Just four days later, the 2022 Women's Asian Cup is about to be held in Mumbai, India! Last night, the Chinese women's football team took a charter flight to the race, and the five-star sports reporter went to the training base Dongfang Green Boat to send off the women's football girls, and also interviewed the national team members, including Shui Qingxia's guidance, on the outlook of the Asian Cup.
After a 10-hour flight, the Chinese women's football team has arrived in Mumbai this morning Beijing time to officially open the 2022 Women's Asian Cup tour. According to the schedule, the Chinese women's football team will welcome the group stage rivals Chinese Taipei, Iran and the host India women's football team on January 20, 23 and 26 respectively.
As the first international competition after Shui Qingxia's guidance took office, this is the presentation of a new look of Chinese women's football after experiencing turmoil. In the 23-man roster, Tang Jiali, Zhao Lina and Lou Jiahui and other veterans have all returned, but there are also Xu Huan, Wang Yanwen, Zhang Linyan and other new generation players, of course, more eyes are focused on the number one star Wang Shuang, in the recent AFC official website listed in the A group of noteworthy players, Wang Shuang is among them.
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The AFC wrote on its official website:
"Wang Shuang's influence in The Chinese women's football team is beyond doubt, since she made her debut for the national team at the age of 17 in 2013, she has represented the Chinese women's football team in more than 100 games in international competitions. As a midfielder, her skills and passing skills allow her to dominate the game, while she also has a good ability to score goals. In 2018, she attracted much attention for joining Paris Saint-Germain, having previously played in the Korean league.
Wang Shuang has won the Chinese women's football team player of the year three times, and in 2018, the year she went to France to play, she was also awarded the award of Miss Asian Football. At present, sonorous roses are eager to return to the top of Asia, and the Chinese women's football team, which has won the Asian championship eight times, hopes to end the championship drought of 16 years, so Wang Shuang is also regarded as the key to revival. ”
Indeed, as a Chinese women's football team that has created seven consecutive championships in the Asian Cup, the sonorous roses are now moving forward on the road to rejuvenation. Looking back at the 14 Asian Cups that the Chinese women's football team participated in in the past, the girls achieved a historic seven consecutive Asian Cup championships in 1986-1999, and even won the runner-up of the 99 World Cup in the United States two years after winning the championship on home soil in 1997! However, as Director Shui Qingxia said in an interview, the glory has become the past, and the future glory needs to be fought for by these women's football teams through themselves.
Although the Chinese women's football team has not set specific goals for this Asian Cup, and Shui Qingxia's guidance is also the first time to lead the team to participate in international competitions, the determination of the whole team to compete for the championship will not change, and as the selection of the 2023 Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team will inevitably further grind the lineup through the competition to prepare for the next year's World Cup.
At the same time, with the Chinese women's football team to India, there is also a group of Chinese referee team, the Chinese Football Association international referee Qin Liang, the international assistant referee Fang Yan, Xie Lijun was assigned by the AFC to participate in the law enforcement of this Asian Cup, it is worth mentioning that As a Shanghai referee, Fang Yan has become one of the expectations of Shanghai fans.
In fact, in recent years, the world's women's football competition, Qin Liang and Fang Yan from China have frequently appeared in international competitions, in 2015 and 2019, the two appeared on the stage of the Women's World Cup for two consecutive times, according to relevant media reports, the names of the two also appeared in the FIFA Referee Committee's initial list of 2023 Women's World Cup referees, if they can finally complete, the law enforcement World Cup event for three consecutive years undoubtedly proves the recognition of the Chinese refereeing industry in the world football world.
2019 Fifa Women's World Cup Qin Liang (right) and Fang Yan (left) law enforcement Group D group stage match England vs Argentina
China's women's football referees can achieve today's achievements, inseparable from the cultivation of Shanghai, in 1995 Shanghai referee Zuo Xiudi was approved by FIFA as an international referee, becoming China's first female international referee, she is also China's first women's World Cup referee, which makes Shanghai a fertile soil for the growth of Chinese women's football referees, from the subsequent Shanghai referee Wang Jia who also enforced the Women's World Cup to the current Fang Yan, which seems to be another continuation of the sonorous rose spirit.
It can be said that the Chinese women's football team led by Shui Qingxia and a number of Shanghai international footballers, as well as the Shanghai international assistant referee Fang Yan in the Chinese women's football referee team, the emergence of more Shencheng elements will undoubtedly make Shanghai fans proud, but whether it is a game or law enforcement, I hope that Chinese girls can ensure health, safe round-trip, smooth victory!