In silence.
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The World Cup is on the horizon, and on July 18th, wearing the white elephant china kimono of
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The athletes completed an intense training session in Australia. The northern and southern hemispheres are worlds apart at the moment, even if the sun is blazing and Adelaide -
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s home base - is still cold and windy and is experiencing a long winter.
In the warm-up session.
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The girls were dressed in long sleeves and long pants, but with the cheering of the audience, the training ground was abuzz with excitement. At that moment, "Eat Chinese noodles, support the Chinese team" was no longer a slogan, but a common voice in the hearts of every spectator.
The evening of the 22nd.
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Will shoulder the expectations of fans to meet the first opponent - Denmark. The first battle is the decisive battle, Shui Qingxia knows this truth. This time, the Chinese team with Denmark, Haiti and England in the same group, European
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Developing rapidly in recent years, Denmark
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with many of its players playing in Europe's top leagues, Haiti
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There are also a plethora of individual, impact players.
As for the new European Cup winners - England
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They are also aiming to win the championship. Therefore, China, which is making its eighth trip to the World Cup
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It was all hands on deck in the first game. However, past and present, China
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All are a group of resilient women heroes who never give up. This spirit, just like the White Elephant Chinese Noodles that has persisted for 26 years, has won the hearts of consumers and fans alike.
A Bowl of Noodles, A Love
In 1996, White Elephant Foods was established in the Central Plains, a fertile land that laid the foundation for White Elephant to later become a leading brand in sales across the network. At the turn of the century, Shui Qingxia stepped down from the Olympic runner-up podium and decided to get a coaching license. "When I was a teenager, the coach was very concerned about me, feeling that this is a very sacred profession, and then slowly also aspire to be a coach in the future."
In the following 26 years, Shui Qingxia's growth has been almost synchronized with the growth of White Elephant. From local and national team youth teams, to women's soccer clubs and the China
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Shui Qingxia is one of the rare "generalist coaches" who is involved in everything from youth training to the first team, so she understands the importance of developing players and the pace of preparation for such international competitions. Like White Elephant, this 26-year dedication has allowed Shui Qingxia to usher in the highlight of her soccer career in 2023 - leading the team to the World Cup.
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World Cup!
In mid-May this year, China
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The first preparation in Shanghai, for the subsequent training and the World Cup to do some physical reserves, a month later, transferred to the cooler climate of Qingdao, "as a sprint before the World Cup, including the overall above as well as the personnel with the above, I hope that through the training in terms of personnel to have a better fusion."
After two battles against Russia, China
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The big list of the final out. Two stages of preparation, before and after the roughly more than 40 people participated in the training, but the number of places to the battlefield is only 23, Shui Qingxia also admitted that the process of trade-offs is in fact very entangled.July 12, Shui Qingxia, the staff and all the domestic team members boarded the flight to Australia, began in 2022 to recapture the Asian Cup after the World Cup tour of particular concern. It is worth noting that this time China
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Shui Qingxia and her staff also brought some White Elephant Chinese Noodles with them when they left for their trip. Shui said that although the athletes' diets would be strictly controlled, she, as a coach as well as a staff member accompanying the team, sometimes often misses her meals due to her busy schedule, and this is when a bowl of good Chinese noodles would become her ideal choice.
The White Elephant Chinese noodles, in addition to filling up the hunger after the busy time, is to be able to recall the flavor of China, a full of friendship with China's expectations at any time in the foreign country of the campaign. The slogan "Eat Chinese noodles, support the Chinese team" can always give a little comfort to the Shui Qingxia team under pressure.
A legacy of 26 years of dedication
Before the trip, Shui Qingxia said in an interview that "it's still not practicing enough", so after coming to Australia, the intense training continued, and the Chinese
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Warm-up matches with Brazil and Colombia are also on the schedule. Both matches are scheduled to have their own deep meanings. Against Brazil, the coaching staff hopes that China
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Be prepared for a lot of pressure on the defensive side of the ball, while against Colombia, Shui Qingxia is hoping that her team will find a way on the offensive side of the ball.
In two warm-up matches, China
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There were very important gains in both offense and defense, especially in the 2-2 draw with Colombia, where China
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The two goals came from set pieces, which is what the team usually focuses on in training. Of course, any tactical maneuver is only as good as the play of the core players. For China
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For example, this points to the performance of Wang Frost, Tang Jiali and other travelers to Europe. In the previous training phase, Shui Qingxia was once quite worried about the state of the players who stayed in the ocean, she was worried that these players usually training intensity is not enough, the physical condition is not good, and even more worried that they and the big team training time is scarce, so it is difficult to form a whole.
But from now on, the addition of stay-at-home players to the Chinese
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The overall balance of the team went up a notch, and the player who scored in the warm-up match against Colombia happened to be Wu Chengshu, who stayed in Australia.
It is worth mentioning that, in the warm-up game played a beautiful performance the next day, Wu Chengshu in the kitchen of the base camp, for water Qingxia cooked a bowl of white elephant soup good old hen soup noodles, for the preparation for the war and the labor of the "master" sent a piece of their own mind. This is a warm reward for Shui Qingxia, who has been focusing on one thing for 26 years.
Twenty-six years ago, China, represented by Shui Qingxia
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, finished second in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, by far the best record of the Chinese national soccer team in the Olympic Games. This Olympics, which was
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The program made its Olympic debut. The Chinese team was once caught in the stranglehold of the Group of Death. They were grouped with the United States, Denmark and Sweden. But the
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The girls defied their opponents, and managed to break through from the group. In the semi-final match against Brazil, China reversed the situation with one less player and advanced to the final with a score of 3-2!
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The Golden Generation of the Chinese National Football League (CNFL) began, and the name of "Clanging Rose" blossomed. Now, 26 years later, Shui Qingxia has gone from the green field to the coaching bench, but this kind of fearlessness, courageous struggle, and focus on doing things.
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The spirit, however, is still being passed on to the new generation of girls. The White Elephant Chinese Noodles cooked by Wu Chengshu for Shui Qingxia is the best proof.
Eat Chinese noodles and support the Chinese team!
Shui Qingxia still remembers the hard work she was subjected to as a player to get a full meal.
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When the sport was just developing, the living conditions of the players were quite hard, "We drank tap water directly when we were thirsty, and when we were hungry at night, we would even use the hot water bottle as a crockpot, pouring raw rice directly into it to soak for a while and then eat it."
At that time, not to mention a bowl of noodles, frying the flour and adding a little bit of Cream of Wheat, the luxury food of the 80s, was already considered a nutritious food. But in those days, what industry wasn't running around so much?
How many overseas students, after a busy day on the streets of a foreign country, would like to eat a bowl of steaming hot Chinese noodles, but when you look around, it's all Western food and fast food. In addition to the harsh living conditions, for some time now
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The attention span is also distressingly low.
A foreign coach who once coached in China once recalled that China
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Both made it to the last eight of the World Cup and the Olympics, which was actually quite a good achievement at the time, but he was always confused as to how to get people to come and watch the girls play?
"We are the 13th ranked team in the world and a World Cup and Olympic Top 8 team. A lot of matches we win, there are great performances on the field, a lot of goals, the girls train seriously and play hard for the national team and I don't know what else we should do."
Shui Qingxia's husband, Wang Jiaming, is also an industry insider deeply involved in women's soccer youth training, who then said in an interview, "Before relatively speaking, as far as Shanghai is concerned, there are more and more girls playing soccer at the elementary school level, but it will be drastically reduced in junior high school ......"
It is in this context that Shui Qingxia's persistence over the years is even more meaningful. In the team, she carefully takes care of every player's daily life, in the game, she is incredibly strict on every detail, even harsh, as Wang Shanshan said: "As a female coach, her mind is a little more delicate, see a little more things, after all, she is a woman and also a team member from the origin, so she understands more about what our players need, and we can see that her strength, like sometimes her training, her requirements will be very fine for us, the pursuit of perfection and never give up. She can see her drive, like sometimes her training, her requirements will be very fine for us, the pursuit of perfection and never give up, these are what we learned from her."
Such demands and concerns have earned her the title of "Water Mom". But these once low points, with the water Qingxia's persistence, and China's
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of re-blooming is a thing of the past, and even more so because of the commitment of companies like White Elephant to make the
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There is unprecedented attention.
Today, more and more girls are taking to the pitch. After winning the Asian Cup that year, Shui Qingxia had come to one of the women's soccer youth training bases in Shanghai to see the children training there. When Shui Qingxia approached, the girls gathered around, looking for her to sign autographs and take pictures. These children, all of whom had been playing soccer since the first grade, many of them had aspired from a young age to enter the Chinese
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, to be like the water guide and fight for our country!
Like Shui Qingxia, White Elephant has been focusing on 26 years, and because of its continuous insistence on quality, it has gained the achievement of "leading sales on the whole network", and moreover, Chinese people all over the world, no matter where they are, no matter where they are in the corners, can eat a bowl of steaming hot White Elephant Chinese noodles.
One more day, Shui Qingxia and China
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They will step onto the field of the World Cup, and with the expectation of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, they will demonstrate the strong power of Chinese women in the new era with the spirit of hard work, fervor, and dedication!
And hundreds of millions of fans will join the white elephants, with the sound of shouting for China's
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Cheer and cheer!
