On April 8, at 3:00 p.m. sharp, a battle for the Tokyo
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In the first round of the women's soccer qualifying playoffs, China's women's soccer team and South Korea's women's soccer team will have a fierce duel in Goyang City, South Korea (CCTV sports simulcast). In this match, both sides will fight for a ticket to Tokyo.
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The admission ticket to the game was fought tooth and nail.
China's women's soccer head coach Jia Xiuquan in the pre-match press conference, on the "outside the dish" and other topics to express their views. He believes that the strength of China and South Korea are very similar, after this period of preparation, our team has been fully prepared, looking forward to being able to lead the team as head coach to win this valuable Olympic ticket.
For this preparation, our team kept a sense of mystery and did not announce the 20-member roster until 4:30 p.m. on the 7th.
China's starting lineup is led by Wang Frost, with Wang Shanshan, Tang Jiali, Xiao Yuyi and Yang Man on the front line. Li Ying, who previously missed the national team training due to injury, did not appear in the list. Midfielders include Zhang Xin, Ma Jun, Yao Wei, Yao Lingwei, Li Mutong and Shen Mengyu; defenders Li Mengwen, Lin Yuping, Lou Jiahui, Wu Haiyan, Wang Xiaoxue and Luo Guiping will also escort the team; and the three goalkeepers are Zhu Yu, Peng Shimeng and Ding Xuan.
Jia Xiuquan has kept a low profile since appearing at the Women's Super League's Haixi Base last year. This time, he made another appearance after half a year, attending the conference with captain Wu Haiyan, both wearing red masks in the same color as our team's uniforms.
After our team arrived at Incheon Airport, they encountered a series of "extra tricks". South Korea did not set up a special channel for our team, the team spent two and a half hours to fill out forms, formalities, through six barriers before successfully completing customs clearance. In addition, Korea
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The drop-in nucleic acid test promised by the Association was also not conducted on time, resulting in a significant cut in the team's scheduled practice time.
In the face of this situation, Jia said, "This is the Korean government's response to the Korean people, my country
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The responsible embodiment of our team is understandable at the moment of the epidemic and there are no complaints."
Regarding the journey and traveling after the first guest, Jia Xiuquan said he didn't think it was a big problem: "The rest time of the game, the arrangement of the two games within a week is the same and fair to us, so there is not much difficulty for us."
Talking about the preparation situation, Jia Xiuquan admitted that after such a long time of training has been prepared, "we against the characteristics of the Korean team, the preparation has been done. The game has been postponed for such a long time, the players and I are very eager to win through hard work".
He also recalled his playing days representing our country in the
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experience, expressed a preference to lead our country as head coach this time around
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Winning Tokyo through hard work
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The admission ticket.
Some South Korean media believe that our team's strength is above the South Korean team, and from the world ranking, our team is indeed three places higher than the South Korean team, but Jia Xiuquan does not agree with this statement.
"Actually caring about Asia
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As fans and media know, in the past ten years our country and South Korea (both teams) have been ranked in the top of FIFA, I think the gap is not too big, each has their own characteristics. I have had two encounters with Korea during my time with my country's team, and the most impressive one was the Four-Nation Invitational Tournament in Meizhou, where my country's team won 1-0, but Korea still left a deep impression on me. Korea
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It is a strong team in Asia and they have the strength to compete with any of the strong Asian teams".
Jia Xiuquan believes that the South Korean side's opening up of some of the spectator stands with fans cheering is both an inspiration and a spur for our team. "We will do our best to finish these two matches according to our own methods and set guidelines".
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Colin Bell, the first foreign coach in history, said they will put more effort into their defense against our more dominant team. Their goal is also to win
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Admission ticket, "We want to make history, that's what drives us."
