Shui Qingxia won the crown, and spoke firmly after the game, whether it is achievement or qualifications, she is impeccable. However, she did not participate in the competition organized by the Football Association, a move that aroused speculation, some speculate that the women's football head coach position has long been determined, others are just accompaniment. Shui Qingxia, who has been a runner for two consecutive times, chose to refuse this time.
The competition notice published by the Football Association (FA) sets strict conditions for the bidders: the bidders have either served as the head coach of the U19 and above national units of the CFA; or as the head coach of the Women's Super League, or as the head coach or assistant coach of the CFA's top league (i.e., the Chinese Super League).
However, the FA did not strictly enforce this rule during the competitive recruitment process.
A total of six coaches applied to compete for the job, but Liu Lin, who led the Wuhan women's soccer team to last year's Women's Super League title, was out early because he did not have a working-level coaching certificate. The actual candidates were Chen Wanting, Liu Huana, Zhao Junzhe, Wang Jun and Zhang Haitao. Among them, only Zhao Junzhe, Wang Jun and Zhang Haitao met the requirements of the competition, but in the end, the Association still allowed Chen Wanting and Liu Huana to participate in the "interview".
Chan Yuen Ting is the most popular choice, and many people believe she is the right person to be the new manager of the women's soccer team. However, Chen Wanting actually does not meet the qualifications, she previously led the U16 women's national junior football team, the Asian Junior Championships only achieved third place, failed to qualify for the World Junior Championships; in addition, although she had led the Orient to win the Hong Kong Premier League title and to play in the Asian Championships, but she did not have the experience of coaching in the top league of the Chinese Football Association (CFA); in addition, purely amateur soccer origin of the academy of the Chen Wanting, does not have the experience of a professional soccer player.
As for Liu Huana, although she had good results at the Games, she led a Shaanxi team that was only in the Women's A League, a sub-league, and again did not meet the requirements.
The standards set by the Football Association itself are not strictly enforced, and it seems understandable that the head coach is difficult to produce. Of course, there are those who believe that the process has been delayed due to the fact that the main leaders were previously supervising the men's soccer team in West Asia and had to isolate themselves after returning home.
When you look up the news about the women's soccer team's head coach, basically nine times out of ten, it is said that there is a reversal of the situation, from Zhao Junzhe to Chen Wanting.
The outside world is extremely high evaluation of Chen Wanting, that she is a good coach who has created a Guinness World Record, has been able to take the men's football, women's football is still a problem? In the Asian Championship, she also played with Scalari, how many male coaches have failed to do so?
But before and after Chen Wanting led the men's soccer team, no one has ever dug into the details, her tactical philosophy, playing style, leading style, are unknown. Previously, she led the U16 women's national junior soccer team, but the description of her soccer philosophy is also minimal.
Chan Yuen Ting's Hong Kong Premier League title win came in the 2015/16 season, when she took over on December 8, 2015 and won the title on April 22 the following year... can you tell the level of a coach in 5 months? And, Chan Yuen Ting was only 28 years old when she won the Hong Kong Premier League title. Although Chan Yuen-ting has been selected for the Hong Kong, China women's soccer team, in fact, she only started playing soccer in the system from her high school days, and later worked as a big data analyst, in addition to a Master of Science in Sports Medicine and Physical and Mental Health Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Undeniably, Chen Wanting's "work" career is very legendary, if the women's soccer team as the head coach, will add to her legendary career.
But now look, women's soccer selection has changed flavor, into a "marketing". An insider told reporters, "Whether Chen Wanting can finally serve as China's women's football head coach, she is a winner. Elected, she won, because of the victory over the internal said, the outside world that she saw the courageous; elected, and then look at the other four candidates involved in the competition, Liu Huana must be out of the question, Zhang Haitao will also be out, then only Wang Jun and Zhao Junzhe, although Zhao Junzhe from the overall strength of the consideration is more suitable for this handsome, but he was elected, Chen Wanting will also get a wave of traffic and attention. This is no longer a handsome selection, this is marketing. If there is no behind-the-scenes push, how come no one is talking about Wang Jun. Even if we don't agree with Zhao Junzhe, Wang Jun is still better than Chen Wanting from all aspects, right? So this is no longer just a selection of a manager."
On reflection, it's true that no matter who takes over the women's soccer team, one bad game might trigger another shellacking, and some clichés might come out again.
Women's soccer head coach is hard to come by, but the women's game, it's getting closer.
The Women's Asian Cup will be played in India from Jan. 20-Feb. 6, 2022. In the group draw conducted on Oct. 28, China's women's soccer team, which was ranked in the second slot, avoided the powerful Australian and Japanese teams and was placed in Group A, which includes hosts India, Iran and Taiwan, China.
China's women's soccer team does not have a certain strength to win the championship, but with this top signing should be able to determine the qualification for the knockout rounds, to obtain a place in the World Cup regular season is not a big problem, after all, the next Women's World Cup from 24 teams expanded to 32 teams, the Asian region, in addition to host Australia, there are still five places.
However, the Chinese women's soccer team wants to break the embarrassment of 16 years without a title, it is very difficult. But a women's soccer coach, consider must be more than just the Asian Cup, the Asian Games and the Olympic Games, is also very important, so the new coach, need to choose people, and the second phase of the Women's Super League, will soon be played.
The Women's Super League is divided into three phases this year, and unlike in the past, a four-month interval was set between the first and second phases of the league's tournament due to the Tokyo Olympics and the Shaanxi National Games. The second stage features six rounds of 30 matches and lasts until November 4th. From November 13, the league enters the third stage, and the champion will be decided on November 30th.
The third stage is divided into the championship group and relegation group, the top five teams enter the championship group, the next five teams enter the relegation group, single round-robin play four rounds of matches, and then according to the points ranking, the first place and the second place to compete for the champion and runner-up.
The second stage of the game is coming to an end, but the women's soccer manager is not yet out, although you can watch the video, but certainly not as intuitive as watching it live. Moreover, the moments left for the women's soccer team to form, select, and integrate, including scouting the opponents and gathering information, are seriously lacking.
As we all know, the FA's guarantee for men's soccer is all-encompassing, although the difficulty of the women's Asian Cup competition is not as big as the men's 12, but after all, it is about the qualification for the World Cup proper, and for the future development of women's soccer, there is also a great influence.
So, in any case, since the organization has organized a competition, with the results of the interview, is a mule is a horse, always pull out to slip, work soccer, in the final analysis, or rely on the results to speak, otherwise, all is empty talk.
