The Jia Xiuquan era of our women's soccer team has come to an end.
Jia Xiuquan left the club without even offering a parting gift from the FA.
On October 8, the official website of the Football Association published a notice on the selection and recruitment of the head coach of China's women's national football team, opening the public recruitment of a new manager - Jia Xiuquan has thus quietly become the past of China's women's football.
Although Jia's departure was not a surprise after the fiasco at the Tokyo Olympics, the chaos left by the Games has not dissipated to this day ......
As for the head coach of the women's soccer team and the future direction of development, it is still like looking at flowers in the fog. Jia Xiuquan led the team to a fair performance in the Asian Games and the World Cup during his tenure at the helm of the women's soccer team.
What started out as a brilliant idea ended in disaster.
The beginning of Jia Xiuquan's tenure was quite a surprise.
In 2018, the then head coach of our women's soccer team, Icelandic Eyjolfsson, led the team to a poor performance, and suddenly stepped down after only six months of coaching. Facing the upcoming 2018 Asian Games and 2019 World Cup, Jia Xiuquan has become the new choice of the Football Association.
For the previous years of coaching experience but never with the women's soccer team Jia Xiuquan, but appeared to be very calm - he received the appointment immediately after taking up his post, in his own words, at that time, his mood "not much reaction, not much idea, not much waves.
As an old international footballer, he has long been accustomed to obey the arrangement. Thus, starting from a blank slate, Jia Xiuquan took over the coaching whip of the women's soccer team.
After taking over not much preparation time, Jia Xiuquan first big game "debut" has been recognized by the outside world. 2018 Asian Games, he led the team after 16 years to kill the final again, and finally through the fierce battle after the 0-1 defeat of Japan, but this performance is enough to let the outside world to the turn of the year the world cup to look forward to. After the World Cup group out of the line, Jia Xiuquan site tears.
In the 2019 Women's World Cup, China's women's soccer team has experienced difficulties, but at least the group is out of the line, the knockout round 0-2 defeat to Italy stopped in the round of 16, is considered to have completed the mission.
But when it comes to the most important Tokyo Olympics, Jia Xiuquan failed to save his "late".
Three group matches only get 1 draw 2 losses, 6 goals wildly lost 17 goals, 0 to 5 against Brazil, 4 to 4 narrowly flat "brisket" Zambia, 2 to 8 defeat in the Netherlands, all three games can be called "black history". China's women's soccer team also created a team history of single Olympic Games, the most goals conceded record, in the group stage on the shame of the exit.
Such results, no doubt completely pronounced Jia Xiuquan in the women's football position on the "death penalty" - before the Olympic Games, he had told reporters that he would like to lead the team for three more years, but after such a trip to the Olympic Games, the Association has no intention of giving him more time. Tokyo Olympics, is our women's soccer team and Jia Xiuquan's black lens.
"Do you think I succeeded or failed?"
Waterloo in the Tokyo Olympics left not only painful memories but also more confusion for our women's soccer fans.
Why is it that in such a big competition as the Olympics, the team has suddenly activated so many new players who have not been tested in the competition? Why Tang Jiali, Ma Jun, Lou Jiahui, etc. to help China's women's soccer qualification to the Olympic Games of the merit of the Olympic list? So far there is no answer.
Five of our 22-player women's soccer roster prior to the Olympics had zero international A appearances, and another five had between one and three appearances.
The debacle at the Olympics was hardly unconnected to the sudden change in the team's lineup and its on-court setup.
Jia Xiuquan's own words to the outside world are, "Go plant more trees, who picks the fruit is not important, for our women's soccer team to cultivate more people, this is what I should do in this position."
But judging from the results, it is a matter of debate as to how much exercise the young players can ultimately get from such a fiasco after rushing the ducks. China's women's soccer rival Banda had questioned Jia Xiuquan's selection of China's women's soccer lineup on Weibo.
The baffling lineup picks have subsequently led to a number of conspiracy theories - such as that the player list was not made by Jia Xiuquan himself, and that our women's soccer roster was influenced by the Games tournament that followed the Olympics.
As the head coach in charge of the whole team, Jia Xiuquan was not moved, although every time after the loss of the game will indicate that "the responsibility lies with me", but he did not resign publicly after the Olympic Games, but only after the end of the group stage indicated that "my future work depends on the Association of Football Associations, depends on me".
Perhaps such a result was predetermined before the team actually set foot on the field in Tokyo, it was just heartbreaking that it was so grueling. But at least judging from Jia Xiuquan's own remarks, he doesn't blame himself too much for his work.
After the Olympic Games out of the game, a reporter asked Jia Xiuquan how to evaluate their own, he asked directly back: "Women's World Cup I led the team out of the group, which is one of the top in the Asian team. Olympic Games two places in Asia, we grabbed the second place, do you think I am a success or failure?"
Shui Qingxia guided coaching China's women's soccer all-conference joint team in the pouring rain, but not in the final China's women's soccer head coaching competition.
Where is the future of women's soccer in this country?
In fact, in the coaching of China's women's soccer team in more than three years, Jia Xiuquan left the controversy is not only in the Tokyo Olympics list selection and collapse. 2019 Women's World Cup, he also left a "famous words".
At the time, when talking about the use of the player Wang Frost in the lineup, Jia Xiuquan said, "I need a team, do not need a certain star".
But it was Wang Frost who scored twice in the second round of the Olympic qualifying playoffs to help the team grab a thrilling ticket to the Olympics, and it was Wang Frost who performed a big four against Zambia in the group stage of the Olympics to get the team a humiliating draw......
Not "needed" star but repeatedly rescue the head coach, this has even become the fans often tease a "terrier", but also become Jia Xiuquan more than three years after coaching, destined to stay in people's minds for a long time memories.
Compared to the previous managers, Jia Xiuquan did not change the long time of China's women's football team heavy national team training, light league cultivation of the tradition of high-intensity large volume of training is also regarded as the old women's football team in the past "greetings".
But in Europe, the rapid development of professional women's football, our women's football has fallen behind at the moment - is to hold on to the old traditions do not let go, or to take the initiative to promote a more professional market-oriented direction of development, is the managers must consider the problem.
Only when the general direction is correct, China's women's soccer team can embark on a virtuous development path. Zhao Junzhe, a famous member of our men's soccer team, will participate in the selection process.
As for the candidate for the next head coach of our women's soccer team, the Football Association has issued an announcement for the open recruitment of coaches.
Previously, the Shanghai women's football coach Shui Qingxia temporary coaching China's women's football team to win the championship in the National Games - her old women's football identity, many years of experience in coaching women's soccer team, as well as a long time on the women's football commitment and seminars, all let the outside world optimistic about its become the women's football team's next head coach.
But according to Football Daily.
This time the selection of Shui Qingxia will not participate. Instead, Zhao Junzhe, a former Chinese men's soccer star and leader of Guangzhou City FC, will participate in the selection process and has now become the most sought-after candidate.
Is it possible that everything has to start all over again?
