiers of the Beijing women's football team have experienced too much.
Fortunately, in the preliminaries of the National Games women's football team that ended on June 7, the Beijing women's football team made it out of the dead group and seized the key "life-saving straw."
At the moment of qualifying, the girls of the Beijing Women's Football team cried, including Wang Fei, Gu Yasha, and Ma Xiaoxu, who have experienced big scenes in the national team before.
Head coach Yu Yun was also in tears. There was joy in the tears and the bitterness of the past six months.
The Beijing Women's Football team qualified from the National Games Women's Football Qualifiers.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
In February of this year, we reported on the predicament of the Beijing Women's Football Team.
As the Beijing Women's Football team is about to start preparing for the new season in 2021, the club investor Beijing Enterprises Group informed the team that the previously agreed investment of 80 million has been fully invested and will not continue to invest in the team in the new season.
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Now that half a year has passed, the Beijing Women's Football team has still not been able to find a sponsor.
It was under such difficult conditions that Yu Yun and his team had a way to survive.
Data map: Beijing women's football coach Yu Yun led the team in the game.
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When meeting with Coach Yu Yun this time, the first feeling was that he was a lot thinner than before.
The "SAPHO syndrome" that Yu Yun suffered from two years ago has been repeated recently.
"It's getting better recently. When I was playing the game the previous time, I couldn't sleep at night and my whole body was aching." Yu Yun said.
In the first half of the year, the Beijing Women's Football team spent most of their time preparing and competing in other places.
Yu Yun and his team set off to prepare for the battle in Shunde, Guangdong on January 2, and transferred to Sanshui, Guangdong on February 2, where they spent the Chinese New Year.
On March 2, the Beijing Women's Football team went directly to Kunming to prepare for the game and the game. It was not until early April that it ended more than three months of "wandering" and returned to Beijing.
On May 2, the team went to Kunming to participate in the first stage of the Women's Super League. After returning to Beijing in the middle of preparation for two weeks, the team went to Foshan to participate in the Women's National Games qualifiers.
"Stay outside for 3 months is the longest time ever. Last year it was closed to the Women's Super League for more than two months." Yu Yun said.
Prior to this, the Beijing women's football team had winter training at Sanshui Base in Guangdong.
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The difficult conditions in reality also seem to make this period of time extremely long.
Due to the absence of sponsorship from investors, Beijing female football players and coaches have no winning bonuses and training fees. Only the basic salary of Xiannongtan Sports School has lost more than 70% of their income.
"The basic salary is a little bit more, like the old players, it is estimated that it is only 6,000 to 7,000 yuan a month, and the hands are only 5,000 to 6,000, and the younger players are even lower. Like Ma Xiaoxu, it is not in the Xiannongtan Sports School system. There is no salary for half a year,"
Yu Yun said.
The reality is really cruel to the players who eat youth meals, and it also adds a lot of difficulty for Yu Yun to lead the team.
Compared with the impact of the departure of many main players on the team's strength, mental stability is the most important thing.
Fortunately, in the past six months, the team's spirit has not dissipated, but the more frustrated, the more courageous.
Data map: Beijing Women's Football Team in the game.
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In the preliminaries of the National Games Women's Football Team, the Beijing Women's Football team fell into the "death group" with Jiangsu, Henan and Guangdong, which is the team's most difficult group in history.
Yu Yun clearly remembered the day of the draw: "It was on April 13, the Chinese women's football team and the Korean women's football team before the second round of the Olympic preliminaries. I was leading the training team and they sent the news. I At first glance, this is indeed very unsatisfactory. It is a signing."
In the last National Games, the Beijing Women's Football team won eighth place, so this time it was designated as the third team, increasing the probability of entering the "death group".
Data map: Beijing Women's Football Team in the 2019 season.
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In the group where the Beijing Women's Football team is located, the Jiangsu team is the first team, with Ma Jun, Yao Lingwei, Wang Xiaoxue, Zhai Qingwei, Li Mengwen and goalkeeper Peng Shimeng in the backcourt.
The Guangdong team is relatively strong in the fourth tier. There are 4 internationals including Luo Guiping and Lin Yuping, and they also occupy the advantage of the host of this group.
The Henan team in second gear has international Lou Jiahui.
Among the four teams, only the Beijing Women's Football Team has no active internationals, and the two main players, Ma Xiaoxu and Zhang Linyan, did not receive arbitration until the registration deadline on May 15, and they were finally determined to play for the Beijing Women's Football Team.
Before that, Ma Xiaoxu had not played on behalf of the team, and Zhang Linyan also temporarily returned to the Beijing team before the National Games.
Not very good luck, for the plight of the Beijing women's football team, it is even worse.
If it fails to qualify for the National Games, it will have a greater blow to the Beijing women's football team.
In Yu Yun's impression, in the history of the National Games, the Beijing Women's Football team has never missed the main match.
"If you want to survive, no one will pay attention to poor grades." Yu Yun said this bitterly, but this is the cruel reality.
The Beijing Women's Football Team takes a group photo before the preliminaries of the National Games.
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For this National Games qualifier, Yu Yunhe’s coaching staff formulated a strategy, which, in a nutshell, was to fight the Guangdong team on the basis of winning the Henan team in the first game.
"At that time, the coaching staff's judgment was that as long as there is no surprise in normal performance, the decisive battle is the third round against Guangdong." Yu Yun said.
In the preliminaries of the National Games, the process is indeed the same as the prediction.
The Beijing Women's Football team first defeated Henan 1-0 in the first round, while Jiangsu defeated Guangdong 1-0.
In the second round against Jiangsu, the Beijing Women's Football team rotated three players and lost to their opponents 0:1.
Speaking of this game, Yu Yun analyzed: "There will be a day between the last two games, and even if we win Jiangsu, if Guangdong wins Henan in the second round, if we lose to Guangdong in the last game, it is equally possible. Can't get out of the line."
"In any case, the last game against Guangdong was a decisive battle. Although we were forced to a dead end, we can also control ourselves. And we have 5 veteran players who have played in both the Olympics and the World Cup. They have very rich experience. The game scene is nothing."
The Beijing Women's Football Team takes a group photo before the preliminaries of the National Games.
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In the final battle against the Guangdong team, the Beijing women's football team must win the game to qualify.
"I think it's interesting to train before the game, because the Guangdong team hasn't spoken since the start of the warm-up activities, and it was a little nervous." Yu Yun said.
In the game, the progress was unexpectedly smooth.
The Beijing Women's Football team scored just one and a half minutes into the game. In the end, the team kept this advantage tenaciously and successfully qualified.
"I told the players after the match, I really believe that there is something more important than money in this world." Recalling this scene, Yu Yun's eyes were a little red.
The Beijing women's football girls celebrate their qualification.
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"Looking back, the four teams in this group are actually very close in strength. We played three games and scored two goals in total. One was a free kick and the other was a penalty."
"Guangdong scored a penalty in three games. The Jiangsu team scored a free kick in the last minute of the first game. Our team scored a sports goal in the second game. The process was very difficult."
"It's also a bit of luck, it's called putting to death and resurrecting." Yu Yun said with emotion.
Beijing Women's Football is preparing for the game.
Photo by Bian Liqun
After finishing the preliminaries of the National Games, Yu Yun rarely had time to breathe.
In the past few days, he has taken on the task of picking up the children to school. "There is still a lot of guilt for the children, because our vacation is not in line with the children’s vacation, so this time I came back to pick up the children with peace of mind and do some duties. It is also rare Enjoyment."
In August, Yu Yun will lead the team to compete in the Women's Super League. In September, he will set foot on the Women's National Games Women's Football Stadium.
Although the road ahead is still unclear, the Beijing women's football team now has some hope and rush after passing through the difficulties of the National Games preliminaries.
However, long-term "streaking" is not a long-term solution for a professional team.
I hope that the Beijing Women's Football team will eventually find a sponsor as they wish. This team is worth it.
(Author Bian Liqun)