After many years, the Chinese women's soccer team once again reached the top of Asia. At the final whistle of the Asian Cup final, the women's soccer players on the bench rushed to the field in excitement, and goalkeeper Zhao Lina held a camera to capture the moment of their victory. Her video records the warmth of the players celebrating by raising the cup, the self-help to receive the award under the epidemic situation, and even the moment when the cell phone accidentally fell, each frame is full of the reality of life and the flow of emotions.
Immersive Asian Cup Awards This short video has gained great popularity on the Internet, with more than 1.1 million views on B station. Zhao Lina's video, whether it is shot, edited or distributed in a way that is eye-catching. She said that the time that belonged to the clanging roses is far away.
Zhao Lina, a girl who started playing soccer at the age of 7, became a goalkeeper for the national team at the age of 20, and was dubbed "the most beautiful goalkeeper" after her training photos became a hit on the Internet. Although she was considered to be retiring at her peak, she returned to the national team at the age of 30. Throughout her ups and downs, she has remained steadfast in training, observing and recording the new era of women's soccer.
This introverted and silent woman, who found her new self in the video, sees herself as a window into the world of women's soccer.
Zhao Lina used to be a quiet person, and even had thoughts of quitting the national team and retiring. But she pursues perfection, and once she feels she is not doing well, she questions her ability. "Maybe it's because I pursue perfection myself, and once I feel like I'm not doing well, I wonder if I'm not capable of this position and if I should grow some more."
In 2015, Zhao Lina's photo became popular on the Internet, and she was crowned "China's most beautiful female soccer player". Despite all the attention, she knows that most of it is for the word "most beautiful".
At that time, Zhao Lina's professional strength was also highly recognized. She was selected for the national team, the World Cup squad, and performed well in the Olympic qualifiers. However, she suffered a turning point in her career in the 2018 Asian Games final.
In the final of the 2018 Asian Games women's soccer team, Zhao Lina faced Japan as the main goalkeeper. Although she defended the goal until the end of the game, but in the end, Japan's kill goal broke the balance of the game, and this game has become a difficult to erase the memory of Zhao Lina.
Zhao Lina said that since being noticed, she began to demand more of herself and had a clearer direction for the future. "I think it's a more important turning point since I've been noticed, because maybe once, I would have felt that I was an obscure player, no one came to pay attention to me, so I can do anything, I can do anything I make ...... but since it's been recognized by more people, and by more attention over, I would feel that I need to demand more from myself and I need to be clearer about my future path."
Bouncing between the national team and her club, Zhao Lina felt so much mental pressure that she left the national team for a while to give herself a chance to catch her breath.
I did not expect this respite, the past three or four years. This year's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's soccer team won the championship, Zhao Lina once again appeared in the national team's list. This time, she is no longer that will be too much pressure and budged out of the little girl.
In the years since she left the national team, Zhao Lina's video production has become her window and a cure for stress. She felt that she was ready for another challenge.
Chinese women's soccer head coach Shui Qingxia is the very same head coach of Zhao Lina in Shanghai, she recalled Zhao Lina to the national team based on her knowledge of the player. In the days of temporary absence from the national team, Zhao Lina has never relaxed her professional training, and Shui Qingxia has seen it all. For Zhao Lina, Shui's persistence in soccer is also what impressed her the most.
In the Asian Cup final, Zhao Lina sat on the bench and watched her teammates go from being behind to equalizing to overtaking. Though she hadn't expected such a drama to happen, she had prepared for the championship and had her camera with her to record the historic scene.
Back in the country, the women's soccer team in accordance with the provisions of the designated hotel quarantine, just as the bus was about to drive into the hotel, they saw a large number of fans waving flags and shouting for them. Zhao Lina hurriedly took out her camera to record this national soccer team's long-lost moment of excitement.
When the training team list was announced, some netizens exclaimed, "Ah? Zhao Lina did not retire!" For similar remarks, Zhao Lina is also somewhat helpless. But she couldn't care less, with the national team zero intersection of these years, she professionally did not have any give up.
In 2018, when she returned to the local team from the national team, Zhao Lina came into contact with a brand new field - vlog. at that time, vlog was just starting to bubble up in the major social and video platforms on the Internet, and it became a new way of communication for young people.
Zhao Lina was so curious about this new platform that she always asked her friends, "Do you know about vlogging?" But I'm afraid even she wouldn't have believed that a few years later, she, who didn't like to talk much in life, could actually become a good vlogger and show a very different "most beautiful goalkeeper" in front of the camera.
Points of life records, professional video teaching, how to shoot fashion blockbusters ...... in front of the screen eloquent, generous Zhao Lina harvested more fans and attention, but her purpose is never just to show themselves.
"I've always wanted to think of ways to get more fans to understand and care about women's soccer players and see a side of the game that they don't see on the field. Only with a deep understanding will there be a deep concern." Although sometimes the number of viewers of the short videos made with a passion is very small and there is a loss, as long as she can receive so much as one or two encouragement, she feels, "It's still meaningful to continue to do it."
Various voices on the network, but the mature Zhao Lina has long been not too mind some different points of view, she always focus on their own focus on things. Once upon a time in real life is not good at communicating with her, and even did a "reporter", has its own interview column Lina chatter, the object of the interview is and their teammates with each other.
With more and more output, Zhao Lina's fan base is increasing day by day. On Weibo, 1.3 million netizens have followed her, and Zhao Lina's Jitterbug fan base is even as high as 3.28 million, making her the player with the largest number of fans in Chinese women's soccer. The huge attention has also made her reflect on whether she has gone against her original silent and introverted self.
"There's no way, I need to go and use myself as a window to export a lot of things to the outside world, and also to let my teammates, the women's soccer as a group of people have a window to export ......" In the face of Zhao Lina's camera, many players are willing to talk chatter because the identity of the of the difference, she makes most people more relaxed.
With the aura of "the most beautiful women's soccer goalkeeper", Zhao Lina said she never shied away from the word "beauty", and she also hoped that "beauty" could be a key to open the door to the outside world's understanding of women's soccer. The most important thing to remember is that you have to be able to get the best out of the game.
