On May 8, Wuhan Cheguang Jiangda player Wang Frost (center) warmly hugs her teammates after scoring a goal.
CKNews May 11 Express
On May 8th, the 2021 China Women's Super League kicked off at the Hai Ridge Base in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, who won the Women's Super League title for the first time last season, performed brilliantly in the first match, beating the "promoted horse" Sichuan Women's Football Team with a score of 4:0, and taking a firm step forward in defending the title. Today, Wuhan women's soccer girls will go to war again to challenge Shandong women's soccer.
A fresh start, looking forward to new splendor
In the 2020 season, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda women's soccer team performed well, pulling down the strong Jiangsu women's soccer team from the title, winning the Women's Super League for the first time, which is also the first time in the history of Wuhan, Hubei soccer to win the top domestic league.
The new season, Wuhan Women's Football Club replaced the coaching team. 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 "Mei Kaodo" 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 over the whip of the women's football team of Wuhan Chegoku Jiangda.
Chang Weiwei is a former Jianlibao player who played for Chongqing Lifan and Wuhan Huanghelou, and retired as an assistant coach and reserve team manager for Wuhan Guanggu. 2015, Chang Weiwei served as an assistant coach for China's women's soccer team, assisting Hao Wei's team to lead the Chinese team into the last eight at the Women's World Cup in Canada, where 20-year-old Wang Frost had already made a name for herself in China's women's soccer team.
In addition to the coaching team, the new season of the Wuhan women's football team in the player lineup has also made considerable adjustments, 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 as the Chinese team's main players, of which Wang Shuang is for the Chinese team scored three of the four goals, 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 in Wuhan, while foreign aid Tabitha, who won the 2019 Women's Super League "top scorer", has also joined the team. Interestingly, Tabitha is the sister of Temva, Wuhan women's football team has this pair of Malawi "sisters" in the new season, coupled with the Brazilian team's regular center Biya, "trident" power will make the women's super power chills.
Wang Frost scores again in the opening game
There are 10 teams participating in the new Women's Super League season, ranked according to last season as Wuhan Chegu Jiangda, Jiangsu Women's Football Team, Shanghai Nongshang Bank, Beijing Beijin Phoenix, Changchun Volkswagen Real Estate, Guangdong Meizhou Hakka, Shandong Sports, Henan Jianye Women's Football Team, Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Football Team, and Sichuan Women's Football Team. However, as the Chinese women's soccer team has to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics, the Women's Super League schedule has been divided 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 last season's Women's League, 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 soccer team's goal 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 the season before the team, Chang Wei Wei also attaches great importance to their situation, "the national team players in recent times is more difficult, just experienced a two-round battle with South Korea, but also to usher in the test of the league, so we 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 her strength as the "King of Scorers" of the Women's Super League, with a header for Wuhan Women's Football Team to take the first step. 9 minutes later, not willing to show weakness, two consecutive shots in front of the goal of Temva for Wuhan team to extend the advantage to 2:0. Before the end of the first half, Wang Shuang received the teammates' right pass, calmly stopping in front of the penalty area, and then shot to the far corner of the goal. The far corner of the hand. Wuhan women's soccer team only half of the game has locked the victory. In the second half, Temva scored another goal, Wuhan Chegujiang team finally ushered in 4:0 "open the door".
Fighting Shandong again, striving for two consecutive victories
After the game, Wuhan Chegu Jiangda women's soccer 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 battle of offense and defense, for the Sichuan team's defensive tactics, the coaching staff had a clear layout 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. But our starting eleven are all top domestic players, both individual ability and understanding of the tactics are first-class, so quickly find the feeling on the field."
On May 11, Wuhan Jiangda women's soccer 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 game with the Shandong team is only three days from the first game, which is undoubtedly a huge challenge to the Wuhan women's soccer team's physical condition. "We used up 5 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 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.
