Wang Shuang: A year of sorrow and joy

At 18:50 on November 30th, Kunming Haigeng Sports Training Base Field 12. Sun Wen, vice president of the Chinese Football Association, is presenting awards to this year's Women's Super League champions.

When it was Wang Shuang's turn, Sun Wen hung the gold medal around her neck, hugged her, and touched her head. In the final that just ended that afternoon, Wang Shuang led the team to stage a good play of jedi counterattack in the second half, she won two yuan in 11 minutes, helping Wuhan Chegu Jiangda defeat Jiangsu women's football team 2:1 and successfully defending the title. When everyone held aloft the trophy, gold and silver pieces of paper flew all over the sky, and the background music sounded "We Are Champions", Wang Shuang said that she enjoyed the moment, and the two goals ended her ups and downs in 2021.

"Tired, really tired!" In the teacher's office of a Hope Primary School in Kunming, Wang Shuang chatted with Xinhua News Agency reporters about the ups and downs and sorrows of the year.

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Helping the Chinese women's football team get tickets to the Tokyo Olympics at home and helping The Wuhan team reverse the championship, these two classic battles in 2021 are the games that make Wang Shuang the happiest. The same is the Jedi counterattack when behind, the second half of the comeback, Wang Shuang played the role of the "big scene lady" who turned the tide and saved the team.

Time back to April 13, 2021, Suzhou Olympic Sports Center. Previously, the Chinese women's football team won 2:1 away in South Korea. Back at home in Suzhou, they are just one step away from the Tokyo Olympics, but the crisis is also unexpected.

No one expected that the South Korean team would lead 2:0 in a short period of time, and the total score was 3:2, and the Chinese women's football team had no way back. In the 69th minute, Wang Shuang drove a set-piece, Yang Man's header, and the Chinese team pulled back a point. Coincidentally, the two teams scored 2:1 and 3:3 on the road to each other, meaning that both sides had to decide in extra time.

In the 103rd minute of the game, Wang Shuang stepped forward again and scored a 2-2 equalizer with a fatal "arrow through the clouds", and the Chinese women's football team led 4:3 on aggregate. According to the format, extra-time goals are still counted as home and away goals, which means that the Chinese team cannot afford to lose, and if the South Korean team scores another goal, the Chinese women's football team is also a loser.

"In the last 20 minutes, everyone's thinking and tactics were very unified, and they were determined not to let them storm our last line of defense. The top was a victory, and it turns out that we did. Wang Shuang recalled.

With a total score of 4:3 in the two legs, the Chinese women's football team eliminated the South Korean team and successfully won the last ticket to the Asian region of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Wang Shuang even defined the 21 days of isolation that the whole team needed to complete after the game as "the happiest time since the national team".

Wang Shuang's second favorite is helping Wuhan win the championship in the Women's Super League. Compared with last year's 4-0 victory over Jiangsu, this game is particularly thrilling.

On November 30, Kunming Haigeng Sports Training Base. In the first half, Jiangsu's only defensive counterattack was done, and Wu Chengshu's "scorpion tail" gave Jiangsu a 1:0 lead. At halftime, Wang Shuang was angry in the locker room, and she hoped that her teammates would show their desire and momentum, "to make everyone feel that Wuhan's victory is really deserved." Wang Shuang said so and did the same.

In the 11 minutes of the second half, she first equalized with a furious shot, and then cooperated with her teammates to hit the wall continuously, killing a single knife and winning the championship in a 2-1 reversal in Wuhan. "Jiangsu women's football team has made rapid progress, and I admire their tenacity. It's not easy for us to win this trophy, there are many games this year, and our national players can't run into training with the (Wuhan) team. ”

In Wang Shuang's view, the Jedi counterattack in adversity, never give up when backward, not only makes the game swing back to the intestines, but also accelerates people's growth, those who break the boat, turn the tables against the wind, rebound from the bottom, and come back to life are the most experienced "big heart".

Wang Shuang's third joy comes from the family, and his cousin Cao Guodong got married on November 28. Growing up playing football with his brother, his brother and sister have a deep affection, but because they have to prepare for the women's Super League final on November 30, Wang Shuang cannot attend the wedding. "My brother is such a big thing I can't go back, it's a pity, fortunately, the family has been sending videos of kissing and wedding scenes, watching them happy, I am so happy." 」

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Folding the Tokyo Olympics is a major injury in Wang Shuang's heart. The Chinese women's football team lost 1 draw and 2 losses in three group games and conceded 17 goals in the worst record in the history of the team to be eliminated early. Four months later, Wang Shuang was finally willing to talk about that "darkest time" and summed it up with "full of regrets".

The first game was a 5-0 loss to Brazil. After the game, Wang Shuang said at a press conference: "The Chinese team has created a lot of threats to the Brazilian team, of which 4 balls hit the goal frame, it is obvious that luck is not on our side." After the two games, Wang Shuang did not accept another interview, and even when the reporter called her in the mixed interview area, she also shook her head and left, without stopping.

In the second game, the Chinese women's football team drew 4:4 with Zambia, which was a game that gathered elements such as the big four joys, "hat tricks", video assistant referee (VAR), penalties, red cards and other elements, Wang Shuang did 4 goals, but still failed to save the savior. "If this wins, the outcome may not be the same."

In the third game, the Chinese women's football team defeated the Netherlands 2:8. Speaking of this game, Wang Shuang frowned, she remembered all the details of this game. 'When the Netherlands were leading by one goal, we found the rhythm at one point, put pressure on the opponent and made it 1-1 in the 28th minute. Indeed, the goal that equalized the score played a team quality, the Chinese team passed the ball continuously near the Dutch penalty area, and finally Wang Shuang assisted Wang Shanshan to complete the goal.

But as the Dutch team quickly reversed the score to 2:1, the Chinese women's football defense began to collapse. "At the end of the day, it was mentality, and at that time, the psychological pressure was too great for the defender line, and I could feel that they had lost their minds and didn't know how to play. Why do I say that (Wu) Haiyan's injury has a big impact? At that time, when there was an old team member sitting in the back line, calling them, shouting at them, echoing them to stand up, the result would be different. ”

Watching his opponent hit the door guarded by Peng Shimeng one by one, Wang Shuang was very anxious, "Although losing is a foregone conclusion, but we also want people to see our full-field attack power, I only had this one thought at that time." ”

Wang Shuang feels that the defeat of the Olympic Games is a special wealth for young people, but it needs to be reflected and summarized, after all, the banner of Chinese women's football in the future needs to be carried by them. "The gap between us and the world's strongest teams is widening, people are running in big strides, we are chasing small steps; people's 20-year-old and 21-year-old players have already played the main force of the national team, and our (same age group) may not have played the main force of the women's super league."

For the young players, Wang Shuang wants to send a message: "It doesn't mean that you will not have a chance until we are retired or injured. You have to fight for yourself, you have to have desires, you have to love football, you have to have that energy. "She hopes that young players have the opportunity to stay in the ocean, to experience, to experience the game, so that people will grow very fast."

After the defeat of Japan, Wang Shuang could not slow down for a long time, until the Shaanxi National Games, the Chinese women's olympic team participated in the name of the Olympic team and won the championship. "The gold medal of the National Games was very important to every national team player at that time, and for me, it was even more fortunate to contribute a gold to my hometown of Hubei, which also soothed some of the pain of the Tokyo Olympic Games."

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Less than 24 hours after lifting the Women's Super League championship trophy, Wang Shuang began another game.

At 2:00 p.m. on December 1st, Weize Youth Federation Hope Primary School, Changhu Town, Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Kunming, Rose Dream Stadium. Wang Shuang wore a blue and white jersey and ran on the dark and light green turf, and the red baffle that "shone from this" was next to four giant photographs of the Chinese women's football team.

This is the first Chinese women's football theme stadium built by the Chinese Football Association in Yunnan to support mountain girls in chasing their football dreams. When it kicked off in April, Wang Shuang sent a video to the children of the elementary school, promising to teach them to play football himself. Seven months later, she came.

Wang Shuang blew the circled fingers, the whistle sounded, the game began, dressed in the No. 7 battle robe, she transformed into a sixth grade girl to challenge the fifth grade team. "Catch the ball, come back to defend!" "Move from one part to another, move, move!" "Don't grab a ball together!" Wang Shuang always believes that only in the competition can we internalize what we have learned, practiced, and on paper. She spared no effort to run, drove straight into the bottom, passed the ball to her teammates, and created shooting opportunities for them. "No. 12, play well, but don't just destroy it later, think about getting the ball back!" Half an hour of competition ends, 2:1, sixth grade wins.

Watching the girls excited by their arrival, Wang Shuang said that the scene was very similar to the way she saw her brother and sister when she was a child, "The power of example is too important." I'm here not only to encourage them to keep up with their dreams, but also to see what football brings to these girls. ”

From the beginning of entering the school door in the morning, Wang Shuang always looked at the children's eyes and spoke; she would knock on the classroom door and seriously attend football tactics lessons; visit the children's dormitory, she would touch the thickness of the mattress; queue up with the children to eat rice, she ate scrambled eggs with tomatoes, did not waste a grain of rice, and then carefully washed the dishes and put the tableware together...

Before leaving, Wang Shuang and the children sat around the grass to talk and answer various questions: "Why is my sister left-handed?" "Why is my sister's action when she scores goals better than wearing glasses?" "Why isn't my sister as dark as it is on TV?" ...... Wang Shuang answered one by one and made a promise to the children about the Asian Cup. "When I score in the Women's Asian Cup next year, the first celebration will be given to you, you must see it, this is our agreement."

Wang Shuang's eyes lit up, and she said that she saw a sentence in the book and agreed: "All wisdom is contained in four words: 'waiting' and 'hope'." ”

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yue Ranran

Source: Xinhua Net