In the late afternoon of January 25th, when the clock struck Beijing time, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (iffhs) officially announced something that shook the football world - the AFC 2022 Women's Football Best XI was officially unveiled. Among them, the Chinese women's soccer team, which just won the Asian Cup, contributed four outstanding representatives: Wang Shuang, Zhu Yu, Wang Shanshan and Li Ying, who became the bright stars of the lineup, and the Chinese women's soccer team has also become an important exporter of the lineup.
The official interpretation of the iffhs said that in view of the Chinese women's football team's success in reclaiming the Asian Cup crown in 2022, which was a glorious moment for 16 years, the team deserved to have a number of players glorified in the AFC's annual Best XI. As expected, current internationals Wang Shuang, Zhu Yu, Wang Shanshan and Li Ying made the cut. Meanwhile, Australia's women's soccer team has three players on the list, while Japan and South Korea's women's soccer team have two players each on the shortlist. It is worth mentioning that among these four Chinese women's soccer players, Wang Shuang and Li Ying are the sharpest blades of the team's offensive line. Wang Shuang, as the pioneer of the Chinese women's soccer team, has made a lot of achievements in key battles such as the Tokyo Olympic Games preliminaries play-offs, and has interpreted the core position of the team's offensive line with her goals. Wang Shanshan, on the other hand, is recognized as a versatile player with her outstanding physical condition and skills, and won the title of Most Valuable Player in last year's Asian Cup final. Zhu Yu, as a goalkeeper, solidified the team's defense, and during last year's Women's Asian Cup, with her outstanding performance, she successfully saved two shots in the penalty shootout, and became a key figure in the team's advancement to the final. Striker Li Ying showed a strong desire to attack in the group stage of last year's Asian Cup, contributing a succession of world-class goals and eventually winning the Golden Boot Award. It is the outstanding performances of these four that make them deserving members of the AFC Women's Football Team of the Year 2022.
