Shui Qingxia will lead China's women's soccer team to the top eight of the World Cup. Xinhua News Agency released Xinhua News Agency.
Reporter Jiyu
February 14th, 19:00. China women's football team ushered in the first warm-up match of overseas training, the opponent was Spain's Real Betis women's football team. In the end, with the goals of Wang Shanshan and Fang Jie, the Chinese women's soccer team won the opponent 2 points:1.
This game is a test of the recent training results of the Chinese women's soccer team. After that, the girls will play three warm-up matches. For the girls, who are tasked with "three competitions", whether or not they can win is not the most important thing, but to familiarize themselves with the technical and tactical styles of the European teams, and to find gaps and make up for deficiencies through the warm-up matches.
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not be taken lightly
This year, the Chinese women's soccer team needs to participate in the Women's World Cup, Hangzhou Asian Games and Paris Olympic Games qualifiers, and there is a lot of pressure to prepare. Therefore, at the end of last year, the Chinese women's football team organized a domestic training.
Since then, the Chinese women's soccer team assembled in Guangzhou on January 26th to prepare for the game. On the evening of February 11, local time, the girls arrived in Marbella, Spain, and officially began overseas training.
According to the plan, the Chinese women's soccer team will play four warm-up matches in Spain. In addition to the match against Betis Women's Football Team on the night of the 14th, the team will also play against Sweden Women's Football Team, Spain Velva Women's Football Team and Ireland Women's Football Team.
Currently, Real Betis women's soccer team is ranked at the back of the Spanish Women's Premier League. For the Chinese women's soccer team, this match is just a small test. Next, the "Clanging Roses" will have a real test.
In the early morning of February 17th, Beijing time, Chinese women's soccer team will face Swedish women's soccer team, which is having a short training. At present, the Swedish women's soccer team is ranked third in the world, and its strength should not be underestimated. There is no doubt that this is a litmus test for the overall strength of the Chinese women's soccer team.
In the group stage of the World Cup, one of the opponents of the Chinese women's soccer team is the England women's soccer team. The England women's soccer team and the Swedish women's soccer team are very close to the FIFA points, and their abilities are comparable. Obviously, the Chinese women's soccer team will regard this warm-up match as a "preview" of the England women's soccer team, and its value is self-evident.
Next, the Chinese women's soccer team will also face Velva women's soccer team, which is in the middle of the league, and Ireland women's soccer team, which is ranked 23rd in the world. From the ranking point of view, the Irish women's soccer team is not as good as the Chinese women's soccer team. But now, "no weak team in Europe" has been applied to women's soccer, the Chinese team can not be taken lightly.
When seeds bloom abroad
At present, the Chinese women's soccer team has realized "going abroad" in terms of both players and training. Even though Tang Jiali and Xiao Yuyi ended their study abroad careers early this year, there are still more than 10 Chinese girls working out all over the world.
For the Chinese women's soccer team, both players studying abroad and teams training abroad are the best way to improve themselves.
At the beginning of June 2021, the CFA held a working meeting on the topic of "Promoting local young players of both sexes to study abroad", indicating the CFA's attitude of supporting players to study abroad.
In the second half of last year, China's women's soccer team had a blowout in the number of students studying abroad, with more than a dozen players heading to Europe, Australia and the United States to begin their study abroad careers.
China women's soccer training team arrived in Spain on the day, in the European clubs playing Li Mengwen, Zhang Linyan, Shen Mengyu, Yang Lina immediately met with the team, in Australia women's super football Wu Chengshu also arrived in Marbella. In addition, women's soccer "ace" Wang Shuang missed training for various reasons, Zhao Yujie joined the training team.
The time has finally come to harvest the seeds that were once planted to study abroad.
With the success of men's soccer as a reference, coupled with a number of UEFA's women's soccer promotion activities in recent years, Europe has risen to replace the United States in women's soccer with great momentum.
Whether it is the intensity of confrontation or the quality of offensive and defensive transitions, the level of European women's soccer is stronger than that of Asia. Promoting women's soccer to study abroad will help players adapt to the high-intensity rhythm of the game as soon as possible and avoid suffering losses in the Women's World Cup.
The four warm-up matches in Spain will be an important way for the Chinese women's soccer team to learn about the strongest teams in Europe and improve themselves. Therefore, each match deserves to be taken seriously by the Chinese women's soccer team and seriously resumed after the match.
Talking about this overseas training, Chinese women's soccer head coach Shui Qingxia linked it to the Women's World Cup. "Whether our training can meet the needs of the World Cup, which aspects are worse, which aspects are worse, these can only be reflected through the matches."
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Striving for the top eight
After experiencing a low point at the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's soccer team quickly adjusted and won the 2022 Women's Asian Cup after 16 years, which was the most glorious moment for the Chinese women's soccer team in recent years.
However, the overall style of Asian women's soccer is soft. In order to gain a foothold in a larger field, the Chinese women's soccer team must go out of its "comfort zone".
The Women's World Cup, which starts in July this year, will be the first and most important test that the Chinese women's soccer team will face this year. The Chinese women's soccer team will face fierce competition from two European powerhouses, England and Denmark.
In terms of rankings, England has been firmly in the world's top five in recent years, and is one of the fastest-improving women's soccer teams in Europe. Although the strength of the Danish women's soccer team is slightly inferior to England, it has the technical and tactical characteristics of European teams with high intensity and strong confrontation. At the same time, the Chinese women's soccer team will face Denmark in the first match, which requires the team to take the game seriously.
"The first game against Denmark is crucial. If you win the first game, you will have hope (of advancing), but the other team will think the same, so you should do better in details." Shui Qingxia said in an interview.
In the last Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's soccer team ranked among the top 16. In this tournament, Shui Qingxia has higher expectations for the team's performance. She said the goal of the Chinese women's soccer team is to try to reach the top eight.
For the Chinese women's soccer team, which is currently ranked 14th in the world, it is not difficult to enter the last eight of the Women's World Cup. Especially when facing European teams with better confrontation ability, the Chinese women's soccer team is facing unprecedented pressure.
However, the Chinese women's soccer team is not without a "winning formula". Asian teams in the face of European teams, although in the confrontation suffered losses is inevitable, but the Chinese women's football team can play local cooperation, the overall joint defense, joint defense and attack should be better. Chinese women's soccer team is not impossible to create a surprise.
