Reporter Lu Mi reported that the 2021 season is the seventh season of Chongqing's team in the Chinese Super League, and Wang Qiuting, as a team manager, has accompanied the team for seven years. In the previous six seasons, the Chongqing team has occasionally had twists and turns, and has never been hovering on the "edge of life and death" for a long time like the 2021 season. This year, Wang Qiuting shed tears for this team and this club for the first time.
For the family, Wang Qiuting is full of guilt in his heart, because this year, he did not relieve the economic pressure of the family, nor did he have time to accompany his wife and daughter, and when the team experienced hardships, it was the family that gave him the greatest support.
As a Chongqing native, a mountain city child who grew up watching football in Datian Bay, he has his own love and persistence, and his tears are because after experiencing everything with everyone, he is touched by the "fighters" around him, of course, for his seven years of work, as well as his long-term feelings for Chongqing football.
◆ "Football": The 2021 season has finally passed, as a member of the club, and Chongqing team experienced such an unforgettable year, how do you feel?
Wang Qiuting: As a member of the team, it just feels too difficult. In the past two years, "not easy" and "too difficult" have been said too much, and sometimes we feel that these words are not enough to describe our experience, and it is really that all aspects of the difficulty are piled up.
◆ At the beginning of the 2021 season, many people are not optimistic that Chongqing can be relegated, as a staff, you know this team very well, are you confident of completing the relegation?
When the whole team decided to go to the division to play in the league, I didn't think we couldn't relegate. This confidence is because I know everything about this team, including the coaching staff, the players, the staff, our unity is beyond the reach of other teams, we have suffered together for a long time, since we have made the decision to play the league, all of us will give everything, which is the confidence that I have as a staff member through my own observation and understanding.
◆ Several preparation cycles, the team has not been able to carry out complete preparation, intermittent training, the work of the club personnel is also intermittent, is the sense of instability in the heart obvious?
Compared with previous seasons, most of the time this season, the work is bottomless, but as a logistics staff, we have to do some advance preparations, because the game is not waiting for people, and the players and coaches are very professional, we must cooperate well, but always feel that the heart is not solid.
◆ In the interval before the start of the second stage, you also know the cruelty of the relegation game, after the interruption of training, what scene do you see?
Systematic training was interrupted, but the coaching staff, staff and most of the players did not interrupt the work. In the days when there is no training, I see that many players are consciously protecting their physical fitness, the coaching staff will also help the players who need training, our team doctor Yinbo has also been protecting the health of the players, and everyone is spontaneously carrying out their own work.
◆ The game is intensive, the players are very limited, in your opinion, in the process of relegation, how do the players perform in terms of training and recovery?
The difficulties that the schedule brings to the players are unprecedented, and the pressure on our team is great in all aspects compared to other well-off teams. What I saw was that the players were serious about every training session. After the game to restore this piece, you also know our team, there is a silver bo, everyone is very relieved. Yin Bo is 67 years old, from morning to night work has not stopped, he is a person we all respect, will also carry out psychological counseling with the team members, but also cook dishes for everyone to eat. At this age, in the face of such a high-intensity work, he has always given positive energy to everyone with a smile, and in the division, he will also help other team players who seek his help in treatment. Everyone has this confidence and this hard work, Yin Bo, and Zhang Dao's encouragement and help to everyone is indispensable, it is these elders who twist everyone into a rope.
◆ This season, divided into several segments to play, the team is very tired, will your workload also become larger? What was the whole atmosphere of the team during the relegation group battle?
In fact, the workload does not become larger, it is because of the three days of a game, everyone's work is fast-paced. In the second stage of the relegation war, before entering the division, after the relevant departments gave us a shot in the arm, everyone also had confidence and was more united, but the pressure was still there.
◆ Because the situation in the club is not too ideal, the players and coaches have been suppressing the emotions to play, what kind of feeling is this, what have you done?
All the feelings summed up are still that sentence, and it is not easy for everyone to really be mrs. All I can do is to improve the work of the team so that the players can devote themselves to training and playing without worries. Do your best to chat with them and channel your emotions with each other.
◆ In the end, the relegation was successful, looking back, do you think it was all worth it?
It must be worth it, to be honest, to be able to participate in the ups and downs of this season with all the people, for me is not only worth it, but also has a sense of honor. It doesn't matter what the team finally wins, it doesn't matter whether the promise is fulfilled, our team is already very resilient, because of this year's experience, everyone is more united, see the efforts and efforts of the people around them, so that everyone not only grows in the work of football, but also has a deeper understanding of the higher meaning brought by the sport. Football brings not only football, but also brotherhood and righteousness to the city.
◆ "Football": The night of relegation, everyone cried, what do these tears mean?
Wang Qiuting: Yes, everyone was crying, and none of the big men in this group did not shed tears, and many of them covered their faces and cried. The tears contain too many things, some are moved by relegation, some are moved by the group of comrades around them, and there is the release of pressure. I think most of all, perhaps, is the release of the psychological pressure of this season.
◆ You have been working in this team in Chongqing for 7 years, is this season the most tearful?
In fact, I am not a crying person, think back, before we could always be relegated in advance, it was a bumpy year in 2018. I cried this season because of everything I went through.
◆ In the past year, in addition to what you have experienced at work, has your life changed a lot as a result?
Life is like what the outside world knows before, we have not paid a salary for a long time, including me, and the lives of many staff members have been affected. To be honest, after I graduated from school and started my employment, it was not so difficult.
◆ Zhang Wailong guidance, after the relegation, crying to you, I feel sorry for your family, I have not paid my salary at home for more than a year, what is your family's attitude towards your job?
In fact, they are still very supportive, because this year does not pay wages, not that I am lazy to do, it is indeed because I have not paid money, finish this season, and then see the results. Everyone knows that the club is difficult, but no one can leave the team at this difficult time, which is my gengzhi as a Chongqing person, as a member of this team in Chongqing. Since I stayed, I had to do it well, and everyone in my family knew me and understood me.
◆ Other teams say that Chongqing is a very tenacious team, such tenacity is reflected in the game, but also in many other aspects, in the division for such a long time, what is the moment you see that most impresses you?
There are many, Zhang Dao's tears, the insistence of captain Yang Shuai, the veteran team members Wu Qing and Huang Xiyang running desperately every game, and Feng Jin carries the offensive banner, which is really too much.
◆ "Football": You have worked at this club for 7 years, witnessed a lot, in your opinion, this year has never been more difficult, what can it bring?
Wang Qiuting: After the last game, Yang Shuai said a word to me - if it were not for this situation this year, we would not be so united. It really brings us closer together, like I said before, beyond the football itself.
◆ Last year was actually more difficult, did you think that if you survived, you would usher in a better season?
Yes, everyone thinks so, but things are unpredictable.
◆ Most of the staff working in this team are Chongqing natives, do you have special feelings for Chongqing football and this club?
I was originally a fan myself, when I was in elementary school, I watched the avant-garde Huandao game in Datianwan, and then I had the honor of working in the team, and then I met my childhood idol, former assistant coach Liu Jinbiao, and later Yao Xia, now Wei Xin' guidance, Qiu Weiguo's guidance and so on. This club continues my love of football and gives me a fantastic feeling.
◆ In addition to the identity of the club staff, you are a husband, a father, this year's experience has also brought some impact to your family, how do you think about your job?
For the past two years, I have always felt sorry for my wife, who has some physical discomfort and needs surgery and has to take her daughter at home. Because of this situation this year, I did not relieve the financial pressure on my family, and I was in the division for a long time, and I had to wait until the end of the league to come back to accompany her to the operation this month.
◆ The club needs to go through some changes next, what do you want to say about this?
In public and private, I hope the team can get better, and now all I can do is wait.