Teammates enthusiastically cheer around player Wang Shuang (center) after she scored a goal during a game on May 8 at Wuhan's Cheguang Jiangda team.
CKNews, May 11, 2012
On May 8, the 2021 China Women's Premier Soccer League officially kicked off at the Hai Ridge Base in Kunming. As last season's champion, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, defeated Sichuan Women's Football Team in the opening match with a score of 4:0, laying a solid foundation for the defense of the title journey. Next, Wuhan women's soccer team will challenge Shandong women's soccer team.
A new journey, looking forward to new heights
In the 2020 season, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda won the Women's Super League for the first time with an outstanding performance, pulling down the mighty Jiangsu Women's Football Team, which became a milestone in the history of soccer in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In the new season, Wuhan women's soccer team ushered in a new coaching team, former Guangzhou Evergrande reserve team head coach Chang Wei Wei returned to his hometown to take charge of Wuhan Chegu Jiangda coaching whip shortly after Wang Frost's "two goals" reversal of the South Korean women's soccer team.
Chang Wei Wei was once a Jianlibao team player, his career played in Chongqing Lifan, Wuhan Huang Helou, retired as Wuhan Guanggu team assistant coach, reserve team head coach. 2015, he became China's women's football assistant coach, assisted Hao Wei's team in the Women's World Cup in Canada to lead China's team into the last eight, when only 20-year-old Wang Frost has been in China's women's football emerged.
In addition to the coaching team, the Wuhan women's soccer team in the new season has also undergone major changes in the player lineup. Last season's championship-winning players Wang Shanshan, Han Peng and Xiao Yuyi left the team, while Ma Jun, Gu Yasha and Wang Yan joined the team, making the Wuhan women's soccer team still maintain 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 substitute keeper Zhu Yu, Wang Shuang, Yao Wei, Wu Haiyan, Ma Jun all played as the main national team, of which Wang Shuang scored three goals for China, and set up a head start for the advancement to the Tokyo Olympics.
In terms of reinforcements, last season's title winners Biya and Temuwa continue to play in Wuhan, while Tabitha, a foreign aid who won the 2019 Women's Super League "top scorer", has also joined the team. 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 Biya, "trident" power to the women's super power to be chilled.
Wang Frost scores again in the opening game
The new season of the Women's Super League has a total of 10 teams participating, according to last season's ranking were 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 split into three phases as a result. In the first phase of which there are only three matches, Wuhan will play against Sichuan, Shandong and Beijing.
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 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 pay extra attention to 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 Malawi "sisters" Tabitha and Temwa also appeared in the Wuhan team on the front line at the same time.
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 Chegu Jiangda team player Wang Frost was named star of the first round of the Women's Super League. 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 team together with the time to practice only the last training session before the game. However, our starting eleven are all top domestic players, both individual ability and understanding of tactics are first-class, so they quickly found the feeling on the field."
May 11, Wuhan Jiangda team will usher in the second round of the opponent Shandong team. 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 spaced out 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.
