In the women's soccer final of the National Games on September 25, Shui Qingxia led the United team to a successful win. After the game, she finally opened up and expressed her desire to become the coach of the national team, but still had doubts about whether she could take over. At present, the women's soccer position is still pending.
On August 16, three days before the start of the National Games, there were rumors that Shui Qingxia would replace Jia Xiuquan as the head coach of the women's football team and shoulder the heavy responsibility of the National Games. However, in an interview with the Shanghai media, Shui Qingxia denied the rumor, stressing that she was only leading the team temporarily and would return to the Shanghai team after the tournament.
During the tournament in Xi'an, Shui Qingxia was asked several times if she would take over the reins of the women's soccer team. Except after the first match, she and other players politely declined the interview. And before the match was over, she chose to avoid it, but she no longer resisted other topics about women's soccer.
It is worth mentioning that Shui Qingxia has her own ideas about the women's soccer team's marquee. As she said after the game, "Everyone has aspirations, after playing soccer for so many years, I expect to be able to coach the national team and show on the world stage. Everyone expects to do their best in different professions."
During her playing days, Shui Qingxia represented the Chinese women's soccer team in the Asian Cup, the World Cup and the Olympic Games. 1996 Atlanta, she participated in all the matches; representing the Shanghai Women's Soccer Team, she won the National Games Championship; in addition, she traveled to Japan twice to play soccer.
After becoming a coach, Shui Qingxia led the Shanghai team to win the National Games, League, Championship and F.A.C.A. Cup, realizing a Grand Slam, and won the honors of Best Coach of the League and Best Coach of the Championship herself.
It can be said that Shui Qingxia's coaching career is just about to hang the Chinese women's soccer team.
In 2017, after leading the team to the National Games title, Shui Qingxia was on the women's soccer managerial shortlist for the first time, but she lost out to Icelander Eyjolfsson, who led the Suning women's soccer team to the AFC Cup title and third place in the league. Eyjolfsson won, and it was said that the FA valued his experience in international competitions, having led the not-so-strong Icelandic women's soccer team to win the 2011 Algarve Cup and reach the last eight at the 2013 Euro, for which Zhang Jian, then head of the FA, personally traveled to Nanjing to persuade Suning to release him.
Less than half a year, the poor performance of the Ejorsson class, due to the previous signing of a trial contract, only two months of salary compensation, Shui Qingxia and Hao Wei, Sun Wen and so on once again become the nominee, but in the end, the Football Association chose Jia Xiuquan.
Although Jia Xiuquan has earned some recognition, his performance at the Tokyo Olympics has undoubtedly put an end to his tenure at the Chinese women's soccer team.
Now, the opportunity is once again in front of the water Qingxia, 55 years old, she does not want to miss - the Games, is to test the "water".
Regarding the United Team, there was actually not much that Shui Qingxia could do. First of all, the players are still the same players, only Zhong Xiudong was added due to Chen Qiaozhu's injury; secondly, the time is too tight, from taking over to the game, there are only three weeks, it is difficult to make a big transformation to the team.
"Haven't had time to do anything yet", "Haven't made too many changes", "Actually, not too many changes"... ...This was Shui Qingxia's answer when she faced questions from the media.
In fact, the biggest problem for the Union team is confidence, with one draw and two losses at the Tokyo Olympics leaving everyone with baggage. "Confidence, let them be more confident, the past should be forgotten as soon as possible, to look forward." After winning the championship, Shui Qingxia this way to explain their "thinking", as for tactics, "the whole thing to talk a little bit more, I hope to play more feet, I hope more passing and receiving."
When 20 years of women's soccer coach, although some players in the Olympic list when the outside world feel strange, but water Qingxia "very understand", from Shanghai, she naturally brought, some in the national youth when brought, but also in the league rivals, the past matchups have been studied.
Shui Qingxia didn't reject Jia Xiuquan's use of personnel, and there were no major changes in the attack, even though Umugurira, who was criticized at the Olympics, was given the opportunity to play in the starting lineup in turn with Xiao Yuyi. Changes came from the defense, Wang Shanshan back to play center back, while Li Qingtong did not enter the field for a minute, also hidden from the previous starting goalkeeper Peng Shimeng.
4 games to win the championship, the performance of the United team, in fact, did not win general recognition, in addition to the semi-final 4 ball sweep Beijing, the other 3 games, are 1 ball win, which was once behind in the game against Jiangsu, relying on two set-pieces before reversing the win over Beijing's game, the outside world questioned there are "cats and dogs". --The opponents changed seven starters, Ma Xiaoxu, Zhang Linyan did not start, Gu Yasha even did not even enter the list.
But no matter what, the championship got, the deputy director of the General Administration, Vice President of the Football Association Du Zhaocai awards, the girls' faces, a long-lost smile - with the All-China Gold Medal to heal the Olympic injury, the effect is good.
A detail about the award is that the players' uniforms are from different provinces, and Shui Qingxia, too, has the word "Shanghai" on her dress.
On the 26th, the end of the joint team commander mission of water Qingxia, returned to Shanghai, but about her future, is still a mystery, in other words, women's soccer position, is still empty.
After winning the championship on the 25th, in the face of Shui Qingxia, the media asked the most, is still "whether to coach the Chinese women's soccer team?"
At first, Shui Qingxia did not want to answer positively, in the face of the question of "how to arrange the next", she played too much, "tomorrow back to Shanghai, the first vacation and rest, and then back to the Shanghai team to play well in the league." And on the 26th, she told me, "first back to Shanghai, 2 training."
The so-called "2-day training" should be October 2 to lead the Shanghai Women's Football Team to prepare for the Women's Super League. This year's Women's Super League is divided into three stages, of which the first stage is the first 3 rounds, has been played in May, Shanghai team 2 wins and 1 draw temporarily ranked second. Originally, the second stage was scheduled for August 11 to August 27, a total of 6 rounds of matches, but due to the epidemic postponed, mid-October and then start the war.
As for the women's soccer coach rumors, Shui Qingxia initially said, "To be honest, even I don't know this job, the outside world is just guessing. So there is no need to wait until the day to say it, as a coach or to continue to improve themselves." Some media asked whether they desire to coach the Chinese women's soccer team, Shui Qingxia joked: "I desire to live. （I don't think so much about the coach (of the Chinese women's soccer team), do you want me to be? (Reporters responded hopefully) Oh, then I'll fight for it." She added, "You guys give me some help."
But at the end of the day, Shui Qingxia spoke from her heart, "Everyone has aspirations, and after playing soccer for so many years, I expect to be able to coach the national team and show it on the world stage. Everyone expects to do their best in different professions." In her opinion, coaching the Chinese women's soccer team is a kind of honor, "Every coach wants to do something for the motherland, it's a kind of responsibility, and if it's possible, I expect to take this responsibility. As a Chinese, I should do something (for Chinese soccer)."
This is the first time Shui Qingxia has made a public statement, and now, it's up to the FA.
It is worth mentioning that after the 25th awards, Du Zhaocai and Shui Qingxia communicated and communicated privately, however, the time was not long and the details are not known.
It should be noted that despite the fact that Shui Qingxia led the team to the National Games, she is not the only one on the women's soccer head coaching shortlist.
The newspaper understands that the top management of the Football Association has also previously approached a strong, young men's coach and asked him if he would like to take over the women's football team and asked him to talk about his views on women's football and what he would like to start from if he took over in the future. The coach had coached in a Chinese Super League team and now works for a local club.
According to the rules of the Football Association, the national head coach is required to bid for the job, that is, there is a fixed procedure, so do not rule out the possibility of this male coach to participate in the competition.
Related to Shui Qingxia, the male coach has not previously entered the women's soccer category, the same as Zhang Haitao, Pei Encai and Jia Xiuquan before him.
The new manager of the women's soccer team, has two major missions for the next year. The first mission is the Women's Asian Cup to be held in India from January 20 to February 6 next year, which is also a qualifying tournament for the 2023 World Cup, but it is not very difficult to make the cut as there are six places in Asia. The last Asian Cup, Ejorsson led the team to perform well in the group stage, but lost 1-3 to Japan in the semifinals, and finally only finished third, in his dismissal, which also became one of the "crime".
The second mission will be the Asian Games held in Hangzhou from September 10 to 25 next year, that year, Jia Xiuquan is to lead the team to win the silver medal in the Asian Games in Jakarta, to obtain the recognition of the Football Association, and then led the team to fight in the World Cup in France and the Tokyo Olympics. This time the home fight, even if you can not win the championship, at least the ranking can not decline.
However, no matter who takes over, it is necessary to face the reality that the strength of the Chinese women's soccer team has long been different from the past, especially the young players did not top.
After winning the Games, Wang Frost posted an article on her personal social media, in which she first affirmed the sense of team honor as well as the sense of responsibility shown by the young players in the team, including the spirit of not giving up and not giving up in difficult moments, but she believed that "team soccer needs spirit, but it is not enough to play only by spirit." She said that many young players need to show more ability to prove themselves.
Coaching in the women's soccer circle for so many years, Shui Qingxia knows more, but she still wants to give a little more time, "Coaches and players are working hard, may have made many mistakes on the way to work hard, but still want to give them more time, because they still want to run hard. So, each of us should be a little more tolerant, besides blaming, we still need to give them more applause, just like our own children, after you finish her, you still want her to grow and improve."
