Chinanews client, Beijing, July 8th (Bian Liqun) calling for a lot of calls, two weeks before the Tokyo Olympic group match and the first match of the Brazilian women's football team, the list of 22 Chinese women's football players was finally released.

　　As before the Olympic preliminaries play-offs, the Chinese women's football team continues to maintain a mysterious mode and keeps the list secret after the opponents have confirmed the roster and other domestic sports teams have successively announced the roster.

　　The difference is that this time FIFA "helped" the Chinese women's football team to announce the list in advance, and this list is somewhat surprising and confusing.

List of Chinese Women's Football Olympics.

Image source: FIFA website.

　　The author counted down the list of 22 Chinese women's football players, of which 8 did not participate in the Olympic preliminaries play-offs with South Korea.

Among the players replaced, Ma Jun and Tang Jiali have always been the main players. There are also players like Lou Jiahui, Yao Wei and Yao Lingwei who have served as starters in different stages of the Olympic preliminaries.

　　Compared with the 2019 Women's World Cup roster, the Chinese women's football lineup is now a big change, and the main players alone have made half of the adjustments.

　　Of course, it has been two years since the last time the Chinese women's football team competed in the World Championships. It is normal for the lineup to undergo substantial changes. Moreover, the Chinese women's football team, which has been fully defensive in the World Cup, also attracted a lot of doubts from the outside world.

In the 1/8 finals of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, the Chinese team lost 0-2 to the Italian team and missed the quarterfinals.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　There is nothing wrong with taking the initiative to change. The surprises and doubts about the list are mainly due to the large adjustment range, as well as the adjustment of Tang Jiali, veteran Ma Jun and Lou Jiahui to the team.

Whether it was the two play-offs with the Korean women's football team or the previous Olympic preliminaries, they played an important role.

　　To replace them with players who have few chances to play in the competition can only be said that this is a decision that requires sufficient courage. Once the desired effect is not achieved, the consequences can be imagined.

　　But as the women's football coach Jia Xiuquan, it is impossible not to consider these, before making these decisions, there must be a very comprehensive consideration.

On April 13, in the second round of the Tokyo Olympic Women's Asian qualifier play-off match, the Chinese team drew 2 to 2 in overtime with the South Korean team, thus winning 4 to 3 and qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo

　　Judging from the list, the forward and back lines have not changed much. Forward Tang Jiali was replaced by Wuri Gumula, and the defense veteran Lou Jiahui was replaced by Wang Ying, who was previously selected for the 2019 Women's World Cup list.

　　The biggest adjustment is the midfield position, only Zhang Xin, Wang Shuang and Li Qingtong are retained. The first two are the absolute main players, and the latter does not play much.

In addition, Wang Yan, Miao Siwen, Yang Lina, teenagers Wang Yanwen, Liu Jing, and Jin Kun have added up to 6 players.

　　Among them, Wang Yan is an old face. In the 2019 Women's World Cup, she made her debut many times, but then faded out of the national team due to injuries.

The remaining 5 players were mostly recruited by the Chinese women's football selection team and did not have much experience in major competitions.

The addition of many teenagers also reduced the average age of the Chinese women's football team from 26.4 to 25.8.

Chinese women's football in the 2019 World Cup.

Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency

　　However, given that the Tokyo Olympics list is 18+4, there is still room for adjustment in the lineup of the Chinese women's football team.

The experience of the competition and the state of pre-match training will be the standard that coach Jia Xiu weighs in his heart, and it also makes the outside world look forward to the team's final 18-man roster.

　　But in any case, in the main lineup of the Chinese women's football team, there will be at least three changes, two of which will appear in the midfield.

　　Judging from the attributes of newly recruited players, Wang Yan can be a full-back and defensive midfielder. Yang Lina and Liu Jing are also mostly defensive attributes. Miao Siwen, Wang Yanwen and Jin Kun are more offensive attributes.

　　It can be seen that coach Jia Xiuquan still wants to make more adjustments and attempts in the midfield. After all, in the previous Women's World Cup and the Olympic preliminaries with South Korea, some problems were exposed in the offensive and defensive transition.

The grouping situation of the Olympic women's football competition.

　　In this Olympic group match, the Chinese women's football team is in the same group as Brazil, the Netherlands, and Zambia. Judging from the current world rankings, Brazil and the Netherlands are stronger than the Chinese women's football team, so how to do a defensive counterattack will be the focus.

　　In this context, these new players, who are more youthful and have offensive attributes, may be able to play a miraculous effect.

In the second round of the Olympic preliminary play-off match with South Korea, the high center Yang Man, who came on the bench when he fell behind, had a surprising effect.

　　According to the rules, in the Olympic group stage, the top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the qualifying places, and the two teams with the best results from the three groups can also qualify for the third place.

To qualify, the Chinese women's football team must at least score points from Brazil and the Netherlands in a victory over Zambia.

　　In previous interviews, Jia Xiuquan had stated that he would build a stronger Chinese women's football team and wanted to create miracles.

I hope that the adjusted Chinese women's football team can create miracles as they wish and bloom in the Tokyo Olympics.

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