News flash, the Youth Daily client from the capital Beijing delivered information on April 7: At 15:00 Beijing time on April 8, the Chinese women's soccer team will embark on a journey to Goyang, South Korea, to meet the first key matchup in the Asian zone playoffs for the Tokyo Olympics. Facing the upcoming away challenge, South Korean women's soccer coach Colin Bell vowed to write history (breakthrough to the Olympic final round), while China's women's soccer manager Jia Xiuquan believes that China and South Korea's women's soccer team are of equal strength, but China's women's soccer team will stick to its own style and fight for the set goal "with all its might".
Chinese women's soccer team captain Wu Haiyan appeared at the pre-match press briefing. Photo courtesy of the Chinese women's soccer team's official microblog.
"I had Olympic experience as a player and now I am looking forward to leading the Chinese women's soccer team to the Olympics even more as a coach." Jia Xiuquan said, "Thanks to South Korea's efforts in preventing epidemics, the game was fair for both sides and there were no particular difficulties for us."
This afternoon, the Chinese women's football team conducted the final pre-match acclimatization training at the Goyang Stadium, which is also the final assembly of the 20-member luxury lineup of the Chinese women's football team in the list announced by the AFC - Wang Shuang and Wang Shanshan leading the front line, Tang Jiali, Yang Man and Xiao Yuyi are in good condition, and the versatile midfielders, such as Ma Jun and Yao Wei, will hold up the offensive and defensive ends of the field. In the back line, Wu Haiyan and Lin Yuping will partner with each other. According to the usual style of Chinese women's soccer team, which does not take opponents lightly, the tactics of solid defense and striving for away goals will be the team's primary strategy.
In today's pre-match press conference, captain Wu Haiyan also said that the South Korean women's soccer team is a team with distinctive technical and tactical characteristics, but the Chinese women's soccer team needs to "focus on the game, focus on their own performance."
