The night of Gushu, with its gentle breeze, seems to be a prelude to the coming hero's hymn. However, those prophets who have insight into destiny may only see it as a prelude to the burning song of heroes.
Our women's soccer team gained an early lead with 2-1 on the road in the first round, and then played at home in the second round, which was a clear advantage. If we only talk about the result, this blazing night is undoubtedly the moment when the new generation of Rose Army led by Wang Frost blossomed and illuminated the splendor of sports competition.
One can remember the past with laughter and look to the future with tears in one's eyes, and say in one's heart the words "effort", "struggle", "trust", and "spirit". "Spirit".
However, those who are watching our women's soccer team know that the first three words of "Han 3:4 outside of Gusu City" are "sleep on sorrow".
The winner of the home and away two-legged Olympic qualifier between our team and South Korea will get a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. In the first round in Korea, our team won 2:1.
Last night in Gusau, our team was in a desperate situation in the first half, both on the field and down 0:2. If they had kept that scoreline until the very end, Korea would have advanced to the Tokyo Olympics on the strength of a 3:2 aggregate score.
The coolness penetrates the sleeves and washes over the boiling blood of the fans.
Instead of just gazing at Wang Frost, people used all their senses to capture her and try to shout at her.
Listen, isn't that the same cry that Steelheart used in She's gone--
"Dear girl, can you save me?"
The girl answered everything with two goals.
Providentially, Wang Frost's free kick in the 69th minute of the second half pushed the total score to 3:3. In the overtime period, Wang Frost's left-footed shot from a tricky angle completely reversed the situation, and our team's total score was 4:3 Korea, locking up qualification for the Tokyo Olympics.
The final whistle was both a surprise for our team and a heartache for Korea. The field of play either burned into fireworks or just a dark night sky. The heroine of this hot-blooded movie is called Wang Frost, an idol recognized by all male and female fans.
"Dear girl, can you save me?"
"My heart belongs only to you."
From the smallest to the largest of our country's soccer and sports, we are in great need of "iconic" athletes like Wang Frost.
She doesn't need to be packaged from a female perspective, and is born with a strong energy; what is "obviously have face value but rely on strength", what is "cute personality and good fan", those new media rustic love words don't quite apply to her.
Because she's really strong.
Looking back at Wuhaner Wang Frost, one is reminded from time to time of her idol, another Wuhaner, Li Na, and both seem to possess that unique feminine light. The last time I saw that light was in Asia's first UFC champion, Weili Zhang.
Coincidentally, the interview in which Zhang Weili uttered the golden words, "We play others for money," she was wearing the jersey of Paris Saint-Germain, the French national football team.
Wang Frost used to play for a European salon, none other than Paris Saint-Germain.
American actress Jodie Foster (who appeared in Silence of the Lambs) had this to say in an interview, "I think the best trait a woman can have is intelligence and exuding strength, and sometimes some form of insanity."
Wang Frost is exactly the kind of woman who, when she stands on the pitch, relies on her every aura and her magical left foot to frantically export the unique charm of women's soccer for soccer.
Fantasize about soccer as a passage that sports fans hang on to, then 90% of that statement is exclusively for men's soccer. The remaining 10% is never exclusive to women's soccer either, even for superstars like Wang Frost who are destined to have their own identity.
People have adapted Bi Yan's praise of her as "the Messi of our team" and called her "the female Messi of our country".
We're sure there's no malicious intent behind this statement (even in the current context of "feminist talk"). But we also have to admit that for a long time now, soccer has been about a large group of men talking about a small group of men.
In this small space of words, Wang Frost kills her own opportunities for expression. She embodies the beautiful words of figurative ball-quality, power bursts, and extreme change with her homework, and relies on this gender-transcending athletic power to penetrate all those who are drawn to her.
Instead of making us crazy about a female soccer star, Wang Frost makes us crazy about women's soccer, or maybe it just needs to be mentioned that Wang Frost makes us crazy about soccer and sports over and over again.
It's the gift of the strong.
The talent has given Wang Frost the dual identity of "China's player" and "China's women's soccer team". This is the soil of the idol.
In front of every pressure and every expectation, in the summer of 2018, Wang Frost made the choice to play in Europe.
At that time, she was already the most popular women's soccer player in China, getting top salary in the salon and being a fish out of water in the national team.
At the Asian Cup in April 2018, China's women's soccer team finished third, and Wang Frost was the second highest scorer and was named to the best team at that Asian Cup.In August, her strong performance helped China's women's soccer team win a silver medal at the Asian Games.
Four months later, Wang Frost officially signed with Paris Saint-Germain women's soccer team in France.
Traveling to Europe may be the desire of all soccer girls, but it may not be an appropriate choice for a female professional in our country. Because the job soccer is also a job, is a job can not not consider the salary.
China's women's soccer league is not highly operational, but the salary of cutting-edge players is now much higher than that of European and American operational players. Even if the French salon offered Wang Frost the top salary at that time, but due to the heavy tax in France, Wang Frost got the hand of 500,000 salary is still less than half of the domestic.
"There is no end to the money, it's worth it when you learn something!" Wang Frost has balanced the money that transpired with the signing and the loneliness of a foreign land with her personal development at the competitive level of soccer and her sense of responsibility to the national team.
It's when we look at Wang Frost's stay like this - that she thought about herself and made a choice - that we can understand Wang Frost's decision to return to play for her country.
The answer Wang Frost delivered in Paris is not to be described as brilliant, it was a stunning shot in the arm.
On her Ligue 1 debut, Wang Frost proved her worth with a world wave.
In the 16th round of Ligue 1, Wang Frost scored in the opening 17 seconds as she continued to break through.
In 22 rounds of Ligue 1 matches, except for the first round which she missed due to the Asian Games, she made 18 appearances and 14 starts, scoring seven goals and contributing eight assists (fourth in the Ligue 1 assists table).
At the end of 2018, Wang Frost was voted as the best female soccer player in Asia, or what we call "Sister Asia".
AFC President Salman had this to say about her, "Wang Frost deserves this honor. She has very exceptional skills and a broad future in Europe."
The guest of honor who presented Wang Frost with her award that night, Australian women's soccer star Moya Dodd, praised her, "Wang Frost, like Sashi Kumagai and Cole, has taken Asian women's soccer to a new level. You know, not many Asian players can perform so well in Europe's cutting-edge teams, in cutting-edge matches."
That's why fans were so dismayed when they found out she was ending her travels to Europe to play back in her home country.
"Stay in the ocean or go back home", the classic topic of China's soccer, can always poke the pain points of China's fans and cause a lot of hot discussion. This time, due to Wang Frost, extraordinarily enthusiastic.
On June 3, 2019, Wang Frost responded to rumors of her upcoming contract termination with Ligue 1's Paris Saint-Germain via microblogging, saying that she wants to focus on the Women's World Cup and the national team competition, and that she'll make a solid choice regarding her future at the salon.
When the dust settled on the end of Wang Frost's trip to Europe, one fan said, "This is really bad news, more disappointing than the women's soccer team's loss to Italy and their failure to reach the Elite Eight."
Disappointed fans didn't understand Wang Frost at that moment, they didn't fully see her as a woman with independent thinking and freedom of choice.
They don't believe that Wang Frost made a choice that was hers, a choice that had trade-offs and regrets, but it was what she wanted at the time.
Perhaps they don't realize that initially Wang Frost signed for Paris and it was China's National Football Association that gave her the green light all the way.
Maybe they love Wang Frost so much that they often flip through her jitterbugs, love her innocent and bright smile like a child, and just assume that she will always be the girl next door.
Perhaps it's her consistent honesty and truthfulness in dealing with the media that often makes people forget she's 26 years old.
Perhaps women's soccer coach Jia Xiuquan's response to a reporter after a past game made them feel that the hero Wang Frost was poignantly sacrificing her sharpness for our team: "How do you think Wang Frost is playing? Then you still need to ask me? This is the reason I let her come back on in the second half ...... I need a team, not a particular ball player."
She shines so brightly that it sometimes drives fans crazy to the point where they don't want to think about the simple truth that athleticism and the demands of the game have highs and lows like ocean waves.
Only Wang Frost was left to feel the pressure of public opinion that was also as high and as low as the waves.
Even so, Wang Frost has not stopped her independent thinking about her personal career and endless personal training.
"I am full of enthusiasm to come to Europe, in this side of the habit of having pressure, absent from the national team training, can not participate in the national team technical and tactical grinding, the two ends of the pressure together, the whole person is particularly anxious."
In 2020, a reporter from NetEase asked Wang Frost this question, "After more than a year of precipitation, and now looking back on your time in Paris, what do you think is the biggest trouble of staying in the ocean?"
Wang Frost pondered for a moment, "My heart."
She then added: "I was preoccupied with the national team, fearing that a prolonged absence would affect the bonding and integration of the unit, and after one bad performance in the Algarve Cup, self-doubt set in, so my mind couldn't settle on Paris."
In fact Wang Frost, of course, has been thinking independently and making difficult choices.
Individuals and groups are a timeless and classic topic in the verbal arena of our sport.
Smart athletes learn to say what people want to hear. In today's climate of public opinion, we're obviously tired of the "be a drop in the bucket" tone, and we'd love to see a real, exceptional person who's so flamboyant and rebellious that she'll raise the chalice of honor and deliver a dominant quote with a swagger and a swagger.
For example, "Your Wang Frost, infinitely wild."
And then directly to our sports fans, the lilac girl with sorrow, crushed and fermented into the strongest perfume. Ten miles and eight villages, ancient and modern, all have to smell it.
But she faced an interview with Southern People Weekly, completely did not bring her left-footed skills sharp: "(about the future of China's women's soccer) sometimes (I) will be disappointed, our generation if we are retired, I estimate that the next World Cup top 16 are very difficult to enter. Now (we) mention women's soccer is still very proud very proud, fans of women's soccer is also very accommodating, and so on two more World Cups, I do not know whether it will be like men's soccer, every day scolded."
Wang Frost has left the top European leagues to return home to play, the audience is still waiting for women's soccer player Wang Frost to become an "individual". And the individual Wang Frost, did not mention that after four years she is also 30, but has been talking to us about the group, her group.
Yesterday after the game Jia Xiuquan is so evaluation of the group's Wang Frost: "Wang Frost's embodiment is under the team's hard work and cooperation, no one can deny this."
Individual Wang Frost had this to say about the game yesterday:
"Let's ...... let's ......"
In the group photo of the whole team after the match, Wang Shuang silently stood on the far right side, leaving the C-seat to Wu Haiyan, who sang the best song in the team and didn't get to play.
So it seems that the 26-year-old woman Wang Frost, although in the field inside and outside the game have become increasingly mature, but only lacks the kind of clever words to pitch "smart".
Thank you so much, finally, someone who doesn't want to look so smart in the world of soccer in our country.
After the United States defeated Great Britain 2-1 in the semifinals of the last Women's World Cup, soccer commentator Huang Jianxiang wrote this comment: "On the basis of the overall improvement in strength and speed, the team played a subtle cooperation and mature tactics! For those who didn't watch the game live, please don't tell others that you know what women's soccer is all about, that's taking yourself too seriously, and at the same time not taking women's soccer and the women who play soccer all over the world too seriously."
Last night, he also commented on Wang Frost after the game, "Wang Frost today, these two goals, this left foot skills, power, footwork, is the entire women's soccer world today are not common. Let's say how to praise?"
Individual Wang Frost, will surely bring more surprises.
But the individual Wang Frost, perhaps more looking forward to we can always trust, always desire will have that belongs to her group of miracle - the miracle of our women's football, the miracle of women's football, the miracle of soccer.
