The 20th Women's Asian Cup will start on January 20, Mumbai, India, this tournament, the Chinese team and the host India, Chinese Taipei and Iran divided into Group A, tonight at 18:00, the Chinese women's football team will face Chinese Taipei in the first game of the group stage, and the sonorous rose is expected to usher in the first match.
A total of 12 teams participated in this tournament, divided into 3 groups, according to the rules, the top two of the 3 groups directly qualified to enter the top 8, and the 3rd of the two groups with better results also qualified. The top 5 of the Asian Cup will directly qualify for the World Cup, and in addition to completing the set goal of entering the World Cup, the Chinese women's football team hopes to compete for the Asian Cup championship after 16 years.
Looking back at the history of the Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team has participated in 14 times and won the championship 8 times, which is the team with the largest number of championships in the history of the Women's Asian Cup, but the last three competitions have not reached the final, and the last time it won the championship is back to 2006. In this group stage, the Chinese women's football team has obvious advantages, and ensuring the first qualifying of the group is the goal at this stage.
After the Tokyo Olympics collapsed, the Chinese women's football team entered a period of adjustment, and it was finally decided that Shui Qingxia would be the head coach of the team. As a famous and meritorious player of the Chinese women's football team in the past, Shui Qingxia transformed into a coach after retiring from retirement, and led the Shanghai team to win league, cup and National Games championships for many times in the past 20 years. At the National Games, the morale of the Chinese women's football team that defeated Tokyo was low, but she pinched the team together and won the championship in the final. Wang Shanshan and Zhang Xin have said that the delicate technical and tactical requirements of water guidance have made the team have a better performance on the offensive end. Shui Qingxia took office this time, bringing new expectations to the Chinese women's football team.
In preparation for the Asian Cup, the national team began training shortly after the end of the Women's Super League. During the Training Camp in Shanghai, the Chinese women's football team played a total of 6 warm-up matches. In a previous interview with the media, Shui Qingxia expressed satisfaction with the team's preparation effect: "Through training and warm-up matches, the team has basically achieved the expected effect in both offensive and defensive ends and technical positions. ”
The 23-man roster for the Asian Cup in India was streamlined by coach Shui Qingxia based on the results of the Women's Super League and Shanghai training, including wang shuang, Wang Shanshan and other players who participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, as well as the return of veterans such as Zhao Lina and Li Ying, and Tang Jiali, who played for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, also successfully qualified. They all have a wealth of experience in international competitions, maturity and stability are the characteristics of this team, whether in terms of competition experience or competition response will be more adaptable.
At the pre-match press conference on the 18th, Shui Qingxia clarified the goal of this Asian Cup, she hoped that the Chinese women's football team can show a new and different style, hoping that the players will play their own level in the game, face different opponents and customer service different difficulties, but also adapt to the hot weather in India, "I hope the Chinese team comes to the end."
Wang Shanshan, the captain of the Chinese women's football team who participated in the press conference, introduced that the new team of the women's football team is composed of three generations of old, middle and young people, "I hope that our new collective can play its own spirit in the game and show the style of our Chinese women's football team to Asia and the world." ”
Wang Shanshan believes that facing the strongest women's football team in Asia, different opponents have different ways of playing, which is also a good experience for Chinese women's football, "For us, the biggest opponent is still ourselves. No matter which opponent you face, you have to do yourself well, overcome difficulties, and play well. ”
Facing the three opponents in the same group, the Chinese women's football team is far higher than the opponent in terms of preparation and overall strength, and the total victory of the three games will become the goal of the whole team. With lofty goals and a foothold on their feet, the Chinese women's football team that has been renewed is worth looking forward to.
In this Women's Asian Cup, China Mobile Migu once again pulled full of sincerity for fans, and invited the golden generation members of women's football, retired international Pu Wei, partner Huang Jianxiang will bring comments on the group stage of the Chinese team. At 18:00 on January 20, the first match of the Chinese team will welcome the Chinese Taipei women's football team, on the Migu video, cheering for the sonorous roses.