China News Service Client Beijing, November 18 (Bian Liqun) "The Chairman's Office of the Chinese Football Association will comprehensively consider the selection of the head coaches of the national women's football team in the early stage. Based on extensive consultations, it will be determined by the current Shanghai Women's Football Team. The team's head coach Shui Qingxia is the head coach of the Chinese women's football team."
On the evening of the 18th, an announcement from the Chinese Football Association gave the Chinese women's football coaches who had been undecided for more than a month finally got an answer.
Announcement screenshot
Although this "reversal" decision has long been heard, the announcement under this node still feels a bit sudden.
Even the title of the announcement is just "Announcement of the Chinese Football Association."
In the short three lines of words, some words are also very worthy of fun-"The Chinese Football Association Chairman's Office will comprehensively consider the selection and appointment of the head coach of the women's national team in the early stage, and make comprehensive considerations and careful research decisions on the basis of extensive solicitation of opinions."
Shui Qingxia had previously led the Chinese Women's Football Team for the National Games.
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The "reverse" decision
The so-called feeling of suddenness mainly stems from the previous coaching process.
As early as October 8, the Chinese Football Association issued a notice on the selection of the head coach of the Chinese women's national team, and interviews were conducted on October 15th and 16th.
It is reported that Zhao Junzhe, who served as the leader of the Guangzhou City Football Club of the Super League, Wang Jun, the U19 National Youth Women's Football Coach, Chen Wanting, the former U16 Women's National Youth Team coach, Liu Huana, the Shaanxi Women's Football Coach, and Zhang Haitao, the coach who led the Chinese Women's Football in the Athens Olympics, participated in the campaign.
Shui Qingxia, the coach who led the Chinese Women's Olympic selection team to win the National Games, did not participate in the campaign.
Screenshot of the notice of the Football Association's selection of the women's football coach
Later, it was rumored that Zhao Junzhe was the closest to the coach of the Chinese women's football team, which led to discussions with certain doubts.
In this way, after more than a month after the interview, who will be the head of the Chinese women's football team is still up in the air. The Asian Cup of women's football that opens on January 20 next year is getting closer.
Until the evening of the 18th, the Chinese Football Association announced on the official website that Shui Qingxia, who had not participated in the election, became the new Chinese women's football coach. Under the "reversal", the "big drama" of the Chinese women's football team finally came to an end.
This is also the source of the words "comprehensively consider the selection and employment of the head coaches of the women's national team in the previous period, and comprehensively consider on the basis of extensive solicitation of opinions" in the announcement.
Shui Qingxia was in the Shaanxi National Games not long ago.
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Or the current optimal solution
Speaking of Shui Qingxia, this is a sufficiently representative name in the field of Chinese women's football.
In the most glorious period of "Clang Rose", Shui Qingxia was one of them, and represented the women's national team to win the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games runner-up.
After retiring in 2001, Shui Qingxia transformed into a coach. From leading the Shanghai Women's Football Youth Team to leading the Shanghai Women's Football First Team, she won the National U17 Women's Football Championship, the National Women's Football Championship, the Women's Football Association Cup, the Women's Super League, the National Games, etc. Championship trophy.
Tang Jiali and Shen Mengyu who are currently studying abroad, including Zhang Xin, Miao Siwen, and Yang Lina in the Chinese women's football team during the Tokyo Olympics, are all under Shui Qingxia.
After the Chinese women's football team was disastrously out of the Tokyo Olympics, it was Shui Qingxia who took over the team and re-kneaded the team in a very limited time. In the final of the National Games, she defeated her own Shanghai women's football team and won the championship.
Shui Qingxia (No. 8) made her debut in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics women's football match.
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Objectively speaking, whether it is qualifications or familiarity with domestic women's football, Shui Qingxia can be ranked in the forefront, and it is also higher than the previous coaches who participated in the competition.
In particular, the Asian Cup of Women’s Football next year is in sight, followed by the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou and the Women’s World Cup jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2023. In such a short time, the new coach is left to rebuild the team. There are not many opportunities for time and fault tolerance. In this case, Shui Qingxia is indeed a very suitable choice.
In the previous post-match interviews of the National Games, Shui Qingxia expressed his willingness and feelings to coach the Chinese women’s football team, “I dream that everyone will have it. I have been a coach for so many years, so I also played football. I hope to be able to To be the coach of the national team can show on the world stage. I think everyone in different industries wants to do better."
On the evening of July 27, in the final round of the Tokyo Olympics women's football group match, the Chinese team lost 2:8 to the Dutch team. Three group matches, one draw and two losses missed the group qualifying, bid farewell to the Tokyo Olympics.
The picture shows Wang Shuang in the game.
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The task of taking over the pointer is arduous
After returning from a frustration at the Tokyo Olympics, the morale of the women's national team has been hit to a certain extent. Fortunately, after the surprise and risky victory at the National Games, this part of the mood has been eased to a certain extent, which also laid the foundation for Shui Qingxia to officially take over the women's football team.了基。 The foundation.
After taking over the coach, Shui Qingxia was left with insufficient time to rebuild the team. It is only about 2 months before the Women's Football Asian Cup on January 20 next year.
On July 24, the second round of the Tokyo Olympics women's football group match kicked off. The Chinese women's football team 4:4 Zambia women's football team.
In the game, Wang Shuang scored four yuan alone and still failed to help the Chinese team fail to take away the victory.
However, given that the Chinese women's football team had previously been drawn and signed, and the host team India, Chinese Taipei and Iran were in the same group in the group stage, these games can be used for the team to run in.
And in the case of scoring the top 5 to win the World Cup tickets, the pressure on the results exists objectively, but not too much.
The key is that in the Hangzhou Asian Games next September, the Chinese women's football team, as the host, needs to be convincing enough in terms of results.
Then there will be competitions like the 2023 Women's World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
From the perspective of the past few years, Chinese women's football has fallen behind the development trend of the world's women's football, and the gap with the strong teams in Europe and the United States in the competition has become increasingly huge. This has also become a major obstacle restricting the women's national team from going further in the competition.
At the same time, the Chinese women's football team is not optimistic enough on the issue of talent selection. These will become the difficulties that Shui Qingxia will face in the process of coaching.
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