On May 8, Wang Shuang (center), a player of Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, celebrated warmly with her teammates after scoring a goal.
Changjiang Daily News
On May 8, the 2021 China Women's Super League kicked off at the Kunming Ridge Base. Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, who won the Women's Super League for the first time last season, had an eye-catching performance in the opening match, beating the "promoted horse" Sichuan Women's Football Team 4-0, and taking a solid "first step" on the road to defending the title. Today, the Wuhan women's soccer team will travel again to challenge the Shandong women's soccer team.
New Beginning, New Splendor
In the 2020 season, the Wuhan Chegu Jiangda women's soccer team performed brilliantly, pulling down the mighty Jiangsu women's soccer team to win the top domestic league for the first time in the history of soccer in Wuhan, Hubei province.
The new season, Wuhan Women's Football Club ushered in a new coaching team. on April 15, just two days after China's women's football team successfully advanced to the final round of the Tokyo Olympics by virtue of Wang Frost's "second time" miraculous reversal of the South Korean women's football team, former Guangzhou Evergrande Reserve Team head coach Chang Wei Wei returned to his hometown to take charge of the women's football team of Wuhan Cheguan Jiangda coaching whip.
Chang Weiwei was a former Jianlibao player, career played Chongqing Lifan, Wuhan Huang Helou, retired from the Wuhan Guanggu team as an assistant coach, the reserve team head coach. 2015, Chang Weiwei served as China's women's football assistant coach, assisted Hao Wei's team in the Women's World Cup in Canada to lead the Chinese team into the last eight, and at that time Wang Frost has already made a name for herself in the women's football world.
In addition to the coaching team, the new season of the Wuhan women's football team in the player lineup has also undergone considerable changes, last season's championship-winning heroes Wang Shanshan, Han Peng, Xiao Yuyi left, and Ma Jun, Gu Yasha, Wang Yan to join the Wuhan women's football team still maintains a strong competitive edge. 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 national team's main players, of which Wang Shuang is scored 3 of the 4 goals of the national team, for the Chinese women's soccer team to enter the Tokyo to make a head start.
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. Interestingly, 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 chills.
Opening the door, Wang Frost shows her power again
The new season of the Women's Super League still has 10 teams participating, according to last season's rankings are Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, Jiangsu Women's Football, Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial 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 phase of the strongest opponent.
In the press conference before the first game, head coach Chang Wei Wei said that Wuhan women's football team's policy for the new season is to defend the title, but will still maintain a stable mentality and try to do well. Because Wang Frost, Wu Haiyan and other five international players until a few days before the season to meet with the team, Chang Wei Wei also attaches great importance to their situation, "the national team players in recent times is more difficult, just experienced two rounds of hard fighting with the South Korean team, but also to usher in the test of the league, so we especially pay 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 her strength as the "King of Scorers" of the Women's Super League with a header that gave Wuhan Women's Soccer the first lead. 9 minutes later, the unrelenting Temva's two shots in front of the goal extended Wuhan's advantage to 2-0. Before the end of the first half, Wang Shuang received a pass from the right of a teammate and calmly stopped the ball inside the penalty box, then shot the ball to the far corner of the goal. The far corner of the goal was scored by Wang Shuang. The Wuhan Women's soccer team had already won the game after only half a game. In the second half, Temva scored another goal, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda team finally ushered in the "open door" with 4-0.
Fighting Shandong again, striving for two consecutive victories
After the game, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda 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 arrangement 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 drill 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 11th, Wuhan JDU women's soccer team will usher in the second round against 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 against Shandong is only three days apart from the first match, which will undoubtedly be a huge challenge for Wuhan women's soccer team's physical condition. "We used up five substitutions after confirming the win in the first match just to give them a rest and adjustment for the later fixtures." 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, after three games in the first stage, the league went into a break, six games in the second stage than until the Tokyo Olympics after the restart on August 11, and the decisive third stage is not until the end of the Games on October 28, and the final final is scheduled for November 14th.
"Wuhan has a 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 a more sustained momentum of progress in the future." Chang Weiwei said.
