On August 16, an explosive news spread rapidly on the Internet, claiming that Shui Qingxia, China's former women's soccer star and current head coach of the Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank's women's soccer team, would replace Jia Xiuquan as the new women's soccer head coach and lead the team to the 2021 Shaanxi National Games. However, the news has not been officially confirmed, as verified by the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter. The General Administration of Sport has made it clear in its deployment regarding the National Games competition that some collective sports will form a separate Olympic combination team to compete. According to the requirements of the Chinese Football Association, to assist local sports departments to form a women's Olympic team, the players to participate in the Tokyo Olympics in China's women's football members as the core, but not in the name of "China's women's football" to participate in the competition. Shui Qingxia will be invited to be the head coach of the women's Olympic team as the head coach of the last National Games winning team. As for the selection of the head coach of the new cycle of women's football and the retention or departure of Jia Xiuquan, the CFA will have to decide in accordance with the procedures.
Rumor has it that the CFA has basically decided on a new coach for the women's soccer team, namely Shui Qingxia, the champion coach of the Shanghai women's soccer team. She will be after Ma Liangxing, years after the Shanghai soccer world again emerged as a national coach.
However, this is not the case. It is reported that according to the rules of the team, the leadership of the women's Olympic combination team is shared by the representatives of the top three teams of the previous National Games. Shanghai, Tianjin and Jiangsu won the top three teams respectively in the women's football adult division of the Tianjin National Games at the end of 2017. As the Tianjin women's soccer team had announced its dissolution at the end of 2017, the members of the coaching staff of the women's Olympic combination team were drawn from the Shanghai and Jiangsu women's soccer teams, respectively, with Shui Qingxia, as a representative of the defending champion team, acting as the head of the coaching staff of this women's Olympic combination team, while some of the assistant coaches and goalkeeper coaches came from the Jiangsu team.
It can be seen that this team formation work has a clear temporary nature. In other words, this coaching team in leading the team to complete the Games competition, will end the relevant tasks, return to their respective units (clubs). Shui Qingxia currently has a contract with the Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank women's soccer team, so there is no replacement of Jia Xiuquan as the new coach of China's women's soccer team.
It is understood that an important reason for the emergence of this team formation is the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics for 1 year and the 14th National Games held in the same year, to the local preparation for the various items of work to bring difficulties. The final program is the result of consultations between the parties, aimed at integrating the national team preparation and local teams as far as possible for the benefit of the Games competition. However, the effect of this form of how, still need to practice to verify. After experiencing the loss of the Tokyo Olympics and a long time lack of systematic training in isolation life, women's soccer Olympic combination team can show the national team level in the National Games, in fact, there are also questions.
It is reported that China's women's soccer team returned home on July 28 after exiting the women's soccer group stage at the Tokyo Olympics. The entire team, including head coach Jia Xiuquan, is still under medical isolation observation in Tianjin until the 19th when the isolation will be lifted.
The future direction of China's women's soccer team will naturally be well thought out by the CFA. The Association will next summarize all aspects of the preparations and matches for this Olympics, and start the accountability process for the team's poor performance in the Tokyo Olympics. Jia Xiuquan's stay or go, also need to be carefully considered by all parties.
