In a focus match between the semi-finals of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup that ended in the early morning of February 4, Beijing time, the Chinese women's football team eliminated the Japanese women's football team 6-5 through a penalty shootout, and once again advanced to the final of the Women's Asian Cup after 14 years.
In this game, the tenacious tenacity of the Chinese women's football team undoubtedly made every Chinese fan who stayed up late to watch the game be moved.
Half a year ago, at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese women's football team experienced a painful memory. That tournament, the Chinese women's football team 3 wins 1 wins and 2 losses at the bottom out, scored 6 goals and conceded 17 goals, 2-8 lost to the Netherlands, 0-5 lost to Brazil, although the Chinese women's football team has long been not the world's top, but such a big score of loss, or let the Chinese people can not help but sigh: once let the Chinese people proud of the "sonorous rose" where to go?
After the Olympic Games, Shui Qingxia took office to replace Jia Xiuquan, and the return of the former Chinese women's football captain made the Chinese women's football team see the dawn of rejuvenation. This asian cup, she recalled Lou Jiahui, Tang Jiali, Zhang Rui, Li Ying and other women's football players who were abandoned by Jia Xiuquan, so that the core Wang Shuang, who was once in a wandering, regained the former glory.
Although the Chinese women's football team still exposed some problems in this tournament, at least the tenacious and indomitable spirit of the former "sonorous rose" is back. In the quarter-final against Vietnam, the Chinese women's football team unexpectedly fell behind at the beginning, but Shui Qingxia led the team to launch a counterattack very calmly, and finally achieved a 3-1 big reversal.
In the semi-finals, facing the Japanese women's football team, which has not won in the past 6 years, the Chinese women's football team played extremely tenaciously. Two times behind the two equalizers, captain Wang Shanshan still gritted his teeth in the 119th minute and broke the bloody scene, which is the epitome of the tough performance of the Chinese women's football team in this game. As women's football coach Shui Qingxia said after the game: "Through so many years of hard work, we have found the spirit that belongs to the "sonorous rose", and for us, this is to start again." ”
Not long ago, in the round of 12, the Chinese men's football team lost 0-2, 1-3 to the Japanese men's football team and the Vietnam men's football team, completely missing the Qatar World Cup, so that Chinese football lost face during the Spring Festival. However, the Chinese women's football team has successfully saved the last dignity of Chinese football in the Asian Cup, and the indomitability and resilience of the women's football girls are indeed worthy of study by the male football compatriots.