Tang Jiali Interview: Feelings of Staying in the Ocean and Future Prospects
In an exclusive interview with Raging News on Oct. 17, Tang Jiali talked about her experience of staying in the ocean and her expectations of returning to the national team.
-How did she feel about scoring the first goal of her stay in the League Cup against Charlton?
In fact, I have been waiting for this goal for a long time, I think only when I scored this first goal, I can really start the journey to stay in the ocean. After the goal, I released my inner pressure, the coach and teammates were all happy for me and congratulated me. I am also eager to have a closer understanding with the team, and now I feel that the understanding with the coach and teammates is gradually improving.
--How do I communicate with my teammates?
There were definitely communication barriers, but I gradually adapted to their speed of speech and sometimes even understood them. They would also make a point of communicating with me individually, including aspects of the team's technique and tactics. There are still a lot of things I don't understand, but they all think I'm making progress and that my English is improving, and I've been on the team for less than two months.
--Feelings of competing abroad
The competition is different in many ways, first of all it's very fast, and secondly the intensity of the physical confrontation is (much) higher. Because the players here are more physical, the style of play is wide open and there are also small partnerships, but there may be more long passes. Because of the fast pace, there will be a lot of one foot out, long passes, the opponent has to be in place quickly immediately after getting the ball, there is no time to rest, and corner free kicks have to be sent quickly. The tempo is really fast, the defense presses and presses you, your quick counterattacks, your quick cooperation, including your own disk, all have to be at a high speed before you can go to other actions.
-- from the exercise
The practices are really similar, still fast paced - there are run intervals measured every day here, and it will look at how much sprint volume you have in a practice session. If the sprint volume is not up to par, you may be asked to add on at the end of the practice session to make sure you run that volume, so the practice will have to have more full speed, sprint runs.
--Introduction of difficulties in life
It can still feel hard because you just came here and don't know anything. There are a lot of things to think about when it comes to food, clothing, housing and transportation. Because I am not familiar with all kinds of things over here, I also found a friend to help me for a while, to do documents and so on. Here is very different from home, usually it is a training program, that is, like a job to go to training, after the end of the return to their respective homes, they have their own spare time, for example, some people will go to the school to lead the team, and so on. I have to enrich my spare time gradually. More often than not, soccer is just a part of life for them, but for me, I don't think it's like that.
--Our own expectations for the future
Expectation is of course to go farther and better, but still have to take one step at a time, first of all to get the trust of the coach and teammates, and then gradually can play to the starting position, gradually can become the core of the team.
-Does it want to return to the national team?
Of course I would like to go back, but after all, I'm not the coach, so it's still up to the coach to choose and want the organization.
-Country
women's soccer
Is there a conflict between long training sessions and staying in the ocean?
Since I've come out to stay in the ocean and have all the international competition days as well, there will still be some time to go back. If it's a long training program like in China, I'll still discuss it.
