In the early morning of August 16th, a piece of news that shook the soccer world quickly fermented. The Shanghai women's soccer coach Shui Qingxia, who had led the team to win the gold medal at the Tianjin National Games, will soon be in charge of the "Olympic Combined Team" to take part in the adult women's soccer matches of the National Games, which will kick off on September 16th in Xi'an. This "Olympic combination team" is the women's national team just returned from the Tokyo Olympics, so the rumor that Shui Qingxia will replace Jia Xiuquan as the new head coach of China's women's football team spread, although Jia Xiuquan is still the current head coach.
After the Olympics, all Chinese women's soccer players, including Jia Xiuquan, returned to China on July 28 and are currently under quarantine observation in Tianjin. According to the epidemic prevention regulations, they must wait until August 19 to be released from quarantine.
After the quarantine, Jia Xiuquan and his coaching team will not be involved in leading the Shaanxi National Games, and the CFA will summarize the Olympics with them in due course.
This year's National Games, for the first time, the establishment of the "Olympic combination team", that is, directly into the final stage of the Olympic team. In addition to the Chinese women's soccer team, the basketball program of five-player women's basketball, three-player men's basketball and women's basketball also have the figure of the "Olympic team".
Water Qingxia's leadership in line with the "Olympic combination team" principle of formation, it was revealed that the "Olympic combination team" of the coaching staff by the last National Games the current three members of the coaching staff. Tianjin National Games women's football adult group top three are Shanghai women's football, Tianjin women's football and Jiangsu women's football. As the Tianjin women's football team has been disbanded in 2017, it can only be drawn from Shanghai and Jiangsu, Shui Qingxia as head coach, assistant coaches, including goalkeeper coach from the Jiangsu women's football team.
Water Qingxia suddenly took over the "Olympic combination team", triggering widespread speculation. The Games will soon open, as the Shanghai women's football head coach water Qingxia has been preparing for the war, and now turn to lead the "Olympic combination team", the Shanghai women's football team can only be handed over to the team coach Pan Weimin to take over, which may affect the performance of the Shanghai women's football team. External speculation, if water Qingxia can lead the team to win the championship, it is likely to take over the women's national team.
It should be noted that Jia Xiuquan and the team are still in isolation and have not yet exchanged discussions with the senior management of the CFA, so he is still the head coach of our women's soccer team. In an interview with the Shanghai media, Shui Qingxia also said that the task she received was only to lead the team to play the National Games, and then see what happens next afterward. She also emphasized that she still has a contract with the Shanghai women's soccer team.
According to the schedule, the adult women's soccer matches of the National Games will be held from September 16th to 25th in Xi'an. The Chinese women's soccer team will be released from quarantine on Aug. 19, which means Shui Qingxia has less than 20 days to prepare before heading off to the National Games. It's a time-critical and task-intensive challenge for her, but she is quite familiar with the players.
It is worth mentioning that, "Olympic combination team" if you win the championship, the player's province will share the gold medal, each player counts as a gold medal, but no more than two gold medals per province.
At the Tokyo Olympics, China's women's soccer team did not perform as well as it should have, losing big scores to Brazil and the Netherlands, and drawing with Zambia, and failing to make it out of the group. The performance of the women's soccer team drew widespread criticism, and manager Jia Xiuquan was controversial, with many netizens calling for his dismissal. However, after the loss to the Netherlands, Jia Xiuquan said, "Whether I continue to serve in the future depends on the Football Association, depends on myself, and I have not thought of this step yet."
Jia Xiuquan has been the head coach of the Chinese women's soccer team since May 2018, and has led the team to the Asian Games runner-up, the last 16 of the International Cup, and advancement to the Tokyo Olympics. As can be seen from the Tokyo Olympics, there is a large gap between the Chinese women's soccer team and the international women's soccer powerhouses, and it will not be easy no matter who is the head coach.
Compared to male coaches, water Qingxia's advantage lies in a better understanding of women's football, the player era, she was with the Chinese women's football team to win the silver medal in the Atlanta Olympics, experienced the glorious era of Chinese women's football; when the coach, water Qingxia in addition to serving as the head coach of the Shanghai women's football team, but also served as the head coach of the women's national youth football team. In her 20-year coaching career, Shui Qingxia has led the Shanghai team to win many league, cup and national games championships.
