After returning from the Tokyo Olympics in defeat, the fate of the Chinese women's soccer team has changed drastically, and the question of whether head coach Jia Xiuquan will stay or go has come into focus. And who can take over the team has become a major challenge for the Football Association.
Just yesterday, Shui Qingxia, the head coach of the Shanghai women's soccer team, revealed that she has received an invitation from the Football Association to lead the team in the National Games. Although she has not yet made it clear whether she will stay on after the Games, Shui Qingxia seems to be the hottest candidate from the current situation.
In the Tokyo Olympics, China's women's soccer team earned only one point and conceded 17 goals in the group stage, ultimately ranking at the bottom of the group, creating the worst record in the history of China's women's soccer team in the Olympics. In addition to the poor results, Jia Xiuquan in the selection and use of personnel has also been widely questioned, the handsome position is in jeopardy.
After the Olympics, the Chinese women's soccer team will participate in the 14th National Games as the "Olympic Combined Team". The news that Shui Qingxia will lead the team in the Games means that Jia Xiuquan has been dismissed. How to select a suitable next manager for the women's soccer team, leading the team out of the doldrums, has become the Chinese Football Association must solve the problem.
Shui Qingxia as the head coach of the "Olympic Combined Team" is an urgent decision of the Football Association. From the point of view of seniority and experience, water Qingxia is undoubtedly the best candidate to take over the women's football head coach.
Shui Qingxia, 55, was a key player in the silver medal-winning Chinese women's soccer team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and one of the earliest batch of women's soccer players to stay abroad. During her playing days, she was known for her calm character, all-round skills and tenacious style, and was known as the "Three Desperate Girls". On the field, she broke her nose twice, and during her stay in 1993, she broke her right tibia with a kick, and underwent an internal fixation surgery with steel nails, only to have the steel plate removed seven years later. In addition, she has also ruptured the cruciate ligament of her knee.
After the 2001 National Games, Shui Qingxia announced her retirement and gradually transitioned into coaching. She served as the head coach of the Chinese Women's National Youth Football Team, and then took charge of the Shanghai Women's Football Team until now, during which time she led the team to win the National Games Championship three times, and the League and Cup Championships.
In an interview, water Qingxia said that will temporarily "acting head coach" identity to lead the team to travel, after the Games arrangements she said "I just received the task of leading the team to play the Games, play and then look at it". In addition, the Association also drew from the Jiangsu women's football assistant coach and goalkeeper coach, and water Qingxia to form a new women's football coaching team.
It is reported that water Qingxia and Shanghai women's football still have a contract in the body, do not rule out the possibility of returning to Shanghai after the Games to continue coaching. Chinese women's soccer team's final destination, I'm afraid we have to wait until after the Games to reveal.
