On May 8, Wang Shuang (center), a star of Wuhan Cheguang Jiangda team, celebrated warmly with her teammates after scoring a goal.
CKNews, May 11, 2012
On May 8, China's Women's Football Super League had its grand opening at the Hai Ridge Base in Kunming. As the previous champion, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda team performed well in the opening game, sweeping Sichuan Women's Football Team with a score of 4:0, laying the foundation for the defense of the title journey. Today, Wuhan women's soccer team will play again, challenging Shandong women's soccer team.
Reinventing Brilliance, Looking Forward to a New Chapter
In the 2020 season, Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team pulled Jiangsu Suning Women's Football Team off the championship throne with outstanding performance and won the domestic top league championship for the first time, which is a breakthrough in the history of soccer in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
The new season, Wuhan women's football introduced a new coaching team. April 15, just after the Chinese women's football by virtue of Wang Frost's "Mei Kaifu two" reversal of the South Korean women's football team, successful promotion to the Tokyo Olympic Games final round the next day, the former Guangzhou Evergrande reserve team manager Chang Wei Wei returned to his hometown to take over the coaching whip of the Wuhan Chegok River women's football.
Chang Weiwei was a former player of China Jianlibao team, career played in Chongqing Lifan, Wuhan Huanghelu, retired from the Wuhan Guanggu team as an assistant coach, the reserve team head coach. 2015, Chang Weiwei served as an assistant coach of the Chinese women's football team, assisted Hao Wei's team in the World Cup in Canada to lead China's team to break into the last eight, when Wang Frost is only 20 years old, has already made a name for herself in the national team.
In addition to the coaching team, the new season of the Wuhan women's football team in the player lineup has also been adjusted, last season's title-winning heroes Wang Shanshan, Han Peng, Xiao Yuyi left the team, and Ma Jun, Gu Yasha, Wang Yan to join the Wuhan women's football team still maintains a strong competitiveness. In the two rounds of China-Korea women's soccer matches, five international players from Wuhan women's soccer team, in addition to the substitute goalkeeper Zhu Yu, Wang Shuang, Yao Wei, Wu Haiyan, Ma Jun, all as the main force of the Chinese team, of which Wang Shuang for the Chinese team scored three of the four goals for China's women's soccer team to enter Tokyo and set up a credit.
In terms of foreign aid, last season's title winners Biya and Temuwa continue to play for Wuhan, and had won the 2019 Women's Super League "top scorer" foreign aid Tabitha also joined the team. It is worth mentioning that Tabitha is the sister of Temva, the new season Wuhan women's football team has this pair of Malawi "sisters", coupled with the Brazilian team's regular center Bia, "trident" power will make the women's super power daunting.
Opening the door, Wang Frost shows her power again
The new season of the Women's Super League has a total of 10 teams participating, according to last season's rankings are Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, Jiangsu Women's Football, Shanghai Nongshang Bank, Beijing Beijin Phoenix, Changchun Volkswagen Real Estate, Guangdong Meizhou Hakka, Shandong Sports, Henan Jianye Women's Football, Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Football, Sichuan Women's Football. However, as the Chinese women's soccer team has to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics, the Women's Super League schedule has been cut into three stages as a result. The first phase of which has only three matches, Wuhan will play against Sichuan, Shandong and Beijing. From the strength point of view, the first opponent Sichuan team although won the Women's A League champion last season, but the strength of the relatively weak, and last season had killed the Women's Super four Beijing team is undoubtedly the first stage of the weakest opponent.
In the press conference before the first game, head coach Chang Wei Wei said Wuhan women's football team's policy for the new season is to defend the title, but will still keep a stable mentality and try to do well. Because Wang Frost, Wu Haiyan and other five international players until the season a few days to meet with the team, Chang Wei Wei is also very concerned about their situation, "the national team players in recent times is more difficult, just experienced two rounds of hard fighting with South Korea, but also to usher in the test of the league, so we will pay special attention to regulate their physical condition".
At 16:00 on May 8, the opening game of the Women's Super League officially started. Although facing the "promoted horse", Wuhan women's soccer team is still the main force, Wang Frost, Wu Haiyan, Yao Wei, Gu Yasha, Lv Yueyun and many other international players on the field, and the Malawi "sisters" Tabitha and Temuwa appeared in the Wuhan team together on the front line.
Only 9 minutes after the start, Tabitha showed the strength of the women's super "king of scorers", a header for the Wuhan women's football team to pull out the first. 9 minutes later, not willing to show weakness, Temva's goal in front of the goal two shots for Wuhan to extend the advantage to 2:0. before the end of the first half, Wang Shuang received the teammates right pass, calmly in front of the penalty area, after stopping the ball, shot the far corner of the goal. The far corner of the hand. Wuhan women's soccer team only half the game has been locked in the victory. In the second half, Temva scored another goal, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda team finally ushered in 4:0 "open the door".
Fighting Shandong again, striving for two consecutive victories
After the game, Wuhan Chegok River women's soccer player Wang Frost was named the first round of the Women's Super Star. Wang Frost said in an interview with Changjiang Daily reporter, the first game is a game of offense and defense, for the Sichuan team's defensive tactics, the coaching staff had a clear deployment before the game, "to strengthen the two sides of the attack, emphasizing the breakthroughs, passes, grabbing points, the actual effect is not bad". The head coach Chang Wei Wei thinks that the players can have such a play in the first game of the new season, so he is very satisfied.
In the first game, Wang Frost and other five international players all start, but in fact they and the team's integration time is very short, in which Ma Jun and Yao Wei and some minor injuries. Chang Wei Wei said: "In fact, after the return of the international players, and the whole team together with the time to practice only the last training session before the game. But our starting eleven are all top domestic players, both in terms of individual ability and understanding of tactics are first-class, so we quickly found the feeling on the field."
On May 11, Wuhan Jiangda women's soccer team will usher in the second round of the opponent Shandong. In the first round against Beijing, the resilient Shandong women's soccer team drew 3:3 with a goal in extra time. This match with the Shandong team interval between the first game only 3 days, which is undoubtedly a huge challenge to the Wuhan women's soccer team's physical condition. "We used up five substitutes after confirming the win in the first game, just to let them rest and adjust to cope with the schedule later." Chang Weiwei said, "Shandong is quite strong and we will play with our strongest lineup to fight for a new victory."
According to the schedule, the league went into a break after three matches in the first stage, the six matches in the second stage will not restart until August 11 after the Tokyo Olympics, while the decisive third stage will not start until October 28 after the Games, with the final scheduled for November 14th.
"Wuhan has a very deep soccer heritage and I also hope to make my own contribution to Wuhan soccer in my new position. In addition to winning more championships, I also hope to develop more outstanding women's soccer players like Wang Frost, so that Wuhan women's soccer can achieve more sustainable competitiveness in the future." Chang Weiwei said.
