In the recently unveiled 23-man squad for the 2023 Women's World Cup, China's women's soccer team has attracted a lot of attention. Coach Shui Qingxia gave an in-depth analysis of the current situation of the team's stay-at-home players and newcomers in an exclusive interview with the Football Night program.
--Multi-faceted nature of players who stay in the ocean
Shui Qingxia bluntly said that the experience of players staying abroad is like a double-edged sword. Once they leave the country, the management difficulty increases significantly. In addition to daily communication, it is difficult to keep track of the progress of training and games in real time, and it also becomes difficult to guide training. This is certainly a difficult problem, but the players need to go abroad after all. So the team adopted a two-pronged strategy, not only to closely monitor the players' movements, but also through video analysis to grasp their performance. As for the proportion of overseas players, Shui Qingxia said that they cannot rely too much on them to avoid being passive in the game. She wants the team to develop in a balanced way to ensure a steady march forward at every step.
--Space for young players to grow
Talking about the cultivation of young players, Shui Qingxia admitted that the number of young players in the team is still insufficient. If we can increase the number of young players, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the strength of the team. Young players need to accumulate experience through matches and learn lessons from victories and losses in order to grow gradually. Although they may be relatively inexperienced, they should make full use of such opportunities whenever they are available, as the process of growth cannot be separated from the accumulation of real-world experience. She called for young players to be given more opportunities to exercise if possible.
